Breathe Fully~Live Fully

It is an early, sun-filled morning and I am sitting on a deck overlooking the mighty Pacific Ocean. I am full of gratitude for living a life of awakening – a life where I can be fully here for the magnificence of this morning, and also for the challenges of life (such as a very noisy motel room last night). Since you have found your way to this blog, you too are living a life of awakening – one where you are waking up from the dream of struggle and separation, back into a full connection with life.

As I breathe in the fresh ocean air, I am also deeply grateful that life invited me into an intimate and healing relationship with my breath. Breath has been an invaluable friend on this journey back into a trust-filled relationship with myself, and with life. It calms my mind when I feel agitated; opens my body when it is tight; and soothes my heart when it is hurting. With its ancient and healing rhythm, it is constantly inviting me to let go of the struggling self and come back HERE, reminding me that I am a part of a much greater and trustable process.

We are all hungry for the kind of connection with ourselves and with our life that conscious breathing can bring. We want to be vibrantly alive, and right here under our very noses is one of the most powerful healing tools and accessible doorways into vibrant living that there is! So, the invitation in this moment is to allow one long slow deep breath and simply FEEL it. Notice the circle of your breath. Experience the opening and spaciousness of your in-breath, then the turning and the returning of your out-breath. And then, after a short pause, there is the gift of another in-breath. Celebrate the deliciousness of the in-breath as it makes space inside you and the relaxing of the out-breath as it allows you again to melt into life. If it feels right to you, for these few minutes that we are together ride the waves of your breath.

Doesn’t that feel wonderful? I think it is the most incredible gift there is, and I want to share it with everyone I care about, so I created an MP3 download with all the concepts and techniques I have been sharing for years through my teaching, counseling and writing. I call it “Breathe Fully~Live Fully” and I am thrilled with what has come forth. It is my gift to the world, and in my imagination, I see everybody on the planet discovering how their breath can transform their lives.

In this download, (we also have a limited amount of CDs), I invite you to journey with me back into the joy of our natural way of breathing, exploring how the amazing healer of breath works and what a natural breath looks and feels like. I also explore the many gifts that come from this way of breathing and show how you can access them in your daily life. And finally, I teach how to build upon this natural breath with techniques that can bring clarity when you are confused, calmness when you are agitated, and energy when you are tired.

So, I invite you in this new year, rather than setting goals that keep you caught in your mind, your intention is to come back to this moment, the only moment that matters in your whole life. Over and over again, simply BREATHE yourself back into life. And every time you do, every time you are here for life rather than just thinking about it, you become part of the healing of our planet.

P.S. I am also including here for free a link to one of my chapters on breath that will introduce you to this wonderful friend. May we breathe ourselves back into life!

If this blog resonated with you and want to explore more of my work, I invite you to listen to my upcoming radio show on Dreamvisions 7 Radio: Accessing the Deep Nourishment of Self-Acceptance, It will air on Thursday, January 2nd at 5am and 5pm HERE. After the 2nd, it will be available on demand, along with every other radio show I’ve ever done HERE. Please feel free to explore my catalog and listen to topics that call to you.

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