What If It Were As Simple As Remembering To

The Lord’s Prayer was the opening topic of last month’s issue as based upon research by Dr. Neil Douglas-Klotz, an expert in the Aramaic Christian, Jewish mystical and Sufi traditions. He translated the prayer as if came directly from the Aramaic. Remember the story about Jesus where, in the King James version of The Bible, he tells the person who was healed that it was his faith that made him whole? It turns out that, in Aramaic, it would have come out: Your connection to Sacred Unity has made you whole.

Just Breathe! 
The ezine of The International Breath Institute (IBI) is sent to you from Dr. Tom Goode. IBI shows you how to be fully alive and in 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?              

Content
IBI's web site focuses on Full Wave Breathing because it is the single most important exercise for your health. Use it to become 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 changes slightly, becoming more refined and defined. Look for the changes, shifts in emphasis and expansion of ideas in each new issue. It does change.

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 brings us to acceptance, and finally adoption of the idea. Then changes occur automatically as if by some magical process. It is a magical process in that science cannot 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?

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 growth? What kind of result do you imagine would occur?

Healthcare
If you don't take care of your own health you become a participant in what is known as "Healthcare," a system predicated 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, instead, observed healthy people and adopted their practices. What might then be the proactive result?

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 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, effective breathing, which affects 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 how to direct the power of your mind using your breathing.

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?

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 do you think that having more energy and feeling more emotionally harmonious would 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 that it 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.

The higher your consciousness, the more whole your life--and the greater is your access to health and happiness. To increase your consciousness just a little is significant because the increase is logarithmic and represents a transformational shift.

Having awakened to the process of awakening, the next step is to heal the body. This step enables the soul in expressing most freely its creativity and joy that 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 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?

Exercise for the Soul
This month’s exercise is so simple that everyone can do it. Enter a place of positive attitude within and mentally imagine your connection to the Universe.

1.      Visualize yourself surrounded by light too fine to see.

2.      As you inhale, imagine this light glowing and pulsing to a count of three and imagine it making radiating to your core.

3.     As you exhale, imagine the light pulsing to a count of two and imagine it radiating from your core.

4.   As you continue to breathe with connecting breaths I a 3:2 ratio imagine energy being taken in (inhale) and then distributed throughout your entire body as you exhale.

5.      Imagine that you are smiling as you inhale.

6.    Now, smile as you inhale.

7.    Imagine that you are smiling as you exhale.

8.    Now, smile as you exhale.

Continue for Seven Minutes or longer, focusing on increasing the size of your energy field with each inhale. (Please write to me and let me know of your result with this exercise.)

Commentary
Last month I wrote about the varieties of food presented as nutritious, or poisonous, delectable or deleterious and all places in between. In addition, within the JB ezine there have been examinations of exercise protocols and their necessity or negation. Where all of the conversation is leading is stated in the simple words also appearing in the Bible: As ye believe, so ye receive. Henry Ford is credited with stating it another way: Whether you believe you can or can’t, you are right.

You, as is each person, are a unique individual unlike any other. Your beliefs, if you are the slightest bit awake, are those that you have chosen and not those that you have inherited and unwittingly adopted, been handed to ingest and digest, or had forced down your throats in the name of faith, moralistic rectitude, or the fulfillment of someone else’s agenda. What belief, I ask you, serves you best? Since truth (in a world of illusion created by limitations of sensorial mechanism) is highly elusive at best, what works for you?

You can believe the world is a dangerous place or an unhealthy one. Either view will present itself as a self-fulfilling prophecy as your perceptions will shift to admit only those views that you find acceptable and consistent with your beliefs. What if beliefs were optional? What if your greatest responsibility was to adopt those beliefs that served you best—so you could best serve Life itself and your fellow beings—human and otherwise? What if it were up to you to select those beliefs that produced the best biochemisty? The first belief I would offer for your consideration and adoption is: I live in a safe world.

Others may not ; you do if you believe it to be so. The popularity of The Secret in both book and DVD forms, not to mention the overabundance of workshops offered to make its simple principle attain the status of a law is no more than this: What you believe is what you get.

The problem, according to those who promise remedial results from buying their product or attending their seminar, is that you don’t know what you know—that there is mysterious stuff buried in your subconscious that you, unaided, are unable to access, but that, with their help, there is a solution so you too can be eating rainbow stew from a silver cup and manifest all of the “stuff” your ego mind has enumerated for you on your goals list.

