Breathing

Your breathing is a direct reflection of your mental and emotional state. When we feel anxious, tense, angry or overwhelmed our breathing can become shallow and rapid. Our breathing also tends to occur higher up in our chest. When we are relaxed we breath deeply and slowly and our breathing comes from our abdomen. Abdominal [...]

This mindful breathing exercise will help you to be grounded in the present moment. With practice you will develop the skill of focusing your attention on your breath, while allowing thoughts, worries, distractions, physical sensations and emotions to come and go in the background, without getting caught up in them or struggling against them.

When we become nervous or panicked our breathing becomes rapid. We have a tendency to gasp for air and sometimes we even hold our breath without realising. As a consequence of this change in our breathing pattern we may end up feeling like we can’t get enough air into our lunges, which in turn might [...]