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Professor Rowena and Professor Reed entered to a full classroom. The students were all sitting on their mats on the floor looking wide-eyed and ready to learn.
"Good evening class! I would like to introduce Professor Reed to you all," Professor Rowena motioned towards the new face.
"It's nice to meet you Professor Reed!" The class chimed.
"It's nice to meet you as well class, would everyone like to get started?"
He and Professor Rowena sat on their mats facing the class.
"Okay everyone, today we are going to learn about sacred breathing. This first type of breathing is called Meditative Breathing. It is a three step process to end up at meditative state. Now, Step one. Close your eyes and sit upright with your back arched in a bit. Step two, take four deep breaths and count to ten when you inhale and count backwards from ten when you exhale. That's right, good job! Now Step three, count down from fifteen in your head. Once you hit number one you should be totally relaxed and in your meditative state. Keep breathing deeply. Hold this for as long as you would like," Professor Reed kept peeking out at the class as he was giving the instructions. Some students were trying not to giggle at the situation. Others were doing quite well.
"Alright, now when we come out of our meditative state we perform what is called the Ascending Breath. This one breath will take you up from your deep state of mind and tell your body that it is time to wake up again. Now, count up to five , visualize yourself underwater and coming up to the surface. Once you hit the number five take a violent breath in until you can inhale anymore, then let it out just as quickly. "

The students all looked at each other, feeling refreshed. They all started giggling and whispering to each other about how they had no idea what they were doing the whole time.

"Now class, your homework for this week is quite simple," Professor Rowena announced as she passed the assignment sheets around the room.

HOMEWORK

1. What did we study in this lesson? (2 points)
2. What are the three steps in Meditative Breathing? (4 points)
3. T or F: Coming out of our meditative state is called the Descending Breath. (1 point)
4. Practice this breathing exercise once a day. This will get you used to breathing deeply (which is healthy) and to falling into the meditative state correctly. (2 points)

Extra Credit: What was the visualization technique to come up out of the meditative state? (1 point)