The time-space-continuum of the 2020 – 2022 conundrum occurred. What does this mean? Two years disappeared from relative existence since my last blog. How? I wish I knew for sure, but it seems that this is a phenomenon that many people experienced. Time worked differently in the past two years than how it did before the pandemic. It is time for a Revival. It is time to get going again.
It isn’t that I have a specific thing to say to share with you this moment that is prompting me to write again. Instead, it is that I have too many things to say and they are all swirling around together making soup of what could be something useful or relevant if I could take it out of its current context of too muchness. Two years is too long for me be outwardly silent when there is so much happening inside.
I know I am not alone in this. I am seeing articles everywhere about overwhelm. I am seeing coaches focused in on helping people sort through their piles of shrapnel left behind by the past couple of years that were added onto the previous amount of flotsam and jetsam that they were already carrying around.
In short, many of us feel too “full” but are struggling with how to get relief. A vacation or week away just isn’t enough to undo it now. So where do we start? How do we start?
Start here. Right now. This moment. Take a big breath.
Remember when we were kids and we would take in a breath so big that our bellies would stick out and we would laugh and say “Look at me, I look pregnant!”? Do a big breath like that again. Let your belly out as far as it can go (don’t worry, it won’t stick like that). Hold that breath for a count of four. Let it out. All the way out. Breathe it out until it is gone and then give it one more little push. Clear those lungs. Do it again. Heck, do it five times. If you get dizzy, take a break and then try it again. Get some clean oxygen into your body and get the stale stuff out.
No, it won’t fix it all.
Yes, it will help calm your nervous system and clear your mind a bit…for a moment. But isn’t this moment really all that we have? Let’s start here.
Get the relief you can, where you can, as you can.
Breathe in so big that you belly sticks all the way out and your chest rises full.
Breathe in love, breathe out confusion.
Breathe in love, breathe out frustration.
Breathe in love, breathe out negativity.
Breathe in love, breathe out everything else.
Revive in this moment.
It just takes one initial big breath to start. It’s okay if doing this makes you cry a little. It is a release. It often hits me this way and letting some of this go feels so good. It all starts with one big breath…which led me to one blogpost…and now we have begun again.
