Conversation with Buddha and Zoe: Teaching the World to Breathe

Buddha: Zoë, let’s teach the world to breathe.

Readers, close your eyes and take a deep breathe and another and another.  Now, opening your eyes, what were you aware of when you breathed?  One nostril is always more dominant at any one time than another.  Which nostril of yours had the best free flow of air in and out of the body? If you cannot answer this question, shut your eyes once more and take a couple of deep breathes again and see if you can feel which one is which.

If you haven’t been able to sense this may I ask you to close off one nostril and breathe in and breathe out, then close off the other nostril and breathe in and breathe out and your answer will be apparent.

Now I wish you to focus on the breath, taking a strong breath and with this strong breath we wish you to focus on strengthening the body: breathing in and out.  Now picture me in your minds eye in front of you and breathe strengthening, breathe and focus on me.  If your mind wanders, which I expect it will, bring it back to me and the strengthening breath and focus on this.  Focus on this for a long as it takes until your mind wanders, then focus on it once more, do this three or four times.  For some of you this may be a second for some of you this may be a minute.  Regardless repeat this process three times and lets get you breathing strength and vitality into your bodies.  Enjoy this process and know that I will be with you.

This is the end of today’s lesson.

© Zoe 2015