Day 15 Breathe to Perform
Find Your Breath
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Find your breath is about finding the breath for the moment and choosing your ideal performance state: your Flow.
This is about you. Each moment is unique. Your breath will help modulate your performance state. If you need to down regulate after a stressful event, like a emotional conversation, bad email or traffic, then use your breath to do so. If you need that pick me up or intense concentration before a big meeting, up regulate and get the same focus as a hit of caffeine without the jitters.
When thinking about breathe to perform, I use the acronym STER: Selfless, Timeless, Effortless, Responsive.
Selfless: Hypo frontality, residing solely in the present moment. You're not thinking about the task list in your head or anything else. Just now.
Timeless: Not being ruled by the ticking clock in your head. Instead of dread, you can steer yourself toward the intention/performance needed in the moment.
Effortless: The knowledge skill continuum. Just beyond your edge, the extra mile, the high road. Choosing to continue to explore.
Responsive: Your ability to respond... respons-ibility. When you breathe to perform, your response the moment is greater because your breath anchors you to the moment. Our responsiveness is diminished when we are focused on things that aren't in the present.
Your whole day is a breath opportunity. Breathe to perform.
Find your breath.
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