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Despite what you might guess, when monitoring your breathing, your body doesn't care whether you're inhaling enough oxygen. It cares only whether you're expelling enough carbon dioxide - that's the gas that sets off the panic button when you're suffocating.

I can hold my breath for 7 minutes and 5 seconds.

Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It's a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.

I feel like saying we need to all calm down a little. Let's take the time to breathe. I have no intention of allowing myself be distracted.

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

I do a little bit of yoga-style meditation. Relaxing and breathing even just one minute a day makes a big difference.

During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep.

Conscious breath control is a useful tool for achieving a relaxed, clear state of mind.

I talk fast because I'm asthmatic, and I'm desperately hoping the words get out before my breath fails.