The Breathing Book By Donna Farhi: Paying Attention To The Simplest Thing Changes Everything

In this episode of Words & Contemplations, Fai shares a reading of “The Breathing Book by Donna Farhi: What Paying Attention to the Simplest Thing Changes Everything.” We breathe all day without thinking about it. And yet, when we actually begin to pay attention to the breath, something changes. This reflection explores what happens when we stop treating the breath as something automatic and begin experiencing it as a practice of awareness. The breath can show us where we're holding, where we're resisting, how we're responding to the world and what happens when we simply allow ourselves to feel. From yoga and pranayama to the subtle relationship between breath, body and mind, this is a contemplation on one of the simplest things we do and how much it can reveal when we slow down enough to notice. A reflection on breath, embodiment, awareness, yoga and the quiet intelligence of paying attention. Sometimes we don't need another practice. We just need to notice the one we've been doing all along.