Purpose-filled breathing is one of the most effective, calming ways to integrate all aspects of who we are, especially during times of intense stress. Breath as Prayer will lead you through the practice and the proven health benefits of Christian breath prayer: purposeful prayers centered around Scripture that focus your mind on Christ as you calm your body through intentional breathing. Sometimes I use shorter pauses and longer breaths, and sometimes I don’t pause between inhaling and exhaling for a steady flow of air.

You begin to discover that God is more intimately present to you than you are to yourself, and a great awareness of the Lord begins to come to you. I’ve been through some hard things in my life and sometimes those things from my past can take me out of my surroundings and out of the present moment. Breath as Prayer will lead you through the practice and the proven health benefits of Christian breath prayer: intentional prayers centered around Scripture that focus our minds on Christ as we calm our bodies through breathing. Ron DelBene, who has written extensively on this prayer method, suggests the following steps in creating or discovering your personal breath prayer. As we continue to journey through varying degrees of social distancing, sheltering in place, quarantining, and hunkering down at home, I wanted to offer a prayer practice that may be helpful.That’s been shown in studies to help with calm, especially in panic and stuff, which is very fascinating to me. I like what you said about masking your anxiety as other things, such as perfectionism, as the person who’s the high achiever, the go-getter. Find hope amid anxiety through the spiritual practice of breath prayer in this beautifully illustrated and practical guide. In this episode, we are talking about a spiritual practice that truly has the power to transform your life and can soothe your anxiety, deepen your faith and give you greater peace.

But I wonder if in those moments, like when we slow down, and we breathe, and we pray if, that’s a way for us to just tap into the Holy Spirit that’s already inside of us, and we forget. By praying through our breath, we can feel that God is with us wherever we are and that He can help us with our anxieties and concerns. We take it kind of like a directive, like a command, like do not almost like it’s next to do not murder, do not murder, do not be anxious, but really it’s more, I see it as comfort as God sharing with us.

But, of course, we don’t always pray as often as we might or in the ways that could draw us close to God.