Life Question of the Week: 12.19.2025
Take Back Your Mind
Michael B. Beckwith
5.0 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Today, our first letter comes from Candice, who has lived in fight-or-flight mode for decades—tight shoulders, shallow breathing, constant tension. However, when she's on the tennis court she feels peaceful and free. She's heard about "divine breathing" as a solution, and wants to know how to bring that ease into everyday life.
Our next letter comes from Sandra. Sandra stopped comparing herself to others, but now she's comparing herself to her future "expanded self" through Life Visioning—and it's starting to feel heavy. She asks how to stay inspired, not pressured, and serve with joyful lightness.
Finally, Michael leads a meditation on having an inner realization that the good you seek is already here.
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| 0:00.0 | Peace and Rich's a broadcast Peace and blessings and welcome to take back your mind, life questions of the week. |
| 0:45.6 | So grateful for all of you who are sending in questions. |
| 0:49.6 | And your questions are put in such a way that other people can benefit from them so it's not just |
| 0:57.6 | specific to whoever is writing the question. Thank you. Thank you, thank you. First question comes |
| 1:03.6 | from Candace. She says, I'm 53, and I've discovered that I've been living in fight or flight |
| 1:09.8 | mode as far back as I can remember. |
| 1:11.6 | My shoulders stiff and I either hold my breath or take shallow breaths. |
| 1:16.6 | Even when tending to simple tasks like washing dishes, I have to force myself to lower my shoulders and breathe. |
| 1:23.6 | Funny enough, I discovered this issue when I joined the tennis team. The stiff shoulders |
| 1:30.7 | and shallow breathing were causing me to be tired, miss shots, and lose my focus. But now tennis |
| 1:38.6 | is my happy place. When I step into the court, nothing hurts. I feel at peace, and I'm in love with all. Still, in my regular |
| 1:48.0 | life, I have to remind myself to relax and breathe throughout the day, and it is exhausting. |
| 1:54.5 | At this point, I want to change. I don't even know what trauma caused it, and I really don't care. |
| 2:00.5 | I just desired to release any and everything holding me from the service I am to bring |
| 2:06.6 | to the world during this incarnation. |
| 2:09.6 | I've heard of divine breathing, which might be a good practice for me. |
| 2:14.6 | Can you please explain the nature of this? Candace, thank you for the question. |
| 2:20.3 | I see that you, when you're playing tennis, it became a game changer for you in which the anxiety, |
| 2:28.3 | the anxiousness and the stiffness of the shoulders did not come into play. Good start. You've asked about divine breathing. |
| 2:36.5 | Breath, it's called breathwork these days. I've seen different iterations of it. Now the word is breathwork. |
| 2:42.8 | So yeah, breath can assist. There is a breath where you can activate your vagus nerve, which then will stimulate your parasympathetic |
| 2:55.4 | system and you'll come out of fight and flight. What is it? You can breathe in four and breathe |
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