4 Reasons Why Breath Awareness Helps You and a Conscious Breathing Exercise

Mindful Moments with Shirley Archer

This is a short talk on WHY breath awareness or conscious breathing practices help you to improve calm, focus attention, enhance your mind-body connection and lay a foundation for a successful meditation practice. I will do an interactive conscious breathing exercise together at about the 3 minute mark, so that you can experience how watching your breath, without controlling it, improves your calm. Watching the breath is a foundational practice in many types of meditation. Learn more about it by listening to this talk.

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