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Breathing is very important in meditation.
When we meditate we focus the mind on one subject in order to stop the mind `thinking`, to slow it down. As the mind activity stills, many things happen; all those worries that hooked themselves into your mind, no longer have anything to hold onto, so they drop away, As the mind halts, the energy that was being wasted, going outward in random and worried thought builds and refreshes you. That same energy also starts to circulate around the body and spiritual passages with increasing vibration. You stop focusing on the human side of you and start to open up to the real spiritual side of yourself . Now this process is sped up by deeper breathing. The deeper breathing also has a massive effect on the body, as you breathe more deeply you oxygenate the body to a higher level, which energises the body. The slower breathing rate allows more time for exchange of oxygen and waste at a cellular level, meaning you clear the **** out of your body more effectively. But the most important reason why breathing is important is that oxygen and the energy of life are linked, this energy known as chi, prana ki and qi (all the same thing) increases our vibration as we breathe more deeply, this increased vibration located to a mind focused on particular points in the body focuses the energy there. So if the mind is focused on tan tien (the point below the belly button) then we are stimulating the energy around our whole system, if we focus at the ajna chakra, we are sending our intent and energy into the opening of the third eye. - So, yogically speaking, breathing is very important.
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