Brother Richard

For some people, this sensation is also connected with smell.

So try and enter into the awareness of any smell or scent that enters with the breath.

If it's a recognizable odor or fragrance, you might like to name it.

If not, just be with it.

And if there is nothing at all, just be with the coolness of the breath.

And following the sensation of the breath, follow it now through nose, through mouth, to the point where it disappears, where you lose the sense of the inhalation.

You may still feel the expansion of the chest or the belly as the air is drawn into your lungs, but at what point does the sensation of the coolness of the air entering the body fade out from your awareness?

You may need to breathe a number of cycles of breath to really get a handle on where it disappears, at what point in the cycle.

Gently then we can begin to ask the opposite question.

At what point do you begin to feel the exhalation start?

What does the very beginning of the exhalation feel like?

Where in the body does exhalation begin from?

And sitting with the path of exhalation, notice now as the air returns to mouth or nose, how warm is the air?

And is there any fragrance or scent from this part of the cycle of the breath?

As you let the air out through nostrils or mouth, notice any sensation as the air moves over the edge of the nostrils, the edge of the lips, maybe even over the top lip.

Really, really drill down with your awareness.

What is the very first movement?

At what point does one part of the breath become the next?

And as we have done before, seek now for that moment where the in-breath becomes the out-breath, where the out-breath becomes the in-breath.

Really draw your attention in.