THE OUT BREATH

SEPTEMBER 2022 

We suggest to our friends in incarnation that today is a good day to let go – again. To let go again of accumulated worries, anxieties, stresses; cracks in the interior walls, if you like.

Really become aware that the time of letting go has almost passed, and you now have the most intransigent things to let go. Things that have increased, perhaps, in the last few months and years because the world situation, post lockdown and Covid have heightened your senses, heightened your anxieties to fever pitch; to almost unbearable levels perhaps.

But instead of straining and tensing and yearning for these cracks in the wallpaper to go away – so you can rest and breath and feel at peace – we do suggest now that you just stop straining against these worries and fears, and urging them to go away.

So you begin to know, probably as you have known for a long time, that it is actually about breathing out. Breathing out. Breathing out. Releasing the tensions and the worries, through the outbreath. Breathing in is not the way. Not… hhhh… holding the breath against all these difficulties. But breathing them out.

We suggest that in the human being is a tendency to take a deep breath and hold it – against life, if you like… just in case. You hold your breath against what might happen to you as you progress through life.  

The new way of being in the world is about the letting go the breath, and breathing out. Sighing out all the tensions that have accumulated. And to remember now that this inbreath is no longer the way to approach your life. You can approach it on the outbreath, the releasing breath, the relaxing breath, and the breath of peace and stillness.

We would ask you today, tomorrow, the next day to think about this. Recognise the truth of the tensions; that they are all held on the inbreath just in case something might happen. The breath is drawn in. And you hold your breath.

It is like when you go to a pantomime and there is some dastardly thing going on behind the main character, the hero. And you… hhhh… hold your breath, in anticipation of what that person might do. 

But you don’t need to do that anymore. You can live on the outbreath. There is no need to anticipate what might happen, but to join in what is happening.

Stay cool. Stay calm. Stay on the outbreath of life now.

Now listen to Annie’s audio meditation recorded for this month: