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Hope
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Cosmos
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If you feel overwhelmed or stressed in your life, try taking a moment to reflect on space and time.
*Have you every wondered how vast space is?*
The distance from earth to the Moon is a little over 240 thousand miles, which translates as a little over 1 light-second.
The radius of our solar system is roughly 1 and a half light /years/ across.
The Milky Way galaxy is more than 100,000 light years across and the known universe is over 93 billion light years in diameter.
*Have you ever stoped to consider how old our planet is?*
Well the universe is more than 13 billion years old. Our Solar System, including our planet Earth, is 4 and a half billion years old.
Our primate ancestors were walking the earth 6 million years ago, but humans only evolved in the last 200 thousand years.
Civilisation as we know it is only about 6,000 years old, and industrialisation started just 200 years ago.
Everyone you’ve ever known, and everyone they’ve ever known, was born in that last minuscule amount of time. A fraction of a second in the eye of the universe.
Perhaps now, with this new perspective, your troubles don’t feel quite so overwhelming, nor your struggles as insurmountable, nor your anxieties as unconquerable as a they did just a few minutes ago.
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Cycles
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Hallow
03:59
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Begin by settling into your seat.
Notice how the air feels around you, your face, your ears, your brow, the back of your neck.
Notice your breath and watch as your ribs expand out creating more space for your lungs.
Can you begin to notie the muscles between each of your ribs.
Breathe in d e e p e r. Explore.
Notice how your diaphragm moves down, massaging your organs to create space for your lungs.
Move your body and play with your breath.
Can you feel the choir of movement to create space.
Gently guide your diaphragm down, expand your ribs sideways, backwards and forwards.
Breathing in deeper, filling your lungs, your chest.
Allow yourself to revel in the pause between each breath.
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Quarantine
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Breathe.
Breathe deep.
Breathe deep and slow.
Feel.
Feel the air.
Feel the air in your lungs.
Listen.
Listen closely.
Listen closely to the sound of your breathing.
“This is my in breath.”
“And this is my out breath.”
As you breathe in,
Focus on the peace this gives you.
The calm clarity.
Now, as you breathe out,
Imagine you’re sending that peace out to others.
Picture it travelling, out from your body, through streets and fields , over great mountains and vast oceans, out the atmosphere and across the universe.
Now bring your focus back to yourself.
The feel of the air and the sound of your breath.
“This is my in breath.”
“And this is my out breath.”
“This is my in breath.”
“And this is my out breath.”
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Chania
23:55
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Close your eyes.
Close your eyes and centre yourself.
Relax your body,
Set your focus on your breath.
In,
and out.
Breathe slowly and patiently
in through your nose and and out through your mouth.
Be present.
Be present with this one breath in, and this one breath out.
In,
and out.
Be present in the world.
Be present to yourself.
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Paul Usher - Caspian
02:02
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From space, Earth has no borders. No countries, no politics. No machines, no hatred. It’s just one planet amidst the darkness of space. The closest thing Earth has to a border, is that tiny strip of blue surrounding it’s surface: Our atmosphere. It’s what makes Earth the /only/ planet in all the known universe that can support - life.
Without that little blue strip, all life on Earth would cease to exist.
But it is there, and we are alive.
And for that, we should be grateful.
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