29/05/2026
This work is always surprising. It’s always fascinates me to witness the different ways people unknowingly learn to control their breathing to support themselves, protect themselves, or feel safe. My own story was a pretty confronting example which made me question almost everything.
For a long time, I gave myself fully to a spiritual path, and at the time it felt sincere. But looking back, if I’m really honest, most of my self-worth had become tied up in how devoted I was, and how much I appeared to be the guy who was “going for awakening.”
It looked spiritual.
It looked noble.
It probably looked pretty brutal.
But underneath it, I was still looking for worth and acceptance and a form of safety outside of myself.
It was… many things. It was exhausting.
Then I discovered an awareness practice through the breath. And as I began paying attention, I started to see how much control I was wielding. Firstly I saw it in my breathing and then in my life.
And when I began to start trusting the body and stop controlling the breath, something shifted dramatically. A lot of the looping anxiety, panic, fear, and overwhelm (what I thought was a dark night of the soul) began to lift.
To me that seemed unbelievable: my breath, something I’d never given a second thought to, could quietly prolong and intensify my suffering to such a degree. It’s truely incredible that breathing affects the body so deeply. It affects our entire body chemistry, it inhibits brain function, blood flow and oxygen absorption. It alters the way we process emotion, and the way we experience circumstances in our lives.
Through that new awareness, I could start to be honest with myself.
I began seeing the behaviours and hidden thoughts, beliefs and desires that had been driving so many of my decisions in the background.
The belief in littleness and lack.
The need for approval and the endless seeking of self worth.
The desperate need for people and the world to change for me to feel safe or content.
And once I could really see that, I could stop blindly reinforcing it.
That was the beginning of a gentler way.
A more trusting, honest, compassionate, and supportive way of being with myself in this life.
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