A Meditation About Breathing For The World

I am breathing for myself. But sometimes it feels like the world could use a breath. Things feel tight, the suffering in the room or on the planet seems palpable, and I wonder if I can help.

Maybe if I could help by breathing in for everyone, taking in the intensity, the hardship, the suffering as if they’re mine.

What would happen if everyone did that. Would anything change? Maybe. Maybe everything would change, and, as the poet Juan Jimenez once wrote, we’d be sitting in the middle of our new life.