Breathing

Lesson Two

 

 

All of life is rhythm and flow, we see this in nature and in our bodies.  Ebb and flow of the seas, wax and wane of the moon, day to night and day again, seasons, life and death to life again. 

 

This is flow creates harmony.  We can choose to work against the flow of life and increase our struggles, or we can accept the flow and move with it.  Working with our breath is a reminder of this flow, this rhythm. 

 

For some strange reason we mixed up the idea of how to breathe.  Watch a young child breathe.  The belly rises with each inhalation and sinks with each out breath.  Pay attention to your breath now.  How is it working in your body?  Are you just sipping tiny gasps of air, because you have to, or are you breathing with awareness and drawing the air and life force into you? 

 

Focus on breathing in through the nostrils, slowly expanding the body to receive.  Then breathe out through t, slowly releasing and allowing the body to relax. 

 

We accept and take in the new.  We release with gratitude that which is done and past – making way for the new breath, the new beginning.  In each moment of breathing we are Being in the Moment.  Being Present with What Is.

 

The more even and rhythmic the breathing, the more Vital Energy we bring into our bodies.