I Am....Breathing

    I am....Breathing.

   I am breathing in, I am breathing out, I am breathing in, I am breathing out. Close your eyes and say this to yourself for 1 minute, no distractions, no cheating, just concentrate on your breathing. At first it will be hard, almost unnatural, then it wont be. 

   Both Master Brinker and Sifu Cosgrove have taught me the importance of focusing on my breathing. How cleansing both physically and mentally it can be. Even my Apple Watch has an embedded App dedicated to just breathing, that is how important it is.

   Being a life long severe Asthmatic, breathing is hard work. The slightest thing can trigger an attack, and trust me, that is the right word, ATTACK. Picture putting a straw in your mouth, taping all the edges of your lips and nose up so that ONLY the straw lets in air...... now have a Sumo wrestler sit on your chest, now get up go for a run and don't stop till you think you are going to die, then run some more. Pure Hell, terrifying, and whats worse, the more stressed you get, the worse it gets. That is the life of an Asthmatic. Sure modern medicine has fairly good control of the triggers through a regiment of various inhalers, but it is NOT perfect. 

   So, I am breathing in and I am breathing out, and I am thankful for that.

P.S. You should really try Sifu Cosgrove's fire breathing, ask her about it, it is amazing!!