Breathing as Spiritual Practice by Will Johnson

Author:Will Johnson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Spirituality/Wellness
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Published: 2019-07-28T16:00:00+00:00

Much of the process of welcoming God’s felt presence back into my life is one of softening the patterns of tension and holding I’ve introduced into my body in an effort to craft an image of how I want to be seen. All of us have a different version of who we are in this world: a high-powered businessperson, the life of the party, a good parent, a gang member needing to prove his credentials on the street, a poet, a just the-facts rationalist, a team player, a server of others, a taker from others, and on and on. The list of personas is endless. Some of them we may feel we’ve been born into, but most of them are consciously chosen, and as different as they all are, as we all are, they all share one important feature in common: they all depend on different patterns of muscular holding and tension that you bring into your body—tension that not just incidentally holds back on the force of breath—to create the mask of identity that you want to project out in the world in this moment, like an actor playing a part. All the many different ways you need to bring tension into your body to create the image of how you want to be seen in this moment compromise the vibrancy in the underlying cells of your body or exaggerate their intensity.

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