Expansion

At times, life leads us to a narrow place, a dead end. When it seems there is no way forward, no room to grow or bloom, we find ourselves forced to stop. To surrender. To sit in the void. Without answers, without solutions—only with a prayer rising from our depths, and sometimes without words, only with breath.

We do not always want to meet the pain rising from within. We run into our minds to find a solution. But again and again we fail, growing frustrated, and the pain only intensifies.

Yet life is wiser than we are. When there is nowhere to go, when solutions crumble and we are left without the strength to fight—we learn to surrender. When the pain becomes so great that avoidance is no longer possible, and the moment of breaking arrives—we learn to sit. To close our eyes and be with the breath.

Moments of breaking are the keys to healing. When the pain and the sense of separation overwhelm us, we have the opportunity to choose a new path. And then, suddenly, it happens. We breathe deeply into the Being. One breath after another. Thoughts dissolve into nothingness, words vanish. Only the breath remains in this sacred moment.

Streams of new life flow powerfully through the body. We breathe a new breath, feeling presence here and now—and there is no longer distress. One breath after another, and we are eternal, united with the Divine. The pain is wrapped in love, in the power of Being, until it transforms into delight. We delight in the union that has been found. And all the sorrow that lived in our hearts turns in the blink of an eye to great gratitude.

And we are free to breathe anew.