Please don’t misunderstand me; writing out a list of goals is a good thing. First you get to see what’s on you mind, or what you would like to have according either to your own real values or those you have adopted from your culture, including parents and teachers. Then, reviewing the list, you can see how “possessing” each of the objects, or achieving those goals makes you feel. It is, after all, the seeking of the feeling that creates the need.

By listing your goals and trying them on inside—breathe in their fulfillment or possession--you find out if they fit you. You also get to eliminate those items from your goal or wish list that no longer resonate with you.

I once thought I wanted to live by a lake on a tract of high ground with a pool and a couple acres of grass, a lawn tractor, storage shed for all my stuff, etc.---until 6 moths after living there, hiring someone else to mow the lawn with their mower, shutting down the pool because cleaning it daily from the debris that overwhelmed the filter system was a troublesome chore and wearying of the noise and odor from the traffic on the road to the lakeside, I selected something else more suited to my nature. 

So take time to refine your list of goals. Do be more discriminating and circumspect as you may get what you have asked for.

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 you are part of the problem. Decide to radiate an uplifting energy and become a contributor to the health and well being of planetary life.

Use Full Wave Breathing and 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.

The Duh Factor
The Life Extension Foundation (www.lef.org) report that “heart disease, type II diabetes, high blood pressure and other diseases respond to simple lifestyle changes,”  and now “Alzheimer’s could be added to that list.” Imagine that, what you do matters to your health!

Then in a later announcement, billed as an exclusive, they announced that nutritional supplement users were better nourished.

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

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Words of the Wise
Whatever befalls you, forget not that a few well-drawn breaths in a perfectly relaxed condition will point out to you by a mind thus pacified the best plan or path for you to pursue. --Health and Breath Culture

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary. -- Ray Knight

The two fastest ways to move to the next level of consciousness are: Meditation and Breathwork.--Ken Wilber

Join Us!

Sanctuary—The Seven Doors and It’s All About You  are the titles of the two one-day workshops on October 27 & 28 in Warwick, RI. This is an  All Saints Day Celebration, not a Halloween party.

Celebrate the use of Full Wave Breathing to reach deep inside, find your joy, change your mind, harmonize your emotions and enhance your health. Call Linda Osga now to register: (401) 258-6537.

Where ever you are, whatever you are planning for that weekend, change it. Instead, join us for what I guarantee to be the most expansive experience you have ever created for yourself.

Sanctuary—The Seven Doors, October 27, 2007

It's All About You!, October 28, 2007

Questions and Answers
Q: How is Full Wave Breathing like Pranayama?

A: They both use a directed breath; i.e., controlling breathing with a specific goal in mind. Otherwise, there is not much in similarity. Of historical note, around 1904 Yogi Ramacharaka introduced the “Complete Breath” to the Western world. While it does include the areas of breathing engaged with the practice of Full Wave Breathing it also involves the holding of your breath and counsels the tightening of the abdomen upon inhale. This, as you can imagine and experience, creates an entirely different result than the relaxed exhale of the Full Wave Breath.

Further research would lead you to discover that most of the yogic breathing with which the Western world is familiar came out of two books: The Hindu Yogi Science of Breath: A Complete Manual of the Oriental Breathing Philosophy of Physical, Mental, Psychic, And Spiritual Development , Science of Breath and Hindu Yogi Breathing Exercises.

Isn’t it amazing also to discover that Yogi Ramacharacka was the pen name of a Chicago attorney, William Walker Atkinson, (1862—1932) and that he authored a dozen or more books on yoga? So where does your yoga come from?

A significant figure in the New Thought movement, Atkinson wrote about Hinduism, mind power, self-healing, and occultism, authoring, in addition to the Ramacharaka titles, 7 books in his own name plus publishing a monthly journal. A significant figure in the growth of interest in yoga in the US, he is also thought to have anonymously authored other works including the 3-Volume Kybalion, a study of the Hermetic philosophy.

Q: What do you think about the latest stock market predictions?

A: I don’t

There are prophets around and about,
Enuff to make you curse and shout,
Regarding the impending doom,
To make you stay locked in your room,

Life's a pickle--or is it a stew?
Or perhaps just a point of view,
Behold, look, and what do you see,
Trouble, chaos or loving divinity?

I'll give you a choice now to select,
Will you include or find disconnect,
Noise is out there and harmony too,
Which will you select to bring on through?

Developing the Unsell.
When I first started speaking and giving seminars my topic was generally related to empowerment and action, the idea that each person has within themselves what they need to succeed in life. If you think about it deeply, you will conclude as I did, that any other position to take is arrogant—a position that says the Creator didn’t know what HE/SHE was doing as if each of us was a castoff and without our divine nature as a given.

