Breath is Life, it’s as simple as that both in the material world, that holds your physical body and therefore your Body of Experience; as well as in the internal world that is about you, yourself, inside.
How you feel and what you think.
Most important, beyond this, into your Soul energy. That deep part of you that is deeply beautiful, often covered up and waiting for release, to be seen, to be heard much like a butterfly being released from a cocoon.
This Teaching explains why therefore it is so important to have an awareness of the Breath. As you breathe so consciously, the breath brings into your body LIGHT, and takes out of it all the toxic excretions. Therefore you are more able to see better, with both inner and external eyes, altogether a simple and easy natural function.
You become aware of your thoughts, and because you are now paying attention to them, they slow down, no longer needing to do anything at all to call your attention.
And so you start to become One again, with yourself.