Never Forget Where You Came From……
Breathwork Training.
Never forget Where we came from……Our first breath. From that moment onwards we could see life as just ongoing Breathwork Training! I love this illustration for this article, it puts our whole life into perspective, how tiny we are when we enter this life. Unfortunately, I don’t know the artist and I cannot find it by searching the image, I would like to credit the artist. Maybe they will see it here and contact me? I came across this striking image and it just put things into perspective. It reminded me of those moments of deep remembering. ‘The remembering’, as I call it, is what I experience when I’m looking up at the clear night sky into the twinkling mystery. Or the feeling I get when I look out at what seems like an infinite ocean or a mountain range.
Breathwork Training and Scuba Diving .
The feeling I had when I scuba dived for the first time. This is one aspect of Breathwork Training that people mostly unknowingly doing when they go to experience the underwater world. The conscious control of breath, staying calm and listening to your breath are all important parts of scuba diving and life as it turns out. The feeling that comes from a moment of deep presence with oneself or another. The philosopher and speaker, Jason Silva describes this as “the immersive experience”….. when life itself exceeds my maps. It goes beyond my limited comfort zones. Which gives integrable lessons and somatic experiences to bring back to everyday life, creating a deep sense of spaciousness within.
Feeling overwhelmed.
There is an initial overwhelming feeling which often comes from such an experience, a feeling of fear and belonging all at the same time. I guess the fear comes from the fact that I’m reminded of how small and insignificant I am, and then as I ease into it, I go into ‘The remembering’, the part when I am reminded that I AM THIS. This is who I am and where I came from. And in that place, there is no separation. It is simply oneness.
The illusion of separation.
I would hear about ‘the illusion of separation’ from spiritual teachers and never really understood it until I explored psychedelics and natures medicines. That’s when I truly felt it for the first time, my connection to source. But I doubted the truth of this ‘remembering' as it had come about in an altered state. It was only later when I experienced my first breathwork training session that I experienced ‘the remembering’ with the breath. The deep release of trauma, the expansion in the body, the organic letting go of ideas and beliefs about myself……. And then it came. That “hallelujah” moment. The remembering of who I truly am and where I came from.
Experience ALL of it.
This knowing that I came here for this, and this, and this. I came here to experience ALL of it. Each and every painful, bitter, delightful, joyous moment. I feel Carl Jung says it well…. “the privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are”. My journey with breathwork reminded me not only who I am, but also who I am not. It revealed all the places in my life where I was not being true to myself, the roles I’d been playing and masks I’d been wearing. The discomfort of living a life that simply wasn’t meant for me. And the more I stayed true to this, the more the ‘remembering’ became a certainty. May we always remember where we came from…………