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Thirds Breaths And Breath Prayers Keep mouth closed – only breathe through nose throughout this exercise. • Take the fullest breath that is comfortable for you. Fill the whole container of your body with breath. You can think of Filling your belly, flaring your rib cage, and flooding your collar bones with breath • When you begin to exhale - KEEP LIPS SEALED, BREATHE THROUGH NOSE ONLY • Exhale a third of your breath and pause • Exhale the second third of your breath and pause • Exhale out the whole last third of your breath and empty your lungs of breath completely You can stop here…or As you do so, focus on one of these breath prayers-most are just ones I have made up…and make up your own . As you inhale, claim the first phrase over yourself ( e.g. Speak, Lord), as you exhale, claim the second phrase (e.g. Your servant is listening ). ·      Speak, Lord/Your servant is listening ·      Come/Lord Jesus ·      Be Still/Know ·      My heart says, “seek your

How do you begin this cocoon business?  You have to find your Spiritual Cremaster. What in the world is that? It’s the place you start. It’s your anchor.   I’ll just let Sue tell you : “When the caterpillar begins to spin its chrysalis, it forms a spiny little protuberance at the end of its abdomen called the cremaster. The cremaster is like a button or patch of Velcro that fastens the pupa in the cocoon and holds it in place.  It’s the anchor point, the place from which the caterpillar hangs “ The still point is our cremaster. Without it, there’s no dance of transformation. It’s the place where all cocoon making starts.  We need to find the point in our soul where we go neither forward nor backward but are fastened in our waiting. We need to discover the “protuberance” from which our lives can silently hang and become new. What IS this still point?  It represents the Center, the quiet core where God’s Spirit dwells in us.  “Do you not know that…God’s Spirit dwells