Tara Stiles Quotes

Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again.

When you get into your car, after you close the door, pause for a few seconds and observe the flow of your breath. Become aware of a silent but powerful sense of presence.

Be aware of your breathing as often as you are able, whenever you remember. Do that for one year, and it will be powerfully transformative. And it's free.

Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.

Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space.

Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You can feel that you are breathing, and equally you can feel that it is breathing you. So it is a sort of bridge between the voluntary world and the involuntary world — a place where they are one.

"I am breathing in and liberating my mind. I am breathing out and liberating my mind." One practices like this.

During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep.

I really believe that breath, in and of itself... can become the ultimate self-healing tool.

Your breathing should flow gracefully, like a river, like a watersnake crossing the water, and not like a chain of rugged mountains or the gallop of a horse. To master our breath is to be in control of our bodies and minds. Each time we find ourselves dispersed and find it difficult to gain control of ourselves by different means, the method of watching the breath should always be used.

Breathing in, I know I am breathing in. Breathing out, I know I am breathing out.

At the moment of waking up, before getting out of bed, get in touch with your breath

Smile, breathe and go slowly." - Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen monk, author and peace activist.

Breathing in, breathing out, ain't that what it's all about. Living life crazy loud, like I have the right to.

I listen to music a lot, if I need to get into a particular space. I do stretching and breathing, and take time to mostly be quiet and find the stillness. I think that's important.

In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.

One conscious breathe in and out is a meditation.

But I would assert that despite the wide variety of yoga options and individual preferences, there is one universal element: the union of consciousness and movement, breath and awareness.

There are certain ways in which I cultivate awareness, both through mindful yoga and taking care of my body and taking time to actually drop as deeply as possible into stillness, into whatever is unfolding in the present moment.

One thing I do personally started 20 years ago. I started meditating, and I know twice a day I can kind of let everything drop. It's just about being quiet, like drawing back the day, and it allows me to have energy.

I began by doing physical yoga, initially just for the workout, as exercise. I would get peaceful and calm at the end of it, and I was curious about that.

I meditate two hours a day, and every year I do one big long meditation course. I love it, and I'm really into it.

I meditate. I breathe out what I can't control and focus on the positives.

I love yoga.

There is no doubt that breath control is the means for mind control because the mind, like breath, is a part of air; because the nature of mobility is common to both; because the place of origin is the same for both; and because when one of them is controlled, the other gets controlled.