Each breath phase is a transition
A breath token is a breathing exploration that I develop for friends & clients and post as a gift.
In 2022 the breath tokens are about transitions. Transition literally means to “cross over, go over, pass over, hasten over, pass away,” from transire – trans “across, beyond” + ire “to go“.
In breathing, transition naturally occurs after the inhale and the exhale and vice versa. I’ve noticed that I tend to go over transitions, in breathing as well as in the every day, going from one thing to the next without paying attention to the space in between. Despite being aware that these transitions are happening, in breathing or in other behaviours, I find it really challenging to be present in them.
Together with you I’d like to explore the subject of transitions. I’ll post quotes, collect ideas or questions from people I know and from you.
If you’d like to share something about transitions, contact me at hallo@nicolacaroli.com.
As I’m listening to a William Faulkner novel, as well as a biography at the moment, I’m thinking a lot about „time as a fluid condition“.
Breath awareness often brings us to the present moment, to be in a state of „now“. Somehow I’ve always experienced this state as time standing still but when I focussed on time being fluid, the present moment, too, is a transition.
The way I explored that in breathing was that any phase of the breath is a transition, not just the pauses between exhale and inhale.
I invite you to try it out and see how this changes the way you think of or experience each phase.
If your association to „time as a fluid condition“ is a different one, please follow that and explore what comes up for you.
We can explore these ideas through touch, movement, sound, writing, drawing, and, of course, breathing itself.
Let’s stay in touch. Let’s be breathed.