A Diet of Sighs and Groans

Sighs and groans can come with such ease, but inhaling is also necessary. So we take note of our diet of breath. 

‘That was a deep sigh,’ he said to me.

I hadn’t noticed it, but he was right. I had let out a long deep sigh into the safety of our conversation. It was a release of something within me that needed to be exhaled: tiredness and exhaustion.

Bound-up tension had relaxed, and breath had escaped and flowed like water.

Somewhere, deep in my soul, the groan escaped as a sigh. Long and deep.

The body has a way of expressing the soul that we have limited to little control over. Noticing the involuntary communications of another can help us with connection to their deepest places.

Can I sigh and find an inhalation of hope? Is there something that I can take in to help me with the next few moments?

There is exhaustion. Physical tiredness from the work of the day.

But there is soul exhaustion from the long journey of struggling in a broken world. We breathe out and breathe in.

 

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