Issue 43, August 1, 2008
Your Monthly Magazine for Increasing Conscious Awareness
Breathe and Grow Rich --in soft cover and e-book format!
Upcoming Seminars:
- RAPT--Rapid Acceleration Personal Transformation Learn more.
- The Wholeness Procedure: October 25 & 26, 2008 Learn more.
LEADERSHIP'S JOB DESCRIPTION by Lloyd J. Thomas, Ph.D.
THE BODY NEVER LIES by Lloyd J. Thomas, Ph.D.
Why engage Tom Goode as a consciousness coach?
Passion and Purpose—I perform this work because I love it. I have dedicated my life to helping people transform their lives, rising above their perceived limitations and living a life of love, purpose and joy. Review my credentials, read my biography; call and talk with me. There is no charge for the first ½ hour and…
I’ll assist you in engaging in disciplined self-reflections, finding the answers within and in better understanding your place in the cosmos.
Keep breathing!
Tom
Just Breathe! is your monthly consciousness raising and expanding home-study course. Read the entire ezine--best for your enhanced awareness--or select articles that call to you. Just Breathe’s Purpose is:
- Re-minding ourselves of the omnipresent connection with the Infinite;
- 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;
- Sharing uplifting ideas;
- Keeping our thoughts heading in the direction of our choosing, our emotions open and flowing, and physically feeling fully alive.
BY my calculation there are approximately 25 million adult Americans who have reached the stage that I call awake. What I mean by this is people who know they are more than their ego personality identities; that they are spiritual beings on a human adventure.
It is to this group of people that I offer services and suggestions, products and promotions, workshops and seminars to enable, facilitate and support their most joyful experience while in a human body. It is also to this group that the Just Breathe! ezine—monthly magazine—is addressed.
Please forward Just Breathe! to a friend and check out our new Web site landing page @ www.internationalbreathinstitute.com
Letter from the Editor (Writer, Proof Reader and Researcher)
This Month’s Issue
This month’s ezine continues with its regular features, the two stories and the Your Healthy Heart book. My activity during since the last issue has focused principally upon the RAPT seminar scheduled for August in Rhode Island and September in Arizona. There is a great deal of new information that I invite you to read either for yourself or so you can pass the info on to someone you know. Also, take a look at our new updated website: www.internationalbreathinstitute.com
Last month your read Dr. Rusty Barrier’s (www.rustybarrier.com) article on breathing and now he has alerted me to a new project promoting a billion of us on the planet join together for a moment of group breath on November 11, 2010. The date is far enough away for your to tell others about it and schedule your own calendar so you can include the date. The website is www.doasone.com
Breath is the
bridge which connects life to consciousness,
which unites your body to your thoughts.
Thich Nhat Hahn
Special Announcement
After working with the PR Poobahs as I term them, those who know how to ask the right questions to stir action (get people to order stuff) I posted the RAPT flyer. It asks the right questions leading to: Would you like to learn to totally love and accept yourself and experience the most bliss and ecstasy ever?
I invite you to now read some of the answers about—like what will we be doing and why would you want to be there? Take a look. Learn more.
The Best of Health To You
The commercial said “the best of us experience bladder leakage.” Does this mean I am less because I don’t leak?
Then there’s the commercial where the make-believe doctor recites a long list of possible problems and tells the make-believe patient that the drug as one of its side effects could cause confusion and it that occurs, to call him. How confused would he need to be before he forgets the instructions? What then?
Increasing the oxygenation of the mindbody system supports immune function. Any serious student and practitioner of health for self and other the importance of healthy breathing yet there has been little information on the practical application of breathing for health
We have known since 1985 that stress underlies 75-90% of disease states. Yet the toll continues to rise even in the face of stress reducing programs that the public finds too tiresome, cumbersome or inaccessible. So the killer continues to prowl our lives in a jungle of noise and environmental pollution and rapidly shifting work and family lives.
Financial pressures are up and medical costs rising at double the rate of inflation. More dollars are spend and disease numbers grow. The war on cancer and attempts to medicate and inoculate have not stemmed the growth of stress related disease. The future holds rising medical outlay with diminishing results.
