Breathing

The Theme at our training school this term is "Breathing".

If I had to point out the weakest aspect of my use, it has always been breathing. So when this Theme was announced I was both excited, but also apprehensive, as I anticipated that this was going to be challenging...

However, it wasn't. Quite quickly I made a reasonable choice not to try to sort out my breathing this term, instead the aim is to get a better understanding of its mechanics, and particularly how I interfere with breathing.

What are the most common patterns of interference? How come, and how do we work with them?

Somehow I managed to get rid of the 'big fuss' factor from the awareness of my breathing, I stopped to try to improve it, or fix it, or at least intellectually I understand that I can't sort my breathing out directly. However, in practice it's not always that easy to step back, to stop interfering. Well, how about having a trust in the process of working with the principles?

In 2 weeks time I'll have to offer a talk on this Theme, so since some thoughts and observation already began to stream in, I'm going to share some of them here ...