The Importance of Breathing.

Recently with work and my daily life I've noticed I have been holding my breath.  Holding it when I'm trying to focus, holding it before I go into an important situation, or even while I'm just sitting and doing nothing. This isn't good and its a habit I have been trying to kick.  I have found that I have been holding my breath because I get worried about the outcome of the situations that I am currently involved in.  I tried Hot Yoga for the first time last week and as cliche and mundane as an epiphany can be, I had one. All too often we see life as being a serious affair, constant reminders of how we screwed up, and that we are never going to get any better than where we are now.  So I decided while in this hot yoga class, where you're literally told to hold your breath every few seconds, that breathing is so incredibly important to life, some epiphany right?  Well since then I have really tried implementing breathing into my daily routine, whether it be before I go off to meet a table or before I begin working on my book.  I have found through this intake of oxygen I can really critically think about what I am doing and it helps to calm me down and actually do better than I would have thought I could have done.  I suppose, to get to the bottom of what I am saying here, that breathing has helped me realize how silly the things in life are that we worry about, and that the things we put on our "important shelf" are all too often the least important things we have to worry about.  In short, breath more, smile more often, and stop worrying about the things you can't change.  I like to think Mark Twain said it best: 

"I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened"
-Mark Twain -  

Best-

Dillon.