New Year’s Edition: New Format
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IBI’s purpose?
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Re-minding ourselves of the omnipresent connection with the Infinite;
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Promoting cultivation and use of the spiritual power within one’s breath as a natural transformational and empowerment tool for the advancement of humanity beginning with the individual;
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Sharing uplifting ideas;
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Keeping our thoughts heading in the direction of our choosing, our emotions open and flowing, and physically feeling more fully alive;
What If It Were As Simple As Remembering To
Just Breathe!
...and then doing the next thing?
What if the Universe was only awaiting our move into states of mind-body-spirit harmony to produce greater joy and aliveness?
Breathe THIS way for awhile—never mind what you did before.
Afterward see that you find yourself in a more receptive and prayerful state.
We are grateful for our many subscriber friends and envision your joyful health, flowing abundance, and peace in your best year yet.
Peace for Your Earth
Happy New You!
Give your mindbodyspirit system a gift of peace for the new you. You are one who recognizes that though you cannot control how others act, you directly contribute to the emotional energy of a situation. Thinking love, radiating peace, you support others in making the most constructive choices. Your intention of radiating peace is itself a gift to others that, in turn, boosts you. Empower your many intentions with Full Wave Breathing.
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Featured Articles in this Issue
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What Lies Ahead—Commentary…Every 2 million years or so….
3 Tips for a Great 2008…How deeply you pursue them is up to you….
Why Am I so Heavy? Maybe you….
Longevity…Mostly we die from old age….
Internet Superstar?—Humor—The Terrific Towel Trainer
Political Forecast for 2008—Humor
New Training for Facilitators—Announcement
Full Wave Breathing Instructions
Tools for Transformation—Books and Recordings
Just Breathe!
The ezine of The International Breath Institute (IBI) is sent from Dr. Tom Goode. IBI shares ways to stay awake in the dream keeping:
- your thoughts heading in the direction you choose
- your emotions open and flowing—
- and physically feeling more fully alive.
Just Breathe! offers ideas on attaining optimal health through lifestyle management--learning to live in harmony and alignment with our holistic nature…and a sometimes humorous look at life on Planet Earth.
Readers are typically those who know of their make-up as body, mind and spirit. They are referred to as the awakening or awake as contrasted with being asleep to or oblivious of ones spiritual nature.
As a whole (holistic, holy) being each of us is comprised of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects coordinated within one unitary expression. The four aspects of the mindbodysoul system are examined and described separately for clarification.
From an energetic perspective, each of us is are already whole and complete, expressing our true nature at our individual level of evolution of consciousness. Modern science and ancient wisdom confirm our divinity, the existence of the soul and life that continues beyond physical death.
The implications of human nature as consciousness with a “soul” are profound. Scientific revelations validate both ancient and more modern spiritual knowledge. Taking action to be one’s “best” or higher, more enlightened self is generally conceded to be the greatest service gift any one person can make.
If there were nothing to fix, and only to realize (make real) one’s true nature a good first step would be to make real that feeling (of wholeness and completion) in the body by anchoring it with Full Wave Breathing. All that is required is to put Full Wave Breathing to work. Repeated over time, the seemingly miraculous occurs.
Content
The Just Breathe! ezine expresses a view of the mindbodysoul aspects of holistic
health. It is a monthly newsletter for the awakened and awakening--who know
themselves to be multidimensional (energetic, divine sparks) beings with
physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects. It is for those who practice
their spiritual purpose by living lives of greater enlightenment and service
through the pathways of Love, Joy and Peace.
The Soul
This ezine is for those with interest is in their consciousness (increasing
conscious awareness) as a spiritual being.
Just Breathe!
is a community (common unity) connection for awakening and awakened beings,
integrating the wonders of Life.
Just Breathe!
shares a perspective, an alternative (holistic) view of human existence,
intended to expand the mind's understanding. The mind then relaxes so the ego
“watch dog” role that produces anxiety and tension can be set aside. Head and
heart functions together to respond to life’s circumstances, operating from
"higher" consciousness or being in the flow of life.
The general idea is that the more whole one’s life, then the greater is the access to health and happiness. Researcher Dr. David Hawkins points out that to increase awareness even a little is significant.
