#learningtobreathe

[valmirpantoja]

"I'm living again Awake and alive I'm dying to breathe In these abundant skies" 🍃🎶 . . . #learningtobreathe #awakeandalive #switchfoot https://www.instagram.com/p/Co7Nyn1utYqhnJSLzkX6nMvqypG7jXhKbvBCGA0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[unknown-right-now]

I’m not gonna lie I hated my complexion and features for a long time!..But Slowly and surely I’m starting to feel like a bad bitch!! 😜🤪🥰 (like damn LOOOOK AT ME 😂😍)

[hungry-always]

I forgot to breathe

Years ago, I went to my first Bikram yoga class. I will never return to Bikram again, because now we all know that Bikram, the yoga “guru,” is one of the grossest sexual exploiters in the realm of health and wellness.

Anyway, I only got through about a third of the poses before spending the rest of the class in child’s pose despite being in great physical health. Why? I forgot to breathe.

This happens throughout the day. I catch myself holding my breath, unconsciously assuming that it will create stillness and balance when I’m in the middle of a challenge. This is the furthest thing from the truth. You can’t halt life, ever. Especially during challenges. You have to breathe through everything.

That’s what I’m learning now.

I had my first feedback-informed therapy appointment last Tuesday. My therapist helped me to understand that part of the resentment in my relationship stems from my lack of communication. Well, assertive communication. I am the classic case of person-who-bottles-everything-up-before-exploding. This came as no surprise. This is how I’ve operated for all of my life. I almost wrote, “this is who I am.” But that’s incorrect. I learned how to operate this way because I grew up with an adult who was unstable, whom I had to avoid upsetting to avoid abuse. I was hostage to her emotional and physical outbursts. So I learned that to protect myself, I needed to hold things in. 

I’m an adult now. I’m in a partnership/love-relationship that has weathered a terrible storm that has left the two of us feeling raw with our own sets of resentment toward various people and circumstances in our lives. And we’re healing from that. 

And now, I’m being held accountable to practicing assertive communication. I am learning to breathe.

[arielquirozart]

#environment #aboveandbelow #sealife #whale #mother #motherhood #learningtobreathe #art #mothernature #whalecalf #calf #baby #oilpainting #oiloncanvaspainting #whales #whalewatching #whaleseason #whalewatch #mauiart #mauiartist #frontstreetlahaina #hawaiiart #hawaiiartist #localartist #art #fineart #OilonCanvas #painting #Maui #Hawaii #Lahaina (at Galeria Rafael) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbrmDdkuLhp/?utm_medium=tumblr

[ladyflava]

Saturday’s 💜 #MySaturdays #SelfCare #RestoringMyEnergy #LearningToBreathe #FindingMyPeace #Healing From #Vegas #LadyFlava of #LadyFlavaNews #DoingMe 💜 #RedefiningMyPurpose https://www.instagram.com/p/CQmva28Hlf0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[jesusfreakhideout]

Visit JFH now for our review of the Sept 26 @switchfoot livestream where they played every song from their 2000 album “Learning to Breathe!” #switchfoot #learningtobreathe https://www.instagram.com/p/CGBTEBJHcnI/?igshid=13pkqqwprg2f5

[robmarchesani]

My tribute to Alison Wright today for her tireless work showing us the love of mothers and their children around the world and her ongoing efforts to continue supporting them with Faces of Hope.... To help get through these trying times, read her amazing struggle to return to life in her memoir, Learning to Breathe....Love you Ali and thank you!! ❤❤🙏🏼 #mothersday #alisonwright #learningtobreathe #facesofhope (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAA76GLBS2B/?igshid=f9kszot3o22

[chickenfriedfolkart]

It’s if a million tiny Tapetum of colors shining in my mine like a kaleidoscope, like a million ideas rolling through my brain all at once, where is the bottom where is the surface, I’m gasping for my breath as these ideas erupt! #learningtobreathe #connected #help #folkart #art #poetry #loveyall #allthecolors #tapetum #aperture https://www.instagram.com/p/B8CM1u6g90W/?igshid=4aj1kdxp4k3x

[johndibiase]

Man, what an honor! I’ve been a @switchfoot fan since their first album 22 years ago, and their music has been there and gotten me through so much over the years. I drew this picture of @jonforeman - the reference photo of which I also took at a festival myself - in 2013. It’s done in graphite, entirely freehand. I did have Jon sign a print of it for me 5 or so years ago but with me getting more original drawings signed recently, I wanted to get all of the guys to sign the actual drawing. So, thank you SF! Love you guys! You were much too kind. And thanks for an amazing show last night! (Photos of Jon and the drawing and me with the band by @erickfrost - and thanks for the instastory @drewshirley 🙏🏻🙏🏻) #jonforeman #switchfoot #fantastictravelingmusicshow #live #music #graphite #learningtobreathe #viceverses #inspiration #art #artist #artwork #nativetongue #gallery #artistsoninstagram #draw #drawing #instaart #freehand #artoftheday #instaart #pencil #portrait #pencildrawing #staedtler #creative #tbt #artistic #jjdart https://www.instagram.com/p/B3r2mHVneMp/?igshid=n74t2cljoog0

[ajbradshaw3]

What the Journey is Teaching Me...

