Kin Leonn – There were days

How often do you think about your breaths?

How often do you breathe from your stomach and not the chest?

How often do you even care that you are actually alive?

 

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You. Us, an average human at rest takes about 14 to 20 breathes per minute, processing up 7-8 liters of air in that period, making roughly about 21600-26000 breathes in an entire day, which totals up to 11000-14000 liters of air per day. That’s a whole lot of air in and out our system. Amazing machine of us, isn’t it?

But again, how often do you at least take a minute or two and mindfully, blissfully, lovingly, intently  — breathe?

 

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Fucked? Hustling? Absentminded? Anxious? Passively scrolling through your phones? Lost in a thought spiral? Or absolutely deluded by your busy-ness mantra?

Well, if so, allow me to remind you that — now my friend, the number of breathes you take has declined to almost half, i.e., from 14 to 20 breathes per minute to 4 to 6 breaths and that too barely filling your thirsty lungs let alone the stomach.

You are basically, subtly, slowly, suffocating, contracting, straining and punishing your own body!

 

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I am aware, I get it. I can totally, totally understand that we all have reasons to forget that we even breathe …. ….  but, what we also have to realize and digest and vomit and eat the fact that a mindless breathing comes at an unfair expensive price!

A lost sense of control.

A lost sense of senses.

A lost sense of the world.

A total lost.

 

Breathe from your stomach.

My friend.

Pondering…