Breathing is HEALing

Screen shot of Yellowpoint video by Neva Bruce

I have thought a lot about practices for health. What should I take up?

In the past almost three years my life has been turned upside down like I never thought possible. During this time I have had to remember to breathe. Breathing is natural, of course I was breathing, I am still here. What is interesting, is that I was not aware of my breathing, or more importantly when I was not breathing. We hold our breath when we are scared, when we are excited, and when we are trying not to cry.

Back ground life lesson - I learned to behave as a child. Not too loud, not to busy, not too rambunctious,not too quiet, and definitely not angry or sad or teary. That is not becoming.

Enter new life lesson.

A wonderful person shared with me this past year that if we don't breathe when we cry, our brains cannot process grief. The right brain and the left brain need to communicate and they need to do this through breathing. What basis this has in proven research, I have no idea, but I have learned to breathe and this has been helpful. 

The picture above is from a video that I took while on holiday in February of this year. It is a reminder of incoming and outgoing breath. So between, caring for my skin and my feet with coconut oil, having an occasional massage, acupuncture, physiotherapy and various other health supportive treatments, I am going to focus on my breathing.

This video is my five minute reminder to sit calmly and breath with the image of the tide, the sound of the surf, and focus on my breathing, letting go of the stresses in life with each breath. 

Breath is all we have.