We’ve made it four years straight with this one-sentence idea. Here’s to many more 🙏
1. Breathing saves your life 20,000 times a day; mindfulness helps you appreciate this truth.
2. Breathing is 90% mental; the other half is physical.
3. The best healing breathing exercise is laughter.
4. The greatest skill in breathing (like in life) is knowing when to go with the flow, and when to deliberately change it.
5. The best morning breathing exercise is a good night’s sleep.
6. Your current state of mind is the average of your last five breaths.
7. Doing breathing exercises only when you’re stressed is like brushing your teeth only on days you go to the dentist.
8. Breathing is philosophy in action.
9. A breath practice feels like what you thought meditation would feel like.
10. A daily breathing practice is self-love, preparing your heart and mind to love others.
11. Gratitude turns an ordinary breath into air candy.
12. Breathing is the verb for “life.”
13. Nasal breathing doesn’t make you feel better: It makes you feel how you’re supposed to feel.
14. With practice, the breath creates its own gravity, naturally pulling your attention toward it in every situation.
15. What makes breathing fluid is the appropriate pause…between breaths.
16. Breathing is medicine we can practice on ourselves.
17. Holding your breath is a near-death experience.
18. Our quality of life depends on our quality of mind; our quality of mind depends on our quality of breath.
19. The most overlooked healing aspect of breathing is the heightened sense of agency it brings.
20. Mindful, slow breathing doesn’t change reality but how reality is seen.
21. Slow breathing is air appreciation.
22. The shortest definition of mindfulness is breath.
23. The unexamined breath is not worth breathing.
24. Breathing brings air to life in the greatest story ever told: your own.
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