Sunday Story...Every Breath You Take

Sunday Story…Every Breath I take

Every breath I take has been taken before. Recycled thousands of times. Cleansed, made new, and recreated to give me life. Every breath you take has been taken before, by your ancestors. You are connected to every strand of life that has ever existed through the air you breathe. Your breath does not just give you life; it has been giving life for millennia.

STOP. Think about the breath you are taking right now, this very moment. Can you take it in so very deeply into your belly, allowing the life it brings to permeate your entire being? Or are you gulping at air, gasping like a fish out of water? Too many of us just gulp and gasp for air, trying so desperately to get the life it brings into our blood and bones, unable to truly accept the gift that breath brings. Imagine trying to breathe in a sauna…you can’t take a really big breath for the searing heat yet you desire and want the healing and life giving force that breath will give. This is how so many of us breath every day, sitting at our desks, walking from the car park, up top in our lungs breathing from our minds.

Your scarcity mentality starts here, in your breath. Afraid that you won’t get enough, that the air you are getting will be taken by another, you grasp, and grab, and gulp at it trying to possess that which is not possessable. You must release the breath after you take it…there is no choice in this matter, no other way for you to live. You must release the breath shortly after you receive it. The alternative is death. But you can grab and grasp and gulp if you wish….it is your choice (again).

OR you could draw your breath deeply, abundantly into your belly, accepting the gift it brings into your life and then releasing it with gratitude for the life you have just shared with your ancestors. Breathing consciously is where abundance begins. You have enough air if you will just let it in to strengthen and nourish you. There is plenty for me and you and the other billions of creatures in the world who need and enjoy the same air across the globe. When our breath starts in our bellies, deep in out center we connect with the earth, the sky and everything in between.

There are so many times in our lives when we ignore the abundant universe, too tied up in our own little drama to realize all the gifts and true treasures that lie before us. In many ways the whole world is like this…there is enough food produced in the world to feed everyone abundantly. Yet billions go hungry every day and thousands die of starvation daily. Too tied up in our own little fiefdoms and hoards we ignore the abundance around us and allow our fellow creatures to suffer the ignominy of too little food. We could say the same thing of water…plenty of it yet thousands sicken and die for lack of clean water every day. Where is the abundant consciousness in any of that?

I say that we (the We that is you and I, and him and her, and us and them) by breathing in scarcity foist scarcity into the universe when we breath out. Should we just learn to breathe deeply, consciously, deep into our bellies the abundance of air that is ours for the breathing, and then breath by breath the universe will become more abundant. The hold scarcity and fear has upon so many of our brothers and sisters will loosen and fall away. When I breathe consciously, deeply, abundantly, the entire world can breathe the same way. When each of us begins the world can release even more abundance. There is enough. There is more than enough. We can each have all that we need to feel abundant, whole and integrated both physical and spiritually in the world. Whatever your path is, where ever your path is taking you, bring some abundance along with you. Release your abundance into the world.

Start with every breath you take…

Namaste
John
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