Whether it is guided mediation or un-guided meditation, or whether it is life without meditation (sadhana in Hindi) and spirituality. The importance of breath is awesome, most of the meditation techniques are based on it, breath is the source, it is the seed of existence when it is changed everything is changed.

Your emotions…your thoughts…your present, past and future – all are connected with breath. When you feel sad your breath is changed; when you feel happy, your breath is changed; when you are in lust, your breath is changed; when you are in gratitude, your breath is changed; and when you feel connected with God, your breath is changed; when you feel greedy, your breath is changed; when you think positive your breath is changed, and when you think negative, your breath is changed. With every minute changes within our emotions, feelings and thoughts – it changes. If you can control, regulate and can witness the breath — your life can change.

One thing I missed in above paragraph that whenever we are influenced by someone, our breath is changed with the influence (and the hypnotism is to be influenced by someone), and whenever we feel great, breath is also changed. Some people may wonder: breath just comes and goes in what ways it can change…

How can it change?
It changes in the following ways, do check out:

• Shallow
• Shallow and fast
• Deep and fast
• Deep and relaxed
• Deep and longer in time (too relaxed)
• Just from the throat
• With shorter gaps
• With longer gaps

…actually, there is unique pattern of breath with each type of emotion and thought. You can check for a while…give a pause here and first think about your beloved, second, about enemy (or bad memory), and third, about God, and check the difference of breath at each time.

How can it help you?

I think I over explained the second paragraph, anyway, breath can help you if you are ready to work for it. Just remember in life whenever you felt the bliss, remember, whenever you felt top of the world…remember whenever you felt really great – with remembering try to notice the patters of breath of that time, and practice (as you chant a mantra) until they are fixed in your memory. And, whenever you feel sad, bad, tensed, inferior and thrown out of the world – do nothing, just start changing the patters of breath (as you’ve fixed in your memory a while ago).