How to Become a Master of the Breath

You can silently in your mind, count one on the inhalation, and one again on the exhalation. See if you can get to ten. Unless you have a lot of concentration, you probably were unable to tell how precarious your awareness of the breath actually was. The goal isn't to stop your thoughts or to suppress any emotion that might arise along with them. It is rather to notice these mental events clearly and to experience them more fully. But that is generally a very difficult thing to do in the beginning.

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