YOU DON’T HAVE TO SAY IT

Here is the exercise. Sit up straight, inhale deeply and softly, and make an “O" sound out loud. Let the sound last as long as your breath.

Now inhale deeply and softly and make an “EEE" sound out loud. Let the sound last as long as your breath.

Next inhale deeply and softly again and get ready to make an "O” sound and stop right before you make the sound. Feel what that feels like.

Let your breath go.

Now inhale again and get ready to make an “EEE” sound and stop again right before you make the sound. Feel this.

Let your breath go.

Try it a few more times if you like.

How does it feel different in your body before the “O” sound versus before the “EEE” sound?

This is an amazing inquiry. Beneath our language is bodily structure. Body processes. Our cellular selves.

Sometimes I just listen to the feeling of a person’s language. Rather than the content of the language.

The feeling tells us just about everything. Because our bodies store, literally, everything that makes us us.

You don’t have to say it. Because I already know.

I’m coming out of a week on retreat and the idea of going back into the world of thinking literally pains me right now. My heart hurts at everything, myself included, we have run away from. Ourselves.

This week I joined a herd of human elephants and was safe. Thank you to the herd.

I send a thousand blessings to each of you readers from the inside of my wounded heart to yours.

If you’re curious, this week I was practicing Continuum with Robin Becker and the rest of the herd.