As ashamed as I am to confess this, it is fair to say if cancer hadn’t hit me I would still be living a life where I would be mostly running away from myself.
Isn’t that crazy?
I know now it is crazy….but it took me to reach rock bottom…with my health…I almost lost my life to realize that.
So when I started opening up my heart…
I started listening to some meditation…
I remember exactly where I was and the feeling of my first full deep breath…
I didn’t realise that I had been living without breathing deeply…
I am not sure if you know but cancer cells live in an anaerobic environment…instead of using oxygen for energy like healthy cells, they use glucose. They need the healthy cells to survive, think about a parasite living of its host.
That gave me a good enough reason to breath…to breath deeply…but when I first did it…I felt again how uptight I had been…how much ‘stuff’ I had been holding on to…how ‘heavy’ I felt…
And the more I focussed on my breath, the lighter I felt…
the more connected to my body I started feeling…
I could almost feel my cells thanking me for breathing…deeply…
Slowly meditation started becoming a daily habit for me….
I was learning how to be by myself…with myself…I was learning how to slow down…to listen to my inner self…
And it all starts with breathing….a physical action that changes your physical state.
Changing your physical state of being on alert, on flight and fight mode, uptight, upset, angry…
to becoming calmer, more connected to your inner self, lighter, happier, at peace….
I know right? Just by breathing we can get all of these benefits and yet we don’t take the time to focus on it.
Today I invite you to breath…deeply… just try it…inhale to the count of 4 and exhale to the count of 6.
Do it 3, 5, 10 times if you can.
I would love to hear from you…let me know what you have felt…wasn’t it magical? Didn’t it make you feel calmer, lighter, less uptight?
But hey you’ve got to do it at least 3 times on the count of 4 – inhale and on the count of 6 – exhale. No cheating…
If you want to try a meditation, click on the link below as I have recorded a couple of meditations for you:
Meditation 1 – to connect to your inner body in times of uncertainty