The Here And Now Breathing Practice: How A Spiritual Cliché Can Become Your Embodied Reality

Breathing in - here.
Breathing out - now.

The Here and Now breathing practice is a rule-bending gift, a potential 'Weapon of Mass Awakening', a tiny cheating hint for this multidimensional game, called life, we find ourselves.

What if, instead of an external biohacking device like one of those clever rings or bracelets, watches or gizmo's, we had a built-in 'device' that could bring us instantly back into the present moment into a state of embodied awareness? One that is a constant reminder for the rest of our lives, and that goes off several times a minute and costs nothing?

Wouldn't it be amazing to have that non-stop reminder of our coordinates in space and time - so you can always find your way back to where and when you are if you are lost... in other words to simply be present in your body, in the here and now?

Well, we do.
It is our breathing.
And we can use it anytime to give us the nudge we need to come back into presence.

To TURN IT ON, we don't really need to do anything, apart from choosing to DOWNLOAD the APPLICATION and deciding to SET UP this new habit as your DEFAULT one.

In other words, I think I discovered what is probably the dummy safest way on the planet to help ourselves to be and to become present in the body: it is the simple, literal biohacking of connecting the inhalation with the notion of being Here, and the exhalation with the notion of being Now.

The mind-blowing and banal stuff about the practice is that it simply applies the NLP or Silva-method type memory anchoring principle to be reminded to be here and now by our very own breathing - where Here and Now are a synonym to be present: resting present in the body, instead of being lost in the mind.

For the more secular folks amongst you, this is a practical, innocent means to get out of your head; for those more familiar with non-dualistic teachings, this is just a harmless addition to the non-existent toolkit as, of course, there are no methods and there is no teaching.

And so when and where can you do this?
Pretty much anywhere and anytime.
No 'extra' time is needed. Really.
Do it for a few seconds while standing in a queue in the supermarket or in a traffic jam, under the shower, walking from the office to the toilet - then why not continue on the toilet, too - or while reading a book, walking in nature...
... just for a few seconds... days... weeks... maybe a lifetime of being present in your body?

My invitation is to explore this together - maybe we can Find The Others and connect better to each other as well along the journey.

Inhale - be here.
Exhale - be now.

Slowing down. Embodiment. Conscious breath. Conscious touch.

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Dan is an author, life coach, mediator, cuddle therapist and Lomi Lomi massage teacher. Having degrees in theology, organisational development supervision and bank management, he's got versatile experience both in working in the corporate sector and in the field of complementary therapy. His mission is to facilitate the awakening of humankind, with the gift of being able to help people to feel home in their bodies.
For more about meditation, breathwork, coaching and stress management visit: www.presenceinstress.com
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