don't swim past the moon: "Focus on your breath" - Instead of grounding me, instead of guiding me, instead of pulling me into meditation, this sentence makes me panic. It makes me focus on my lungs and how they've weakened. It's become: focus on how hard it is for you to breath. Focus on how it limits you. How it's painful for you. How you don't seem to ever have enough of it. Focus on how you struggle. Focus on how uncomfortable it is for you to deal with something so unfamiliar. Something you don't know how to manage. Something that terrifies you. Focus on how your body isn't capable of doing something it's easily done for your whole life. Focus on anything but the yoga you're here to do. The very essence of yoga, pranayama, is the very thing that is becoming a barrier between me and my practice. #yoga #pranayama #fear #breath #asthma