“Your experience of the present moment is based on the activity of your nervous system at that moment.”
- Rick Hanson, Ph.D., Neurodharma
And since, as Deb Dana tells us, “Breath is a direct, easily accessible, and rapid way to shape the state of the nervous system,” we might say:
Your experience of the present moment is based on your breathing at that moment.
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P.S. A fun related quote from that same book: “In truth we are always present. We only imagine ourselves to be in one place or another.” - Howard Cohn