I recently got to know the humanist and existentialist psychologist Rollo May (1909 – 1994) in a post by Brain Pickings. Rollo May was especially interested in the themes of freedom, courage and creativity. “Freedom”, he said, “is the capacity to pause in the face of stimuli from many directions at once and, in this pause, to throw one’s weight toward this response rather than that one. The person becomes able to say, “I can” or “I will”.”
The pause also plays a major part in breathing. It’s one of the three breath phases: inhale – exhale – pause. The pause occurs naturally, at rest, when air has left the body with an exhale and before air comes back into the body with an inhale. Read More