Importance of breath awareness

Watchful knower state is the natural state of the soul. In embodied form, while living in this world, the soul should gently maintain awareness of self while participating in the worldly activities. If out of habit, attention goes out towards the subjects of sense organs or towards the mind, then following self management steps would be helpful. First bring back attention to breath and then to watchful knower state. Impatience or hurry causes one to directly pay attention to the narrative active in the mind. Due to habit, one easily gets involved in this narrative without even realizing it. This involvement can either be gross, subtle or immersive and is prioritized as well as repeated blindly at the cost of self awareness. One ends up in a vicious loop that draws entire attention while forgetting self. Moreover, the involvement could be so severe that one either shallow breaths or the awareness of breathing is subdued and is relegated to background. This mithya sanyog (involvement) of attention with external and mental narratives is the root of all problems.