pihkal t1_jbsdvsk wrote on March 11, 2023 at 9:44 AM

Reply to comment by TickTock432 in Breathwork may improve mood and change physiological states more effectively than mindfulness meditation by chrisdh79

Anapanasati doesn’t involve altering the breath, only watching it. And since the Anapanasati Sutta is part of the Pali Canon, the oldest extant Buddhist scriptures, it’s pretty “traditional”.

TickTock432 t1_jc05w0h wrote on March 13, 2023 at 1:46 AM

The very modern invention known as ‘Buddhism’ didn’t invent and doesn’t own traditional mindfulness. The practice of mindfulness, of ‘remembering‘, which includes remembering how to properly breathe as we evolved to, extends far back into the mists of time and cross-culturally, noting that even just observing the breath is ’working’ (consciously engaging) with it.