Hi and welcome to this episode of the Recharge Series from the Be Still and

Beloved podcast. My name is Aaron Bremer and I'm excited to be with you today.

In our time together we will listen to what God has to say in

his word, bring our focus to our breathing, and allow our bodies to rest and recharge.

I'd like you to find a comfortable position lying on your couch or even laying in your bed. We're going to do something a little different today so a

position where you are lying down is going to be best.

In episode one of the Recharge series we talked about what a green zone was.

We imagined a broad green pasture where we could run for miles and have freedom to be who we were

created to be. On one side of the green field was a steep cliff we called the red zone.

Red zone, red face. On the far opposite side of the green field was what we called the Blue Zone,

Growing Cold Blue Zone.

We identified how the cliffs on either side of the Green Zone are there to provide boundaries and to the practice two ways to bring us back from the edges of either the red zone or the blue zone and

help us run free in the beautiful broad space the Lord has given us.

First I'd like you to begin by putting one hand on your belly and one hand on your chest. Can you see your hands going up and down as the air moves in and out of your body?

As you watch your hands rise and fall, can you begin filling your belly, then breathing out and letting the belly return

back to resting?

Continue with this practice going at your own pace.

Breathing in, filling your belly, and breathing out,

letting it fall back down.

Breathing in, filling your belly,

breathing out, letting it go back down. In Job 33, 33, verse 4, it says, the Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life. The Spirit of God

has made me and the breath of the Almighty gives me life. The breath we breathe in and

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