Breathing in – here.

Breathing out – now.

The Here and Now breathing practice is a rule-bending gift, a potential "Weapon of Mass Awakening", a tiny cheating hint for this multidimensional game, called life, we find ourselves. What if, instead of an external biohacking device like one of those clever rings or bracelets, watches or gizmos, we had a built-in "device" that could bring us instantly back into the present moment into a state of embodied awareness? One that is a constant reminder for the rest of our lives, and that goes off several times a minute and costs nothing?

Well, we do.

It is our breathing.

And we can use it anytime to give us the nudge we need to come back into presence.

To turn it on, we don’t really need to do anything, apart from choosing to download the application and deciding to set up this new habit as your default one. In other words, I think I discovered what is probably the dummy safest way on the planet to help ourselves to be and to become present in the body: it is the simple, literal biohacking of connecting the inhalation with the notion of being Here, and the exhalation with the notion of being Now.

The mind-blowing and banal stuff about the practice is that it simply applies the NLP or Silva-method type memory anchoring principle to be reminded to be here and now by our very own breathing – where Here and Now are a synonym to be present: resting present in the body, instead of being lost in the mind. For the more secular folks amongst you, this is a practical, innocent means to get out of your head; for those more familiar with non-dualistic teachings, this is just a harmless addition to the non-existent toolkit as, of course, there are no methods and there is no teaching.

My invitation is to explore this together – maybe we can find the others and connect better to each other as well along the journey.

Inhale – be here.

Exhale – be now.

Slowing down. Embodiment. Conscious breath. Conscious touch.