Breathe! Breath is life, and "watching the breath" is a classical technique for calming the mind. A few months ago I chanced to notice that the word BREATHE could be anagrammed into BE EARTH — a cute coincidental sentiment, eh?! Pattern-seeker that I am, it was time to investigate anagrams of the other four classical "elements":

• BE AIR can be rearranged into I BEAR, perhaps alluding to the birth of new life
• BE WATER seems to produce just RAW BEET or BREW TEA or BARE WET, none of which are terribly uplifting
• BE FIRE only yields IF BEER, a rather uninspirational message (to some!)

Better suggestions?

(cf. ArsMagna (2002-09-27), HarmonicMotel (2003-10-23), Being with Your Breath (2010-02-20), ...) - ^z - 2010-12-07