Life begins with your first breathe and ends with your last.
Ideally, ideal breathing is an involuntary action. Just watch a baby breathe. The body knows how to breathe but then fear, stress and life get in the way and our voluntary muscles start messing it up.
Voluntary vs. Involuntary? When you’re asleep, breathing is involuntary. When you’re awake, breathing is still mostly involuntary but breathing is a muscle contraction that can be regulated by conscious thought.
While breathing is mostly involuntary, your breathing is nothing to take for granted. Breathe is the fuel of life. Your breathe carries oxygen to every cell, all 70 trillion of them. Breathing eliminates toxins and stresses.
Breath is a powerful tool that affects your state of mind and how you feel emotionally and physically. It connects your mind, your body and your spirit.
Through our breath we are in relation with all life, never separate from the Great Mystery”, Native American saying.
Many mystics and ancient cultures believe that breath is evidence of spirit and that working with breath is a spiritual practice. In many languages including Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and Hebrew, breath and spirit are the same word.
For breath is life and if you breathe well, you will live long on earth. Sanskrit Proverb
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