Having awakened to, become cognizant of, the process of awakening, the usual next step is to heal the physical level. Otherwise a great deal of energy that could otherwise be utilized at another level is expended on maintenance of the body.
Healing may or may not involve a “cure” for any condition. The healing step enables the individuated soul to more freely express creativity and joy. Each “healee” then becomes the source-connection of transformation for others. The lower body, housing the gut brain, is harmonized with the head/heart operating as one. The vibratory effect upon others is harmonious, uplifting and, in-turn, transformative. One-by-one, each part of the whole—represented by the individual-- sounds his note until music abounds.
Context
Full Wave Breathing, among a host of alternatives, is the single, most
important exercise for our life and whole
health. Those who use it regularly feel better and are more fully alive.
While there are only 3 tips, each has depth. How deeply to pursue them is up to you to support health and wellbeing.
Stay Hydrated. Consume pure water
A. Drink Bottled Water
B. Purchase a Reverse Osmosis Water System
C. Purchase a Whole House Water Purification
D. Have Water Delivered
E. Purchase Water From A Take-Home Water Store
F. Bless the Water Before You Drink It.
G. Accept the Blessing of the Water As You Drink It.
H. Drink Small Amounts Each Hour
Feed Yourself
A. Supplements According to Stress Level
B. The Purest Food
C. The Best Water
D. The greatest music
E. Gratitude
F. Acceptance
G. Silence
H. Time for Care of the mindbodyspirit system.
Breathe
A. The goal is an increased flow of energy.
B. At least one daily 15 minute session of Full Wave Breathing
C. Walk
D. Stretch
E. Dance
F. Sit
G. Rock
H. Lie in Bed
Training the Brain
Some of the information in
the ezine is repeated so it becomes ingrained in our consciousness. Each
month it does change slightly, becoming more refined and defined. Look
for the changes, the shifts in emphasis and expansion of ideas in each
new issue. Those who skip sections are missing information that could be
important in creating and expanding their joyful existence.
The usual human tendency is to have to hear or read things many times before acceptance sinks in. This very normal process occurs when an idea is first introduced. Repeated exposure then brings us to acceptance, and finally adoption of an idea. Then changes occur automatically as if by some magical process. It is a magical process in that science cannot yet explain how, as our attitude shifts, the cells respond as if they were conscious. If they act as if they are conscious, what does that tell us about their nature?
Note: See Advanced Full Wave Breathing at the end of the exercise instruction.
PC Holiday Greeting—from the Internet (Thanx, Arianna)
Dear friends,
I wanted to
send some sort of holiday greeting to my friends and colleagues, but it is so
difficult in today's world to know exactly what to say without offending
someone. So I met with my solicitors yesterday, and on their advice I wish to
say the following:
Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an
environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive,
gender neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced with the
most enjoyable traditions of religious persuasion or secular practices of your
choice with respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions of
others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all.
I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically
uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted Gregorian
calendar year 2008, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of
other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make our country great
and without regard to the race, creed, colour, age, physical ability, religious
faith or sexual preference of the wishee.
By accepting this greeting, you are accepting these terms: This greeting is
subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no
alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to
actually implement any of the wishes for her/himself or others and is void where
prohibited by law, and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This
wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good
tidings for a period of one year or until the issuance of a subsequent
Christmas/New Year greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to
replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the
wisher.
No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. Kind regards
and Warmest wishes for 2008.
Use Full Wave Breathing to effectively manage 85% of your biochemistry and boost your mindbodysoul system's natural healing ability. How important is this in your life? How great do you want to feel? What would happen if you tithed 10% of your time to your spiritual unfoldment? What kind of result do you imagine would occur? 2.4 hours per day x 6 days would give you the equivalent of a day and a half of normal “work” time devoted just to you. What kind of results would you expect? Those who practice Full Wave Breathing daily report incredible results. Start where you are and build progressively—like any other kind of exercise.
