We typically look at remedies like pain medicine and even more intense interventions like surgery in order to alleviate pain. But expanding breath awareness, and our felt-sense of it, empowers us toward a larger opportunity each of us has to not only enjoy a cost-free remedy with little chance of side effects, but to tap into something even more profound.

Breath is not only the first medicine we use in response to pain, it empowers us to trust in our capacity to live.