My lesson yesterday was with a 14-year-old girl who'd gotten hurt skiing about three years ago and had unsurprisingly been experiencing deep fear on the mountain ever since. I taught her the centered breath, then brought her attention back to the breath again and again. Her fear lessened, and she said, "Skiing is fun again!"
My lesson today was with a 16-year-old girl who was struggling with some issues in her home life. I taught her the centered breath, brought her attention to the breath again and again, and, in her case, taught her the basics of self-protective energetics--how to expand herself via the breath so as to have more confidence and meet challenges more boldly. At first, she wasn't sure she could learn to ski, or that she even wanted to, but by the end of the lesson, she said she was having fun. And she had new tools to meet the challenges in her life.
To both of them, I said, "These practices can change your life."
And they can.