The Journey of Prayer and Devotion
Poetry by Gill Schwartz

THE FLOW
When Breath and Life-Force Merge

It begins with the breath. Bringing
consciousness to rest there,
I nourish my body, my deep mind
using my breath
to sense, to open, to center.
It awakens my inner watching.

Allowing it to settle to subtler awareness,
down to the life within my living flesh,
my breath and awareness flow through
to the core of my body-mind's vitality
and create a heart-toning vibration.
From one part of my body to another,
this resonance attunes its tone and pitch
to suit each cell's state,
enlivening all even more fully.

A gradual awakening. The flow of life-force permeates
through the confines of my held postures and attitudes.
Boundaries dissolve. Muscles and joints,
organs and nerves, blend and flux
as this higher breath, this subtle force awakens
to its link with the cosmic, unified in my body's breath.

I stretch and flex as my awoken dream-body leads.
Both cords of life-force—personal and universal—
easily entwine, blissfully stream through me.
All limitation, all containment dissolves.
At one in myself, what I experience no longer separates
into impulse and action, self and other.
I am fully present and devoutly absorbed
in the Presence of the Divine Flow.

 

 

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