Detailed instruction, exercise and testimonials are in the new book now available exclusively to Just Breathe! Subscribers. Breathe and Grow Rich leads you to the missing link to manifestation. (Link)
If you don't take care of
your own health you become a participant in what is known as Healthcare,
Sickcare a system based upon the study of sick people and focusing on how
to "fix" them. It addresses symptoms rather than causes and treats disease as an
enemy to be eradicated. Imagine instead that you observed healthy people and
adopted their practices. What might then be the result and the state of your
health?
It is not that you ignore pain. Do get out of pain first. Then inquire inside. Pose your question, then Full Wave Breathe for 15 minutes and note your insights and answers. It usually doesn’t even take that long before you get an answer and achieve understanding of the cause of your pain.
Self-Responsible LoveCare™
How would you treat illness if it was not your enemy, and was instead only a
message concerning stressors in your mind and body? Most likely you would
cooperate with the body using principles based upon natural health. The first
place to begin is with the basic foundation of life, your breathing.
Our mind and body work well until overloaded with stressors accumulating in cells and tissues. Chronic stress then makes us become a shallow breather, wearing down the immune system. Blood becomes toxic, and lacking oxygen and energy, the body is unable to defend itself against either internal or environmental stressors. The result is discomfort, disease, disability and premature death. Fortunately, for the wise, there is an alternative!
Each of us can practice protective and preventative, remedial and restorative medicine by doing the things we already know to do to support autoimmune health: Update beliefs, eliminate toxins in food and water, manage toxic emotions, avoid toxic noise and breathe!
- The foundation of all holistic health practices is deeper, more effective breathing that benefits respiration, circulation, vitality, digestion, assimilation, and more.
- Breathing affects the entire system.
- Master breathing and we master the ability to stimulate healing resources. Direct the power of the mind using breathing.
Use Full Wave Breathing to simultaneously stimulate and relax the mindbody system Become aware of the body breathing, allowing thoughts to pass and enter a meditative state of calm alertness.
High Blood Pressure, Anxiety and Worry
Have high blood pressure? Worried or anxious about the future?
“Elevated blood pressure accompanies those bodily states where rapid, shallow breathing prevails. By altering breathing to a slow a diaphragmatic mode, blood pressure decreases. Elevated blood pressure is a major American health problem.” - Robert Fried, PhD, The Breath Connection
Use Full Wave Breathing to promote the unimpeded flow of consciousness through every cell in the body as healing takes place on all levels.
Our breathing affects:
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Physical vitality
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Emotional calmnes
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Mental focus
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Spiritual awareness
Practice Full Wave Breathing for 30 days, and see if life doesn’t absolutely transform!
Utilize Full Wave Breathing daily as an exercise leading to a healthy habit, avoiding many dis-ease states and enjoying life more fully. Enjoying life more fully enables us to make a greater contribution to the life in whatever way we desire for “soul satisfaction.”
Since we will be breathing for as long as we are alive. Doesn't it just make good sense to perform it in a way that supports rather than undermines health? Of course it does—so start today!
Build a new habit of breathing that enhances instead of diminishes the Life Force in the body.
- More energy
- Harmonized emotions
- Clearer thoughts
My desire and hope for you is for you to that you will suspend any tendency toward disbelief and actually test the information presented. When it works, and you be the soul judge, then make it part of an enlightened life. Thank you for subscribing to Just Breathe!
Just For Today!
Follow the instruction for the Full Wave Breathing exercise available free at
http://www.internationalbreathinstitute.com/splash.htm.
If you like the result today, repeat the exercise tomorrow. Embrace a more
expansive life through embracing your breath—do it just for Today…and then the
next today.
Most people on the planet are generally asleep to and unaware of their higher nature, driven principally by animal urges and unable to resist the impulses of survival nature. Impulse control is non-existent for most of humankind.
In the first place, impulse control requires maturation of brain functions that don’t occur until around age 28. Secondly, illiteracy rates are high overall and current education is severely limited. Third, most people don’t know more than they were taught by their culture.
Happiness and health correlate with consciousness. The sleepy cannot resist the hypnotic programming of the cultural mind through the media. As a result it becomes impossible for those under the spell to make healthful lifestyle choices and carry through on them.