The simple answer, however, may have been hidden under our noses. There is no better stress resolution technique than exercising your breathing. A centuries-old remedy and disease preventative, your conscious breathing only offers you a way out of the current medical mismanagement dilemma.
What if you could restore your body’s natural self-healing tendencies? Would being free from pills, potions, prescriptions that produce toxic results appeal to you?.
You may not be an entertainer, athlete or other celebrity. You may not have ambition to seek limitless fortune or fame in the world. Yet you live a life of love—as best you can, caring for family and friends, neighbors and colleagues. Like all of us when you feel better, you are friendly and supportive of others. How to help the world is then simple: feel better. Anyone can feel better by exercising their breathing daily.
Studies have shown that the primary cause of immune deficiency in the elderly is purely dietary. Anxiety and depression are frequent results. Lack of education is the main cause. Learn how your body works best when you feed it according to its nature. No one diet works for everyone.
First learn what works for your type of mind-body system. Feed it the most natural food you can find, hydrate with the best water available and walk your body regularly. There’s a great book on the subject if you want more information along with practical how-to’s. Holistic Guide.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FOR ADVANCED SOULS—everyone else, just keep reading since you aren’t currently interested in transformational workshops and seminars even though it might save your thousands dollars, years or searching and end your suffering. OK to look if you are slightly interested. Learn more.
What If It Was As Simple As Remembering To
Just Breathe!
...and to doing the next thing?
What if the Universe was only awaiting your move into states of mind-body-spirit harmony to produce greater joy and aliveness?
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Quantum physics undeniably demonstrates that we can truly choose our level of consciousness, and that we can choose either a positive or a negative collection of beliefs. It is a sad observation to see that most of us have chosen negative beliefs and continue to believe that we are victims of circumstance.”
Currently, approximately 85 percent of the world’s population has consciousness levels that mainly consist of shame, guilt, apathy, grief, fear, desire, anger and pride. At these levels, the connected and maladaptive emotions are humiliation, blame, despair, regret, anxiety, craving, hate and scorn. --David Parrish, M.D., Nothing I See Means Anything, Quantum Questions, Quantum Answers, 2006
The next time someone complains that despite all their best efforts, they haven’t been able to make the highly publicized Law of Attraction work, tell them to count their lucky stars. The naive misuse of powerful cosmic tools to acquire fame, fortune, and other creature comforts can easily have ruinous consequences. In the mystery schools of old, a great deal was demanded of initiates before such potent teachings were revealed. –Keith Varnum (www.thedream.com)
See for yourself, as you improve your breathing, peace grows.--Tom
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands. --Seneca
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies.--Aristotle
Stress in one's life can result in these costs according to Money magazine:
* Drugs.
* Medical bills
* Insurance premiums
* Dental costs
* Missed opportunities
The good news, they report: "Reducing stress can be as simple and inexpensive as stretching out on the sofa and breathing deeply for 10 minutes."
The August magazine from Life Extension (www.lef.org) announces a potential treatment for Alzheimer sufferers, a solution to Cellulite, info on the anti-aging benefits of melatonin and a natural, drugless approach to healthy cholesterol levels.
Truvia, is a new Stevia based sweetener now available on-line and in some New York state supermarkets. (www.Truvia.com)
Healthcare approaches by the Presidential candidates vary widely. McCain wants more of an insurance approach with tax credits. Obama favors a system covering everyone without cost to them. Either way, since no one desires illness, allow the attention directed toward to the issue to be reminder to be do the things you know to do enhance your wellness.
The journal Geophysical Researcher Letters published a study concluding that pollution is preventing global warming in Europe by reflecting the sun’s energy. Efforts to reduce pollution may be increasing global warming despite earlier theories to the contrary. Source: (www.escience.com)
Many people understand the idea that their thoughts are creative. What is difficult is to keep the mind focused on the goal and not on it’s not being currently realized. It requires tremendous mental discipline to focus upon receiving and being grateful for having received/achieved the goal. Fortunately, there is a set of training wheels you can use to train your brain to be aware in the present and not get caught up in regret, worry, and other low-energy, life draining states.
