Hello, and welcome back to practicing human.

The podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host, Cory Muscara.

And in today's episode, we're going to talk about breathing fully.

And I don't mean a breathing pattern, but instead what it means to breathe with a greater

sense of wholeness and depth.

What to come on that in a moment first, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells.

So I came across this beautiful poem, or what I perceive to be a beautiful poem that

really landed poignantly for me.

It's called Breath of Life by Dana Faults, and I'd like to read it to you.

As with all of the poems I share on this podcast, see if you can really hear the words and

let it land for you in whatever way it does today and where you are in your life.

So again, this is called Breath of Life.

I breathe in all that is awareness expanding to take everything in as if my heart beats

the world into being.

From the unnamed vastness beneath the mind, I breathe my way to wholeness and healing,

inhalation, exhalation.

Each breath a yes, and a letting go, a journey, and a coming home.

I mean, come on, isn't that a great poem?

You know, poetry lands differently, not different times in our life and for different people.

So I certainly don't expect you to feel the same way toward it that I do, but I will

share what I did like about it.

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