Through the simple act of consciously taking a deep breath, we nurture feelings of connectivity, interdependence, empathy, and compassion: the felt feeling of being present to one another. The twelve-minute video ‘Where mind and body swing back and forth’ presents responses from a group of outstanding thinkers and activists to some essential questions: What is a deep breath? How does it affect us? What does our awareness of taking deep breaths do to our understanding of ourselves, of each other, and of the world around us?
