Breathe & Let Go

Yoga has taught me the value of the quality of the breath. The breath can take you many places. It can lead you to blissful moments when you can be fully relaxed yet fully aware. Breath is a powerful tool. The ebbs and flow guide our movements, in both the subtle and gross body. It is the breath that guides our bodies through our emotional and physical changes and challenges. It is our faith that helps us release and let go. Having faith that another chance to inhale will come, another opportunity to grow, to learn, to be.

Yoga has also taught me about awareness. Awareness of my body, my breath, my surroundings, and the energy that radiates from people in those surroundings. Knowing where my body is in space without having to see it. Sensing the moods when someone walks in the room and knowing how to adapt.

Letting go. Letting go of preconceived notions that something has to be changed if something is uncomfortable. Being aware of it and breathing through. The combination of awareness and breath is a powerful tool. I know my breath and my faith can get me through anything. No matter how stressful it is. Let it go. You will be alright.

For as easy as this all sounds, some days it is just difficult to remember to breathe. There are days I sit at my desk, and I stop breathing. I clench my jaw and feel all the muscles in my neck tense up. There are times with my children when I have to excuse myself from the room, have a "mommy time-out" and stop to breathe. Its only through this awareness, when I stop, reset my train of thought and breathe, that I can continue on.

I suppose that the moral of the story is - Life's too short not to breathe. Let go of what doesn't serve you.