This idea of committing to myself felt radical the first time it landed in my awareness.

I mean, we live in our bodies and our minds & spirits are part+parcel of this package we walk around in. Of course we are committed to ourselves, right?

Yes. And not so much.

We ALL have one.

It comes with us wherever we adventure.

It stretches to climb over hills, it accordions to sit in the car driving hours to run errands, it snuggles in to our comforters and blankets as we sleep, it does stretchy yoga after the Thanksgiving feast, it sweats as we push to sprint the last 10 yards.

When was the last time you really examined your bellybutton? Tickled it? Scrub-a-dubbed it?

Our bellybuttons are prime examples of how we can transform our experience with what is most familiar to us.

Are you curious

Is this a descriptor you would apply to yourself?

Is it a characteristic you value?

I’m genuinely curious about the state of curiosity in our culture. 

What are you doing right this moment? Name three things

Was breathing one of them?

It is so omnipresent for us we might well overlook it as an essential function to nurture. Our body breathes for us, after all, 12-16 resting breaths a minute for the average human adult, or 17,000-23,000 inhale/exhale couplets a day, which tallies to 6.3-8.4 million breaths annually.

But are we breathing WELL?