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So we ask the every day quite common place question, ‘How are you today?’ And the answer all too often is - ‘As well as can be expected!’ We are just not giving ourselves a chance in life.
Something to learn - How to breathe properly.
Because of living in restricted atmospheres many have lost the natural ways to improve our well being. Being 'muzzy headed' is something we almost all live with many days of the year and reach to the medicine cupboard for the solution. When we are like this our judgement is impaired and yet each day we have important decisions to make. Our memory is affected, our understanding is slower, and we have a tendency to become impatient or irritable. |
| Here is a simple way to learn. Our lungs expand and contract with every breath but we often use only the upper part of our lungs and breathe quite shallowly. When we do this day after day, it allows a build-up in the bottom of our lungs that never gets properly cleared away. We know this because if we start to exercise more strongly we often cough and splutter. This shows we are stirring up what has collected that should not be there. One way to do this is to take a ‘rebounder’ into the open air and bounce until the muscles begin to burn or you are out of breath. This will work well towards clearing any rubbish that has collected at the base of your lungs. |
How do we know if we are breathing deeply enough? Lie down flat on the floor or the bed and place a book on your stomach area just above your waist. When you breath to the bottom you should be able to see the book rise when you breathe in through your nose and fall when you breathe out again through your nose. Practice this five times each day and you will soon know what it feels like to breathe more deeply, and recognise which muscles are working.
Singing happy songs right out loud will open up the lungs too! It can lift some of the darker moods that come upon us. Try it in the car. Have you ever sung at the top of a hill? It is wonderful! |
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REFLECTION.
When we have breathed pure sweet air we feel better, our minds are clearer, we feel refreshed. The way we live our lives can be compared to a house. Too often we live in the cellar. The air there is depressed, polluted, dirty, dark and discouraging. In just the same way as we climbed the hill to breathe the purer air and be refreshed, we can go to the upper rooms of our mind, and throw open the windows to the sunshine of cheerfulness and colour and light. |
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All around our world , through Jesus, is a layer of love and mercy and help. When we go to the upper layers of our 'house' this is the atmosphere we breathe. If we breathe deeply every day, and know that we are forgiven and there is help for us our life is brighter and cleaner. The cellars in which we have tried and failed for years to find a better way of life, can be a thing of the past. Come up out of the cellar to the upstairs rooms, throw open the windows wide to the sun of hope and cheerfulness, and the breezes of optimism. Breathe the fresh air of hope. Living in these clean, light rooms will give you a new sense of life, with colour and joy in all you see. Shadows and murky corners are only in the cellar. The lower levels are soiled, polluted and dirty, with competition, stress, resentment, disappointments, ambition, pretence, the things we do to make people like us. Sometimes there is just grey flatness. But we can have a different kind of atmosphere in our lives.
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Here are some inspiring words to lift our minds and hearts.
‘In the matchless gift of his Son, God has encircled the whole world with an atmosphere of grace, as real as the air which circulates around the globe. All who choose to breathe this life giving atmosphere will live and grow up to the stature of men and women in Christ.’ ‘As the flower turns to the sun that the bright beams may aid in perfecting its beauty and symmetry, so we should turn to the Sun of Righteousness, that heavens light may shine upon us, that our character may be developed in the likeness of Christ.’ |
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