Those who read are truly blessed for they have the greatest opportunity for growth in consciousness and to consciously assist the evolutionary process. Yet less than 2% of American read a book a year, according to latest studies. Those who read this ezine bless themselves through their own consciousness and, through the caring of their hearts, extend love to planetary life around them.
Once having awakened to, become cognizant of, the process of awakening, the usual next step is to heal the body. This step enables the soul to more freely express its creativity and joy.
In the process, one becomes aware of the requirement to tame the mind. Meditative practices and mental disciplines are found to be helpful. Practicing Full Wave Breathing is a mental discipline at the same time it is a meditative practice and powerful physical exercise.
Use Full Wave Breathing to ease transformation
Then become the source-connection of transformation for others. The lower body, housing the gut brain, is harmonized with the head/heart operating as one. The vibratory effect upon others is harmonious, uplifting and, in-turn, transformative. One-by-one, each part of the whole—represented by the individual-- sounds his note until music abounds.
The ABC's of Higher Consciousness
Attitude--expectant or repellant; positive or negative; open or closed to Life; and embracing as differentiated from resisting; healing or declining; We can get better or get bitter. Make it a nice day!
Breath--Let our exhale demonstrate the complete surrender to God/Universe of all cares and concerns; becoming non-resistant to the tensions of the body, relaxing the cells, molecules and atoms. Consciously directing our breathing throughout your day re-minds us of our spiritual nature, and is a boost to health and energy.
Choice—We either listen to the voice for Love or the voice for Fear, that of ego. One knows that all are innocent; the other blames and sees the guilty. The choice is ours:
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Tune into the Love channel
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Access essence
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Understand
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Awaken
Determination--Nothing happens without our dedicated effort. Even something as simple as breathing requires our participation. To achieve more in life, there must be more invested. Usually all that is required is the gift of time. Let’s give it to ourselves.
Energy--All is energy vibrating at different rates. Each lives, moves and has its being in this Energy. It is called Soul, Creator/Source, God, Universe, All That Is. IT is bigger than can be imagined.
Focus--What we focus upon grows. Focus upon
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The joy in life
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Daily expression of gratitude
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Moving forward to meet our dreams
Our deepest dream is of unity, enlightenment, experiencing oneness, realization, actualization, transcendent consciousness--and not of material things. This is why when we get them, achieve, and succeed, we hunger for more. The most helpful dream is to achieve enlightenment. It continues after awakening.
Freedom—In our soul we are free. The challenge is to bring that freedom fully into our life through management of our energy. Our beliefs create our emotions and inform our health. What is required is individual to each of us; yet the path is similar as we ask, what beliefs would be required—and adopt them.
Grace--There is a never-ending flow of grace awaiting our awareness so that: Life is more joyous, and the bumps on the path become less disruptive as we learn/remember/awaken into higher mind, beyond that of egoic consciousness. Full Wave Breathing can make the journey easier than ever before.
Heaven or Hell—We get to choose which state toll engage. If, as the master teachers say, “Heaven is within,” why don’t we going there more often to visit? What would happen if we devoted (consecrated) 100 breaths each day to do so? Who among us dares not find out?
Integrity—Being whole and complete is the essential nature of each individual--the potential seeking expression. What would happen if we each dedicated the next 100 Full Wave Breaths to feeling our wholeness, our integrity?
Joy—The vibration of Joy takes us out of personality and is the product of our connection with unity. Becoming a Joy finder in all that you we do, making it part of our daily and life mission, calls us forward into greater life. The path to Joy is the dedication of life--our life, all life--to the good of all.
Kindness-- Considered as one of the seven virtues, opposites of the seven deadly sins Kindness is being helpful to one in need for the advantage of the person helped. It is treating the other as self, expressing our deeper connection and responding from the heart. Kindness is caring in action.
Love—The substrate of being, the underlying nature of the unified field, the interconnectedness of all life and the unquestioning regard for all living expression.
Take 5 Full Wave Breaths through the nostrils to center. Next, consider, how would you like to feel at the end of the year 2008? Let yourself breathe that feeling into your heart. Allow the feeling to move throughout your body as you continue to breathe fully and deeply while inhaling and exhaling through your nostrils. Repeat for seven minutes; rest three minutes.
