Hello and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're practicing getting

a little better at life.

I am your host, Corey Musgara, and in today's episode I am going to share with you the wisdom of one breath.

More to come on that in a moment, but first let's settle in with the sound of the bell. I'll ring them and you just attune your

attention to the sound all the way until it dissolves into silence. Let's give it a

shot. Okay, so in yesterday's episode I discussed a new practice I'm using in my life, which is to focus on 100 breaths. I try to focus on 100 breaths.

I try to focus on 100 in a row, but the main intention is to be fully present with 100 breaths

during a dedicated period of time.

Usually takes around 10 to 12 minutes. I even created a challenge

out of this called 100 breaths for 100 days, which I encourage you to try out if you're interested

hashtag 100 breath challenge.

Now since that is a thing and since I introduced that I wanted to talk about

the wisdom of the breath.

Now when I say that I don't mean that the breath itself is wise,

but paying attention to a single breath can cultivate a particular kind of

wisdom about our human experience and in just its simplicity.

So as you're in just want you to just its simplicity.

So as you're listening to this right now, whether you're driving, sitting down, walking,

whatever, I just want you to feel one inhale and one exhale. So breathing in and out. Okay, very simple. We can all attune to that pretty easily. And in addition to that being a place

we can rest our attention and develop a quality of presence and focus.

We're also starting to learn about the transient nature of experience

and the

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