Find a comfortable space where you won’t be disturbed. Lie on your back with your feet shoulder-width apart and your arms out a few inches from your sides, palms up. Close your eyes and breathe deeply, letting the incoming breath expand your abdomen as well as your chest. Feel the surface beneath you. Shift slightly, as if you are nestling deeper into this surface.
Now send a beam of awareness through your body, searching for any area of tension. Wherever you find tension, let it melt away.
One you have completed this process of relaxation, take a deep breath through your nostrils, with your mouth gently closed, being sure to let your abdomen expand. After you have inhaled fully, part your lips slightly and consciously and silently blow the air out, as if you are blowing a soap bubble. Continue blowing until you have fully exhaled.
Gently close your lips and simply wait, fully relaxed, expecting nothing.
This is your moment of surrender.
The incoming breath will enter your nostrils of its own accord. You need do nothing at all. If you are in a complete state of surrender, the precise moment of inhalation will come as a slight surprise.
After the inhalation has filled you, open your lips slightly and repeat the cycle, consciously exhaling, then closing your lips and waiting for the spontaneous inhalation.
In this process, you are joining the voluntary with the involuntary. In the timeless pause between the exhalation and inhalation, you can begin to experience that state of egoless not-doing that is the very essence of creation and grace.
Continue with this mode of breathing for a few minutes, then let your breath return to normal.