You probably can’t do it, and if you could, how do you think practicing this one exercise twice daily for ten minutes for a month might positively affect and benefit your life? Next breathe in that feeling.
More from research by Dr. Neil Douglas-Klotz, Christian, Jewish mystical and Sufi expert. The original version of this line in “The Lord’s Prayer” in Aramaic is:
Untie the knots of failure binding us, as we release the strand we hold of other’s faults.
The Western version became:
And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors
A banner year for politics, no one has ever seen it like this before!
Emotional stability is challenged beginning in March as opportunities for forgiveness of anger and enmity arise. Bad temper and distaste give way in the summer to hostility and envy. The year closes with expressions of bitterness, rancor and insolence.
Tip: Breathe with conscious intention to relax the heart, center the body, and avoid arguments.
Let’s each pledge to begin our day with an expression of gratitude. Inhale and mentally say, “Thank you.” Exhale and send gratitude from your heart while thinking, “blessings to all beings.” Repeat for 10 breaths. See how your day goes and let me know of your personal result.
Play the Cosmic Waltz as background music in the office and watch how co-workers harmonize. Give a copy to the dentist’s office and have your children listen to it daily as a family quiet time.
When we feed our mindbodysoul system what it needs to thrive, we each, as the human personality, feel and know it. Giving ourselves love in the support of our well being is a sometimes overlooked method of avoiding stress burnout and getting caught-up in too much doing and too little being.
Let’s love the self—as a trial—for a week and see if it doesn’t naturally improve the quality of life. Everyone around us appreciates it too.
If, in the moment and each succeeding moment we forgot our past, our limiting beliefs and programs, the “wrongs” committed, the “rights” undone and, unconcerned with the future, and, finally were present with only our connection to the Omnipresent Presence, how would we be to get along with? How would our attitude of abiding love affect others? What happens when ego mind is turned off and heart centered beingness responds to the events that unfold?
Every 2 million years or so there is a major cycle that repeats itself as stars and planets line up in specific arrangement. In (approximately) the year 2009 this great cycle of 2,000,000 years concludes along with a 50,000 year cycle, a 26,000 year cycle, a 2,000 year cycle, a 44 and a 35 year cycle. In 2009, they all coincide and this has given rise to fear and trembling, anticipation and expectation.
Our job is to stay centered as the date approaches, entertaining neither the doomsayers nor evangelical celebrants. Yes, our mindbody system is affected by these cosmic influences. The fears of Y@-K taught us to avoid projections and instead to
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Focus upon the love within all;
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Nurture the place of quiet the mind;
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Enhance our health
The next surge of energy, affecting your emotional energies, is scheduled for the first of March, 2008.
Two Commandment Path of Relationship
1. Love Me with all of your heart, mind and soul;
2. Love others as Self.
We are taught to see difference. Learning to see oneness, the problems in relationships begin to disappear. If all is God, what is not Self?
BREATHE!
We are either part of the solution or part of the problem. Yes, we are innocent, and either teach joy and love or yes, are part of the problems facing the world. Deciding to radiate an uplifting energy we become a contributor to the health and well being of planetary life.
Full Wave Breathing expands our aliveness—as we fill all of the cells in the body with Joy. Smiling as we take 5 Full Wave Breaths, we can imagine all of the organs, glands and cells smiling, singing and dancing inside. In less than a minute, we naturally feel better.
Linda Osga will lead two two-day training workshops teaching participants how to use Full Wave Breathing to assist themselves and others and how to open their own practice as Holistic Facilitators. The events will be held at the Life Breath Institute facilities in Warwick, Rhode Island on the weekends of April 12-13 and May 17-18. Contact Linda for information and registration. She can be reached at (401) 258-6537. Email her at losga@cox.net; website: www.thelifebreathinstitute.com
- Maybe your body has to build fat cells to deal with the toxins to which the body is exposed. When your liver is overloaded it builds fat cells to hold toxic body wastes that cannot yet be processed.
- Maybe your body is adapting to changes in the movement of the planet and responding to the sun’s altered activity.
- Maybe you are eating to compensate for changing electromagnetic conditions.
