The INS and OUTS of
Conscious Breathing
by Keryn Lee
SMASHWORDS EDITION
Copyright 2012 Keryn Lee
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Table of Contents
How Conscious Breathing Affects the Body
Benefits of Conscious Breathing
The Breath of Life
This booklet is designed to introduce readers to Conscious Breathing and, for those who are already familiar with it, as a reminder of its many benefits.
Conscious Breathing is the single most important tool you can have in your ‘Conscious Living toolbox’ as it brings you back to yourself. Always. And when you come back into this stillness, miracles can happen.
If you watch a new-born baby breathing, you will notice that it takes each breath deeply into its belly; in and out in a gentle, natural rhythm. Breath by breath it is breathing in its Divinity and grounding itself in this Earth reality. With every breath, the child is affirming that it chooses to be here in a physical body, and it is choosing to embrace this experience of physicality. It all begins with that first breath of life that every human gasps upon entry into the world of humans.
Notice that I use the word CHOOSING here. With every breath the baby takes, it is choosing life at some level of its consciousness . . . this is an important point that we will come back to in a minute.
I noticed that for the first four five years of my youngest son’s life he was often accessing these non-physical realms. He would constantly bump into things or fall over which was simply a way of grounding himself. As a crystal child he was new to this earth reality and it took some time to become accustomed to maintaining a presence in human form. Other children may adapt more quickly because they have had many lifetimes and are more accustomed to life in the physical planes. You see, bringing our Soul Self into our physical body is a continuing process, not something that happens instantly upon our birth.
Throughout our childhood we receive many knocks and bumps, each one causing us to gasp for that breath of life as we integrate a little more of our Soul. Take for instance, the experience of being winded: we receive some sort of harsh impact to the body and for seconds afterwards we can’t breathe. As our body recovers, the need for air becomes imperative and we desperately suck in one huge lungful after another. Our Soul uses such moments to come in closer, to fill the physical body with more of its true essence. These experiences, or what we call ‘bump and fill’, can occur well into our late teens, and sometimes as adults.
As we grow to adulthood the pressures of life on Earth begin to take hold. We are faced with responsibilities, expectations and stresses that take their toll on the body and mind. Less time is taken to breathe deeply into the belly, and short, shallow breaths replace the deep connective breathing we knew as babies. This in itself tells a story—we have gone from choosing to be in a physical body and experiencing this reality (breathing ourselves in with deep, rhythmic breaths) . . . to just surviving, sometimes unsure as to whether we even want to be here (barely taking in enough breath to sustain life).
This is the ‘just enough’ scenario that has become part of the every day lives of millions of people. We have ‘just enough’ breath filling our lungs to survive, and this relates to having ‘just enough’ throughout the rest of our lives. Just enough money to get through each week . . . just enough food on the table each day . . . just enough holidays each year to keep us in a mind-numbing job . . . just enough love in our lives to get us through another day . . . just enough good health to keep us alive (usually with some illness or health problems) . . . Just enough.
No longer do humans fully experience every breath, every taste, every sound, every touch, every sensation, every feeling and everything we see. Life becomes dull and difficult, full of struggle and hardship in whatever form that may take for each person.
At this point we are no longer CHOOSING LIFE.
We are still alive. We are still breathing, barely. But we are not experiencing life; we are allowing life to happen to us. We believe that we are victims to life not creators of life, and then we complain that things aren’t going the way we would like. In an effort to overcome this reality, we fill our heads with affirmations and positive ramblings in an attempt to change what we have created. Generally, we end up with more of what we did not want.
WHY?
We are attempting to use the MIND to control our lives so that we fit into society’s expectations and images of a good, abundant, spiritual, loved and happy being. The problem with this is that WE ARE CONSCIOUSNESS—something so grand and magnificent that the mind pales in comparison. Therefore, using the mind to try to change our lives is like trying to fix a broken leg with a bandaid.