http://marknepo.com/ ... Once more the link between the breath and my life - our lives, each and everyone's life, that is - is shown, not from the typical sources I am 'connected' with, such as yoga, my teachers' ancient wisdom memories, books and blogs, the Bhagavad Gita, Patanjali, Stephen Cope, Finely's meditation texts, Rohr, etc., etc. But! from another teacher - 'an other' one! - in this case, my morning reading of Mark Nepo's book: see link below. That follows: "It seems our ability to be authentic and free can't touch us until we breathe our way below the twitch of our patterning. Often, this requires outlasting the anxiety of needing to catch or fix what comes our way, so we can truly respond from the center of our being." [Munch on that one...for a while!] The author closes with: "We are, each of us, in a repeatable war between defending ourselves from hurts that happened long ago and opening in innocence, ...