Ok maybe I didn’t do it ‘wrong,’ and the way I was doing it was just part of the learning process. However, once I understood the distinction between what I was doing and what I perhaps intended to do, it made a big difference in my practice. Breathing - After years of using the breath to calm myself by extending the exhale (something I learned in yoga), I found that it influenced my mindfulness practice. Each time I tried to pay attention to the breath I was changing it.