Last time I asked posed the question, how many breaths do you take in one minute? Answers ranged from 7 to 15. The average person takes between 10 and 15 breaths a minute.

What does it mean? Well, your breath is a stress indicator. The more breaths you take, the more stressed you are. With short, shallow breaths, the heart and body are working hard!

It may seem silly but most people do not know how to breath properly. Getting your breaths down to 7 or 8 breaths a minute stops the brain chatter and helps the body relax. The Conscious Breathing exercise taught in this video helps you to breathe more deeply an fully to effectively achieve physical, mental and emotional relaxation. Do this exercise two or three times a day for up to three minutes.

Take the time to count how many breaths you take in a minute doing this exercise. Let us know how you do!

The Breath is the first of the Five Pillars of Healing. The breath is intrinsically linked to our physical, emotional and mental wellbeing. We can live without food for a couple of weeks, water for a couple of days, but without the breath, you wake up to quite a different reality! How you breathe is indicative of the movement of Life Force through the body. How we breathe both reflects the state of the nervous system and influences the nervous system. So! How many breaths do you take in 1 minute?