Some of the lessons this leg of the journey has taught me is... Life has a way of attaching its baggage onto a person’s brain and the weight from the baggage contorts ones vision. So one must always be sure that they are hearing & seeing the communicator's true, authentic heart and not just their words, which often times can be misconstrued based on the distortion caused by receiver's past.

I have learned that love is a marathon, not a sprint. Therefore, one must prepare. Preparation can be the difference between being a task – an expectation or responsibility one must do versus being a journey that one cherishes and appreciates with humble gratefulness for what it truly is–a life as well as a lifeline- a blessing.

I have learned that special people who impact our lives seldom fit the image one creates in our minds about who we think that person will be or what characteristic or action will cause us to define them as special. We think too small to figure that out.

I have learned that as I get older, I am appreciating people who will stand and boldly tell me the truth even when it’s difficult. Wisdom and time has shown me that I have less time and even less patience for trying to weed through, analyze & guess what one “really” meant but are too afraid to say.

I have learned that I would freely let love go before I hold on to anger or someone who wants to leave. That only breeds resentment. Nothing is worse than that.

I have learned that it is easier for some of us to accept & even expect loss and failure, than to accept that God blesses us with wins and joy. Gratefulness is taking time to celebrate, accept and even expect the good seasons too, instead of being distracted by the urge to attempt to anticipate the next time the shoe will drop. Not accepting the season to laugh and celebrate is like a child being offered an awesome gift from their parent, seeing it & instead of celebrating & gratefulness, they respond with "so, what's this? No thanks, I prefer the broken one from out of the trash. I'll wait on that instead, please."

I have learned the most terrifying moment of being a mother is the moment my children went off to college & the joy of watching them discover their lives and themselves only to realize that I am no longer the woman I was 23 years ago and I too, must figure out the same thing.

[journeykeeper-blog]

Some workshops are just next level out of your comfort zone! Like Fran's CORE WORKSHOP the 20th of July @lunula_yogastudio (yes, levels of discomfort made me take this long to post this option). Like when the teacher says: Take your phone and put it on selfie mode 🤔 Put it so that you can see your chest and belly 😳 Roll your shirt up so that you can see better 😱 Now breathe this way... 😨 - But I have been practicing and breathing this way ever since! Thank you @fran_gipani_yogi for a brilliant workshop which was nothing that anyone expected but everything that we all need to know. - We are the only species that need to be taught how to breathe properly, but also how to run, eat, be respectful towards one another and our earth, and how to move our bodies. That is how disconnected we are from our physical existence; That is the the extent to which we have created a world that has made a whole bunch of things important which really isn't all that. We need to re-align ourselves to ourselves, and do shit that makes us next level uncomfortable. #learningtobreathe #deepcoreactivation #functionalcore #yogaworkshop #journeykeeper #hannahbowercoreguide #yogateacher #yogastudent #yogajoy #alwaysastudent #bodyawareness #selfcarelove (at Lunula Yoga Studio) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0fTCI_nzv5/?igshid=41eshfuvepa6

[j9islivingforjesus]

I'm dying to breathe in these abundant skies.

- Switchfoot

[arielquirozart]

Still need some details… #workinprogress #aboveandbelow #sealife #whale #mother #motherhood #learningtobreathe #art #mothernature #whalecalf #calf #baby #oilpainting #oiloncanvaspainting #whales #whalewatching #whaleseason #whalewatch #mauiart #mauiartist #frontstreetlahaina #hawaiiart #hawaiiartist #localartist #art #fineart #OilonCanvas #painting #Maui #Hawaii #Lahaina (at Galeria Rafael) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbnt_CuPz66/?utm_medium=tumblr

[eunyces-blog]

Hello! Good morning. How you do? What makes your rising sun so new? - Learning to breathe. #switchfoot #learningtobreathe #goodmorning #hello #risingsun #newday

[hiscrazygirl]

😍🙌 @stanfourofficial #stanfour #learningtobreathe #musikmeile #bedburg #erstereihe #konzert #2017

[michelle022477]

Counting down the days 💜🎶💜🎶 #LearningToBreathe #MyFavoriteSong