CC - 2 Between Two Breaths

Close your eyes. Everybody slowly close your eyes.......

Take a normal breath.............Breathe out..............

Now take a deep breath and hold your breath, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Breathe out………… hold 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,

Breath in

Open your eyes slowly.

 Did you feel your breath going in and coming out?

 Are you aware of your breath and its effect on your life?

                    Toastmaster of the day, fellow toastmasters and most valued guests good evening to you.

               Our life is related with our breath, with our breathing. An average person breathes 15 to 20 times a minute. A human life span is said to be 60 to 100 years in normal conditions.A tortoise on the other hand breathes once in a minute and the tortoise lives for about 250 years, while a rabbit breathes about 100 to 120 times a minute and lives for 8 to 10 years.

              Breath is related with the length of our life. We all suffer situations of fear and anger. At such times our breathing becomes faster. Even standing up and speaking before an audience increases our breathing rate.

          When a child is born, it cries and takes its first breath. Everyone laughs and celebrates the birth. When a person lets out the last breath and bids goodbye to life, everybody cries. Between these two breaths, a life is lived.

     
              How we live our life is in our hands. We decide the quality of our life.

             Before 1999, I was an angry person, always highly tense. This was due to my life experiences, my harsh life, having to work hard.At that time I was working with a fast moving consumer goods company.  My every moment was about targets and figures. I was not even able to get proper sleep.  I had to keep my mobile phone on at all times. I could not afford to switch it off at any time.

             I  had to reach my distributer point at 9’oclock every morning.

           Do you know two weeks continuously I travelled between Banglore and different district head quarters of Kerala state.One day attending training, at Bangalore office, on M.G road and then field work in Kerala the next day. During the training time I had to submit the previous day’s report. Sleeping and bathing had to be done on trains as I traveled back and forth.

          That year in the month of May I read a feature in Malayalam daily, about one breathing exercise.   I enquired about that, after that I attended the 6 days course. After that course I became a new man and increased my will power. I stopped my bad habits. I learned many things from there. 
         That course was conducted by an International foundation named "The Art of Living” 

              Let me conclude with these words “any kind of knowledge is precious to mankind” Please don’t ignore any thing and especially  your breath.

Breathe deep, breath well, live healthy, live long.