So I was the anti-guru: You are it; you have it within yourself. I found it there; so can you. Move forward in time now 25 years. There are more gurus than ever to tell you how to do it; while I’m still telling you that no-one knows better than you. Interesting isn’t it that when I allowed myself to be “the one” who provided answers for you I had people lined up at the doors and booked for private sessions. When I teach that you are The One, people still ask me, OK, what should I do?

My response is now and was then, Just Breathe! and do the next thing that comes to you. Each person is “plugged in.” If you weren’t you would be in that state called “dead.” Since you are able to read, you are, presumably, still alive. If you are still alive, you are plugged in.

You may not, however, be “turned on” or “tuned in.” That’s where your Full Wave Breathing is so handy. A few full, slow and deep continuous breaths recenters the mindbodyspirit system and quiets the often incessant chattering of the human mind/brain. Then you can hear yourself think, or not think as the case may be. You can allow answers to arise from within. Where do they come from? Maybe that is what is referred to as “the mystery” in traditional religions. Let it be enough that they come from within.

When you get an answer, then try it on “for size.” Feel your way into a potential decision with your breathing. Does the decision feel expansive or constrictive? Do you relax when you contemplate taking the action you have selected, or do you feel tension coming over your body?

The only downside to the whole business of making your own decisions, getting and relying upon answers from within, is there is no one to blame if you make an error. Perhaps this fear of being wrong, or being criticized—even from oneself—keeps people frozen in their discomfort unable to proceed in life. Yet having no one to blame is the positive side of taking responsibility. You can thus go among your fellow beings without emanating ugly had-it-done-to me energy. You can, of course, share the credit for your success with whomever you like. Inside you will know that you made the decision, you took the step and you are responsible for the success ultimately follows when you follow your inner guidance in the flow of life.

Got a problem? Go breathe! Feeling not so hot? Go breathe? Need someone to talk to? Take 100 breaths and call me in the morning.

So, if you do call me, I won’t give you answers. I will, however, help you to find the right answer—for yourself—that is already within you.

On that note, if you attend any workshops or seminars, expect to come away with greater self knowledge, wisdom and understanding. What I’m about is your empowerment and illumination.

Speaking of workshops, the ones in Rhode Island in late October will be the best ones yet. Where ever you are on the planet, it would be worth your investment of time and money to attend—assuming you are desirous of even greater degrees of joy, health and aliveness.

WHY I AM NOT A INTERNET MARKETING SUPERSTAR: Part 4
This month’s product scheduled for introduction was the Amazing Azure Ankle Amulet with GPS tracker for your children, dog or spouse. However, in the interest of resolving the urgent crisis so widely reported in the news, it has been decided instead to let you in on the secret known only to a select few, dating back to Biblical Times:

INTRODUCING THE LATEST ADVANCE IN MIND BODY SCIENCE!

The Ab Exorcisor

Overweight?

It’s not your fault! New Studies indicate that you may have a deman (or dewoman) inside that makes you eat. Get rid of that pest now! What you need is to Exorcise! Regular exorcise will give you a totally new look in no time. You owe it to yourself to become educated and take action.

Introducing the Ab Exorcisor. Casting out that deman or dewoman is as easy as breathing with the new Ab Exorcisor. Press down on the ends of this fantastic new device while tightening the abdominal muscles by pulling your lower abdomen toward the spine as you exhale. Hold the tension while repeating the phrase:”Glutton Begone” seven times. Inhale and repeat seven times. Perform seven times each day and call upon the mystical power of the seven candles, seven churches, seven caverns, seven centers, seven hills, seven priests, seven sisters, seven brothers, seven jewels and seven-eleven.

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Lifetime limited warranty included with your order. No moving parts to break; no batteries or wires to worry about. The Glutton Begone Ab Exorcisor works for you even when you are in the shower, bath and sauna. Do not use while driving or drinking. Choice of spray-paint black or natural dowel rod. Telephone orders only. Not suitable for children under the age of 7.

Don’t Wait. Exorcise Now!

Career Opportunity
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The Final Answer? It will probably involve breathing.

The Book THEY Don’t Want You to Read

• End your dependence upon practices that deplete instead of build your health;

• Eliminate disease states and health robbing  mindsets naturally
• Vanquish habits that steal your vitality and keep you weak minded and sick bodied.

The Holistic Guide to Weight Loss, Anti-Aging and Fat Prevention

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.

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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...

Use These CD Programs to Wake Up
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Sanctuary—The Seven Doors, October 27, 2007

It’s All About You!, October 28, 2007

HEALTHY PSYCHOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES by Lloyd J. Thomas, Ph.D.

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