• heightened awareness
• raising awareness
• slowing down
• spending time
• compassion
• conversation
• doing things with words
• empathy
• feeling present

Through the simple act of consciously taking a deep breath, we nurture feelings of connectivity, interdependence, empathy, and compassion – the felt feeling of being present to one another. The twelve-minute video Where mind and body swing back and forth, by Studio Olafur Eliasson, presents responses from a group of outstanding thinkers and activists to some essential questions: What is a deep breath? How does it affect us? What does our awareness of taking deep breaths do to our understanding of ourselves, of each other, and of the world around us?