| What most people understand as breathing is respiration. Respiration is the flow of inspiration and expiration punctuated by transition pauses.
Breathing is also circulation as flow through arteries and flow through veins punctuated with pauses between heartbeats. |
It is self-evident that breathing unfolds as waves; what is not usually seen is that just as you breathe the gaseous-air element air, you also breathe the solid-earth element as food, you breathe the liquid-water element as liquid water and you breathe the plasma-fire element as things like heat, light and Vitamin D that we get from our sun.
In all cases you breathe these fundamental elements in the same manner that you breathe air. In all cases you take the fundamental element in from somewhere outside your body, you body’s inherent intelligence extracts the life-giving energies (see resonance) and it expels the wastes.
In other words you literally breathe earth, water, air and fire!