The above would imply that action needs to be taken wouldn’t it? Sitting with your insights may be momentarily satisfying—now, do the next thing! What if the Universe were only awaiting your move?

More on research by Dr. Neil Douglas-Klotz, the Aramaic Christian, Jewish mystical and Sufi expert. The Western version is “ Hallowed be thy name.” The Aramaic would have been: “Focus your light within us; make it useful, as the rays of a beacon show us the way.”

Just Breathe! The ezine of The International Breath Institute (IBI) is sent to you from Dr. Tom Goode. IBI shows you how to awaken in the dream, feel more fully alive and attain optimal health through lifestyle management--learning to live in harmony and alignment with your holistic nature. As a whole (holistic, holy) being you are comprised of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects coordinated within one unitary expression. The four aspects of your mindbodysoul system are examined and described separately for clarification. You are already whole and complete!  What if there were nothing to fix, and only to realize (make real) your true nature?  Your first step would be to make real that feeling in your body by anchoring it with your Full Wave Breathing.           

Content
IBI's web site focuses on Full Wave Breathing because it is the single most important exercise for your life and whole health. Use it to become more fully alive--get well, be well and do well. Use it to realize (make real) your holistic nature. Do it for you.

Read It Over and Over
Some of the information in the ezine is repeated so it becomes ingrained in your consciousness. Each month it does change slightly, becoming more refined and defined. Look for the changes, the subtle shifts in emphasis and expansion of ideas in each new issue. It does change and 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 your attitude shifts, the cells respond as if they were conscious. If they act as if they are conscious, what does that tell you about their nature?

Note: See Advanced Full Wave Breathing at the end of the ezine.

Simple Messages As Well

If you get just the Full Wave Breathing part of the information and use it, you would be able to effectively manage 85% of your biochemistry and boost your mindbodysoul system's natural healing ability. How important would that be 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 just devoted to you. What kind of results would you expect? Those who practice for an hour a day report incredible results. You’ll be able to read about some of them in the upcoming book, Breathe and Grow Rich.

Healthcare
If you don't take care of your own health you become a participant in what is known as "Healthcare," 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.

Self-Responsible Self Care
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 you could most profitably begin is with the basic foundation of life, your breathing.

Your mind and body work pretty well until you become overloaded with stressors accumulating in your cells and tissues. The chronic stress then makes you become a shallow breather, wearing upon your immune system. Your blood becomes toxic, and lacking oxygen and energy, your 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!

You can practice protective and preventative medicine on your own--by doing the things you know to do to support your autoimmune health: Update your beliefs, eliminate toxins in your food and water, manage toxic emotions, avoid toxic noise and breathe!

Holistic Practices
The foundation of all holistic health practices is deeper, more effective breathing that benefits your respiration, circulation, vitality, digestion, assimilation, and more. Breathing affects your entire system. Master your breathing and you master the ability to stimulate your healing resources. Learn also how to direct the power of your mind using your breathing.

Sit and watch your breathing, allowing any thoughts to pass and you’ll enter a meditative state. Use Full Wave Breathing and you’ll simultaneously stimulate and relax your mindbodysystem. Afterward you will be able to more easily enter a meditative state of calm alertness.

High Blood Pressure, Anxiety and Worry

Have high blood pressure? 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. Practice Full Wave Breathing for 30 days, and you will see your life absolutely transform! It is up to you. So what keeps you from a life of greater, joy, contribution and service? What would it take for you to love yourself enough to “get on with it?

Simple Yet Vital
If you were to "get" the value of breathing and actually employ its daily use as an exercise leading to a healthy habit, you'd be well on your way to avoiding dis-ease and enjoying life more fully. Enjoying life more fully enables you to make a greater contribution to the life process itself.

There is Hope
You will be breathing for as long as you are alive. Doesn't it just make good sense for you to perform it in a way that supports rather than undermines your health? Of course it does! Start today!

You can build a new habit of breathing that enhances instead of diminishes the Life force in your body. How would having more energy and feeling more emotionally harmonious improve all that you do?

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 your improved life. Thank you for subscribing to Jus Breathe!

Audience
The Just Breathe! ezine's focus is on the mindbodysoul aspects of holistic health. It is a monthly newsletter for those who know themselves to be multidimensional beings with physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects. It is for those who practice their purpose by living lives of greater enlightenment and service through the pathways of Love, Joy and Peace.

Just For Today!
Follow the instruction at the end of the ezine. You may repeat the exercise tomorrow if you like your result today. Embrace a more expansive life by embracing your breath. Just for Today…and then the next today.

