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Dennis Lewis The Center for Harmonious Awakening
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The process of breathing is a living metaphor for understanding how to expand
our narrow sense of ourselves and be present to the healing energies that are
both in and around us. Every time we inhale we take in some 1022
atoms, including approximately one million of the same atoms of air inhaled by
Lao Tzu, Buddha, Christ, and everyone else who has ever lived on this earth.
Every time we exhale, we return these atoms to the atmosphere to be renewed for
both present and future generations. Every time we inhale, we absorb oxygen
expelled into the atmosphere as a "waste product" by the earth’s plant life.
Every time we exhale, we expel carbon dioxide as a "waste product" into the
atmosphere where it can eventually be absorbed by this same plant life. In
nature, nothing is wasted. Our breath is a link in the cosmic ecology—in the
conservation, transformation, and exchange of substances in nature’s complex
metabolism. It connects our so-called inner world with the vast scale of the
outer world—of the earth and its atmosphere, as well as of all organic
life—through the perceptible alternation of yin and yang, of negative and
positive, of emptying and filling. The process of breathing, if we can begin to
understand it in relation to the whole of life, shows us the way to let go of
the old and open to the new. It shows us the way to experience who and what we
actually are. It shows us the way to wholeness and well-being. |
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