All the body's systems and processes - your nerves, your emotions - take instruction from what is going on with your breath.
Emotional and physical states can be altered by changing the breathing pattern.
Every third step I ran, my breath exploded out of me all in a rush. One step to suck in another cold lungful. One step to let it excape. One step of not breathing.
In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to see whether these movements have ceased completely.
Five is for five heartbeats, the length of time it takes to breathe in or out. For that is how quickly a life may change, for better or for ill. The time it takes to make up, or change, your mind.
Breathing is a fascinating thing to watch in a woman.
