An ocean of love is all around us and in us!
Ask with love, accept with love, give love back.
I believe all humans share one spirit, one consciousness, but for some reason, we feel we are separate and have forgotten our interconnectedness. When you exhale, I breathe the air you breathe, when you inhale, you breathe the air I exhale. We share this breath with every living thing tree, plant, animal and human; it’s the way nature designed it.
There is an abundance of breath; it is always supporting you, supporting you to be alive in your body. Reminding you with every inhale, that you will always have enough and that you are enough. Every breath is an act of receiving and giving. When you receive, how would you like to receive this breath of life and when you give back by exhaling, how would you like to give it back.
What is your relationship with your breath? With this life force?
The relationship with your breath is the most intimate and real one you will ever have.
If you sit here now, soften your body and feel the breath gently coming in and meeting your inner world “what does the meeting feel like?” A question my teacher Amit Carmeli would ask.
It all begins here, all life, all consciousness riding on the breath. What is the relationship you are cultivating? What atmosphere are you seeding within you? What you create in your subtle inside world will manifest in the gross outside world, and reflect how you interact and experience people, places and things.
Your mind, thoughts, stories, feelings and emotions, are one with your breath and body. Whatever you are thinking rides on your breath into the body and then when you sing or speak, this is what comes out and is given to the world.
One of the most potent keys to meeting the mystery of life in all its wonder, pain and glory (I believe) is to infuse the breath with our loving intention. Repeating a mantra on your inhale is one of the most important gifts I can share. A mantra I have been sitting with is “I am loving awareness”, I heard this spoken by Ram Das, and it resonated deeply within me. I let these words arise in my mind and ride on the wave of my inhale into my heart. Then I soften and let be not looking or demanding for anything, allowing the natural rhythm of life to unfold in its own time.
What is your relationship with the breath like in this moment?
If you would like to sit in this practice, below is a recorded breathing meditation to allow you to meet the words above within your body, breath and life.
In Love and Song,
The Sound Weaver