Hello, lovely souls 💗 I've been getting lots of reminders the last few weeks to breathe (okay, obviously, I'm breathing, but honestly, not very effectively, just the bare minimum to survive). I need reminders as much as anyone, so I thought I'd offer this tool I started using on Monday. I use Insight Timer for many things, but it is now my reminder app. I set a timer for 16 hours (so that I don't have to keep restarting it throughout the day) with intervals of 20 minutes. So, every 20 minutes, I hear a lovely Kalimba tone (that's the one I'm using right now; it'll change when I want something different or am in a habit where I don't need the reminder) that reminds me to breathe. I check my posture, power, and breath, and I ask myself what I prefer to experience (thank you, Brian D. Ridgway). Because every time that dang reminder goes off my body is fixed firmly in position (with no expansion on the inhale and nowhere to contract on the exhale), I know I really, really needed that reminder. So I close my mouth and inhale through my nose, then I open my mouth and exhale audibly through my mouth. I do this for several breaths so that I give my system time to unlock the sarcophagus that is holding me "together" and allow everything I'm holding in some time to move and integrate into my energy field so that I can really see what I prefer to experience in this moment. Yes, difficult stuff comes up, but by staying with the breath, I allow it to move and process, and it becomes a whole lot less difficult to be with. I'm curious about your relationship to breathing and how this reminder lands for you.