One reason people give for not having an active practice doing the yoga breath, or pranayama yoga, is that it takes too much time.  Well, the exercises that I suggest in my free mini-course only take a couple of minutes to do at first.  But putting aside those couple of minutes takes some commitment.  And moving from being a beginner to having a serious practice will take a still greater commitment.  But your yoga breath practice is important enough for you to find the time.

I like to introduce a new healthful or beneficial habit every so often and one of the things I have to determine is when during the day to incorporate the habit and where to find the time.  One approach I use is to treat time like money and my daily schedule as a budget.  If I want to spend time, or money, on a new thing, I need to take it away from an old thing. 

What do you spend time on every day and how can you arrange it to free up time for your yoga breath practice? 

How many times do you check your email? 

How much time do you spend on Facebook?

Do you watch TV when you could be practicing your yoga breath?

Do you hang on the telephone carrying on pointless conversations that don’t enrich your life (or the life of the person on the other end of the phone) when you could chat for a few minutes and then hang up?

Do you surf the net looking reading news of the latest sex scandal or celebrity infidelity?  Do you have to?

I have found that I spend a lot of time on things that are supposed to keep me wired into life.  Email, Facebook, cable, the phone, the internet.  I don’t want to eliminate them, but I don’t want to let them take over my life, either.

So I turn them off at 9:00 every evening so that I can do my yoga breath and asanas.  Afterwards, I can turn them on again if I want to.  Sometimes I don’t want to.

You might want to try that.  Just turn things off so that you can tune in.  Forty-five or fifty minutes later, after you have done your yoga breath practice, you can turn the gizmos back on . . . if you want to.

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