A simple practice: Breathing and Being

A SIMPLE PRACTICE: BREATHING & BEING
What is in our mind creates all our experiences: health or sickness, happiness or despair, abundance or poverty…If our life experiences do not reflect harmony…if we want to change our lives…it must begins in the mind…We must change our thoughts…We must change our actions arising from our thoughts… Thoughts hold the Power of Creation…

This is a simple truth known by all the great sages through all the ages…Patanjali, one of these sages, stated clearly in his first Yoga Sutras:

“Now, instruction in Union. Union is restraining the thought-streams natural to the mind.” “Yoga is the stilling of the thought-waves.”
The question is HOW…how do we calm the thought-waves? How do we bring the body and the head to BE present in the moment…to BE present in the now? One answer…
Our BREATH…

“With inhalation, you are born again into this moment of Now…One can be in paradise by simply saying “yes” to this moment.”
Emmanuel’s BookII

Our breath is the easiest and simplest solution…the most functional and most fundamental tool to transform our stress! Our breath is the mirror of our mind… NO external life changes such as taking a vacation, working out at the gym, watching a good movie, dining out, changing job, etc…can provide a permanent solution to our stress level…only an internal change can do the work…

"Mind is the master of the senses, and the breath is the master of the mind”
Hatha Yoga Pradipika IV:29

Here is a statement from one of the oldest sacred texts in existence giving us the Secret! Once we are more and more conscious of our breathing patterns and once we allow more and more the natural breathing rhythm to be re-established …the mind automatically quiets down and gets aligned with the body…Then we can operate from our center…the heart!

“When you are centered in the heart, fear has no power at all.”
Emmanuel’s BookII