Relax your jaw, throat, and tongue and let your facial muscles drop as if impersonating a basset hound.

Use a cue like every time you put the phone down, or every time you see your favorite color, to pause and feel the moment between your inhalation and your exhalation.

To access this essential breath, we must first be able to focus on and perceive our own breathing process; that is, we must make the unconscious conscious.

The breath was seen as a force that ran through mind, body, and spirit like a river running through a dry valley giving sustenance to everything in its course.

Within this pause there is no thought and no movement. You may experience it as a pregnant silence, much like the silence you feel when you enter a forest.

Practice letting other people finish their sentences and allow for a pause before you speak. Observe your breathing as you listen to others.

When we breathe in a relaxed fashion we move from a destructive metabolic state to a constructive one.

Maybe you don’t notice your breathing at all but feel chronically tired, irritated, hurried, or anxious—so much so that these feelings cast a shadow over all your daily activities.

focus on increasing your exhalation, breathing slow and low into your abdomen, and allowing your shoulders and chest to relax. Make sure you are breathing through your nose.