<HTML> <HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=unicode"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1226" name=GENERATOR> <title>Just Breathe! - August 2005</title> </HEAD> <BODY baseurl="http://www.internationalbreathinstitute.com" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <font face="Gill Sans, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <img src="http://www.internationalbreathinstitute.com/images/ezine_head.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="100" alt=""> <table width="600" valign="top"> <tr><td valign="top" width="450"> <font size="1" color="#000000">Issue 6, August 29, 2005</font> <p> <font color="#990033" face="Gill Sans, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><center><b>The Key To Living Fearlessly is to<br>Just Breathe!<br>...and then do the next thing.</b></center></font><p> <b><font color="#000000">Just Breathe!</font></b><font color="#000000"> is the ezine of The International Breath Institute (IBI) and is sent to you from Dr. Tom Goode. IBI shows you how to enjoy optimal health through lifestyle management -- learning to live in alignment with your holistic nature. We provide shortcuts from science, tips for your health, and reminders about your breathing.</font><p> <b><font color="#990033">Content</font></b><br> <font color="#000000"> You may be wondering if the IBI ezine took a long vacation this summer, but we did not. IBI's web site focuses on Full Wave Breathing because it is the single most important exercise for your health. Use it to get well, be well and do well. You may be wondering if the IBI ezine took a long vacation this summer, but we did not. However, there has been a lot of new activity around our house to share with you. At the beginning of the summer, our sites changed servers. Then a death in her family caused our webmaster to branch out on her own. I understood perfectly as my father's death caused me to re-evaluate my passion and priorities. Our new webmasters, Bill Rishel and Tenille Norris, are playing catch up with our new website: <a href="http://www.acpi.biz">www.acpi.biz</a>. Yes, we have launched The Academy for Coaching Parents for moms, dads, and others who want to have a professional career in mentoring parents and families.</font> <p> <b><font color="#990033">Healthcare</font></b><br> <font color="#000000"> Either you take care of your health or you don't. If you don't, you become a participant in what is known as:Healthcare.Healthcare is a system predicated upon the study of sick people and tinkering with them to try and fix them. It addresses symptoms rather than causes and treats disease as an enemy to be eradicated. </font> <p> <b><font color="#990033">Self-Responsible Self Care</font></b><br> <font color="#000000"> If illness were a message concerning stressors in the mindbody system rather than an opponent, how would you treat it? Likely, you would cooperate with the body using principals based upon natural health. The first place you might start is at the beginning--when you are born and begin to breathe. Things work pretty well until you start storing stressors in your breathing muscles. Then you become a shallow breather, creating chronic tension that wears down your immune system. The result is that you don't feel as well as you could. A remedy? </font> <p> <b><font color="#990033"> Holistic Practices</font></b> <font color="#000000"> The most basic holistic health practice is breathing. Because breathing is basic, it affects everything. If it is harmonious, then the body's entire system moves toward greater harmony. Master your breathing and you master the ability to stimulate your healing resources. <p> Use your breathing to promote the unimpeded flow of consciousness through every cell in your body. Healing takes place on all levels. Your breathing determines your physical vitality, your emotional calmness, your mental focus and your spiritual awareness. </font><p> <b><font color="#990033"> Good News </font></b><br> <font color="#000000">More and more people are catching on to the advantages, including improved taste, of organic foods. The Organic Trade Association estimates this year's sales to reach 14 Billion, up from below 4 Billion in 1997. We order our grass-fed, organic beef from Grasslandbeef.com. Their menu includes chicken and bison as well. </font> <p> <b><font color="#990033"> News Clips</font></b> <font color="#000000"> An article in the Wall Street Journal says, &quot; Mounting research shows that exercise to slow breathing can help reduce elevated blood pressure&quot; . However, it then continues, &quot;Experts say breathing exercises may be worth trying, especially if you have pre-hypertension and are trying to avoid medication, or if drugs fail to bring down your pressure enough.&quot; (WSJ 4/27/04) </font> <p><font color="#000000"> The Washington Post (7/23/02): &quot;Breathing deeply and exhaling slowly can do wonders for your health by opening up tiny blood vessels and taking pressure off the heart.&quot; </font> <font color="#000000">&nbsp;</font> <p><font color="#000000"> The London Times (10/16/04): &quot;The answer to many people's high blood pressure could be simply to breathe easy.