Get Your Lungs Full of Abundance

A few days ago a fung-shui expert my wife is friendly with recommended we put a ‘laughing Buddha’ statue in my studio. You must have seen one; huge belly – exposed; hands clasped in front – as if saying ‘thank you’; big, toothy grin spread wide across its face.

Now, before you say ‘witchcraft, superstition, or idol worship’, hear me out. I’m the biggest ‘energy medicine’ skeptic you’re likely to encounter. Unless it’s produced through good old blood, sweat, and tears.

The point is, however you talk about it, this little caricature has worked a little magic on me. It ‘spoke’ to me this morning.

It reminded me, ‘Creating abundance is wonderful. Laugh in the joy of it. Give thanks for the opportunity to FEEL it.’

Before I sat down to write I’d practiced. During that practice I really worked my abdomen. I ‘belly-breathed’ in a big way.

Afterward I came in to my studio and sat down to write a newsletter, not having any idea of what I would say. My eyes landed on an old publicity poster of the ‘Los Angeles Piano Quartert’; way back when I was a member. We were all smiling big, toothy grins.

Next to it, was the Buddha. And then I made the connections, protruding belly = abundance. Belly breathing = abundance. Abundance = Laughing. Laughing = good thing.

There are two things to remember when using your diaphragm to draw and exhale life giving oxygen; to smile, and to give thanks for the abundance it brings into your life.

All the best,

Clayton Haslop

P.S. There is a little DVD course I have called Dynamic Breath Control for Violinists. Quite a few folks have found it a great way to ‘power up’ their playing. YOU may have a copy as well.