We Live and Breathe in Abundance

We Live and Breathe in Abundance

One of the most difficult things for us to accept is that beneath all our dreams and disappointments, we live and breathe in abundance.
                                                     Mark Nepo: The Book of Awakening

More often than not we are disappointed with life. We do not get what we want and we get what we do not want. Unfortunately, we often concentrate on these dissatisfactions and forget to be grateful for simply being alive. Behind all our wanting and not wanting, it is a miracle that we are alive and breathing, day after day, year after year. 

On average we are breathing 12 to 16 times per minute, that makes over seven million three hundred thousand times in one year! If you like maths you can calculate the number of breaths over a lifetime of 80 years… 

This week, take the time to stop and just enjoy your breath. Go outside to a place where nobody disturbs you (a balcony, the back side of the house where you work or live), and express your gratefulness for the fact that you are alive by doing some easy breathing exercises. You will notice their calming and relaxing effect and you will feel even more alive afterwards. J