The Three Minute Breathing Space Unlike meditations or a body scan, this exercise is quick to perform and easy to get started with a mindfulness practice in your busy life or that of your clients. With meditations and the body scan thoughts often pop up and keeping a quiet and clear head can be a challenge. This last exercise of Three Minute Breathing Space can be the perfect technique for those with busy lives and minds. The exercise is broken into three sections, one per minute, and works as follows: The first minute is spent on answering the question, “how am I doing right now?”, while focusing on the feelings, thoughts, and sensations that arise and trying to give these words and phrases. The second minute is spent on keeping awareness on the breath. The last minute is used for an expansion of attention from solely focusing on the breath, feeling the in’s and out’s and how they affect the rest of the body. This exercise can be rather challenging for keeping a qui