We breathe around 23,000 times a day, almost all unconsciously.
While we scroll, worry at 3 a.m., or rush from one appointment to the next.
The breath continues, but we are not truly there.
And within that lies a forgotten truth:
The way you breathe reflects the state in which you live.
An anxious breath = an anxious inner world.
A coherent breath = a body that feels safe.
And a body that feels safe can choose, create, and love.
On my own journey and in working with clients, I see this again and again:
We want to change, yet we keep breathing in the rhythm of old programs.
We try to rewrite our lives through thought, but transformation starts deeper. It begins with the breath.
Breath is communication
We often see breath as biology: oxygen in, CO₂ out. Done.
But breath is also information.
Each inhale is a message to your cells: “This is our current state.”
Each exhale is a signal to the field around you: “This is what I’m radiating.”
Research from the HeartMath Institute shows that your breath influences the coherence of your heart field —
an electromagnetic field that extends far beyond your body.
When your breath is rushed, you broadcast chaos.
When your breath is steady and rhythmic, you broadcast harmony.
Your children, your partner, your team, your clients, they feel your field before you even speak.
You don’t breathe just for yourself.
You breathe for the system you belong to.
What ancient cultures already knew
Ancient traditions spoke of prana, ruach, the breath of life.
Not as poetry, but as the science of consciousness.
They knew: Intention travels on the breath.
Breath is the bridge between the visible and the invisible.
Somewhere along the way, we lost touch with this truth.
We live faster than our nervous system can follow.
We breathe high, fast, and shallow, the breath pattern of survival.
It keeps you alert, but not fulfilled.
Unconscious breath = unconscious repetition
As long as you breathe unconsciously, you tune into your old story.
Your body keeps whispering: “We’re still in danger,” even as you sit safely behind your laptop.
Your brain keeps choosing from the same emotions, the same reactions, the same reality loops.
Every conscious breath re-tunes your system.
You take back the pen.
You tell your body: “We’re here now, safe, present and from here, something new can begin.”
The power of the pause
Between the inhale and exhale lies a moment of stillness.
A fraction of a second where nothing seems to happen, but everything is possible.
Mystical traditions used precisely that pause to plant intention into the field.
You don’t need to make it complex:
Inhale gently through your nose.
Feel the peak of the inhale.
Exhale slowly through your mouth, with an “F” sound, ending with an “S.”
Rest for a brief moment in the silence.
Repeat.
That’s already the beginning of unhacking yourself.
Your body as a temple
Years of automatic breathing store tension in the body:
shoulders that never relax, a chest that won’t fully open,
a belly trying to stay in control.
Conscious breathing cleans that temple.
Each inhale brings in light.
Each exhale releases what no longer serves.
Sometimes even ancestral patterns or inner-child imprints rise to the surface.
You breathe not only for yourself,
but for the generations before and after you.
In the end
Your first act in this life was a breath.
Your last one will be too.
Everything in between can happen unconsciously or with awareness.
Conscious breathing isn’t a trend. It’s a remembrance.
A remembrance that you’re not just a body that breathes,
but a consciousness that shapes reality with every inhale and exhale.
Breathe.
Be present.
And create what you came here for.
Art work: Drawing Breath - Sara Roizen