For years, I’ve been focused on the most basic human activity there is: breathing. After all, watching your breath is the main activity in meditation, something I’m so gung-ho about that I started an annual high-tech meditation contest. Dr. Andrew Weil’s famous relaxation breathing exercise — inhale for a count of 4, hold for a count of 7, exhale for a count of 8 — helped me to sleep on anxious nights for nearly two decades. The Core meditation trainer introduced me to other breathing techniques for calm, energy, and focus. I thought I had a pretty good handle on this thing our lungs do multiple times a minute. Read more…
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