Learning to breathe...

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Take a deep breath in...
Let it out...
Take another deep breath in...
Let it out...


I find myself doing that more often than not lately.  It's such a great and easy way to relieve stress, a great way to really breathe in positive energy and a great way to help put your body and mind in a new place.  So quick, so easy, and so refreshing.

Breathing regenerates the body.  Without it, we wouldn't be alive, would we?

Take a deep breath in...
Let it out...

Woooooo... I feel good.  Though, it doesn't work miracles.  Breathing, when you pay attention to it, can even help put your mind in a whole new perspective.  Breathe in that new fresh perspective, exhale that old stale one.

Today was a breathe worthy day.  If you were where I was today, you would have found yourself breathing in and out a lot, and hoping you would make yourself pass out.  Or at least that is how I felt.  I didn't really want to be in the moments of my day, at some points I felt good, but others, well, I was breathing.  Though, you should want to be in each and every moment as much as you can, today was just not that day.

Take a deep breath in...
Let it out...

I am still in that breathing pattern.  I'm still trying to let the fresh air expand my lungs and fill them with positive energy.  While exhaling out the heavy, weighted feelings.

Learning to breathe is so important.  And, though we all know how to breathe, we don't all know how to breathe.  It took me years to learn to really breathe.  When I was young, I played sports I was taught to breathe in through my nose and out through my mouth to help with cramps when running track, lifting weights or laps for field hockey.  When I got a little older, I breathed smoke into my lungs to be cool, (GROSS habit, I don't do it anymore, but I did enjoy it at the time) long slow drags.  When I was pregnant, I learned how to do the Lamaze breathing - slow, steady and soothing to relieve the pain of childbirth.  When my children were born and I became a parent, I learned that I must breathe and walk away before yelling at my children.  Now, I am learning to use breathing not only as a life sustain-er, cramp helper, NO SMOKING/lung healer, pain soother, and an anger manager, but now as a regenerating, new perspective making and life enhancing tool.

O yes, it took me almost 36 years to realize, there are more reasons for breathing, then just to keep me alive, though, that reason in itself should be the main reason for breathing, it is not the only reason we breathe.

Take a deep breath in...
Let it out...