Inhaling Peace, Exhaling Gratitude

Lake Pepin at Dawn

Inhaling peace and exhaling gratitude is a practice you can feel in your body. There is a lightness felt in your chest. Similar to how the dawn begins in your heart way before it breaks over the horizon. A steady breath has already settled in.

This embodiment practice you feel gives your nervous system time to rearrange itself. You are learning a new rhythm. A rhythm to be the peace you want to see, feel, and know in this world and wrap that peace in gratitude.

Inhaling peace and exhaling gratitude is something quietly powerful. A stillness within where you can step into a flow that is not passive, but is an internal aligning that spills over into all aspects of your external world and into each relationship. You arrive in stillness and invite others to join you by being the calm lighthouse. No words needed. Presence that is warm, steady, and unafraid to love.

Breathing in peace and exhaling gratitude becomes a silent prayer of being. An offering, a soft presence. A gift to yourself and to the world that says, "I am available to what is true and I can remain in peace." Instead of a prayer that says, "Please fix this chaos I feel."

Breathing in peace and exhaling gratitude is a prayer that stops reaching outward or upward for answers, but settles inwardly with intimacy that is lovingly carried on your breath. A place where light has a place to land and new insights become tangible by touching flesh. Wisdom that is able to rest in itself.

Breathing in peace and exhaling gratitude builds trust that lands gently in your heart with encouragement and inspiration. Both are held in the sacred silence that translates into love.

As you breathe in peace and exhale gratitude, place your hand on your heart and ask silently: What has landed here?

Do not answer with thought...Notice a softening shift that no longer lifts you out of life, but keeps you gently held inside it.

Let peace and gratitude rest on your breath unforced. Breath that arrives on its own and settles within you like a candle settles into its flame. Allow its warmth to carry you quietly forward.

Peace and gratitude can arise organically when we stop grasping, reaching, and pushing for life to be other than what it is. We shift our perspective instead of trying to control the world around us.

Breathing in peace and breathing out gratitude does not mean you become disengaged from life's entanglements, but you can become the stable anchor, the calm voice that does not demand or panic under pressure. Peace is not passive, it is choosing non-violence in my heart, words, and actions.