Suffocate your fear of the future through breath.

[Jay Ray]

I had a realization of a meditation technique that can reduce your fear of the future.

sit quietly and focus on each breath.

Try to breathe and inhale not in a cyclic normal pattern but only inhale when you feel like you need to.  It can be arrhythmic and random. Think of each inhale as a gift from God. A tiny hit of life that you need to live. If you feel like you don't need air this second wait a few seconds to breathe. Don't try and force a lack of air but take only what you need from the air and no more.

now, think about this if you are experiencing fear of the future.

right now as you are breathing every future moment that could happen requires that you take that breath. 

If you don't breathe for 10 minutes then you are dead... that simple...

Your future moments that your ego is afraid of are all resting upon the act of breathing. Remember, 10 minutes without an inhale and that future fear is no more. wiped out of the face of earth. 

 think about all of the thing that you fear that may happen in the distant or near future.

• relationships breaking
• loved ones dying
• the world ending
• not "being good enough"
• not passing your classes
• wasting your time 
• wasting money 
• accidentally hurting other peoples feelings
• anything else that could go wrong 

Remember.... when you exhale that all you have is at most 10 minutes and no more. All of these fears of the future take a very long time to witness and unless you take the breath that you need you wont be able to experience them.  

Hopefully, this should bring your fears of the distant future to be at most 10 minutes away and will hopefully create a sense of presents and humility that the universe lets you take this breath now and without it your college exam grades or relationships don't matter. 

Your distant future requires that you take this inhale in this present moment or else it wont happen at all. 

hopefully this helps

 

  

 

[aurum]

@Jay Ray

Interesting technique, thanks for sharing.

I've found that questioning the narrative of "a future" also works well. Where is it? I've never seen or experienced a future, I only have what is right here.