A Sense of Breathe

A simple deep breath. Make that three, long deep breaths. Do you feel that, your feet touching the ground, the air on your bare skin, that heavy weight on your shoulders? We forget sometimes we are not just levitating through the world. It feels that way sometimes because this world is so driven by visual and intellectual stimulation. Our life is lived through our eyes. But the glorious part is that we have five more senses to experience life with. We teach our children at a young age about our five senses, starting with the sense of sight, hearing, tasting, smelling and feeling are all the wonderful ways of experiencing life as humans. And some believe even in the sixth sense of a subconscious awareness. We have numbed our other senses by a lack of use. If we start perceiving the world with all six senses, what kind of life would we start living? We go to extremes in each sense to fill it up. Loud music, over eating, snorting drugs, and sex or sport addiction, each over stimulating each sense to make us feel more alive. What if we could feel that full essence of life just by learning how to breathe? Could breathe solve our addictions? There’s a good chance that 'needing' will dissipate because breathe stimulates every sense in and out of the body. We push ourselves so far, myself included. I am not talking down to anyone I am talking from my own experience. We become hardened in order to protect our sensitive core. When we have a quick interaction with someone it is so easy to put on a shallow front because if you showed your authentic feeling self, it would be harder to accept this person is going to be gone in a relative blink of an eye. How many people have we interacted with in our existence? So why put the energy of authenticity out there if people are always coming and going? When you spend so much time interacting with people the shallow self is quite practiced, but that true self is waiting to be shown. But is the true self getting rusty by its lack of use?