Controlled breathing can help you meditate and do wonders for reducing stress. Meditation begins with controlled breathing. Meditation and breathing are one of the eight limbs to achieving yoga. Yoga is an enlightened perspective or outlook. Although the Western version of yoga focuses on the postures, any real yogi would say that is only done to train the body so you can sit in meditation. There are eight limbs according Patanjali, considered to be the sage of how to understand and do yoga. … [Read more...]