This short course is intended to be a self-help experience for those interested in mindfulness practices and a practitioner’s guide to mindful breathing. The key factor being that mindfulness and mindful breathing practices are immediately useful to many types of people in all walks and stages of life. Whether you are learning about mindfulness for the first time, or continuing to learn more to refine your own mindfulness practice, you will find this course expands on what we currently know about mindfulness as a meditative practice for regulating attention and emotions, and as a psychological intervention for improving mood and stress management.

Goals for this course

As a learner, you will be experiencing this course with the goal of “developing a mindful breathing practice”. Simply allow the experience of developing this practice to inform your thinking about how you feel when you are engaged in mindful breathing. Let the experience be joyful and relaxing. Try not to have perfectionistic expectations or express too much judgment about your ability to immediately sustain your attention and emotions. That will improve with practice.

Your goals for this course are:

1. to learn about yourself from this experience

2. to learn the diaphragmatic breathing technique

3. to develop a mindful breathing practice