Our breath is our greatest tool and can bring us consciously into the moment. When we take a moment to bring our attention to how we are breathing we buy ourselves a moment where we can observe what is going on within us. It gives us a moment to raise our awareness and helps us find a moment of stillness.
When you wake up in the morning first smile then before you go to the bathroom, switch on the radio or turn on the TV, take a deep breath in through your nose allowing your belly to expand and then release the air completely out through your nose until you can squeeze no more air out. This helps us let go of any stale air resting at the bottom of our lungs. Then take another deep breath of air into your lungs notice the air as it enters through you nose and then as it is exhaled through your nose. The reason stale air accumulates in the base of our lungs is that we rarely breath deeply in and out during our busy days.
A deep lung full of air is a good boost for our body and provides us with a moment of conscious awareness that can make a whole lot of difference to the flow or our day.