Today I’d like to talk about breathing some more.  Not about setting aside special times for it but just the normal stuff that happens through the day.

There are lots of times when we are waiting around

 

(despite - or because of - our obsession with time we seem to spend more and more time waiting).  There are those annoying recorded messages and phone queues.  There is waiting for friends and for meetings to start.  There is even waiting for the lights to change while driving.

Usually, if you are like me, you find waiting around frustrating and annoying.  (How I’d love, once I actually got on to a human being after being in one of those phone queues to say: “Thankyou, your call is important to me: so I’ll get back to you in ten minutes, meanwhile please enjoy listening to my favourite CD”).  However, we can do something different.

We can spend this time just watching our breathing.

Instead of wasting our time getting frustrated about something we can’t change, we can use this time to just enjoy our breathing.  Watching my breathing even the few seconds stopped at the traffic lights can make a positive difference.

Our breath is always with us.  We can always tune in to our breathing.  We can just watch it and so feel less stressed, or we can tune in and perhaps learn more about how we are feeling.  Whatever we choose, our breathing can be a great resource to help us live fuller lives.