Finding the Rhythm in Your Breath

Finding the Rhythm in Your Breath: "Focusing on the breath can be a truly amazing experience. Ordinarily, of course, the breath works in the automatic mode. Thank goodness for that! If your breathing needed your constant attention, you wouldn't have time for other adventures.

As an intentional practice, for short periods of time, giving your full attention to your breathing can be a very powerful, simple, brief meditation. A "short period of time" might be measured by numbers of breaths, like, 3 in-breaths and 3 out-breaths. Or the time might be in minutes, like 1 minute or 2 or 3. Or the time might be viewed through or measured by an event, like sitting at a traffic stop light."...