This short talk and practice will focus on our own breath as a comforting home base for us as we move through the day. Our mind can spin and talk about all sorts of external and internal objects of perception. If we bring our thoughts to focus on one point (ekagrata), the spinning mind calms down and one becomes grounded in more present awareness. The breath in Kashmir Shaivism is a fundamental practice as it connects our awareness to the turning point, which is the void or space in between things. Therefore, by focusing on that crystal thread of breath as it moves up and down and, especially, the turning point (which is the door to expanded consciousness) you will find that your nervous system and mind calms down and you will feel like you arrived home to your very nature, which is consciousness itself.