Nantene: Breathing is one of the most powerful exercises you can do to be fully present. We have discussed that in the past, but it is always worth repeating. For with your breath you are changing, you are flowing, you are in motion, which is the same state your soul is in at all times, and that spirit is in at all times, except when it is at rest. For ultimately, when you trace all the way back to Source there is no difference between motion and stillness.
But for you as a human being, it is important to recreate and experience and attend to that state of flow and change as often as you can. For it is only when you attempt to fix in place that sense of movement, to stop it and keep it the same, keep it where it is, pin it down so that it can’t get away – it is only when you attempt to do to that, that you suffer.
If you flow and truly allow as often as you can, you will still have many emotions that come and go, but you will not suffer. Flow is your true state. Even being is flow. And when you are in your true state you have access to a greater range of tools than you do when you are resisting or blocking.
There is much to learn from your breathing. When you are holding; when you are stuck; when you are skimming the surface with shallow breath, and it is often representative of the bigger flow of your life. In the bigger flow of your life, there are times when you hold and times when you only skim the surface, and it is often not the most productive way to try to intellectually reason when those times are, but it is often more efficient to feel them. Feel your breath, feel your life. Feel your life, feel your breath.
Feel your breath in your tailbone. Oh, but you can. With practice, you can feel your breath in every part of your body, just as you can feel presence in every part of your body. Just as with practice, you can feel energy in every part of your being, and you can feel awareness in every aspect of your deeper, higher, spirited self.
You are a sense, in a sense, a thought in the mind of God. That is far too literal.
You are a wave in the ocean, though that is far too physical.
You are a ripple of awareness, flickering like the reflection of sunlight on a stream; ever-changing and ever expressing the movement of Spirit, of Source, of True Nature, and all of your human experience comes down to how much you resist or allow that truth.
But one must go gently, step by step. For example, if you notice that your breathing is shallow, in a situation where it does not seem to call for shallow breathing, simply by noticing and paying attention, your breathing with start to deepen, and you can go with that flow, and help your breath be deeper.
However, if you say, “Oh my breathing is shallow. This is not good. I must breathe deeper,” that is unnecessary forcing. The other way is more organic. From the inside out.
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