Take ten breaths

[Joe Harder]

I have shared this with many SNW classes, but I routinely forget to do this myself, so I thought I'd write it down in a blog post here to solidify it in my mind (and, ideally, in my practice).

One great way to start a day is to take ten deep breaths first thing upon awakening...yes, maybe the dog needs to go out (hello, Katrina!), or you need to get up and go into the bathroom, but taking a couple of minutes to do some conscious deep breathing, for me at least, gets the day off to a good start.

Please note it's ten breaths, not ten minutes of deep breathing (I see you, Tim, of the "kick ass frogs" group), though if you could afford ten minutes, who knows what kind of day you'd have!

I also like to combine this exercise with one I got from Deepak Chopra. He suggests beginning every day at least thinking about two key questions:

"Who am I?"

"What do I want?"

That's it for today, and I'm pleased to report that I did all of these things this morning!