Now you get up and walk out to the stairmaster. As you set the controls your attention is lost momentarily to the machine, but you immediately recover your aim and your awareness of breathing. You begin your exercise routine noticing how your breathing begins to deepen. You enjoy being aware of the air rushing in and out of your body. You especially begin to enjoy the freedom from nagging thoughts that anchoring attention in breathing can bring.
Worries fall away.
You become one with the movement and breathing. Once you can master this simple awareness of breathing exercise you are ready to experiment with the second part of your mind fitness program. As a person committed to working out and taking good care of your body, you know that eating healthy food is essential for maintaining physical fitness. Experience may have taught you that some foods are more nourishing and easily digested than others. There is certainly plenty of scientific information now available about the caloric and nutritional value of the foods you eat.