It's On Me: Accept Hard Truths, Discover Your Self, and Change Your Life

by Sara Kuburic

Breathe dynamically. Let’s first start by getting you to simply notice your breath. Don’t try to manipulate it. Is it shallow? Deep? Rapid? Slow? Now I want you take a deep inhale and notice yourself come up against the limits of your lungs. Observe how you are held inside. Hold your breath until you are “forced” to exhale, and then exhale as much as possible until you are “forced” to inhale again.[*3] The goal is to consciously experience this transition point where you are seemingly powerless but then guided by the wisdom of your body. You can feel the life force in you. You can learn to trust your Self to stay alive, to depend on your Self. This is a good exercise to remind us that we have freedom, but within confines that we cannot change. Our body pushes us back to its limits. Even with the greatest will, the resistance is firm and immovable. Its power comes over us and asks us to surrender. This is not threatening, it’s vitalizing.

emotions are the inner movement of our Being. They are not just a subjective way we feel about something, but the pulse of our existence.