Rhythm of Breath

The breath is a wonderful tool for practicing regularity. As we develop a routine in Yogic practice or any self care, we must find ways of working with what we have. A busy life. A job or two. The pressures of making things work for ourselves and our family. These types of pressures are true for all of us in some way and it’s impractical to think that we can switch it up one day and have a perfect routine of self care and personal development. We do have to start somewhere however.

Big changes disrupt and can be hard to sustain. Small changes add up to momentous change over time. We can look back at any skill, course of study or health habit we’ve engaged with. When we look back at sustained effort of any kind we see regularity as a common theme. The same thing done again at regular intervals.

If you decide to take on the practice of breathing consciously for 5 minutes a day, the commitment seems small.

Each day you take 5. You watch the breath coming and going. You breathe slowly and carefully observing then deepening the breath. You deepen and slow the breath with some effort. Within days the effort shifts and becomes effortless practice. You find that a pattern of inhalation and exhalation has been created that induces a mild feeling of calm and wellbeing. A pattern that ripples out into the rest of your day.

If you manage to do this once, there’s an invitation to move from a simple start to new and positive habit by doing it a second time. A habit now comprising only 0.347% of any given day.

If you kept this up for 5 days, 10 days, a whole year. Where might it get you?

You might do the math and see that something like this could add up to 1.2 days of your year.

You might even do a little research and find that regular breathing practices alter the state of mind and body and bring us back to a state of rest and ease, but no one will ever be able to give you the experience that comes from creating a positive routine of self care over time.

A 5 minute breathing practice is such a small building block which will make a huge difference when you add it up. Unfortunately getting to the end of the year and cramming it all in a couple of days just won’t cut it.

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves, For now all we need to do to generate the momentum we need is to pick a time and set a reminder to practice again.

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