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Learn as You Go: How Should I Breathe When I Meditate?

Meditation often begins with a deep intake of breath and a long exhalation. But you don’t have to keep breathing that way after you’ve started! The deep breath at the beginning is intended to refocus yourself on the moment, on what you’re doing now—namely, the meditation practice. Once you’re refocused, you should breathe normally, allowing your body to take care of itself again while you meditate.

“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.”

—Amit Ray

“Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate the future? Remain in the simplicity of the present moment.”

—Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

“If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.”

—Jim Carrey

“The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That’s all there ever is.”

—Eckhart Tolle

“Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.”

—Louis L’Amour

“The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.”

—Thích Nhất Hạnh

“You have to remember one life, one death—this one! To enter fully the day, the hour, the moment, whether it appears as life or death, whether we catch it on the inbreath or outbreath, requires only a moment, this moment. And along with it, all the mindfulness we can muster, and each stage of our ongoing birth, and the confident joy of our inherent luminosity.”

—Stephen Levine