Gil Fronsdal of the Insight Meditation Center (IMC) guides this anapanasati (mindfulness of breathing) practice as a set of questions for exploring how breathing feels in the body.
Take a couple of minutes to have a conversation with yourself, how you are today?
What is your breathing like right now? How is it for your body to be breathing?
Spend a few minutes exploring the different aspects of breathing. How it occurs in the body. Different parts of the body move in different ways as you breathe.
Where are the biggest movements in your body as you breathe?
What are the subtle movements in your body as you breathe?
How much effort is your body exerting, in order to breathe?
How is the experience of breathing in? A different physical experience than that of breathing out.
How comfortable or uncomfortable is your experience of breathing?
What part of the cycle breathing in and out is most comfortable? What part of the cycle is most unpleasant?
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