Contemplate every breath
Buddha taught his disciples to regard breathing as the centre of meditative contemplation.
If you really want to arrive in the now, in the here and now, you can't avoid the fact that you also have to occupy yourself with your breathing, to look at every breath, to evaluate it and to consider why it might be different from the last one.
If you breathe mindfully, you will quickly realise that no two breaths are the same, they are all special, they all have their characteristics, they all depend on many factors.
Everyone knows that our breathing is different when we are anxious, when we are excited, when we are hungry or simply "out of breath". But even small things have an influence on our breathing, show us how it looks in our mind palace, what our emotional state is, what emotions are spreading inside us.
And of course it works the other way round too, when we control and monitor our breathing, it has an effect on our well-being, on our personality and on our general life. So both sides influence each other, and of course we should think about how things are actually connected.
Would you like to take the trouble to look at your breath? What do you notice first, what things change immediately, what stays the same, what is good, what could be better?
For my part, I have studied breathing therapy according to Professor Middendorf for many years and have practised Qi Gong for most of my life. If, for example, I open a door "with" the breath, then it is easy for me, if I fight "against" the breath, then it is a difficult undertaking.
Breathing is the absolute centre of every human being, the fuel that gets us through the day. That's why it makes sense to take a closer look at this system, to simply give breathing more value and importance. Most people don't even think about their breathing, but I see it as my centre.
Here on my website you will find some breathing exercises that you can easily practise. When you start to enjoy your breathing you will find that you can gain an incredible amount of energy, that you benefit a lot from looking at your breath.
If you are willing to expend some energy here, you will reach a whole new level of human existence. Calm, cultivated breathing can also protect against illness, or rather fight it. When the breath can flow freely, an incredible feeling of happiness sets in.
The path is the goal!
Why do we put so much emphasis on food and so little on breathing and even less on our thoughts?
- Ebo Rau - German physician - born 1945

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