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.
Updrafts/Downdrafts rising and sinking air. All thunderstorms require instability (potential) and lift. The lift is the mechanism that releases the instability. Lift is produced by such things as fronts and low pressure troughs, or by air rising upslope. We say that the atmosphere is unstable when air rising in a cloud is warmer than its environment, like a hot-air balloon. It is the heat released by condensation within a cloud that permits the rising air to stay warmer than its surroundings, and thus to be buoyant through great depths. In the same way, air that is cooler than its environment tends to sink as long as it can stay cooler than its surroundings. The upward moving air in a thunderstorm is known as the updraft, while downward moving air is the downdraft. The atmosphere can be unstable for updrafts but stable for downdrafts, stable for updrafts but unstable for downdrafts, stable for both, or unstable for both.