The Soul
If your interest is expanding your consciousness (increasing conscious awareness) as a spiritual being, then this ezine is for you. It is a community (common unity) connection for awakening and awakened beings, integrating the wonder of Life. Just Breathe! shares a perspective, an alternative (holistic) view of human existence intended to expand the mind's understanding...so the ego “watch dog” role can be relaxed, and respond to the impulses from the heart. The result, when the heart and the head function together, is operating from "higher" consciousness or being in the flow of life.

The higher your consciousness, the more whole your life--and the greater is your access to health and happiness. To increase your awareness even a little is significant. Researchers are invited to read Dr. David Hawkins books on the subject, offered on the IBI website.  

Having awakened to the process of awakening, the next step is to heal the body. This step enables the soul to more freely express its creativity and joy. Then you 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.

 To review let's look at:

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; you can get better or you can get bitter. Make it a nice day!

Breath--Let your exhale demonstrate the complete surrender to God/Universe of all cares and concerns; becoming non-resistant to the tensions of the body, relax the cells, molecules and atoms. Use your breathing throughout your day, both to re-mind yourself of your spiritual nature, as well as to boost your health and energy. It works!

Choice--Either you 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. Teach your brain to tune into the Love channel; access your essence. Choose to awaken, to understand and to change. Your world will thank you.

Determination--Nothing happens without your dedicated effort. Even something as simple as breathing requires your participation. To achieve more in life, there must be more invested. Usually all that is required is the gift of time. Determine today that, just for today, you will be the determining factor in your life. Repeat this exercise tomorrow.

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 you focus upon grows. Focus upon the joy in your life, express gratitude daily and move forward to meet your dreams. Your deepest dream is of unity, enlightenment, experiencing oneness, realization, actualization, transcendent consciousness. And not of material things. This is why when you get them, achieve, and succeed, you still hunger for more. The most magnificent dream is to achieve full enlightenment. It is a process that continues after awakening.

Freedom—In your soul you are free. The challenge is to bring that freedom fully into your life through management of your energy. Your beliefs create your emotions and determine your health. How free would you like to be? What beliefs would be required? Adopt them.

Grace--There is a never-ending flow of grace awaiting your awareness so that: Life is more joyous, and the bumps on the path become less disruptive as you learn/remember/awaken into higher mind, beyond that of egoic consciousness. Use your Full Wave Breathing to take you there faster and easier than ever before.

Heaven or Hell—You get to choose which state you will engage. If, as the master teachers say, “Heaven is within,” why aren’t you going there more often to visit? What would happen if you devoted (consecrated) 100 breaths each day to you? Would that take you inside; at least open the door? Who among you dares not find out?

Integrity—Being whole and complete is the essential nature of each soul. It is the potential within each individual seeking expression. What if you were to dedicate your next 100 Full Wave Breaths to feeling your wholeness, your integrity? How would that improve your attitude and, leading to the next step, your action in the world?

Joy—The vibration of Joy takes you out of your person-ality and is the product of your connection with unity. Become a Joy finder in all that you do; make it your daily and life mission. Do so and it will call you forward into greater life. The path to Joy is the dedication of life--our life, all life--to the good of all. 

Exercise for the Soul
This month’s exercise is energizing so don’t practice it before going to bed. It requires your standing with knees slightly bent or sitting in a straight chair with your spine straight. You may breathe through your mouth or nostrils for the exercise. Enter a place of positive attitude within and mentally imagine your connection to the Universe. Play a selection of upbeat music to breathe with.

1.     Expel the air remaining in your lungs by exhaling and drawing your abdomen toward your spine with muscular action.

2.     As you inhale, imagine extend your arms to the front, palms just touching. Spread your arms, leaning forward as your arms stretch behind you. You may bend slightly at the waist to stretch more completely.

 3.   As you exhale, allow all of the muscles to become soft.

4.    Immediately begin your inhale and return to the starting position.

5.    Focus on increasing the size of your energy field, the light within, with each inhale.

Commentary

       What? Why? I already breathe! This attitude of the misinformed part of us is what keeps otherwise logical and sensible people from discovering the health-giving, life-enhancing, transformative capabilities existing within their own bodies. The life-force within each of us is powerful, and the body’s ability to restore itself is legendary. Optimal functioning on every level of being is benefited from developing and exercising the capacity of consciously directing the flow of energy into the body through Full Wave Breathing. On the mechanical level, the more energy we can access, the greater our ability to perform. On an organic level, the need for learning to breathe in a new way becomes more critical because of environmental pollution and an increasingly complex and stressful world. Air pollution is increasing while the oxygen content of our atmosphere is decreasing. If you could choose to feel better, would you? If it were as simple as retraining an old habit, would you be willing to learn—or will you wait another day…and another until your days disappear?

New Training For Facilitators

Linda Osga will lead a 3 day facilitator training in the spring of 2008 in her studio in West Warwick, Rhode Island. Plan ahead now as you can easily fly into Providence and be within a few minutes from the training site. Visit her site—www.thelifebreathinsitute.com—AND look for the exact dates and more detail in future issues of the Just Breathe! ezine.

