Anxiety is a breathing irregularity

As your mind ruminates about your pocket full of problems today, as your mind starts getting anxious when you "read the news today, oh boy," offer your fears into the sacrificial fire of your breath practice. Burn them up. Put every fearful thought into the fire of your breath.

This actually works.

Almost everyone I meet is suffering from anxiety. Anxiety is a breathing irregularity which leads to a mental state. Change the breath pattern and you change the mental state.

Disaster after disaster, recent world events evidently are spinning out of control. Almost everyone, no matter who you are in 2019, is flipping out. When we look outside, the future picture looks bleak. Engaging with the problems outside of us is a worthy endeavor.

Breathing practices are about handling the situation on the inside. It is not about activity outside our bodies. All we really have is this next breath.

The breath can run away into anxious irregularity or it can lead us back to the calm still moment, and that is all there is.

"There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so." Shakespeare Hamlet 2:2

"Problems don't exist in reality. The only reason you have a problem is because your mind decided something is a problem." Mickey Singer, The Untethered Soul