The Spirit Breathes 🧘🏻- Espíritu Respira 🧘🏻‍♀️🌿 (Eng-Spain

***Spirituality***.... When we read that word we sometimes think of it as something ethereal, mystical or lofty (I'd like a musical effect here 🤭).

Ever since I was a little girl I have learned about God, because at home mom and dad would go to church and there they would read us Bible stories and how God made the world and his influence on people's lives. And from there on that spirituality has lived with me.

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But what is Spirituality for me?

I will tell you some experiences of my life so that you will understand my vision of spirituality.


I studied in a theological seminary for 4 years and there I received knowledge about the bible, its interpretation and some more history. All that gave me the knowledge, but looking at that time from my present, I observe that all that was for my mind.

If you asked me a question, I could answer it from the intellect but I had never had a proper spiritual experience. At that time I would have been about 22 years old.

Later, when I was about 24 years old, I had a boyfriend, a cute black guy, named José Antonio, who, for life's sake, had to pass into eternity and left me on this side (he also got me pregnant). Days later I had an experience with him that opened my mind to this spirituality.

One night I dreamt with Jose Antonio, in the dream we were in a dark forest, I do not remember what we were talking about but when he said goodbye to me he went to a circle that was in the air, it was like a portal, as we see it in those fantasy or science fiction movies, he passed to the other side and I'm going to do the same to follow him and he stops me and tells me: "No! You can not pass this way, it is not your place!" And plum! He disappeared and I woke up.

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That was my first spiritual experience and I felt that the dream had been so real.


From that time until today I have had several experiences of my own and also with other people, but they made me understand that we are spirit and we live in this flesh, this body, which is the room given to us by the Eternal to experience a life.


I firmly believe that we are the image of the one who created us, we are the image of God, the Eternal One. Therefore, there is in us that creative genius, we have that ability to create something new every day. We have the power! Although it may seem like a movie slogan, that is what we are.


Between the Eternal and us there is a thread that sustains us and it is the breath. Some doctrines and religions have described it in various ways: Prayer, Yoga, meditation.... For all of them you need stillness, breathing, and above all to believe that you are communicating with someone Superior.

Breathing is to the spirit as food is to the body.
It is necessary to breathe.

You will say, But I breathe!!! And I will tell you: sometimes....

When we are filled with anxiety, we are not breathing....
When we let anger be at work in our body, we are not breathing....
When we want others to do what I want, we are not breathing....
And by not breathing we err, we are afraid and we are not thinking.....


To avoid anxiety, the best thing is not to stop breathing and remember to breathe deeply, that decompresses you if you are tense and organizes the being, the mind.

So, I advise you to take time daily to breathe consciously.

Choose a quiet place, sit comfortably and breathe filling your stomach with air, just as babies do, they fill their tummy and breathe rhythmically. You can do the same, take a breath in 5, breathe in (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), stop 1, and now breathe out 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. And again, inhale and exhale. Repeat up to 5 times.

You can do this exercise daily.

Another exercise is meditation. Likewise you are going to breathe as I told you above and stay in silence for about 10 minutes, which you can extend until you reach half an hour. In this moment of meditation you are just going to be still, listening, without making value judgments of anything you hear. Let it pass. And just breathe.

All right, this is as far as I take you with this post.

***Espiritualidad***... Cuando leemos esa palabra en ocasiones pensamos que es algo etéreo, místico o elevado (me gustaría un efecto musical aquí 🤭).

Desde que era niña he aprendido acerca de Dios, porque en casa de mamá y papá iban a la iglesia y allí nos leían historias bíblicas y de cómo Dios hizo al mundo y su influencia en la vida de las personas. Y de allí en adelante esa espiritualidad ha vivido conmigo.