Grounding, Earthing, Pure Connection

Day Twentythree - breathing easy

Today focus on something outside that is moving in the breeze.

Notice the movement, notice the changes, notice how it yields to the air.

Next turn your focus on your breath.

Notice your movement, notice the changes, notice how your body yields to the air you’re taking within.

By taking notice of how we are party to influences all around us we begin to take control of what we need to make us well.

Take some time to write in your journals, sheets or books.

See you tomorrow :-)

Breathing easily and fully is one of the basic pleasures of being alive. The pleasure is clearly experienced at the end of expiration when the descending wave fills the pelvis with a delicious sensation. In adults this sensation has a sexual quality, though it does not induce any genital feeling. The slight backward and forward movements of the pelvis, similar to the sexual movements, add to the pleasure. Though the rhythm of breathing is pronounced in the pelvic area, it is at the same time experienced by the total body as a feeling of fluidity, softness, lightness and excitement.
The importance of breathing need hardly be stressed. It provides the oxygen for the metabolic processes; literally it supports the fires of life. But breath as "pneuma" is also the spirit or soul. We live in an ocean of air like fish in a body of water. By our breathing we are attuned to our atmosphere. If we inhibit our breathing we isolate ourselves from the medium in which we exist. In all Oriental and mystic philosophies, the breath holds the secret to the highest bliss. That is why breathing is the dominant factor in the practice of Yoga.”