I invite you to close your eyes.
Feel the expanding and contracting of your chest as the breath fills your lungs and empties.
No need to change the rhythm of your breath.
Just let the lungs breathe while you observe.
As you feel your lungs fill up with air,
Imagine the space within is the universe.
Feel your lungs fill up with air,
And feel the air in an endless sea of blackness as you watch tiny stars twinkling throughout.
Watch the darkness grow as each star moves further away from you.
Taking matter with it.
As the universe expands out into the ether,
There is another force at play.
Gravity.
This attracting force pulled the matter together to form stars and galaxies.
If it weren't for this graceful balance of expanding and contracting,
You wouldn't be sitting here right now.
None of us would.
Instead,
The universe would consist of isolated matter that continued to get further and further away from each other.
Your lungs are a mirroring of these very dynamics of the universe.
Expanding and contracting to breathe life into your body.
Just as the universe expands and contracts to breathe life into existence,
Bring your awareness back to your lungs.
Do you experience them differently now that you know they mimic the larger dynamics of the universe?
Knowing that your very being not only comes from the universe,
But that it uses the same dynamics to exist.
Take a moment to sit with the sensations.
Sit with the knowing.
And when you're ready,
You can open your eyes.
