This is said to have been the Buddha's favorite practice, focusing his attention on the breath. The Mindfulness practice is a formal meditation that you do for a specific period of time, while breathing to help your alignment and well-being is like an informal process of meditation. The formal practice of mindfulness is excellent and should be experienced. This meditation tool would help you appreciate the natural breathing that you initiate and its centering capabilities. The areas of work in American Yoga for preparation on the path to seeing are study, meditation, and fulfillment.
Study is an essential to seeing and understanding.
It gives you the wisdom tools for the development of insight. This is an eclectic research area of ancient and modern masters. Meditation is the process of slowing the mind and developing insight. That insight that the wisdom masters have gained and gently coax us to enjoy. Fulfillment is the stage of living your life as wisdom guides you.