Pause
Really FEEL the sensations of the next 3 breaths
“My breath is boring—just the same thing over and over again. Surely there must be something more interesting to watch?” This kind of comment comes up quite often when people start mindfulness training. While there are a lot of useful informal mindfulness practices being offered out there—like savoring a snack or the walk home—there's a good case to be made for cultivating a formal mindfulness practice, which involves learning a basic mindfulness meditation such as following the breath and practicing it on a regular, preferably daily, schedule.
It’s good to be curious about why we practise mindfulness of breathing, but just because we experience some discomfort during the practice doesn’t mean it’s not helpful. In fact, perhaps it’s helpful partly because the breath shows us our discomfort, and the patterns of relationship that perpetuate it. Rather than immediately looking for a more exciting mindfulness practice, we might like to consider possible benefits of staying with the breath. “
-Ed Halliwell
excerpt from blog post
Here is the link to the full post: http://www.mindful.org/mindful-voices/the-examined-life/6-reasons-why-mindfulness-begins-with-the-breath
Enjoy a Mindful Day
- Lee
- M. Lee Freedman, MD,CM FRCP(C)
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