When this happens, unknowingly, most of our energy is drawn out of the body into the head. Then we're operating solely out of our old programming, the knowledge in our brain. Next we react to our world instead of being balanced and responsible within it. Reaction causes us to feel separate and apart from the flow of life. It is also an easy way to stop the mind from worrying about the future and the past.
Breathing is a way of creating a feeling of unity or becoming conscious of the flow of existence.
When we focus our minds in breathing for more than a few minutes, unresolved emotions often arise. As these release in expression, the body begins to feel lighter and more relaxed. Emotional healing often occurs at deeper levels as well. For most of us, breathing represents a safe and effectively powerful way to have more conscious connections to the energies of Higher Self. Our consciousness is already divine, it is our awareness that most of us are working on.