For years now, when I’m guiding any breathing meditation, or a group breathwork with my students and clients, I’m often asking them to think of a baby to them how to breathe.
This is a short video of my son napping yesterday morning.
Focus, in particular, on the very bottom of his belly. Notice how it fully expands on the inhalation and releases on the exhalation.
In fact a baby’s entire body will expand, like an accordion, on the inhalation, from the crown of the head all the way down to the heels of the feet, and fully release on the exhalation.
With each inhalation opening fully to this moment, and with each exhalation fully releasing the previous moment.
It’s a cycle of continual release and renewal.
This is the way we were all naturally designed to breathe, and most of us, as babies did, in fact, breathe this way.
However, as we get older and move through the stages of our lives, we encounter a wide array of emotional and psychological traumas and chronic fears, that gradually impede, and constrict, our breathing.
When we are cut off from the full range of our breathing, we are cut off, in varying degrees, from our lifeforce, our vitality, our innate intelligence, intuition and inspiration for life.
This fracturing of our wholeness is, over time, where chronic physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual discord, illness, and even disease, sets in.
After working with thousands of people from all different walks of life, I realized one of the most miraculously simple, yet important things, I can do as a healer, is give people a safe and trust-worthy place to consistently breathe fully and deeply.
It’s here my wife, Annie & I, have repeatedly witnessed incredible healings happen.
It’s here we each have the potential to re-enter the stillpoint of innocent awareness. It’s here regeneration and renewal naturally resets our consciousness to its original essence.
– Brian Piergrossi
