Baby Breath is Life
To make the most significant change, you must start with the smallest and most basic steps: breathing. It sounds too simple. But it’s the key. Once you learn to breathe the way you are meant to, it unlocks other possibilities and joys. We must start at the beginning to ease anxiety and build a healthy life.
Origin of Life
It makes sense to start by discussing where life comes from. When Earth solidified into a planet, there was no oxygen. Instead, all the oxygen was part of the water. All life comes from water. Seventy percent of the earth is now made up of water, and two-thirds of the human body is water. Oxygen is the most abundant element in the earth’s crust and is crucial for all life. Oxygen became part of the atmosphere 2.5 billion years ago, setting the stage for life forms needed for breathing. A crucial change occurred when the first species emerged from the ocean and started getting oxygen from the air. Organisms learned to breathe, the basis for all mammalian life, including all human life, which eventually developed.
These species needed oxygen to breathe, but they also required sunlight. Sunlight provided warmth and energy, was necessary for plant growth, and provided many nutrients to sustain life. All thinking or instinctual mammals are born with the ability to care for each other, a bond that begins between a mother and child. When an environment that includes oxygen, clean water, nutritional food, energy, shelter, and safety is present, miraculous transformations are possible, such as from fetus to newborn baby or caterpillar to butterfly. There are millions of transformations in nature. Animals that care for and share provide a nurturing environment, a true home, where development and growth are possible.
Calm Ocean Waves Support Ocean Life
All life began in the ocean with the single-celled amoeba. Since then, the ocean has become the home of trillions of living organisms. The sea is constantly moving, changing, and flowing. Calm waves are crucial to keeping the right balance between oxygen and carbon dioxide in the ocean environment. This balance is what allows life to flourish. The gentle waves protect and nurture the life within them.
When this balance is disrupted by pollution and toxins, it changes the calm waves into hurricanes and tsunamis. This, in turn, further damages the environment. The environment affects the health of the organisms within it. When the balance of oxygen needed for life is upset, the environment changes.
Calm Breezes Support Earth Life
When life emerged onto the solid earth, it did so because a careful balance of oxygen, water, nutritional food, and solar energy sustained and supported it. Earth then became home to trillions of land-based organisms. Calm breezes, a vital component of the earth’s delicate balance, flow to maintain the proper oxygen and carbon dioxide equilibrium in the earth’s environment. When the air becomes polluted with carbon dioxide and toxins, the calm breezes often change to storms that produce tornadoes and floods and can cause extreme fires—global warming results from endangering this delicate balance and all the life that depends on it. Once the environment is harmed, life is threatened.
Baby Breathing Supports Human Life
Just as the ocean and the earth support life, so does the human body. Your body is the environment in which all your trillions of cells live. They need oxygen, water, nutritional food, and solar energy to survive.
As a fetus, your mother provides all of that. Once you are born, your body automatically knows it needs all these things. Babies cry for their mothers for food. They absorb solar energy. And their bodies automatically breathe, taking in oxygen and releasing carbon dioxide in calm, gentle breaths. It’s
fascinating to note that babies instinctively know how to breathe when they enter this world. They effortlessly take in lifegiving oxygen, a testament to the natural order of life.
When the human body is polluted with carbon dioxide and other toxins, it becomes emotionally, mentally, physically, socially, and spiritually unhealthy. Human life begins with a breath and ends with a breath. However, we ignore trillions of breaths. Breathing is the calm ocean wave and the calm breeze our bodies rely on to stay healthy. Calm waves and breezes never stop. But we as humans do stop our natural baby breathing. Sure, we continue to breathe, but we don’t breathe deeply, regularly, and calmly like a baby does.
We lose our innate baby breathing as we encounter fear, stress, and challenges. Instead, we begin breathing more shallowly, taking in less oxygen and releasing less carbon dioxide. We also lose the gentle silence between breaths, instead breathing quickly and constantly. When we stop breathing naturally, it impacts our body’s vital functions and eventually makes us sick—physically, mentally, socially, and spiritually. Relearning that baby breath is the first step to healing anxiety, stress, and illness.
What is Baby Breathing?
Baby breathing is calm, total, abdominal, and cardiorespiratory breathing. I call it baby breath because the breath anchors us to life. Their breath keeps us mindful and aware of the present time and place in daily life.
The flow of life starts with the first breath and ends with the last breath in every life. Baby breathing brings vitality. Baby breathing is essential for core strength and for these vital functions of the body to create, sustain, and reproduce life:
Superpower of Baby Breath
The Mechanics of Cardiorespiratory Breathing, Which I call BabyBreath (All-in-One)
1. Cardio Fitness: Baby breathing keeps the heart pumping throughout life for blood flow and maintains the speed of life.
2. Movement of Yoga: Baby breathing moves core abdominal tissues and glands as a pump for the Lymphatic fluid to flow to protect the immune system from diseases.
3. Unclogging, Filtration, and Detoxification: Baby breathing maintains the efficient functioning of the kidneys, lungs, brain, and other organs to remove all toxic gases soluble, solid, and damaging thought waste from the body.
4. Meditation and Mindfulness: Baby breathing maintains silence between each breath.
5. Baby breathing keeps the balance and alignment of the inner and outer minds and spiritual, social, physical, and mental intelligence.
6. Energy and Enthusiasm for Life: Baby breathing keeps the balance between Oxygen (O2) and Carbon Dioxide (CO2) levels in our body, producing Energy and Enthusiasm for Life.
First Breath
Learning to breathe fully and deeply ultimately resets our bodies to a state without stress or anxiety. Baby breathing is slow and simple, impacting the entire body, mind, and spirit.
Raman Pathik’s YOU-TURN is an insightful and empowering journey that invites readers to pause, reflect, and realign their lives with purpose and authenticity. With a voice that is both compassionate and compelling, Pathik offers a roadmap for those who find themselves at a crossroads—emotionally, professionally, or spiritually.
YOU-TURN delves deep into the interconnectedness of all living beings and the environment. It emphasizes the importance of recognizing the universal biological needs that bind us all, such as oxygen, water, food, sunlight, and love. By understanding these needs, we can see how climate change disrupts them, leading to imbalances that affect our physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
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YOU-TURN is a valuable companion for anyone seeking direction or longing to reclaim control of their life. It’s a reminder that it’s never too late to change your path—and often, the most important turn you take is the one back to yourself. If you are searching to improve your quality of life and become a healthy, happy, and loving being, YOU-TURN is for you.
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By Raman Pathik
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