Its' main use is to shield from other people's harmful thoughts, and theirs of yours. It can help you any time you want to use it, and is recomended in the morning time.

 

 

Begin by taking a good stretch, and then allow your eyes to close...

Focus lightly on your breathing, noticing the way that your body rises slightly as you breath in and relaxes down as you breath out...

As you settle gently into observing the tide of your incoming and outgoing breath, your concentration can become more and more focused...

 

Now, in the space above you and slightly infront of you, imagine a great star of loving light...

Allow the light to cascade over you like a waterfall to run through you...

Imagine the light entering the top of your head and running down through and between every cell, the way that a river washes through the sand on it's bottom...

Allow the river of light to carry away any fatigue, illneess, or negativity and wash it out through the bottoms of your feet into the earth for transformation...

As the river of light washes through you, imagine that it is scrubbing away any darkness around your heart, allowing the light within you to shine more and more brightly... joining with the river of light... filling you and extending around you for two or three feet in every direction like an enormous, luminous egg...

 

Make a firm mental declaration that any thoughts of love and encouragement will penetrate the egg and reach your heart, while any negative thoughts will bounce off the egg and return to the sender as a blessing.

Declare also that your own loving thoughts will penetrate the egg and reach their destination, while your negative thoughts will bounce off the interior of the egg and return you to the awareness of lovingkindness and encouragement.

 

Recline back in your chair at about a 45-degree angle. Now put one hand on your belly, and without trying to change your breathing in any way, notice whether your belly inflates as you breath in and flattens as you breath out, or whether some other movement predominates...

For now, it doesn't matter how you are breathing. All that matters is your attention to the process.

 

Think of how babies breath... Their bellies inflate like little beachballs on the inbreath and flatten on the outbreath. They are breathing diaphragmatically - efficiently and restfully. How about you? It may seem like your belly is hardly moving at all... or it may seem like your belly is moving in the opposite direction...

Here's how to make an easy shift into diaphragmatic or belly breathing.

 

Take a big breath in, and now exhale slowly and completely through your mouth... that's right, really push it out...

Now, let the next breath come in passively through your nose...

Can you feel your belly expand? Now, breath naturally through your nose, either felling  or imagining the way your belly expands on the inbreath and relaxes on the outbreath...

This will become second nature with a little practice.

 

Throughout  the day, you can learn to take that big sigh of reliefe - the big outbreath...try it again right now... and then notice the way your breathing moves into your belly. You can let go of minor anxieties and bring forth the creative power of your mind by just concentrating on your breathing for a minute or two, whatever else you may be doing.