Nowadays I often remind myself of the importance of breathing. Whenever I feel uncomfortable, worried, stressful, tired,… I try to look over how I’m breathing now. In such a negative emotional status, my breath is always a little faster than normal or irregular. Breath itself is a simple symbol of our life and our status of living. Most people experience that their breath becomes faster or irregular as they are in any negative emotion or get older. But when we were a baby, our breath was very deep. The natural moves of babies’ abdomen tells it.
In one of his basic principle book, Ilchi lee says, ‘Breath is a starting stage of our journey to a perfect health. As people recover their right way of breathing, they start to open their sensation of life or Ki-energy naturally.’
We, human beings have 5 senses. But only with the 5 senses, we can be aware of just phenomena, not the reality behind them. People see the moon as full moon or crecent moon as if they exist as an independent being different from each other. That is why we need to devleop another or higher sense. That is the sense of Ki-energy. Through the sensation, it becomes easier to say which is right or true.
Let’s practice breathing and energy exercises everyday. That’s the way to the truth, which is Tao ^_^
