Breath Is The New Kale

Taking three deep, long breaths has been my go-to quickie mental health tool for 25+ years, ever since I started taking yoga. It's so darn simple yet immediately impactful. Recently, whenever people complain to me about ongoing issues, whether they're an entrepreneur, a girlfriend, a teenager or store clerk, my advice now is to offer up this little secret because it is truly a one size fits all solution. Taking just three deep breaths is a great starting point for getting in the right frame of mind to figure things out further. Recently, I started my own little grass roots effort on social media using the hashtag #Just3Breaths. It's resonating and taking on a life of its own. I was just biking past a friend's house and he yelled out, "I just took my three deep breaths!" That was a complete surprise. I've gotten texts and FB messages all week from people (many whom I haven't heard from in years) letting me know that deep breaths are now an important part of their day. Feeling the benefits of breath is experiential, it's hard to understand just by hearing or reading about it. It can also seem a bit abstract and esoteric to those outside the yoga/meditation world, since we breathe all day long anyway. But it's the deep, long breaths that change the game. Once you begin to take three deep breaths, you become acutely aware of how shallow our regular breathing is all day long. Taking #Just3Breaths seems to be the gateway 'drug' to understanding the power of meditation and breat...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news