Technologies of the self, No. 4

Bring your open hand, palm down, to your torso with your fingers resting just below the sternum and pointing inward, the tips of the fingers just below the ziphoid process. Got it? Now with little more than the wish of it turn the hand in place, the fingers turning up, the heel of the hand down. Turn the hand in place. There may be an unaccountable gift to the breath. To repeat, there is the wish of the hand’s turning, but hardly, if anything more. Is this the gift that keeps on giving, a technology of the self?