The 3-Minute Breathing Space

The breathing space provides a way to step out of automatic pilot mode and reconnect with the present moment. The key skill in mindfulness practice is to maintain awareness in the moment. Nothing else.

To remember the three steps of the Three Minute Breathing Space Practice, you can use the acronym AGE: Awareness, Gathering, Expanding.

Bring yourself into the present moment by deliberately adopting an erect and dignified posture. If possible, close your eyes. 

Then ask:

"What is my experience right now in thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations?”

Acknowledge and register your experience, even if it is unwanted.

Then, gently redirect full attention to breathing, to each in-breath and to each out-breath as they follow, one after the other.

Expand the field of your awareness around your breathing, so that it includes a sense of the body as a whole, your posture, and facial expression.

   "Get more results, practice often."

Link> Guided Meditation: The 3-Minute breathing Space.