Benefits of breathing

I've been reading Practical Intuition: how to harness the power of your instinct and make it work for you by Sandra Day.

We're lucky that our breathing process is in the background because it is an unconscious process.

Day argues that there are benefits for "reclaiming conscious control over our breathing functions. By doing one of the many practices that focus on breath [like yoga], we can control pain, increase concentration, help the body relax, and even accelerate the heatling process."

A person must be aware of her (or his) breathing in order to have this control. A person must also be aware of many other things in order to have greater intuition.

Day says, “Everything you perceive – everything you sense, or remember, or feel, or dream or intuit, in short, everything you notice – has meaning. Everything.

I find that exciting. There is a purpose for everything. It reminds me of a quote. I think Bob Proctor in the Secret. He said,

“the event of your birth was no accident.”