Dreaming a Breath

Breathing

For me no matter what happens in my world, no matter how crazy, how insane, how out of control things appear to get I can find my greatest peace in the most simple and basic thing we do.. Breathe......
I love that song that is out right now," Just Breathe"..

Now I know that sounds really oversimplified considering some of the things we are being bombarded with in our days, and for years I balked at the idea of "Just breathing" I mean really I breathe all the time and it sure hasn't done much for me up to now. No, breathing hasn't done much for me... It is to laugh.. Breathing has kept me alive, kept my blood pumping, kept my mind filled with oxygen so I can think, ( I hear you laughing at this one, but hey just because my thoughts are a little out of the ordinary doesn't make them invalid) keeps all the systems in my body working and yes breath can be an incredibly powerful healing tool if we use it with intention and focus...

I was watching "Greys Anatomy" the other night and the chief who had just astounded his resident with his skill, when asked how he was able to perform the amazing feat, simply said, "stick with the basics".
What could possibly be more basic than breathing...

Breath is manna, that which fills. All spiritual traditions connect spirit with breath and wind and air..
Air is one of those amazing things that is so essential and yet unseen, one of those things that can only be known through an experience of it. So I want to share a deeper experience of Breath, with you..

Just Breathe

Start by stopping.. Just stop everything your doing and everything your thinking.. (ok I know the thinking part is not easy) I will devote another entire post to quieting the thoughts but for now were just going to use a little a trick I like to call the old bait and switch, or simply put, DISTRACTION. By thinking about the breathing you are keeping your mind busy while giving it something quiet and within you to be thinking about... Hehehehe sneaky, very sneaky.. Now this takes practice so don't get all frustrated if your mind tries to wander off and go play back out in the chaos, were use to all the noise, its a comfortable discomfort zone... Be patient, little steps, all we have to do is take one breath.. And let it out and then take one more.. You don't have to worry about a whole day or even a moment just one breath in and one breath out.. We've been doing it our whole lives, only now we will do it with conviction, with meaning, with love for ourselves, as our own sweetest gift to ourselves..

Ok a couple more words on this breath were about to take. Yes we have been breathing for years but this one precious sweet breath we are about to take is special, so we take it fully into ourselves with the greatest of intent... The intent.......... To fill, To lighten, To renew, To refresh, To heal, To quiet, To bless, To be........ This is the experience this one breath will bring us.. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

The other word is about how we are going to take this breath in.. After all we've been taking breaths in for our whole lives, its the first thing we did when we popped in on this planet.. So the way we breathe in this breath must be different, blessed, most sacred among acts... We will bring it into us as a wave gently rolling onto the sand... Like breathing in life itself, life filled with all the most amazing and wondrous and beautiful and loving experiences you have ever known. The air being the life force of all that is light and love and healing and wonder and magic and Joy and Peace... That is what we are filling our beings with.. This breath that we will take into the very center of our deepest being soul.. The absolute AH of the AWE.. So when we breath it in we will fill our deepest belly all the way through our depths, and then feel it filling your center, then your chest and your throat moving up into your face and then to very top of your head.. Feel this breath fill your very being.. Now for just a second we will hold it in ourselves feeling it, watching it, experiencing it as this precious life force gift fills our cells and our pores into our organs and our minds filling filling filling, and then simply releasing back out to the source from which it came, escaping from our mind, our face, our throat, our lungs, our belly's, pushing out the last little bit from our deepest core, knowing that the breath has taken the tension with it. Feeling your body as the breath leaves it, softening, relaxing, letting go as the breath takes all that is not light and love and life.. And now our bodies are ready to be filled again and the next breath you will find will be even deeper...
This is a slow intentional gentle experience, if you feel yourself forcing it then do a little wiggle.. Wiggle while your jiggle, hehehe. It is an exercise in blessing, a way to release and renew... Just relax and enjoy filling your self with life....

As you breathe in listen to the sound of your breath, I can hear the ocean when I breathe like this.. I hear it rolling onto the shore and then drifting away, I would love to know what you hear... Follow the sound and the feeling as you are filled, follow the breath through your body, for this moment that's all there is, just you and your breath, just the breath... One breath at a time, in and out, slowly and gently, staying in your breath... You are in this moment giving yourself life, love, peace, shhhhhhh....... Just Breathe............. Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!! And when you feel you have been in this moment as long as you can for now, with your last breath out, let it be a sigh, a long sweet ahhhhhhhhhh out loud.. Ahhhhhhhhh...

Practice this breath often and you will find that you can get utterly lost in the breath and then where your thoughts go are to the quiet. The greatest cargos in life come in over quiet seas...
This moment has been brought to you by the Universal love, that ultimately we all are...

Blessings and blissings, Enjoy ....