Beth's Ponderings
How much space do
you take up in this world?
Now, let me clarify what I mean by “space.”
I don’t mean the
square footage of your house, or your workplace/office, or if you even have
multiple residences. I don’t mean how
many belonging you have and the entire square footage they occupy. And, I definitely don’t mean the size of your
physical shape - whether you are tall or short, bigger or smaller around.
Space, in the
context that I am using it, has both a macro and micro element to it.
On the macro level,
how large an area does your influence ripple out? Are you known outside of your immediate
community, or do you tend to keep to yourself?
How large is your circle of friends and acquaintances? You don’t have to be “famous” to have lots of
influence, just kind.
Now, the micro
level of space is a bit different, and, of the two levels, is the most
important. It is also the easiest to
measure at any given moment, and boils down to just one simple observation - how
full and deep was your last breath?
There are only
three types of “fuel” our body needs: air, water, and food, and the most vital
one is air, yet, because it enters our bodies predominately without conscious
thought, we tend to ignore it. The vast
majority of us barely fill 20% of our lungs with each breath! No wonder so many of us - myself included
many days - feel tired and weak all the time, and when we feel threatened in
any way, we tend to shrink inward - like a turtle into its shell - to protect
ourselves.
Yet the only way to
really protect ourselves is to relax, inhale fully and deeply, and open our
chests. By filling more energetic “space”
with each inhale we are able to sense - with our hearts - more of the world
around us, and filling more space with full, deep inhalations is also the
secret to thriving and living a healthy life.
The size of our
houses, and the number of belongings we own, matters not if we don’t fully
inhabit the energetic “space” that we have been given to embody with each
breath we take.
Beth
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