Can I just say before I begin, or go any further I would ask of you that you take whatever I say with a grain of salt.
Using your own interpretation and your own wisdom to decipher a personal experience from whatever I am about to tell you.
Some of the things I, may say might sound whimsical, obtuse, unsatisfactory, and a little weird.
To others it may be fascinating, amusing, old hat or healing.
I believe any experience has either a negative or positive affect on your being and state of mind, and using your powers of intuition and you can process any event to eventually achieve a positive outcome, even from perceived negative event.
Sometimes the most constant problems in life are caused by a single negative experience. Yet these most powerful events can also be the most life changing or constructive, for positive change.
I would like to speak to you about one thing today, and one thing only, and this one thing is inherently the only 1 thing.
The only constant in your lives
I am talking about breathing.
You do this thing so constantly that we should all be great at it by now. Sharing tips and ideas, excelling in the most central, vital and important element our lives.
We draw air in and out and in and out, without really ever realising its effect or presence.
Unless under strain, such as walking up some stairs, recovering from a sprint, or coughing your guts up, we rarely stop to think about our breathing.
Some mention the sea breeze and its purifying effects. A cold wind can make us shiver, or refresh us on a hot day.
Air is what surrounds us, and we exist within it. Entire body constantly needs air to pump vital blood through your system, to keep your brain and body alive.
Without your body functioning, and alive, some might say that you have no experience at all
When I asked my friend Lachlan Schaferius what his thoughts were on his 21 years of breathing, he told me that, “ there is a lot of power in the breath, I guess. . .not breathing, is like, not living.
So without breath we have no life, or no life as we know it. Maybe your natural state is an indicator of your health, your state of mind, and your experience.
In a single breath we can experience something vastly unique from the last.
From one to the next your life as you know it, can change.
An example might be that you are walking down the street, thinking about what you are going to have for dinner, and then suddenly somebody fires a bazooka at you!
You might get one gasp of shock in, before your legs and arms are flying across the street, landing on peoples lawns.
But you wont be letting that gasp back out ever again, now will you?
Maybe.
Bernie the bear explains something interesting. I asked him where he felt his natural breath is drawn from.
He said that he felt that he draws breath into his diaphram most of the time,
feeling that his state of breath may have been from the accumulative affects of having done athletics and singing,
from training to breath from there, previously in his life.
An extract from Yogi Ramacharaka’s book Science of Breath, is a book translated in 1904, and details details the functions of the diaphram.
“The air is drawn into the lungs by the action of the diaphram, a great, strong, flat, sheet-like muscle, stretched across the chest, separating the chest-box from the abdomen. The diaphragm's action is almost as automatic as that of the heart, although it may be transformed into a semi-voluntary muscle by an effort of the will. When it expands, it increases the size of the chest and lungs, and the air rushes into the vacuum thus created. When it relaxes the chest and lungs contract and the air is expelled from the lungs.”
Ramacharaka’s perspective, and account describes the complex inner workings of our respitory system,
A perspective that is still relevant for today, now more than 100 years in the future!
we are only human after all.
Ramacharaka truly believes and describes how breath can be a reflection of ones mental and physical state.
This is supported by Bernie the Bears observation whose breathing into his diaphram helps him stay more calm and present. Feeling that slowing his breath helps him feel more in control and aware of his actions.
When asked if he notices other people breath, and its effects on him or the person breathing.
He stated, that the most obvious time to him, was when people are sleeping.
That peoples state of breath whilst asleep achieves a relaxed, and natural state of breath, free from conscious inhibitions and external environmental factors.
Now when I say natural state of breath, natural for that unique person.
If people have intense nightmares their draws of breath may be short and erratic,
If people nose is blocked because of a head cold they are more likely to snore.
If people are relaxed and in deep sleep, they draw slowly in through their nose and out their mouth.
Each a reflection of their current state of wellbeing, and presence.
So what I am trying to convey is,
that every draw of breath you take effects your present moment,
which inevitably will affect your future state of being,
and your past state has currently manifested as your current state
There is essentially nothing but now, where the past can only be reflected upon in the present, and the future can only be conceptualised from the present moment.
Thinking about both the future and the past, will affect your current state,
and the great benefit of being a human being is that we can do so at any given moment.
Yet just thinking about it, and not “doing” anything can have adverse repercussions on expectations and future realities.
If every draw of breath is either a positively or negatively charged event, the accumulation of either positive or negative effects will create outcomes that will inevitably move us closer towards life
Controlling your state of breath will change your life immensely. Listen to the signals your body provides.
Breath deeply. Live positively. Live life the way you want to
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