# 103 Difficult roads=beautiful destination

Happy Fun Friday, Today’s breath is:   Ocean Breath (Ujahi breath)         Which: Calms, improves Focus and concentration, Grounds and Centers you and the ocean breath also increases oxygen consumption.Sit up tall with your shoulders relaxed away from your ears and close your eyes. To prepare, become aware of your breath without trying to control it at all. Then begin to inhale and exhale through your mouth if you have been breathing through your nose.Bring your awareness to your throat. On your exhales, begin to tone the back of your throat (your glottis or soft palate), slightly constricting the passage of air. Imagine that you are fogging up a pair of glasses. You should hear a soft hissing sound.Once you are comfortable with the exhale, begin to apply the same contraction of the throat to the inhales. You should, once again, hear a soft hissing sound. This is where the name of the breath comes from: it sounds like the ocean. (It also sounds like Darth Vadar.)When you are able to control the throat on both the inhale and the exhale, close the mouth and begin breathing through the nose. Continue applying the same toning to the throat that you did when the mouth was open. The breath will still make a noise coming in and out of the nose. This is ujjayi breath.Let’s try this a few more times now. Today’s nudge is: Difficult roads=beautiful destinationsOften we have to trudge through some difficult stuff to get to the good stuff in life. I have certainly experienced this many times throughout my life. Had it not been for many tough experiences, I would not be where I am in life. I would not be living where I live, working where I work, or living how I live. It took a lot of difficult roads to get to this beautiful life that I now live. Embrace and trust those difficult roads in hopes that a beautiful destination will meet you in your life! Because difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations! Embrace those roads!Let’s say this three times: Difficult roads=beautiful destinationsDifficult roads=beautiful destinationsDifficult roads=beautiful destinationsHave a great Fun Friday!Support the show