ABSTRACT
The Three-Minute Breathing Space (3MBS) is a mini-meditation that encapsulates the essence of the entire course and also elements contained within the longer sitting meditation. Its key intention is to support the integration of practice within the fabric of day-to-day life. There are three steps to the practice: Awareness - step out of automatic pilot, recognise and acknowledge current experience; gathering - bringing the attention to sensations of the breath in a particular place in the body; and expanding the attention into the body as a whole using the particular sensations of the breath as an anchor, while opening to the range of experience being perceived. The practice supports learning that comes through the 3MBS in the following ways: generalising the practice to everyday life; developing flexibility in placing attention for different effects; and accessing different ways of relating to experience in daily life.
