The gift of the lungs is breath and inspiration. Moment by moment, our lungs offer us the gift of life, with breathing, with the rhythm of inhaling and exhaling. Expanding and contracting. Taking in fresh air, oxygen, and getting rid of the stale--carbon dioxide. Each breath is a tiny cycle of life, and breath can be used to re-set one’s nervous system--immediately. Anywhere. Take this gift of a nervous system reset from the lungs: put your hands on your lower abdomen, and inhale deeply, feeling your belly rise. Then exhale, feeling your belly fall back in. Inhale, exhale. Count each inhale and each exhale, to ten. There, you’ve just had a breath massage, a breath time-in, time out, a replenishment to your perspective and patience.
Thank you, lungs, for this sweet breath.
