Here is to the Exhale

Breathing- there is so much good stuff out there about awareness practices with breath. I have been thinking a lot about it in relation to making art- which, for many of us, is another awareness practice in itself.

If you want the fresh ideas in your work, if you want your work to be vital and exciting and alive, it's not just about doing and doing and doing.

There's the breath in it, which is a polarity.

It's about inhaling - expanding, bringing in all those exciting ideas, starting things, doing things.

It's also about exhaling - letting go, finishing, developing.

By letting it go you allow that there's going to be room for the inhale again, for that fresh energy coming in. You can't get the fresh energy coming in if you don't exhale, if you don't let go.

So here is to the exhale. Letting go. Finishing. Grounding. ​