You know the scene: its the climax of a die-hard-style action movie where one character is forced to choose whether or not to place their lives in the hands of another. “Do you trust me?!” Their lives hang in the balance.
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The practice of breathing deeply for a couple minutes also marks the transition into our time together, as if to say, “This space is sacred ground, let us enter it mindfully.”
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It takes immense courage to bring that story out into the world, to share with another human being what we may be thinking, feeling, experiencing. There are reasons we stay silent about our pain, our anger, our grief. We have learned, sometimes through explicit instruction such as, “We do not talk about that,” and often through implicit example, that we are not to speak of our difficult feelings or experiences because it makes others feel uncomfortable.
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