{"id":1538,"date":"2012-11-02T12:02:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T18:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2012-11-02T12:02:11","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T18:02:11","slug":"got-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wrestlingwithyourself\/2012\/11\/got-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"Got Lost?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

We have all seen the milk ads, \u201cGot milk?\u201d, but for most us our slogan should be, \u201cGot Lost?\u201d.\u00a0 Yesterday I sat there as the power went out through out the day on my block, I felt like I was two steps behind everything,\u00a0 and yet I was aware it was just a story I was telling my self. So why would we tell each other stories? Things happen, and we quickly put a spin on it and most of the time our spin is just a reaction that isn\u2019t true. It feels true at the time, \u201cSo and so did me wrong, look at their lives compared to mine, not good enough, give up dating, tired of this, never find a job, My parents think I am crazy, I feel different, what a blank-\u201d Each of us is wanting to make sense of all that is unfolding.\u00a0 We want to matter, be the hero, the savior, the great leader, friend, partner, son, daughter, parent, and yet that is what we are letting go of.<\/p>\n

We are letting go of identifying with the story.\u00a0 Stories are how we relate, so what am I referring too.\u00a0 When you are in awareness of what is, the story you tell is different. It isn\u2019t charged up with good or bad, us or them, it is spoken from a place of neutrality. A place of observing.\u00a0 Someone asked me the other day, \u201cDavid don\u2019t you think we are human or spiritual?\u201d\u00a0 I feel like we are discovering that we are breather\u2019s. The breath is who we are.\u00a0 Being is breathing. In awareness, the breath is constantly flowing. When you think, get involved, worry, stress, or live out of awareness, then the breath stops, holds,and grips.\u00a0\u00a0 Life is really quite simple and sane.<\/p>\n

In awareness the attention is felt like observing. In this observing state, everything is happening.\u00a0 When we leave this state of breathing (BEING), we feel lost, confused, and lonely. The way to discover this is to pay attention to your breathing.<\/p>\n

Is the breath flowing, circular, and natural?\u00a0 Or is the breath choppy, gripping, stopping a lot, or even in the upper chest?\u00a0 Let the breath guide you. As this becomes your way of life, you will begin to live from inspiration (IN SPIRIT or IN BREATH).\u00a0 When we trust our storyteller mind more than the breath, we seem to live more from lack and limitation and judgment. When we begin to live in the breath, we begin to shift from the hostility of the presence, into the friendship of the presence.\u00a0 This shift is life transforming, from out there to in here.<\/p>\n

You are the breath. Sit with this statement. \u201cI AM THE BREATH\u201d. You are FAB- Flowing Attention Breath.\u00a0 love<\/p>\n

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