Do you regularly overthink, stress out, and become overwhelmed? Fortunately, your body’s innate natural defense. You can reset and chill out on the spot anywhere with a simple and quick clearing energy meditation.
Why You Need Energy Clearing
Today’s hectic environment makes it hard to stay grounded, centered, and clear
. It’s fast-paced, hyper-stimulating, externally focused, and constantly changing. And, at an ever-increasing rate!
Plus, it endlessly bombards you with literal and figurative noise. It all influences the state of your energy. This includes both measurable (e.g., blood sugar) and subtle energy (e.g., the lifeforce of chakras and meridians).
Change naturally induces a stress response to cue the body to adjust. But, the magnitude and rate of change you experience today don’t tend to allow for that full readjustment. It’s persistently stressful and can lead to overwhelm and ultimately other more serious imbalances.
Fortunately, we all have a powerful reset button right within our bio-physiology. It’s our breath: prana or life-force energy. And we can access it 24/7.
Just by breathing, you can create a clearing energy meditation practice in five minutes or less. I can find relief and more spaciousness in less than one minute and with as little as three full breaths.
Do this practice anywhere you like. Even at your desk, during a meeting, on mass transportation, and in the company of others. It’s that simple, convenient, and natural.
Simple Energy Clearing Meditation
Comprised of just two components – breath and visualization – this meditation is simple, easy to learn, effective, and convenient.
The Two Components: Breath and Visualization
Unlike some meditations, this one doesn’t require you to sit in the lotus position, use a mudra (hand posture as in the photo), or even close your eyes. Although, all of these elements will facilitate flow and clearing.
Good posture or a straight spine is, nonetheless, recommended. Still, do what comes with ease and be as discreet as you like.
Breathing Technique
All that’s required is to breathe rhythmically, with comfortable long and deep breaths: four to six seconds for each inhale and exhale is a good target. Try to equalize the inhales and exhales or extend the exhales a bit longer: one to two counts is enough. Additionally, if you exhale through your mouth, you single to your ANS it’s time to settle down. But most importantly, maintain a breathing pattern that’s comfortable and natural for you.
Visualization
Simultaneously, while you do the breath work, allow your mind’s eye or simply your intention to gently direct the exhalation internally. Send your breath to areas of the body that need attention, e.g., stiff neck, tight chest, and lower back.
If you don’t feel comfortable with visualization, don’t worry. Just breath. Visualization deepens the practice, but breathwork is paramount and sufficient in and of itself.
One Variation Among Many
An easy and effective progression is to start by sending the breath down your legs and through your feet into the earth. If you like, repeat this more than once. Sense yourself grounding to the earth. Then, envision your exhalations softly swirling through your abdomen, clearing away anything that doesn’t serve you.
Next send your breath down your neck, across your shoulders, down your arms, and through your hands. Feel tension melt away. Then, send your exhale across your face, sensing your brow and jaw soften. I like to finish off with an exhale through the mind, clearing away the jumble of thoughts, to-do lists, or whatever else keeps the mind busy.
Repeat deep slow breathing with visualization sending the breath to anywhere that needs attention.
You can continue breathing this way for as long as you like. You’ll know when you’ve followed the practice long enough because you’ll feel calm, centered, and clear.
For a guided step-by-step process, you can go to my FREE downloadable guided meditations, and get Relax, Ground, and Clear the Mind.
How Breathwork For Rebalancing and Clearing Energy Works
For thousands of years, people have used the breath or prana to move and clear energy. For example, yogis and yoga practitioners use Pranayama techniques to manipulate their pattern of breathing to move, alter, and/or elevate life force energy.
More recently, research has revealed biological systems within the body employ the breath as a barometer and a rebalancing agent. Systems respond to the pattern, composition, and other key qualities of breathing.
For example, short shallow chest breathing can initiate an autonomic nervous system (ANS) stress response while a different pattern of breathing can tone the vagus nerve, shift the ANS, and encourage rebalance.
Brain States Shifts Can Clear and Reset Your Energy
With this type of breathing meditation, you can shift from a cluttered or highly active brain state into a more centered and clear one.
This means you can deliberately move from your active, focused, and analytical brain state (Beta) into a relaxed, more expansive, and creative Alpha state just by changing how you breathe.
These brain states are natural and everyone moves back and forth between them throughout the day. Sometimes the brain shifts rapidly between states, but other times it rests in a state for a prolonged period depending on intention and need.
Additional Benefits of the meditation
In addition to promoting relaxation, being in an Alpha mind state helps you open your perspective, and turn your attention inward toward your embodied mind or what’s also called your body-mind.
Additionally, your right hemisphere becomes more dominant, allowing you to access greater creativity, intuition, and original thinking.
For More Assistance With Other Ways to Clear and Reset In General, See:
- FREE energy clearing mediation: Relax, Ground, and Clear the Mind guided meditation;
- A Meditation to Expand and Clear Your Energy
- My Mind Body Spirit blog page, in particular:
- Energy Clearing With Smudging eBook;
- Spiritual Life coaching and energy healing sessions; or
Updated October 26, 2022
