Breathe long, deep breaths, strong breaths. It will make room in yourself.

If you do it long enough it will be effective. It will also bring you to an alertness in yourself, energize and harmonize. It will make space between yourself and your thoughts, your feelings, your emotions, your passions. Standing behind you watch and observe as things come up and they pass, while you remain with the breath, breathing in, breathing out.

You are being with yourself and the breath will help you to be with yourself—your past, your present and your future.

I am doing with you too, and that will help you.

If things come up in you, let them be released. They pass through you; let them leave you free. You experience them, you feel them—and yet you observe them. Some things are easy to observe, some things are not. There are levels at which you can observe, there are levels at which you cannot, there are moments when you can observe, and there are moments when you cannot. There are things that hold you in their grip. This breathing will help you: breathe in – breathe out. So help yourself through the breath.

Breathe in – breathe out—long breath, deep breath, strong breath. The longer the breath, the deeper the breath, the better it is. And strong enough to be heard.

Breathe in, breathe out—stay with the breathing. It will energize, harmonize you.

Long breath, deep breath, strong breath. Empty out completely, fill in completely. Watch everything that comes up, standing behind as it were. See if you can allow them to pass, whatever that comes up while you breathe in, breathe out. It is an emptying out so that you may be filled with freedom. Breathe in the new, breathe out the old…

Arya Vihar

13 March 2000