Breathing Script Meditation

Breathing

Note: For meditation, students should NOT lie down. They should remain seated, with straight backs. If children go to sleep, they are not meditating, they are relaxing.

Close your eyes and let your body come to a quietness and stillness.

Listen to your breathing.

Breathe in slowly….

Breathe out slowly. …. (Repeat 3 or 4 times)

Practise breathing in through your nose and out through pursed lips. This is a special way of breathing when we meditate. Feel your breath as it comes in through your nose and as it passes over your lips.

Now, as you breathe in, count to four in your mind: In, two three four; and then blow out through your lips, out, two, three, four.

Now, let us take time to think about peace….. (two, three, four…)

On your in breath, breathe in peace......

On your out breath, breathe out peace...... (Repeat 3 or 4 times)

Think about a time when you have felt peace.

Breathe in the peace of the trees outside......

Breathe out peace......

Breathe in the peace of this room.....

Breathe out peace......

Imagine yourself totally surrounded by peace e.g slowly wrap yourself in a blanket of peace)

Count in your mind slowly from 5 to 1 and when you are ready, open your eyes.