The Fountain Breath Excercise
This breath pattern was taught to me, many many years ago, as a shielding breath. I have used it several different ways, most lately to help myself sleep in the time of the apocalypse. 🙂
I will start with the basic and then share my slightly morphed tool.
Stand on the ground, with your feet flat on the Earth, your weight centered and balanced. If you cannot get to the actual ground do not worry, very little in this world did not originally come from the Earth. Simply focus on feeling as centered and balanced as you can in this moment. (yes you can do this sitting but it is more treelike standing)
Feel the energy of the Earth beneath your feet. Relax into your weight, soften your knees.
Feel your breath in and out, in and out. Slow even breaths.
Now gently reach down into the Earth and draw some of that deep, old, powerful, and yet peaceful energy into your body.
Breathe and draw it up. Don’t force it.
Breathe and draw it up.
Allow the energy to fill your body as you breathe.
Draw that energy up from the Earth letting it fill you.
Keeping your breath slow and even. Don’t strain, just slow and gentle breaths.
When you are filled with that energy, all the way to the top of your head, on the out breath allow that energy to spill over, flowing from your body back down into the Earth.
Feel it spilling from the top of your head back down into the Earth.
Keep drawing it up on the in breath and let it spill in front of you on the out breath.
Draw it up on the in breath and let it spill on one side of you on the out breath.
Draw it up on the in breath and let it spill on the other side of you on the out breath.
Draw it upon the in breath and let it spill behind you on the out breath.
Keep breathing gently and letting the energy splill back out to the Earth.
Now you are in the center of this peaceful, gentle energy. It is all around you, over you and under you.
You are encased in a clear energetic sphere of Earth energy. Feel yourself safe and protected.
Allow your breathing to be normal, stop drawing energy and just feel yourself.
This energy is a shield for you. It will allow in what you need.
This shield will deflect what you do not need, while you remain centered and calm.
That is the basic practice, of what I have called the Fountain Breath, because I did not have a name for it, and it reminded me of a fountain. 🙂
Now here is what I have been doing, because as Penny rightly noticed at that ROS I am fairly open to energy.
In bed at night before I fall asleep, I have been drawing up the Earth energy and creating a shield, just like this.
For me this shield has prevented the miasma of tension and fear, that this pandemic is engendering, from infiltrating my dreams and sleep.
You might want to practice it first standing, just to get the hang of it. To see how it feels for you. It is useful for a number of things as we have taught in Twilight Covening clans off and on over the years.
I believe it is a gentle breath exercise and simple enough to teach to children. And controlling your breath really does easily change your energy.
I hope this has some value for you.
