Breathing

Life is breathing. It has three different phases—inhalation, short pause, and exhalation. Internal and external action— visible and invisible. Active and passive.

Breathing is living. Its intensity varies with scale. Some breathe faster than others—their perceptions and realizations are relative to their tempo. Small beings (e.g., cells) have different breathing cycles than large beings (with larger mass), such as humans, when compared to each other. Still, the relative cycle is intact. This can be realized only in cross-scale comparisons.

Life is a realization process (i.e., existence/manifestation) in time. In other words, life is relative motion where the subject's internal frame of reference is relational to its breathing cycle. A self-conscious being has the potential to experience various cycles at once (interlinked) and focus within a cycle in any of the three directions. The subjective intensity remains constant, but in relation to an external reference frame, significant relative time adjustments or movements can be experienced.