Meditation Tips for Beginners. 1  Guided meditation MP3s or CDs as meditation tools. For beginners, audio guided meditations provide step-by-step instructions that help to introduce meditation in an easy and non-intimidating way. 2  Aim to have the length of your exhalations as long, if not longer, than your inhalations.
While air can be compressed more easily than water, freely flowing air acts much like waterâat least at relatively low speeds. So when you squeeze a stream of air, two things happen. The air speeds up, and as it speeds up, its pressureâthe force of the air pressing against the side of the objectâgoes down. When the air slows back down, its pressure goes back up. Why does the air speed up? Because of conservation of mass, which states that mass is neither created nor destroyed, no matter what physical changes may take place.
One of the common misconceptions about air pressure is that it acts in the direction we call down. This is partly because of the explanation of air pressure as the weight of the air (14.6 pounds on average at sea level) above any square inch of earth surface. And weight acts downward with the pull of gravity.