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Can I meditate if I have a breathing problem?


You can still meditate if you have a breathing problem. Remember that meditation is not about the breath. It’s about familiarizing yourself with your own mind it’s about awareness and the cultivation of mindfulness. To do this in meditation, we use what’s called a meditation anchor so that whenever the mind wanders, we have something to bring it back too.  An anchor can be a mantra, the body, sounds or an image it’s a point of focus to which you return when your mind wanders.

Remember that meditation is not about what anchor you use.  But the anchor is simply there to remind us that no matter how many times or for how long your mind wonders the anchor is there in meditation as a reference to which we bring the mind back to the present moment over and over again.


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