The simplest way to build a harmonious relationship with life is to develop a loving, joyful and friendly relationship with your breath. Understand your breath, its ways of working and develop a friendly relationship with it. Breath is the carrier of vital life force within us that makes our body-mind organization function and survive.

If you look at breath as life itself, your landscape will change. The love, sancity and value you give to this great spontaneous phenomenon called ‘breathing’ will tend to completely change the way you breathe. Then if you breathe slowly, just 20 times with smile, your eyes closed, you will experience deep within a feeling of joy.

When you look at your breath as if it were your constant and unfailing friend, that quality of relationship brings about profound changes in any breathing method you practice. You will soon realize that the way you breathe, is the way you live. This is how complex life turns simple.

Factors that change your relationship to life with reference to the way you breathe are: the flow of breath you allow in your body, the pace with which you breathe, the rhythm you follow, the number of times you breathe, body posture you hold while you breathing, vibration you produce, the attention and serenity with which you breathe.

The way you learn to synchronize all these aspects into one compact process of breathing is what will change your relationship with your body and mind. It is profoundly simple. You will begin to like yourself as you feel the pleasing, calming sensation deep breath brings about.

Our relationship with breath tends to be simple and direct. So if you breathe slowly and attentively you feel the touch of breath as you breathe in and out. You will experience a deep sense of peace. If you breathe with great satisfaction, you will feel the grace of life.

A simple way of changing the way you feel is to learn how to change your relationship with life in your daily half-hour breathing session, you will soon experience that as you breathe, so shall you live.