The Breath That Stays

After a long day, sit down with your back easy. Breathe out slowly, as if releasing the day's emails and traffic and the small worries that came home with you. At the end of the exhale, do not pull the next breath in. Simply rest in the gap. The body will breathe again on its own when it is ready, and you will feel the difference between forcing and receiving. That gap is where Shiva lives, ordinary and very close.