Breath

Sara Lazar's TEDx Cambridge talk on how meditation and mindful breathing physically reshape the brain, the neuroscience that convinced me to take a daily practice seriously.

My psychologist introduced me to something called physiological sigh, a double inhale through the nose followed by a long, slow exhale. She said it's one of the fastest ways to reduce physiological ar...

A quena flute played at sunrise in the Atacama. The breath of the musician blends into the surrounding landscape.

I'm a nurse. I've been a nurse for eleven years and I can tell you that breath is never background noise in my world. It is the signal. The vital sign. The sound I listen for first. After every diffic...

i work in data processing, very repetitive, eight hours, same screen. i started taking two minutes every hour to sit back and breathe slow, i set a quiet alarm. coworkers notice but nobody asks anymor...

Eyes closed, face lifted to the afternoon sun.

In tea ceremony, we call it ma, the pause, the space between movements. My sensei says the moment you lift the bowl is less important than the breath you take before you lift it. I spent years practic...

Wim Hof's breathing method changed how I relate to cold, stress, and my own body. Worth exploring even if you're skeptical about some of the more extreme claims.

In winter here we get the polar night, no sun for two months. First few years I found it depressing. Then I started walking in the dark after dinner, just around the neighborhood, no destination. Cold...

During the second wave of Covid, I was locked in a two-room apartment with my wife and three children for forty-seven days. I don't need to tell you what that was like. But there was something that ke...