Breathwork

How did I figure out what's next? I think the compelling insight is breathing. I talked about while in the hospital, the nurse talking to me about breathing and really conceptualizing what breathing does, the capacity of breathing for the organs, emotion, and the body's wisdom. That really clicked for me. In a sense of being an athlete my whole life, it's like, why have I never thought about that? And it stuck with me. What's else is there? And then realizing, oh, now I have a tool to combat the situation that I'm in. She told me, 'Do you know what happens when you breathe?' She says, 'On the inhale, the diaphragm pushes down. On the exhale, it pushes up.' She told me that when we breathe a shallow breath, the heart and lungs don't need your help. But what becomes stagnant are the internal organs. Then she told me, or I found out, that the liver controls anger, the kidney controls fear, and the intestines control worry. I was like, 'Wow, this is a whole dynamic that I didn't even understand.' Now I can process the moment. Through the practice of processing the moment, I begin to build an emotional maturity around the situations, or any situations, that I'm dealing with. So now I can make a more constructive choice. And that's a powerful tool to have as a human.