Quantum physics proves that the consciousness of the individual is a vital element in any energetic transaction. It is for this reason that we do not offer trainer or certification in Full Wave Breathing until one has been able to demonstrate a deeper mastery of their own consciousness before they are empowered to assist others. IBI trains facilitators from varied backgrounds. Many have experience in the healing arts. Transformational training utilizing Full Wave Breathing methods are best taught joyfully by those who demonstrate its use in everyday life.

Lifestyle Management

Imagine that you began your day with 5 or 10 Minutes of Full Wave Breathing. Full Wave Breathing is a vehicle for Spirit to express the love of a Mother for her children. This love is within. Once touched, it grows unceasingly. 

Full Wave Breathing is a vehicle to express the love of a Father for his children by showing them a peaceful way to master their lives. Once it is achieved, joy is everywhere.

Listen to The Cosmic Waltz and breathe as you awaken and stretch. Feed your mindbodysoul system what it needs and you, the human personality will feel and know the difference. Adopt this simple regimen for a week and see if it doesn’t naturally improve the quality of your life.

Easy Does It Taking Time for Thanksgiving Each Month.

On the Path of Relationship

From my view there are only two commandments:
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!

The Spiritual Dichotomy

You are either part of the solution or you are part of the problem. Yes, you are innocent, and you either teach joy and love or yes, you are part of the problem facing the world. Decide to radiate an uplifting energy and become a contributor to the health and well being of planetary life.

Use Full Wave Breathing to expand your vitality. Make your intention to fill all of the cells in your body with Joy. Continue until you can imagine all of the organs, glands and cells smiling, singing and dancing inside. Repeat the exercise throughout the day. It takes less than a minute to feel better.

New Book

101 Great Ways to Improve Your Health—includes 101 articles by top practitioners and provides you with an amazing expanse of knowledge, information and expertise from notable authors such as Drs. Joseph Mercola, Julian Whitaker, Susan Lark and Stephen Sinatra. Joining this listing of luminaries is my name as one of the 101 authors--with an article entitled, Looking Back Into The Future.  While my personal reading is not yet complete for this 400+ page book, I can already recommend it as presents alternative views to broaden your understanding of the care and feeding of your mindbodysoul system. Plus there are bonus gifts with a value far exceeding your cost. Order it today@ http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/?Clk=2104019.  

The Duh Factor

After a police car ran off the road and struck him, Daniel Horne was taken to the hospital while the police officer stayed with him for 3 hours as a cast was applied. He was cited and fined for criminal damage—denting the police car. So he hired a lawyer and now the police are charging him with another $160 as an investigative fee.

Q & A

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 you;
• That your desire to grow is greater than your fear of moving forward;
• That you are willing to listen more to your intuition and to your heart than to let your self be confused by the mind’s opinions, judgments, prejudices.

This is not to say that you disregard mind completely. For in order to stay in balance, common sense in the third dimension world is just as important to making things happen as is the flow of your intuitive perception. Step into the stream of cosmic (soul) consciousness, and be willing to direct the boat with ease through your life. To surrender means that you won’t turn the boat around, fight the current, and create more struggle, anxiety, and confusion for yourself.

Next Month--Detachment

Steps to Being In the Flow
1. Belly Breathing
2. Crown Focus
3. Love Feeling

Words of the Wise

Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat.

My shoulder is against yours.

You will not find me in the stupas, not in Indian shrine rooms, nor in synagogues, nor in cathedrals: not in masses, nor kirtans, not in legs winding around your own neck, nor in eating nothing but vegetables.

When you really look for me, you will see me instantly — you will find me in the tiniest house of time.

Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God?  He is the breath inside the breath.--Kabir

"If you like the post office, you are going to LOVE national health care."
--Anonymous

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply.  Willing is not enough; we must do."
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You got to look at things with the eye in your heart, not with the eye in your head.” --Lame Deer, Medicine Man of the Oglala people

In The News

Each month brings us a new drug, herb, workshop, seminar or other remedy for the ills of modern life. And they can be helpful. However:

Health is a matter of mind, body and spirit, so if you personally wanted to make the greatest progress, you would call me weekly for coaching—committing $150 each time—to keep you on track, help you find the answers within, and ease the integration process for you. For most, that level of commitment is all it takes.

Optional: You could pay more, all funds go to service projects anyway, and it wouldn’t make you more motivated. There is a money-back plan as well. You send me $1000 to begin; we talk each week for 4 weeks. Each week I then give you back $125 if you’ve done the work. These weekly calls last 30 minutes. Imagine getting paid for what benefits you!

