In the midst of it all comes the thought, “What do I do now?”
What do I do when everything seems overwhelming?
What do I do when my world becomes unbalanced?
What do I do to create a life of abundance?
Many questions waiting to be answered.
The first thing to do is take a breath. Recognize the beauty and wonder of the breath as it comes into your lungs to fill you with the life force of creation. Then allow the fear, doubts, and worry to be exhaled into the air and drift away. Breathe in the life force energy; breathe out the doubts and fears. It’s a simple exercise where you learn to appreciate the breath.
Think about it. Every human being walking past you right now started their journey by taking one life-energy breath.
You may be thinking, “Oh, when does she get to the part where I change the world, accumulate abundance, and get showered in accolades?” You may think, “Tell me something I don’t know.”
Well, the truth is, if you truly knew the importance of the next breath moment, all the above would pale into insignificance.
The importance of the life-energy breath is felt most acutely when you take your last breath and are reunited with the source of all life.
Breathe in the divine light of existence. Let it fill your lungs with the hope of new beginnings. Feel yourself relax as you hand the job of life over to the one who created it in the first place.
Breathe as you did in the moment you came into the world — without care, without worry, without the need to be anything or do anything. Breathe as you did in that first moment: as a divine creation making your way into a world filled with possibilities yet to be discovered, a world in which there were no limitations on what you could or could not do.
Breathe as a child of a God who knew exactly why you were coming into the world and exactly what your purpose would be… breathe.
While I speak of “God,” God can mean many things to different people. Do not get hung up on titles or religious rhetoric. Think of God simply as the life-force energy that holds together all of existence.
Breathe… exhale.
To begin, you must go back to the start — the first life-breath moment. You inhaled, cried to announce your arrival to the world, opened your eyes in wonder, and beheld the future that was to become yours.
This was an important moment — an unconditional bonding moment between you and God. And while the life-force energy of others would soon impact the pathways you would travel, in this first moment you were all.
You were the perfect “I am.”
I am creation.
I am all.
We never lose the life energy we were born with. It becomes mixed up with the energy of other life forces at times. It gets hidden behind walls of ego or overshadowed by the noise of the world.
Breathe in the divine light of existence. Let it fill your lungs with the hope of new beginnings. Feel yourself relax as you hand the job of life over to the one who created it in the first place.
Breathe as you did in the moment you came into the world — without care, without worry, without the need to be anything or do anything. Breathe as you did in that first moment: as a divine creation making your way into a world filled with possibilities yet to be discovered, a world in which there were no limitations on what you could or could not do.
Breathe as a child of a God who knew exactly why you were coming into the world and exactly what your purpose would be… breathe.
While I speak of “God,” God can mean many things to different people. Do not get hung up on titles or religious rhetoric. Think of God simply as the life-force energy that holds together all of existence.
Breathe… exhale.
To begin, you must go back to the start — the first life-breath moment. You inhaled, cried to announce your arrival to the world, opened your eyes in wonder, and beheld the future that was to become yours.
This was an important moment, an unconditional bonding moment between you and God. And while the life-force energy of others would soon impact the pathways you would travel, in this first moment you were all.
You were the perfect “I am.”
I am creation.
I am all.
We never lose the life energy we were born with. It becomes mixed up with the energy of other life forces at times. It gets hidden behind the walls of ego or overshadowed by the doubts and fears that mortal beings buy into, but the essence of the soul does not go away.
“What do I do now?”
You breathe…
In, then out. The perfect breath of life energy and the divine white light of creation. As you breathe, you allow the grayness of doubts and fears to be exhaled.
Do you feel the lightness of releasing your worries as a breath that disappears into the air? Are you not a child of God, held in the splendor of unconditional love and grace?
You may feel this is too much spiritual input and close the book. This is okay, for I do not wish to force an opinion upon you, nor do I wish merely to entertain you.
I write of that which has been written since the beginning of time. I write of life.
And while the outside world may have changed, the dynamics of the inner world have not.
So I ask you to do nothing more than sit with me, and with each breath will come an understanding, a knowing, that will bring you back to the first-breath moment.
Breathe…
There is a peace to be found in the silence of a moment in which there is no expectation.
“What do you do now?”
You take a breath of life energy.
How often do you hear the harassed mother exclaim, “If only I could catch my breath!” Or how many times do you say the words, “Just breathe. It will be okay. Just breathe.”
The importance of the life breath cannot be underestimated.
Try it now. Inhale, hold for a few seconds, then let a deep, relaxing breath out. Do it again three more times.
Notice how the muscles say, “Okay, we can let go now,” as if the life energy inhaled released the toxins held within and brought you back to the moment of the first breath.
A lot of people, without knowing it, are holding their breath. Then, at the end of the day, when they drop onto the couch, they finally let the breath go.
You are not designed to hold things in. The mechanics of the life breath are such that you inhale, and the next step is to exhale.
There should be an awareness of each breath during the day — moments when you stop what you are doing and take those four breaths:
in… out…
in… out…
in… out…
in… out…
Not only do you need to “do” the breath, you must also feel it.
Feel the life-force energy expand your lungs, giving you another moment of existence. Feel the doubts, fears, and anxiety leave your body.
The “habit” of breathing consciously only comes when we make a deliberate effort to become aware of our breathing.
Like all things, the next breath is not to be taken for granted.