Why 'Breathe in Breathe out?'

There is nothing more important than breathing. There is no life without breathing and at the same time it comes so naturally to us that often we don't think about it. When stressed, my best advice is to breath out. In the fast paced life we take everything in, including air, tonnes of information, food and drink and forget to fully breathe it out, let it all go.

Not only human beings breathe, mother Earth and all the living creatures breathe. I will never forget how my daughter Gaia let her first cry and I was so amazed by that. She took one sip of air in and let it go loudly with her first cry. A couple of moments later, I was holding her in my arms, while lying on the hospital bed utterly exhausted but at the same time deeply touched by this wonder.

On the deathbed, breath is the last thing a person can hold on to. Once it's gone, we are no more; they are no more. As someone who knows what loss is, I can say that after losing someone you love, you wish you could breathe some air into their mouth. But this is life and there is a beauty in this as well. All we have is now and what is gone is gone forever.

To me, an act of conscious but at the same time natural living represented in breathing. It is natural, it costs no effort, but at the same time it is so very important. How remarkable it is that most important things in life are actually simple and natural? Another piece of advice to myself: do not over-complicate things. Once something is not working out or bringing unnecessarily complexity or creates extra effort, I let it go. What is right to me will come by itself and what is not meant for me will pass by or shy away from me.

In a similar line of thoughts I decided at last to switch to the path of following my heart. To be completely honest I planned this switch for 2020; however, COVID destroyed many plans including this one. Nevertheless, I loved photographing while doing my corporate job, and I spent a lot of my free time photographing people and editing pictures. I remember one of the photoshoots I did was in a lunch break in one of the business districts of Amsterdam and another one while having a drink after work on Friday. Once my daughter was born, it became more difficult to do things in my free time simply because there was no free time anymore. And only then I realised how my so called hobbies were actually making me happy all this time. How precious it is, to know what makes you happy, isn't it?

Regarding healing, I have never offered healing to a wider audience and only did it for friends and family. However now I feel this urge to offer it as a service to a greater good. Let's see what comes out of it. If it works, I will be very happy and if it won't, this will be another beautiful experience of life.

Breathe in and then breathe out. Namaste.