Hi, it's Andy here, and welcome to Radio Headspace.

To the end of the week, it's a Friday.

I don't know what you have planned for the weekend, I don't know if you're planning

to take any time out for yourself, but if you get the opportunity, you might just want

to check out what your breath is doing.

I don't mean that in a meditation kind of way, but just stop every now and again and

notice what your breath is doing.

I've been working on a project recently, very much focused on the breath, and I think

very often we forget not just how precious the breath is, how important the breath is

in our life, but we forget as well how the body and mind are connected through the

breath, how we experience the body in the mind and how we experience the mind in the body

directly via the breath, also forget as well, that the breath exists far beyond the boundaries

of our body.

If you think about the entire planet as a living, breathing organism, the trees and plants,

exhaling oxygen into the atmosphere, and in turn absorbing the carbon dioxide that

we breathe out, the entire planet is moving in that way, and the more you sort of look

into breath, the more we see that it has this sort of universal and timeless quality.

This oxygen that's created thousands of miles away that somehow makes it to us that we're

breathing in in the same way as we breathe out.

In terms of time, the air that we inhale may well be the air that dinosaurs once exhaled,

as we exhale, it may well be exhaling into a time that has never even come into existence

yet.

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