The role of blissful breath awareness in helping us navigate the world

In our daily lives, we experience diverse, multi-layered, immersive and often illusory narratives. Most of us are fully immersed in them without even realizing it. Our attention moves from one narrative to another fluidly - often without taking a break and without realizing it. They influence us in profound ways and shape our personal mental models and narratives. Specifically, incident narratives are processed by our limited perception and often biased perspectives (due to inexperience) resulting in a limited and personal worldview. This limited and often inappropriate understanding deludes us in subtle as well as profound ways. We spend most of our lives immersed in our own deluded version of worldly illusions. 

Blissful breath awareness; appropriate understanding of self and the environment; relationship between self and the environment provides us with much needed sanity and helps us interact and navigate in the world. Importantly, breath awareness imparts an anchoring effect. Rather than being consistently involved in interactive dynamics with others and the world, breath awareness grounds us. It providing us with an opportunity to avoid getting carried away with the flow of narratives. Its akin to getting a firm foothold in an otherwise slippery floor. With progressive self awareness and resulting improved understanding, clarity emerges. We gradually understand the dynamics and realize the importance of maintaining aloof attention while we engage in the world. Over time as we continue on our journey, holistic awareness and understanding flowers.