Inhale, Exhale, Inhale, Exhale………

………..inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale……………..stop.   Close your eyes.  Focus on your breath for 5 inhales and 5 exhales right now……..START!

GOOD!  How do you feel?  Is that the first time in a long time that you have simply STOPPED and focused on the very thing that keeps you alive in your human body?  Or perhaps it was just a few hours ago that you did this very thing for 30 minutes or so.  Perhaps you have never really done this.  That is ok.  We are just going to bring some attention to our breath and to the symbology of the inhale and the exhale today.

All of life breathes.  From the largest animal to the smallest amoeba.  There is a pulse that expands and contracts, expands and contracts, expands and contracts.

This simple rhythm or wave is an integral part of life.  We move towards something, we move away from something.  We take something in, we let something go.  We are active, we rest.  We are creative, we are in a lull.  We   have high energy, we have low energy.  We give, we receive.  We have a job we love, we begin to lose interest in this job…..on and on.  The natural ebb and flow of life.

Sometimes we hang on too long and too tightly because, “I have always done this!”  or “But I made a committment”  or ” I don’t know what else I would do.”  When we become more intimately aware of this “wave” this  energy that life itself follows, we can begin to give ourselves permission to let go OR to begin anew.  If we hang on when the wave is going out, we suffer.  If we try to make something happen when the wave is going out, we struggle.  If something new is trying to come in and we do not make space for it, life feels overwhelming and confusing.

Life is creative, alive, passionate.  Life pauses, dies away, is quiet.  Both sides are true.  The wave comes in, the wave goes out.

Our intuition, our soul tries its best to guide and encourage us to ride the wave, the breath, as effortlessly as possible.  Where is the energy for you in your life right now?  What “wave” is coming in? What are you feeling excited about?  What do you find yourself day dreaming about?  Or are you just in a stage of feeling a yearning, a restlessness?  These are signs that there is a new wave ready to come in!   Where is the energy saying, “I am complete”  and is ready to be released out into the greater ocean of infinite possibilities to be born anew?  Here we encounter struggle,  loss of interest, interest shifting……..

Be aware of your breath, of your body sensations.  Be aware of what brings you energy and where it feels like you are beating a dead horse……….perhaps that energy IS complete!

Life is fluid.  We are fluid.  Life maintains a greater sense of interest, mystery and flow when we stay connected with the breath, the wave………..

What are you being guided to breath into your life?  What are you feeling/sensing that is on its way out?

Let me know:)  Ride the wave, baby!  mj