- Maybe you just need simple quiet, breathing and sitting.
- Maybe you aren’t getting enough nutrition from your food or are enzyme deficient so you eat more than you otherwise require.
- Maybe you are increasing your adipose tissue to become more sensitive and attuned to what is going on around you.
- Maybe you need more sleep.
- Maybe you think added weight helps you to stay grounded.
- Maybe you need more activity.
- Maybe you have a yeast condition that is ten or more years old.
- Maybe you are adding tissue to become more sensuous or more sensuously aware.
- Maybe you had an injury that is over ten years old and you are still adapting.
- Maybe you had an emotional trauma in childhood that you are still compensating for.
- Maybe you are eating too many carbs that depress you and you want to eat more.
- Maybe you are eating too many artificial sweeteners that cause you to overeat, crave carbs and stimulate weight gain.
- Maybe you are eating too many carbs and processed foods that create insulin resistance
- Maybe you can no longer “hold it in,” and have surrendered the tension of maintaining a specific posture or idealized version of your physical nature.
- Maybe you have transgenerational stress influencing your genes, empowered by your beliefs.
- Maybe your “lesson” is to love yourself unconditionally, accept “what is” and get over yourself.
- Maybe you need to read The Holistic Guide to Weight Loss book.
- Maybe you would benefit from a hypnosis course.
Why is any one person heavy? The reasons and possible combinations are virtually limitless. Most people, however, haven’t even thought about how to be heavy and healthy. Your body is naturally vital and performs self renewal activities. When under stress, the powerful renewable process of breathing fades into shallow breathing and breath holding. You can do yourself an amazing amount of good just by improving your breathing. Take 5 Full Wave Breaths now. Repeat every 20 minutes for maximum benefit. Continue forever. Add affirmations; live consciously.
Holistic Solution for the Heavy in Weight:
Get healthy first, bless/give thanks for what we eat, do not obsess, and love our fat for it is likely saving our life. If you have been even thinking about a physical exercise program, give the body a head start with energy and begin exercise with Full Wave Breathing.
Longevity
Generally we die of old age. If we survive
heart attacks and many of the emotion-based constrictions, mostly we make it now
to age around 85. Then the other systems give out and the body dies. Too much
pollution from everything oxidizes our insides and life ebbs away. Want to know
what we can do about it? Ultimately nothing.
We can, however, enjoy the rest of the ride more than we have thus far. Regardless of where we are now, we can start to feel better and heal more quickly by intelligent application of the tips the Just Breathe! ezine passes on every month. (From August 2006)
The Duh Factor—repeated from an earlier issue
The History
of Medicine
2000 B.C. Here, eat this root
1000 A.D. That root is heathen. Here, say this prayer.
1850 A.D. That prayer is superstitious. Here, drink this potion.
1940 A.D. That potion is snake oil. Here, swallow this pill.
1985 A.D. That pill is ineffective. Here, take this antibiotic.
2006 A.D. That antibiotic doesn’t work anymore. Here, eat this root.
What does personality learn during this time of soul emergence?
1. Surrender
2. Detachment
3. Accommodation
4. Acknowledgement
5. Acceptance
Surrender
- To be willing to follow where soul leads;
- That our desire to grow is greater than our fear of moving forward;
- That we are willing to listen more to our intuition and to heart than to let self be confused by the mind’s opinions, judgments, prejudices.
Detachment
- To release personality preferences
- That our joy is more important than being right
- That we can still be engaged
Detachment is the opposite of not caring. It is because we do care—about our well being and peace of mind—that we keep an open mind, remembering that things DO work out for our best interest in the long run. Similar to surrender, detachment means we are responsible and active—and do not worry about the past or future.
Accommodation
- To allow others their reality
- That adapt to change
- To engage with understanding
Steps to Being In the Flow
1. Belly Breathing
2. Crown Focus
3. Love Feeling
Meditate on this!