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WHY I AM NOT A INTERNET MARKETING SUPERSTAR: Part V
 This month’s product is much needed in today’s stressful world

Reverse Negative Effects of Stress

The Latest in MindBody Imaginal Science and Technology

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This amazing device, a product of quantum research, allows you to connect with the HEALING POWER OF THE UNIVERSE at faster-than-light speeds to activate and consciously restore your inner healing connection.

Enjoy the pleasures of feeling younger, faster, stronger now! You too can reverse and resist; protect and defend against; prevent and escape from ergotropic tuning. Use Healer in a Box—The Stress Solver Plus to regulate and correct, re-attune and adjust, home-into and focus on feeling younger, stronger, faster.

Imagine, with your very own Healer in a Box –The Stress Solver Plus beside you, anytime you are feeling poorly, you call upon the Inner Healer and through the special chip inside the box your healing request is beamed to the Universal Healer who instantaneously responds to your request.  Feel Lonely and Lost no More!

Instead, place your Healer in a Box—The Stress Solver Plus on your nightstand or coffee table, on your desk and car seat. Carry it with your when you go to visit others. Feel yourself draw new life into your body. Breathe into your heart as the special chip inside radiates its healing energy into the unified field as you connect with powerful Universal Forces for your health and well-being. As you regenerate your nervous system through your breathing, you erase stress.

Special instructions are included on how to use Healer in a Box—The Stress Solver Plus to send the thought of energy to others. This makes you feel better although scientific testing has been unable to determine benefits to them unless they are open to such within their particular belief structure. So purchase one for your personal benefit now. It’s enough that you get healed in all ways possible first in any event. So don’t wait. It is the gift that never stops giving. Order now.

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Your order includes complete instruction along with your Healer in a Box—The Stress Solver Plus and discount coupons for our other fine imaginal products. Order now and receive your special free report, “There’s One Born Every Minute” that tells you the truth behind the story and inner workings of Healer in a Box--The Stress Solver Plus. In addition all orders received before the end of 2007 will receive a special offering on our new service: Rent A Saint Network—For those times when you lose sight of your imperishable connection to Universal Love. Now request that you be given our 900 number so you can call today when you now place your order.

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This product is not intended to replace care received from and reserved by law to licensed practitioners. The nature of this device makes it unsuitable to ship by mail due to mail fraud laws, so please include the delivery address with your telephone order.

Check out our entire line of great imaginal products for your well being:

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            The Octagonal Live O Generation

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            Instant Karma Remover

            The TriColor Thymus Thumper

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            Miracle Horoscope Helper

            The Towel Trainer

            Religion Reliever

            The Angel Activator

            Happy Hair

            Beingness Beads

In the months ahead you’ll have the opportunity to learn about all of this mindbody tools for your 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 Miracle Horoscope Helper

The Final Answer? It will probably involve breathing.

Please forward a copy of the Just Breathe! Ezine to those you care about.

All Is Energy

Since all is energy and each individual is connected to the whole, then each person has the power to direct their energy. Alter your own biochemistry to a life supporting instead of debilitating state whenever your ego mind begins to demand your attention and take you away from feeling centered and balanced:

Shift your biochemical state to a supportive one whenever you become aware of feeling constricted, closed or negative simply by breathing 5 Full Wave Breaths. Throughout your take, Take 5 and see if it doesn’t help.

Visit These Websites:
www.internationalbreathinstitute.com; www.inspiredparenting.net;  www.acpi.biz and www.drtomgoode.com, and check out the books, cds, exercises, personal counseling and back issues of this ezine.

Tools for Transformation--Technologies for the Soul
These are all products that I have used that I know will be of assistance to you on your path of personal power, prosperity and presence. Links are provided for your ease in learning about them and ordering.

Music
The Cosmic Waltz--Give your body and brain a break with this musical transformational tool. It's perfect to breathe with. Learn More...

Inner Harmony--Feel and free the inner flow of energy and ease with this home-study transformational program. Learn More...Results Guaranteed

Books
Fully Alive! - How to Live a Longer, Livelier Life, Have More Energy and Increased Enjoyment. Learn More...

The Holistic Guide to Weight Loss, Anti-aging and Fat Prevention - a no-fluff all you need to know manual to assist in your quest for health. Learn More...

Help Kids Cope - New stressors make our children's life more difficult that we can imagine. Learn how you can help them now. Learn More...

The Invitation to Divinity--Preview The First Chapter Now. 

This book is a metaphorical tale leading your to yourself and helping you to:

          Understand the happenings in your world today

          Expand harmony and balance throughout your life.

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The Final Word

Are you practicing Full Wave Breathing because it is good for you? Or are you practicing it because it is your way of being good to yourself? Which do you think produces the better result?

Keep breathing!
Tom

WHO AM I?

You are spirit experiencing the apparent evolution of human consciousness. Every day is a step along your spiritual path that leads to your Self.

EXERCISE CORNER:

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.