Maya Calendar and a breath of fresh air

I watched a program with John Major Jenkins talking about 2012 and the Maya calendar, there was some really interesting points he raised. I think the one I liked the most was how he said that the Mayan's saw the moving in to a new age not as a cycle but as breath, exhaling and inhaling. I thought it was a really nice way of putting it.

Yoga is all about breathing, created by cultures who believed that breath is the source of life in the body, it was thought of as more important than the heart beat.
When we breath we let good air in (oxygen) and let out bad air (carbon dioxide)

If we think of the universe and time as the Mayan's did, as breathing, then if we look at our own world that way I think I can see what they meant.
I feel at the moment the universe must be exhaling, all we see around us at the moment is negativity (and a whole lot of carbon dioxide lol), I think what the world could do with is 'a breath of fresh air' and maybe 2012 will be when that breath is taken.

Just a little doodle while watching the vid on 2012 ^^;