“I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.” -- Daniel Boone
“… the new biology is going to take us from a world today of crisis and ill health, and a failing environment and world, and take us to another level of masterful control, where we -- in our consciousness and our experiences of life -- will actually have power over our own lives and not be the victims that we were programmed to be.” –Bruce Lipton in The Biology of Belief
“Actually, it’s pretty simple. You have one real choice: To do your best with what you have, from where you are. Everything else is just stalling.”—Mike Dooley—Notes from the Universe—www.tut.com
“You are God manifest in your time and space in order to bring justice and compassion to bear on this moment. Knowing this, living this is meditation”—Rabbi Rami Shapiro (www.spiritualityhealth.com)
“To best serve the world, seek Enlightenment
and transcend illusions rather than contribute to them.”—David R. Hawkins
After years of learning about DNA, we now know that the 98.5% of what was once called junk DNA has a function previously overlooked. In other words all that has been done with the study of genes has focused on only 1.5% of the whole DNA structure. Imagine that!
For a New You Resolution—determine to feed the mindbodyspirit system instead of just eat. Providing the nourishment that our system requires and resisting the body’s addictive behaviors and appetites gives us the best possible support for all that we will undertake in 2008.
It is that time of year again—when, evidence to the contrary, we are encouraged to line up for a flu shot. The good news? Since there have been no prior outbreak and the predicted epidemics didn’t materialize, people have generally ignored warnings so there is plenty of vaccine on stock.
WHY
I AM NOT AN INTERNET MARKETING SUPERSTAR: Part VII
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Other imaginal products for your well being:
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The Wonderpill
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The Octagonal Live O Generation
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The Wonderful Breathing Beanie Set
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Joy Juice (Holy HOH)
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Negative Person Repellant
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Instant Karma Remover
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The TriColor Thymus Thumper
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Healer In A Box
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Miracle Horoscope Helper
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The Towel Trainer
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Religion Reliever
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The Angel Activator
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Happy Hair
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Beingness Beads
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The Well Wishing Wristlet
In the months ahead you’ll have the opportunity to learn about all of this mindbody tools for dynamic well being including the Well Wishing Wristlet for sending good thoughts. Call before ordering products so you can learn of any possible risks involved and reduce our potential liability. Warning: Feeling Great is Addictive. Coming next: The Wonderful Wishing Wristlet.
The Final Answer? It will probably involve breathing.
Please forward a copy of the Just Breathe! Ezine to those you care about.
Since all is energy and each individual is connected to the whole, then each person has the power to direct their energy. We can alter our biochemistry to a life supporting instead of debilitating state whenever ego mind begins to demand attention.
We can shift our biochemical state to a supportive one whenever you become aware of feeling constricted, closed or negative simply by breathing 5 Full Wave Breaths. Throughout our day, Let’s Take 5 and see if it doesn’t help.
We are each spirit experiencing the apparent evolution of human consciousness. Every day is a step along our spiritual path that leads to your Self. Change the last sentence to read: Every day is a step along our spiritual path that leads to the Self.
Are we practicing Full Wave Breathing because it is good for us--or because it is a way of being good to self? Which do you think produces the best result?
Full Wave Breathing is a natural, drug-free, and dramatically effective way to experience health, joy and aliveness that mobilizes and supports your progression toward balance and wholeness. It is a method which accelerates and complements modern healthcare and treatment practices. Use it to inspire yourself so you can inspire others!
The Single Most Important Exercise is Full Wave Breathing
There are 3 Steps, simple as A B C: Abdomen, Belly, and Chest. First, breathe into the lower abdomen and keep your focus there until you can comfortably fill and relax that area of the body. Use your muscles to expand your lower abdomen, beginning at the top or your pubic bone.
Second, after filling the abdomen (A) shift your focus to your entire belly (B) or midsection, stretching and distending your diaphragm and ribs as you inhale. Relax everything as you exhale. Use your muscles to push out the lower abdomen, then expand the area just above.
Third, filling A & B, shift your focus to your chest (C) and above. Having expanded the lower portions of the body, stretch up into the chest and back. Make all of your physical movements gentle and slow. All the movement to become very subtle and gentle as you alternately inhale and exhale without pause.
You may find it more comfortable to begin with distinct movements of your body. Allow the process to become like a dance of movement from bottom to top, top to bottom. Later, allow your body to remain completely relaxed as you visualize the movement of energy through you.
