As an avid listener to the Daily Calm meditation app, host Tamara Levit often talks about the pause…
This is the point in our breath after we inhale and before we exhale… It’s a space in time that we rarely ever recognize yet it’s also a moment when our entire world has the ability to become completely still.
In all of our lives we deal with happenings on a daily basis… After something occurs we typically react suddenly, instinctually and with all sorts of emotion based on immediate feelings.
Much like the pause in between breaths, the moment between any stimulus and our response is essentially the exact same thing… A moment in time where we have the ability to bring the world to a halt before choosing to react.
Those who figure out a way to recognize this moment in time before firing back will naturally be able to slow life down and then efficiently and effectively respond to any and all situations.
The pause is there for everybody and available to meditate upon with each breath we take, all we have to do is acknowledge it and all of our lives would be a lot less turbulent…
“Professor EB, I get so emotional sometimes that I simply react by throwing shit, breaking something then saying the most hurtful things I can think of… How in the fuck do you expect me to be able to pause in that situation?”
Well Stevie, in order to pause we need to truly come into the moment and that simply starts with feeling the air pass through our nostrils…
Whenever I would find myself in a big situation on the baseball field or even now, if I ever need to get control of my emotions, I will immediately feel the air pass through my nose for 3 seconds, PAUSE, hold it for 3 seconds and then release for 3 more…
All it takes to properly charge on without being overrun by irrational thoughts and feelings is being able to find your PAUSE…
Just a matter if you are willing to make the 9 second investment. 🤷♂️
-EB
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