PTSD – A Way Out.com A mindful way to heal

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The inhale takes the majority of energy needed to breathe.
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Inhaling needs the chest to expand and that takes strength and effort.
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Muscles have to contract to accommodate oxygen.
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Notice what happens physically, visually when we inhale deeply.
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Focus, feel your lungs expand, fill up, and then hold this energy, life force.
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The first pause has a feeling of pressure wanting to be released.
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The deeper we breathe, the more pressure we create.
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The exhale takes little energy.
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It feels as the inhale created all the pressure (energy) needed to exhale.
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The exhale feels like a release valve on a tire.
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Tension, worry, and doubt can flow out in the exhale also.
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The chest and lungs return to resting.
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We inflate the chest and lungs and then return them back to resting, simple.
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The last pause allows the bad air to clear and the breath to have balance, flow, symmetry, rhythm.
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The most immediate, most powerful life force, the breath.
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Take a closer, deeper look.
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