I'm fascinated by the concept of the vertical breath. As I understand it right now, this concept flips what we traditionally think of regarding time. 

We typicaly envision a horizontal line, with a dot in the middle. The dot is 'now' and everything to the left is the past. Everything to the right is the future. 

The line of thinking is that the past has happened and it has your own emotional imprint on it. The future is too uncertain, we can't predict the next moment. 

Too often, perhaps, we regret the past and have anxiety about the unknown of the future. 

Here's the flip. Because the past and future do not really exist, we carry all that into the present moment. When we breath in and out everything lives in the moment of that breath. The past, and it's guilt, shame, and highlights. And the future, with all it's unpredictability and fear - it all lives in us now.

In this breath. 

There is no before or after this moment. This moment is what we are becoming.

We move from a mental model of a horizontal line, to a vertical one. So we can focus on the now. It's all there really is.

Cool people and things

My friend Jeff Hesser is building Slow Monkey:

We provide alternatives to traditional engagement loops by creating slow, deliberate digital interactions and games that prioritize presence and slowing down over distraction and speeding up.

Sounds like something right up my alley. Check it out: https://slowmonkey.studio

Here’s some news you could use:

I’ve opened the waitlist for cohort two of my Ten Days of Noticing correspondence course.

Jet Lag improv group will be opening for our good friends and sketch comedy masterminds Hey Party People! on 11/21. Tickets here.