Good morning. Happy Thursday Friends. Coach Kate here with an Exploration Minute for us all today. I host this space and the Exploration Hour weekday mornings where we dive into ideas that matter together. Today's episode is a shorter one, but hopefully we'll have time to explore this idea together today, and in the future too. 

Today's talk is on Breath. Specifically the air we breathe, what exactly we breath out, and how to find balance with it all. Breathing is essential to life. Breathing, along with the constant beating of our hearts, are the two most foundational aspects of being alive, aware, and present. Although we tend to have little control over our heart and its various rhythms directly, our breath is a more dynamic component to being alive. We can hold it, we can breathe rapidly, we can slowly release and even put conscious effort in just observing it. We can also change how we do it, where it comes from and modify it for activities we engage in like eating and swimming. So even though it's a foundational block to living, it can be adjusted and fit into our lives in necessary or meaningful ways too. With that said, without breath, the repercussions are typically swift and dismal. We need it to not only survive, but thrive too.

Today's quote is from a poet Jenny C. Bell, who is an author and advocate for self-healing journeys and here is what she has to say about Breath:  

“The breath is a small daily reminder of the cyclic nature of life. We are constantly inhaling and exhaling in our lives. We take in information and let it go. We rise like the breath and we also fall. Sometimes we feel full and sometimes we are empty.”― Jenny C. Bell, In the Cave of my Heart: Poems

This quote is beautiful because it showcases a unique aspect of air: emptiness. Sometimes in life we fill like we aren't doing much, we aren't seeing progress, the world around us and within us feels empty. The truth is, the world around us and even the impact we have to others, our own bodies, and our goals-- is much like air, we can't see it, but sometimes if we pay attention, slow down, breathe in deeply and lovingly we can feel that essential side to us that is necessary and important and it allows for us to live and thrive. Day after day. Breath after breath. With live not in large, overwhelming moments, but we live breath by breath, day by day. And slowing down to acknowledge and even celebrate those small moments where we just breathe is enough. 

I'm Coach Kate. This has been an Exploration Minute today. Thank you for listening here and for being a part of our wellness Journeys together here on NoomVibe. If you liked what you heard today, give me a follow.

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