&quot; </font> <p> <b><font color="#990033"> In The Future: </font></b><br><font color="#000000"> IBI has been investigating a number of ways to assist you in your overall health and particularly with heart disease and stroke prevention. Later this summer we will announce how to use a dramatically effective method of dissolving and preventing plaque build up and dehydration of the blood vessels. Look for articles on Holistic Heart Health. </font><p> <b><font color="#990033"> Health Confidential for Men</font></b><br> <font color="#000000"> is the name of a newsletter I receive from Al Sears, MD (888-571-2249). In his latest issue, Dr. Sears points out that lack of oxygen reserves, cause 50 percent of all heart attacks. The remedy? Breathing exercises such as we suggest monthly. Keep your lungs young with Full Wave Breathing! To find out more about Aging Changes in the Lungs, go to <a href="http://www.enh.org">www.enh.org</a> </font> <p> <b><font color="#990033"> The Duh Factor:</font></b><br><font color="#000000"> I just read another exciting study produced from your tax dollars at work. This one, sparing you the details, noted that women who stretched were more flexible than those who did not. Next thing you know we will be told that healthy eating produces longer and disease-free lives. I wonder how much that will cost? </font> <p> <b><font color="#990033"> Milk in the News:</font></b> <font color="#000000"> <br> &quot;If a child has a weight problem, their first beverage choice should be water." </font> <p> That quote comes out of Harvard Studies that states even skim milk is associated with weight gain. As a result, the watchdog group, The Physicians Committed for Responsible Medicine is after the FDA about ads promoting milk consumption for weight and fat loss. Milk is not a beverage. It is best utilized as food for a calf and the adjustment by the body to handle the foreign (cow) protein is just an added stressor that your system doesn't need. <p> A soda is not a healthy beverage. Soft drinks are any thing but soft; they are hard on your system. Even if we forget about sugar or central nervous system poisons like aspartame or other substitutes and the effects of caffeine, soft drinks are tremendously acidic and disable your body's ability to balance pH and eliminate harmful acids. Drink water instead! <p> <b><font color="#990033">CORRECTION: </font></b><br> <font color="#000000"> In the May issue, this portion was left out of the section featuring the <i>Cosmic Waltz:</i> Think of the <i>Cosmic Waltz</i> as a lazy person s way to effortlessly feel better. You let the music flow through you, allow the uplifting affirmations to wash over you and the subliminal pulse to quiet your mind. It is perfect music to breathe with. The result? You feel better naturally. <a href="http://www.internationalbreathinstitute.com/products/cosmic_waltz.htm">The Cosmic Waltz CD</a></font> <p> <b><font color="#990033">Product of the Month: Whole Body Breathing. </font></b><br><font color="#000000"> Learn to breathe correctly with this set of 4 CDs and Book. Each CD includes a 25-minute step-by-step guided breath session with visualization and intention. BONUS! Receive a 30-minute bonus track of meditation music! This incredible package will teach you how to use breathing as a tool for relaxation, reducing stress, improving health, managing emotions and increasing vitality. <a href="http://www.internationalbreathinstitute.com/products/whole_body.htm">The Whole-Body Breathing Series</a></font> <p> <b><font color="#990033">EXERCISE CORNER: </font></b><br> <font color="#000000"> Here is another way for you to apply your spiritual power - your focused action - to enhance the functioning of your mindbody system. This one is about peace.</font> <p> <b><font color="#990033">Extending Peace</font></b><br> Sitting upright with your back supported, imagine energy entering your heart as you inhale and repeat the word peace. Visualize this energy filling you completely as you pull it in using the Full Wave Breathing pattern. As you exhale, imagine your heart energy going out to the world, and you once more repeat the word peace. Enjoy! <hr><b><i><h4>Keep breathing!<br> <p> Tom</h4></i></b> <p> </td> <td valign="top" bgcolor="#CAD7FF" width="200"> <font size="3"><br><center><b>Classes Are Beginning!</b></center></font> <p> <font size="1">"Find spiritual direction through your heart with DreamLodge Seminars." <a href="http://www.internationalbreathinstitute.com/programs/wpt_dream_html">Journey Deeper, Live Richly.</a> </font> </center><br><hr color="#0066FF"> <font size="3"><br><center><b> Notable Quote from Park Cousins </b></center></font> <p> <font size="1">"How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us." </font><br><p><hr color="#0066FF"> <p> <font size="3"><center><b>New Articles for August</b></center></font> <font size="1"><ul> <li><a href=" http://www.internationalbreathinstitute.com/articles/physical/phy_prego_html"> Benefits of Full Wave Breathing for Pregnant Women By Anna Stewart </a> <li><a href=" http://www.internationalbreathinstitute.com/articles/mental/mental_changeyou_html"> Changing Ourselves By Lloyd J. Thomas, Ph.D.</a> <li><a href=" http://www.internationalbreathinstitute.com/articles/business/biz_greatcom_html"> Good Habits That Make You a GREAT Communicator By Caron B. Goode, Ph.D.</a> <li><a href=" http://internationalbreathinstitute.com/articles/articles/emotional/emo_anxiety_attacks_html "> Anxiety Attacks By Lloyd J. Thomas, Ph.D.</a> <p> </ul><hr color="#0066FF"> </td></table> <p> <font size="-2"> <b>Visit our <a href=" http://www.internationalbreathinstitute.com">site</a> and browse through information for greater health and livelier living. </b><p> Copyright 2005 International Breath Institute. All rights reserved. <p> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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