1)?
The biggest thing about being aware of your breath or tracking it is that increases the stillness of your mind.
This stillness in part increases a lot of things such as concentration, focus and so on. But these are too generalized way of explaining what it actually does.
By my personal experience, the main thing it does is that it improves the time span of your ability to focus on just one thing. Quite often it happens that we set out to do things only to find that the mind is monkeying around from things to things. That reduces.
And, once we are able to do a particular thing with a single minded focus then the quality of work improves. We go the depth of that work and make a masterpiece of it. And, finally we become one with that work.
A simple technique of 10 breath counts (inhale and exhale) a set is what can be started with. We can increase it to as many as we can with time.
All of this works well for me.
2)?
The first thing to learn while facing provocation is to not react spontaneously.
If we’re reacting then we are actually playing by the rules of the provocateur.
If we’re not then we are forming our own rules to play the same game.
In today’s tech heavy urban society the general conscience of human beings has become just that. To react spontaneously. We must curtail that at any cost.
It’s ok to remain silent. It means that you have this magnificent power of self control.
We must remember that our senses, emotions, intellect and everything is projecting outwards.
But, We the Self is at sitting right there at the deepest of depths.
Self control is diving deep within to find the real You.
Om Shanti….?