dailydatewithgod

Breathe!  Just take a nice long deep breath! (In through the nose and filling the belly up with air and then releasing it all through the mouth).  That is healing!  God has given us such a beautiful gift.  If we find ourselves off-track, stressed out, worried, angry, feeling anything with intensity we can pause, breathe, and be restored to wholeness.  I know it seems much too simplistic but God usually makes things simple–that way we can complicate them 😉  I have shared many times that the pauses in our day are our greatest gifts.  Pauses occur when I stop and take a breath. I remember several years ago that a friend was telling me about a breathing yoga class and I laughed at myself because my first thought was, “oh no, I can’t do that.”  LOL!  What do I think I do all day long?  The key is being present and aware of my breath.  What do we do before we speak, before we take a step, before we open our eyes in the morning?  We breathe.  If we stop breathing, we stop living.  So if I am constricting my breath and not paying attention to the rhythm of my breath then I am not paying attention to my life.  I am relying on my autonomic nervous system to keep my lungs going in and out and breath carrying through my body.  Thank God it does that.  But how much of my life do I want to just be on an automatic system?  Yoga is all about breathing through the movements, singers rely on their breath to carry a note, writers breath through their fingers, children blow bubbles with their breath, and we connect to our hearts when we breathe.  The more deep breaths we take, the more fresh oxygen goes into our system which is then carried throughout our body. Think of what you do when you are relieved–you let out a sigh!  (a.k.a.–a deep breath).  To breathe into something is to bring attention and focus to it.  I am reminded this morning that to inspire is to breathe into.  How much of your life do you want to be inspired?  That is my prayer for us today–that we choose as many moments as possible to breathe and thus inspire. Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen