Thinking About… Breathing

Breathing is good!

Begin to pay attention to how many times during your day you catch yourself holding your breath or breathing very shallowly into the top of the lungs. In that moment of noticing, don’t bother chastising yourself, just stop…take a long, slow, deep breath….and let your intellect relax into your body. If you want to deepen your state of relaxation, hold your breath on the exhale for a count of three before inhaling again. The key is to breathe S-L-O-W-L-Y. Although it may seem like an eternity, 90 seconds can change your life.

Thinking About… Experience

Trust your experience! To trust your experience, you must first learn to trust your body since that’s the only place experience can occur. Your intuition…your instincts….your ‘gut’ feel…are your body’s way of offering you huge amounts of information in a single wave of intelligence. Life expands quickly and effortlessly when we choose to pay attention.

Trouble does not come from paying attention to this experience – it comes when we choose to ignore it!

Thinking About… Heart

Be gentle with yourself. Without that, your capacity for compassion, tolerance and patience with others will be a philosophy that struggles to become your way of life.  Learning to be gentle with ourselves teaches us to recognize that moment when it is so desperately required in someone else.

Thinking About… Chaos

Bifurcation is such an interesting experience in the body.  We feel two distinct things at the same time:  the chaos of the old coming apart and the great excitement/anticipation of the creation of the new.  They co-exist, occupying the same space and the same time, and the sensation plays itself out in the body.  Personally?  My life has been at its most creative and compelling in those moments!