Listening to Your Breath

How is your breath? Right now. What have you ben thinking about? Whatever it is. The thing you've been thinking about, all day. How does your breath feel about that subject. Person. Place. Thing. Idea. In your life. It’s significance. How does your breath feel, fast or slow? Does it feel strong or weak? Ready or fearful? Can you identify who you are with that breath? Do you hear God in that breath? Are you breathing with God? Are you one? Can you recognize how you feel? Can you give how you feel right now a name?

This space of ultimate vulnerability with ourseleves we rarely take. In some ways its like a leap of faith. The moment you decide to believe in you. In who you are. We open ourseleves up to God. To direction.

Do you feel? Tense? Peace? Light? Heavy? Low? Liberated? Free? Do you feel? Can you? Have you ever allowed yourself this space.? This honest space. Of self knowingness. Sometimes I don't want to feel. Its too intense. Issues, socially economically romantic etc. the ability to open myself up to feel is painful. In this same moment, I'm also aware that to feel is a gift of connectedness to God. When we love a person we are fully in engaged. A mother can feel the pain of her baby's first shot. Lover's can yearn for another. Sibling's have something special I'd say.. My point is that the ability to feel is innate to us. It is us experiencing all that God has gifted in this life. The closest physical representation of God that we can handle here. How did you feel in any new and exciting moment?

Why be ashamed of this gift? To not express how you feel. To really know how you feel, is a gift. Don't dare shut out pieces of God in your life by refusing to feel. Don't push those limits. Because we can. Some do, out of the feeling of fear... I hope into the later half of the year you feel your shoulders tensing around that person. Then you remove them out of your life. I hope your stomach turns flips and you decided this new feeling is great. I hope you allow yourself to feel something you've never heard of before. I hope you allows these whispers of God breathe new life into you. You deserve it. Its already yours anyway.

with love,

Aunteia Dashell