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The three step breathing space (3MBS)
Key learning (feature ii):
The learning is encapsulated within the three steps to the practice.
Each step needs to be clearly conveyed. Preparing by stepping out of
automatic pilot, then three steps:
1. Awareness – Recognising and acknowledging all of one’s current
experience (thoughts, emotions, sensations).
2. Gathering – bringing the attention to the sensations of the breath
in a particular place in the body.
3. Expanding the awareness into the body as a whole using the
particular sensations of the breath as an anchor, while op V