You can live for a few days without water and food, but without oxygen? Hardly a few minutes.
Life force is responsible for everything inside your body, and low life force impacts not only you physically but also mentally and emotionally.
Breathing is the only proof of life. No breathing. No life.
You can’t see oxygen with your naked eyes, but the fact is that it plays a crucial role in your life, especially to keep you alive.
Yet we ignore proper breathing and focus more on things like food, exercise, and sleep. Of course food, exercise, and sleep are important, but breathing is more important.
When you are stressed, angry, sad, or anxious, your breathing becomes fast and shallow. This indirectly affects the performance of your brain because the brain requires proper oxygen for its proper functioning. Shallow breathing puts the body into fight-and-flight mode, which is a threat mode for your nervous system. When your body is under stress, overthinking is normal, and that eventually impacts your decision-making. You either don’t make decisions properly or you just stay stuck and do nothing. A wrong decision or no decision indirectly impacts your future, and you don’t realise this initially, but when this happens again and again, it can have a huge impact on your life.
On the other hand, when you are relaxed, calm, and grateful, your breathing becomes slow and deep, and you are in rest and digest mode. When you are breathing slowly and deeply, you observe better, and it changes your perspective, which helps you to make better decisions.
The state you are in affects your breathing, but the vice versa is also true. Feeling anxious or stressed makes your breath fast and shallow, but when you breathe slowly and deeply, it makes you calm and puts you in rest and digest mode, and now you are in a calm state of mind.
Next time when you are going for an important event or even if it’s just a regular day at work, before starting, take 5 deep breaths slowly and focus on each inhale and exhale. It will help you tremendously.
I believe proper breathing can positively impact your karma and eventually your life.