Putting Divine Healing Names on Our Breath During Everyday Activities

For our practice of the day, we’re doing a slight variation of a practice we’ve done before. This is a practice of putting of the divine healing names on the breath so that it becomes so deeply ingrained that it can continue while doing daily activities.

Once it’s established, it can accompany folding laundry, ironing clothes, doing dishes, making food, walking the dog. It becomes an added layer of presence. We’ll add balanced rhythm of inhalation and exhalation to potentiate the effect. Today we’ll also direct the breath toward a part of the body that needs healing — that’s our focus for this version.

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The Sacred Names
The names we’ll use:

• Allah Shafi — the divine Healer
• Allah Kafi — the divine healing support
• Allah Hai — divine life, especially the life of the earth
• Allah Noor — divine light, especially healing light

Breath Practice: Inhalation
We begin by coordinating breath with movement

• Inhale Allah Shafi — expand the abdomen outward
• Inhale Allah Kafi — draw the breath into the chest, while leaning back and letting the head and shoulders to gently lean back

Breath Practice: Exhalation
As you exhale, gently draw the abdomen back toward the spine:

• Allah Hai — feel the navel and lower abdomen contract inward
• Allah Noor — Bend slightly forward. Let the shoulders come forward. Feel the breath and energy in the chest and heart

Full Cycle and Rhythm
Now we put it all together:

• Allah Shafi — inhale into the abdomen, as the abdomen expands
• Allah Kafi — inhale into the chest, as you lean back with shoulders and neck leaning back
• Allah Hai — exhale, abdomen contracts
• Allah Noor — exhale, bend slightly forward with shoulders forward – breath into the chest

Keep the inhale and exhale relatively even. Let it be natural, not forced and don’t hold breath too long. When you do this on your own, you can adjust the rhythm to fit your breath.

Guided Sequence
Breathe with the names:

• Allah Shafi — abdomen expands
• Allah Kafi — chest expands
• Allah Hai — abdomen contracts
• Allah Noor — chest contracts

Continue with gentle rhythm and full awareness.

Directed Healing
Now, place a hand on a part of the body that needs healing.

Bring the breath to that part and keep it there throughout all the different parts of the breath cycle

• Allah Shafi
• Allah Kafi
• Allah Hai
• Allah Noor

Stay with it. Let the breath and energy keep flowing.

Assimilation Meditation
Let go of the hands, the words, the breathing.

Let the energy flow deep into all the cells of our beings, flowing wherever it needs to flow, without our directing or controlling it.

We let ourselves go soft and fluid, letting the energy go where it needs to.

Closing Reflection
When you’re practicing during daily activities, it may not always be easy to stop and do assimilation. But it’s one of the most important parts. It’s what allows the breath and energy to settle deeply, to nourish the parasympathetic nervous system and support the yin.

Even if you pause for a few breaths and close your eyes, it helps. The longer the better. Even a little is good.

Amin