Breathing

I’ve discovered something amazing! Or, other people have also discovered it (it’s a pretty basic part of mindfulness training). But until it really clicked for me, I sort of thought that they were exaggerating.

What I’ve discovered is that when I focus on my breath, I become centred in the now. My breath becomes calm, even and free. It's more like I'm being breathed, than that I'm doing the breathing.

When I’m centred in the now, I get more energy, feel more loving and experience more of the now. I also feel how my body relaxes and things just seem to flow more easily in general.

The reason I didn’t get this to work before, was that I got distracted from my breath within seconds without noticing it. And then I got lost in thoughts, just like I’ve for a long time have noticed that I, and everyone else, do most of the time. 

I still get distracted and lost in thoughts, but the more I practice remembering to focus on my breath, the easier it becomes to get back to the now.

The only thing that we need to do, to get to this amazing state, is to practice more and more on focusing on our breath. 

You might think that focusing on the breath would be a distraction from other things that are going one. But in fact, it’s the opposite. When we focus on the breath, we become more focused on everything else in the now as well.

This is so amazing and so simple, that I can’t believe that I haven’t made it a priority until now.

I wish to conclude with that I think that the Bible verse, as with so many other Bible verses, holds some significance that tend to pass people by. I believe that every breath is a gift from God. But since breath is always there, we tend to miss how amazing it feels to just breathe, when we just focus on the breath and accept the air with joy and gratitude.