If you feel comfortable,
You can close your eyes,
Otherwise you can just soften your gaze let your eyes kind of drift downward a little bit.
And start to just notice your breath.
And wherever you feel the breath most easily is perfectly fine.
And so it might be in your nostrils.
Maybe you feel your chest rising and falling.
Maybe you feel it down in your belly.
Disconnecting to this breath.
This life force breath moving through you.
The breath breathing you.
Perhaps feeling it like a wave that rises and falls.
And just notice on this next inhale that you're breathing in molecules of oxygen that were released by the nearest trees.
And notice on this next exhale that these molecules of carbon dioxide leaving your lungs are going to be taken in by the nearest plants.
And we can pass this breath back and forth.
Between the red and the green.
Between the animals and the plants.
Each of us working together to keep the other alive in a very fundamental way in every moment with every single breath.
We're in allyship with our environment.
And this oxygen and carbon dioxide has been moving around the earth for millennia.
It's been breathed by all kinds of animals and plants.
It's been breathed by our ancestors.
You might think of some wise ancestors of liberation,
Maybe not in your bloodline,
But maybe someone who's inspired you.
This next breath could have passed through their lungs.
And now it flows into you.
And as we breathe out,
We can also breathe out a gift.
We can send our breath like a prayer into the future.
To bless our descendants,
The human ones,
The animal,
The plants,
To bless all the beings that come after.
To send a wish as if you were blowing out a birthday candle,
That they inherit a green earth,
A free world.
And noticing the breath in your body,
Letting it drop deep into the belly,
Flowing easily,
Beginning to flutter open your eyes when you feel ready.
And just remembering that that connection is as close as your next breath in any moment.
