Here and Now...dance...

Here and now - I am sitting, writing, breathing. Played Bowie's "Let's Dance' - danced around a bit to loosen  bones. Sundown evening chill, freshens the air. I am curious.

What's your here and now? What's your breath feeling-saying?

Rick Carson, author creator of 'Taming Your Gremlin' method says this about breath. Step #4 in his taming principles is Breathe Dammit Breathe.  My light weight version is Breathe Baby Breathe.

Our gremlin, monkey mind, sabotuer - the constant chatter box - whatever we call it - is a life stopper.
It's a dismissive disruptor of moment to moment living. Our Here and Nowness! Our natural Oneness with breath and breadth can become derailed.

Up side is - monster in our mind IS tamable. With effort, not strain as Rick describes it. Mine almost won.
I'd let this toxic hairball of past future thinking habits get so very large. I choked on it. I let it temporarily rob me of my breath.


As a middle aged toddler, returning from a two month coma, re-learning to breathe was a first step. Hospital rooms became curiosity classrooms. A school where a recess bell never rang. Learning to breathe (and all else) was a full time devotional practice. I dug it.

So here we are breathing often and deeply. Honoring a vital, but  under-appreciated gift. I do so I love it. It loves us - heals - frees- causes- allows us to dance! 

It led me safely, to a dark underbelly of silent (but deadly) psychotic compulson. I B R E A T H E D- like a psyche lamaze student. Breath - in the lead, inhale-exhale. Lighting up dank dark corners. Wielding a powerful torch, intent enough to find - uncover what was not me. Guiding me and melting away false- fractured concepts and beliefs. It empowered me to change, shift, evolve. It is Here. It is Now. Let's Dance some more...

Rick goes on. Step #6 - Establish here and now as a home base - from which we shine our spotlight of awareness. Beautiful. This ability to respond to life moment to moment is our access code to wonder. Life's wonder is revealed. Spaciousness and freedom return after cleaning-clearing out-converting mental clutter.
Being present-breathe to breathe. Hmmmmmm...ahhhhhhh...y e s.

A spacious Invisible presence fills us up. Like a deep breath. We become reflections of It. As we consciously focus our spotlights of awareness. AND DANCE!

See you, Dear Ones, next week!