Breathing Exercises

Teach me your ways, O Lord
That I may life according to your truth!
- breathe in, breathe out
- breathe in truth, breathe out lies
- breathe in passion, breathe out passivity and stagnancy
- breathe in and open the heart to the presence of the Trinity
- breathe Them in and be fully open to this day

Grant me purity of heart so I may honor you
- I bring the dark places into the Light
- I hold them, with trembling hands, open to your gaze Yahweh
- I honor the redeeming process of healing within so I may honor you Yahweh
- Light gives honor to what once was shame

With all my heart I will praise you, O Lord my God
- Breath/ heart voice becomes embodied prayer. My mind, heart and body participate in this praise/ conversation to and with the Trinity
- All the heart participates because it is holding open all ventricles and chambers to the Light

I will give glory to your name forever, for your love for me is great
- there is no season change to this flow of love, passion, life
- there is no season of change in this faithful lover of the mind, body and soul


This breathing exercise of meditation in Psalm 86 has been my morning deep breathe for the last 3 days. Would that praise and dance becomes reflex breathing for my mind, heart and body. As I read this following passage from Embodied Prayer, the thread of reflex, breathing, spontaneity and dancing was wound together.

The Hebrew worship could not be contained in their hearts but had to reach every fibre of their bodies, fulfilling that well known command to love God with all your heart, soul and strength. Their dance was characterized by notions of spontaneous praise and worship, a prayer of thanksgiving for what God had done in their lives. It was not a rehearsed step-by-step dance, but a dance that swept their thanksgiving into their fingers and toes.