Mindful Breathing from Thich Nhat Hanh
A little over two years ago, just over two years ago, I retired from the military. And as a lot of people retire, there's always the question of what? What next? What now? I've been doing the same thing for 20 years and it's always been very action oriented. Got to get it done, got to do the thing. By doing that, I had become very disassociated from myself, from my environment, from my family. I felt completely disconnected
Arya Sunyata
@theheartdrive · 5:00
And yet through learning about breathing, I learned so much about living and dying. There was an exercise that I was doing at one point which was when does the breath end and when does it start? When I inhale, there is a point where the two blur together. It's not all inhaled and it's not exhaling yet
But what it's driven me to do, and something I'm working on now, is these tools are free. It's there, like you said, movement. You don't have to go out and you don't have to join a gym and have all this fancy equipment. If you dance for five minutes, you go out and take a walk in the sunshine, you know, jump in the ocean, ride a bicycle, escape board, all these little things