So the process is quite simple. The first part of funds on Gong is that you just sit and breathe for between three to five minutes. So you would want to sit in a chair with your hips a little bit forward. So you don't want to be leaning back in the chair, you want to sit a little forward, a stool is also very great. And you want to then take your hands and put one hand on top of the other, and then rest them in your lap. Now, some people may like to do, like a half lotus or full lotus position if you practice yoga or other meditative practices.

But for this one, you actually do want to be sitting up a little bit more because there's going to be a little bit of guided imagery in terms of relaxing tension down the leg. So this position is much more conducive to gathering that feeling than sitting in a half or full lotus position. So we're going to be sitting up Back is nice and straight, hands touching. Now traditionally, you're supposed to if you're a man have your left hand on top woman will be the opposite. This relates to the concept of yin and yang, where male is considered to be young energy. And the left hand is considered to be yen because for most people, the right is the dominant, the dominant is the young side.

So for men, the idea is that we have you know, the body which is young, the man's body, and then we placed the, the hands in this position, so that we have the the Yin hand on on the top, and then the Yang hand on the bottom. It doesn't matter, honestly. So the way that we want to think about it is this whichever hand is comfortable, on top of the other, and even in the traditional sense, sometimes if your energy's imbalanced, you may find that this is not comfortable. So, just because this is like the tradition, and it was based on some theories, which are proven to be not so accurate in terms of the energy and as it relates to our gender, and also the bias that occurs between a right hand or left hand right handed society was prevalent in earlier times where it was actually thought that, you know, left hand is just really odd and left hand is actually in some cultures considered to be evil even.

So, everyone was forced to be right handed. So that's just the history behind it. So again, it doesn't really matter. It's just which one is comfortable because this is a cheek on all about relaxing. So find the shape that is most comfortable for you. So I'm going to have my left hand on top and the hand should rest just on top of the thought.

We want to set up as nice and tall as possible. And the tip of the tongue should lift up and touch the space where the upper portion, your palate, and your top teeth meet. So, if this is the roof of your mouth, and then these are your teeth, right here, your tongue wants to kind of touch right up inside of that spot, almost like you're gonna say, la la. So the tip of the tongue raises up slightly, we don't want to push hard, but just create a nice little light touch. The body should be nice and tall. And all we do is we just breathe.

Breathing in slowly through the nose, and we want to use a diaphragmatic breath. So we want to think about the abdomen descending slightly like a balloon filling up. And when you exhale, you can either exhale through the nose or you can open the lips slightly later. That tongue drop just a little bit and let the air out. The I should be either fully closed or partially closed. When you close your eyes, this helps to reduce the tension and the raising of the energy, it helps to bring energy down a little bit.

So you inhale and exhale. Now as you're breathing, what you should focus on is not necessarily the timing, the amount of the breath, we should focus on the quality of the breath. And by the quality of the breath, what I refer to is the smoothness or evenness of the respiration cycle. So we don't want to find any spots where there's a a hold, so you feel like you're holding your breath, or that you're jerking the breath in or finding spots where it's made. Be a little ragged. So if you start to get to an extreme, sometimes the breath gets a little bit ragged.

So it'd be something like say his I had a little stutter like, That's too much. So we want to try and keep the breath smooth, basically thinking about it like a smooth stream or string. So we would do this practice for about three to five minutes, basically until we start to get the body to start to calm down a little bit. The act of deep breathing helps to stimulate the vagus nerve, which is this large, little very long System of Nerves that goes through our body. And this System of Nerves relates to our nervous system in a way that it helps to calm us down. So we want to have our body relaxed and calm.