Breathe Again, Toni Braxton sang this tune in 80s. This tune is set to be an alarm sound on my iPhone. So, every morning I hear this music and the back chorus sings, “Breathe again, breathe again”. It is an wake up alarm, so I usually turn it off immediately after I wake up.
As a matter of fact I have never paid my attention to the breathing. Some pianist teach music with using some kind of breathing technique. Yoga or most of the meditation incorporate with breathing method. When I come to think of it, my neglect of breathing comes from my character.
I do not like to hear people telling me what to do.
Well, it might be a not-so-good part of me but that is what I am. I don’t like people telling me what or how to do things, especially the thing I have been doing naturally since the moment I was born; like breathing.
However, on the other day, while practicing piano in the morning as I always do, for some reason I took a glance at my “Bonsai”, and this thought suddenly came to me, “All the living things in this nature breath”.
That moment my attention was naturally shifted to my breathing while playing music. Then, a little something happened and I saw my music with more clarity, felt my energy to live and realized that I am one of those which lives in this nature as I was breathing while creating music.
It was not like I was struck with lightening and began to see the truth of the world. It was just a small incident, but I did start seeing and feeling the things positively and clearly, therefore less stress I felt.
It was an interesting experience.
Breathing, after all, is a thing we do to live. So, it is natural that if we start paying attention, we can feel the energy that we have inside.
I am not into Yoga or meditation, no specific religion, moreover, I don’t like to ask people to help me find how to breathe. So, no intention of picking up books written about breathing (I believe there are many books dealing with this issue). I did feel now that purposely shifting our attention to our breathing would not be a bad thing. Maybe, just like music, we need find our own way of breathing, which maybe different to very one of us.
Thinking of music, the music also often represents the nature of this world. If so, the music would breathe as well. I don’t yet to know how to make the music breathe, but I would very much like to know how. The music that breathes must be sounding beautiful.
I think I should not take “Breathe again” as my mere alarm sound, but I should take it as a daily reminder for “Breathe again”.