Slow breathing helps you plan, monitor, and execute your goals.

“Any practice, whether spiritual, physical, or artistic, only begins to pay off when it is done with regularity and sincerity.”

“It’s difficult to do both at the same time, so counting is exceptionally effective at crowding out stress, calming a busy brain, and enhancing focus.”

Voluntary Slow Breathing: Using an app (or counting) to deliberately breathe slowly at a set pace (like five breaths a minute).

“In many ways, this resonant breathing offered the same benefits as meditation for people who didn't want to meditate…

“We should take wandering outdoor walks, so that the mind might be nourished and refreshed by…”

“I am as confident as I am of anything that, in myself, the stream of thinking is only a careless name…”

Experiencing more love, then, will reshape our lives for the better, triggering an upward spiral that lifts us to become the best versions of ourselves we can become.

“We do not want to reduce this quality of being to what we happen to be able to measure.”

“In truth we are always present. We only imagine ourselves to be in one place or another.”

And for the rest of our lives.

“What is forbidden is noise.”

A quote from Kelly McGonigal inspired by brain-imaging studies.

A quote from William James on breathing and consciousness.

“Pranayama may be helpful for improving sleep disturbance, anxiety, and mental QOL [quality of life] among patients undergoing chemotherapy.”

“‘Each of you is perfect the way you are,’ Zen master Suzuki Roshi told his students, adding….”

“It's not the highs along the way that matter. It's who you become.”

“When the thoracic curve become more pronounced (think hunchback), the lungs’ ability to expand decreases.”

“For the lobster, stress literally leads to growth…”

Hint: It’s in your heart.