To Wellness and the Creative mind

Mom, Artist, Health Coach, daughter, sister and a wife.We all wear many hats during the day. How do we maintain balance? How do we not lose sight of what is important and real? We can help each other answer these questions by sharing what we have learned along the way.
Here I am going to share my thoughts and experiences with how we treat our bodies and the effects it has on how we think and feel.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Breath

If you would ask me to dive to the bottom of a 12 foot pool I could fight my way to the bottom and then resurface, gasping for air. Ask me to sit and hold my breath and I can last a mear 30 seconds. Yet when I loose myself in painting I suddenly have to remind myself to breath. On the lat pull down machine the 5th instruction is to "Keep Breathing." Breath is essential to life, yet we can control it unlike blinking and the beating of our hearts. Did you know the medical term for taking a breath in is "inspire". How contradictory that when I am lost in thought I hold my breath. Maybe I do not want to let the inspiration that has blessed me get away.
Where do you find inspiration? Some wait for it to come. To many it is discipline. So this weekend when I had 2 hours to finish a piece no matter what, when my heart started pounding though my chest, and I was actually nervous, I realized all I could do was breath. A big breath in and then...hold it until I it was ready to reveal itself.
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