Don't forget to exhale. This might take some effort.
I recently started swimming laps a few times per week, and it has involved completely relearning how to breathe.
There is so much resistance in me, my instinct tells me the opposite of what is true. It has been so hard to accept that when I feel like I don't have enough air, it's not because I need to take more air in, it's because I'm not letting enough air out. There's a buildup.
And I think this is why I encourage us all to write something, to put something of ourselves into the world. There is an extreme amount of input right now, and if we try to hold it all we will eventually feel like we're drowning.
Breathe out!
p.s. today i really miss swimming.
I keep picturing a summer excursion, many weeks from now (and maybe not happening at all), where we walk to the lake a mile from our apartment and spend the day on a beach, in and out of the water. Maybe by the time it's hot enough in Minnesota to go in the water, we'll be able to be close to our neighbors again.
Perhaps because I hated swimming for so many years, there's really something deeply integrating about it.
I also really miss swimming which is maybe the most surprising thing about this giant slowdown.