Mindful Breathing Meditation

Mindful Breathing Meditation helps ease pain, reduce chemo-related symptoms, boost immunity, and increase calm, self-awareness, and resilience.

Benefits

• Relieves pain
• Fewer side effects of chemotherapy: less nausea, fatigue, anxiety
• Increased immune system functioning
• Greater sense of control
• Increased self-awareness
• Greater sense of calm, peace, happiness
• Greater resilience

Definitions – Descriptions

• Mindfulness: Cultivating awareness of your experience in the present moment, living each moment as fully as possible
• Meditation: Paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment.
• Inner Resource: The Breath and Breathing
  • The breath is the life force
  • Breathing gives us life
  • Inhaling brings oxygen to cells
  • Exhaling releases waste – carbon dioxide
  • Rhythmic breathing balances the nervous system

Mindful breathing

• Gentle focus of attention on the breath
• Coming in and going out
• Not trying to change your breathing in any way
• No expectations
• Simply awareness of the breath moment to moment