Repeat often for the most dramatic results. For more detailed instruction, read below:
Step One of Full Wave Breathing
Place one hand on the abdomen below the navel and the other on the chest. As you inhale, hold the chest still; allowing the abdomen to expand as if you is filling a balloon. Stretch and extend the lower belly. Relax completely into an inhale at the point where the abdomen is distended fully and the lungs are filled. After exhaling, inhale immediately. The chest does not move at all.
Continue breathing with no pause between inhales and exhale. All of the emphasis is upon your inhale. The exhale is a release of the tension created during your inhale. So you will Inhale and relax...inhale...and relax. Continue as you read this instruction to see how simple it is to perform. Breathe through your nose or mouth as you desire. You increase oxygenation by over 50% when you breathe through your mouth because of the normal restriction in nostril breathing.
Close your eyes as you are breathing and then relax for a few minutes when you are done. Allow your breathing to normalize before continuing with your activities. You may perform this exercise while sitting at the computer, riding in the car, or even watching television. Start practicing this exercise today and you'll be pleased with your result!
To help you stay focused on your breathing, place a book or weighted bag on your lower abdomen when lying down and performing the exercise. If you are sitting, to keep your spine erect, imagine that a rope is attached to the middle of your head. The rope rises into the air. In your imagination, allow the rope to gently lift you up until your spine is erect. Sit straight, be open, and breathe.
Step Two of Full Wave Breathing
Continue breathing with no pause between inhales and exhale. Inhale and Relax...Inhale...and Relax.
Count 1 as you inhale and expand your lower abdomen in Step One. Count 2 as you lengthen your inhale and push out the middle of your torso at the solar plexus. Release tension and allow the body to exhale and repeat. Perform this exercise anytime to relax. Do not perform connected breathing when driving or operating machinery.
When lying down, place a pillow under your knees, not under your neck. When sitting, allow yourself to stretch and open your spine as you sit and breathe.
Close your eyes as you breathe and then relax for a few minutes when you are done. Allow your breathing to normalize and return to your tasks.
Step Three of Full Wave Breathing
Continue breathing with no pause between inhales and exhale. Inhale and relax...Inhale...and relax.
Count 1 as you inhale and push out your lower abdomen. Count 2 as you raise the breath and energetic focus to your solar plexus. Count 3 as you move your breath and muscular focus up into your chest, stretching your intercostal muscles, shoulders and back of the neck. Relax completely when you exhale, allowing the muscles to soften. There is no effort or tension involved in your exhale.
Close your eyes as you breathe and then relax for a few minutes when you are done. Allow your breathing to normalize before continuing with your activities. Perform this exercise anytime you are sitting passively to provide a quick and effective energy boost and relaxation.
Keep your spine straight if sitting and allow to your body to move as you breathe and relax. Feel the wave of inhale as air enters your body and the wave of exhale as it leaves. Increase the volume of air and pace of breathing and feel how it affects your experience.
Since resolving stress at the cellular level is below our awareness, there are times when the breathing is accompanied by laughing or crying as old chemistry breaks up. Simply keep breathing! Allow your body any movement that arises and remember to relax fully when you exhale, softening all your muscles. Continue breathing at your own pace, deeply and fully.
Maintain your own pace and be willing to experiment. Your pace will normally change from day to day and during a session of Full Wave Breathing. Playing music as you breathe helps keep you focused in a gentle rhythm. The Cosmic Waltz, offered by Inspired Living, is the best I know of for this purpose. It focuses on the heart center and expands relaxation throughout the body.
Advanced Full Wave Breathing uses imagery and your kinesthetic sense to enhance your experience as you breathe.
Imagine that you are lying on a beach with the warm sun high overhead and slightly behind you. The tide is coming in and as you inhale, imagine the water following the path of your breathing from your feet to above your head. Each incoming wave brings with it new energy.
As you exhale, allow the water to return to the ocean carrying with it unneeded tension. Allow all of the muscles in your body to become soft as the imagined water leave your body along with the synchronous exhale of your breath. Each exhale returns your energy to the sea of life dissolving what no longer serves you.
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