And renounce everything else.

“Gandhi used to walk for miles every day repeating it to himself until…”

Mindfulness amplifies the benefits of slow breathing. Slow breathing amplifies the benefits of mindfulness.

“[I]t means that you can be in a difficult situation, fully, and know that you have the cognitive resources to get through it.”

Pointing to their hearts.

“…our results lead to the hypothesis that slow breathing may exert some antioxidant effect, possibly via parasympathetic stimulation.”

“As long as we are alive, it is always with us. We can’t leave home without it.”

It need not be a downer.

We are what we think.

“As practice continues and breathing becomes progressively slower, the body adjusts its physiological set point for its respiratory rate accordingly. That’s a good thing.”

“That breath represents the concentrated, distilled essence of being.”

“One image that came to mind was that of the polevaulter.”

Here’s a way to make meditation fun.

I think this is a perfect analogy.

The people in our lives notice what, where, and who we spend it on.

The breathing will seamlessly bring you back…

“As far as we can tell from the published literature and ClinicalTrials.gov searches, this study provides the first evidence of a behavioral intervention that reduces Aβ levels (measured with plasma, CSF or PET) compared to a randomized control group.”

What basketball, tennis, and surfing can teach us.

Or, “If only people would stop watching the news so much, we’d all be a lot nicer to each other.”

“…is similar to the frequency and rhythm of human breath.”