The training wheels are your inhale and exhale. That’s right; you can use your breathing to keep you on track. First you open up the body, restoring circulation and oxygenating cells, tissues and organs. Then you use your breathing to engage your feeling body so you can empower your emotions in behalf of goals.
Now you are ready to train the mind and can more effectively use affirmation and imagery by combining them with your breathing. It sounds simple, and it is.
It is also easy. Follow the steps, gaining energy and confidence as you go, and you’ll reach your destination. It’s an easy 30 days to a new you.
Breathe and Grow Rich Reminder: Order Breathe and Grow Rich now and enrich your life step by step in a 30 day program.
How is breathing connected with getting rich? Can you accomplish anything without energy? Of course not. Do those who are healthier and happier accomplish more that the unhealthy and unhappy? Of course they do.
Is stress still the major cause of disease? Yes it is—as much as 90%. So would being able to expand your ability to handle stress be useful? Of course it would!
If you could increase your energy level by 10% what would it be worth? The value monetarily is incalculable. To the world around you it could make all the difference.
The dwindling global energy in the form of fossil fuel and economic contraction is a symbol of what is going on internally. You can reverse the process personally. The remedy? You read about it every month. What exactly to do about it is revealed in depth in Breathe and Grow Rich.
In this column I write to the enlightened space within every person and all of my brothers and sisters who share this Earth. My long life has led me to conclude that the place of light, the gift of grace given each, can be cultivated , nurtured into a life of compassionate regard for every form of life. Speaking each month to that space within each reader is intended to “exercise” the knowing self, connect with the awakened self, the Self of all.
My vision would be that by observing and engaging other humans from this space affords the best opportunity for harmonious living. Doing so quiets the mind and permits communication from the heart and mind working together.
Heart communicates inclusion and understanding. Fear is overcome. Continue with you Full Wave Breathing to energetically resolve (recalibrate, reformat) cellular stored trauma and fear. In other words, get straight with yourself first. Then, consciously connect with the hearts of others, so you can “see” the space of enlightenment within.
Let's assume this is one of the lifetimes where your destiny is to have financial independence. If that were so, what steps do you need to take now to have an easier time? Rather than plotting ahead, imagine you were looking back from that place of financial independence. What would you have taken care of? Don't wait. Take care of those things now.
Recently I have spoken with many who have simplified their lives by cleaning out their clutter. A once a year practice of doing so pays rich dividends and increases our energy for spiritual pursuits.
What would those spiritual pursuits be? The obvious answer is to take time to breathe and meditate. Yet this answer is incomplete because you engage in a spiritual pursuit whenever you bring your open-heartedness to what you are doing.
Give your self more time for balance-restoring, spiritual activities and you will be more able to handle the growth of stressors in your world. Eliminate and avoid those you can, and devote time to being still to recharge your energies from excessive stress.
As your Full Wave Breathing practice continues so will the challenges to your expansion arise energetically to reflect in your world. Keep breathing anyway. When as children we shut down or contracted on an issue that arose in our experience, we installed a judgment to keep the constriction in place.
Now, when breathing, that judgment arises in the natural course of cleansing for our review. If we concluded at age 3, that “cats are terrible,” we may have just the passing thought or a more pleasant new encounter presented by the Universe to see if we wish to retain that judgment/opinion and the ensuing contraction of energy.
Instead of cats, the issue could have been one of our innumerable “men are” or “women are” programs buried inside our biocomputer waiting to either be up-dated or re-validated.
As your breathing continues, you will want to go to sleep again and forget it all. Keep breathing anyway. Ah it feel so good to be sedated, unaware, drifting and ig-norant. If ignorance IS bliss, then the folly of being wise is a powerful seduction to resist sentient inquiry or action. Such witticisms are concocted by the ig-norant for they enjoy most their own company.
As your breathing continues, your mind will want to convince you to stop and do something "important." Keep breathing anyway. In a world of crisis, the next crisis calls. Forget about self-caretaking, isn’t the sky about to fall? We learn to live like “Chicken Little” running around and getting caught up in the latest concern and prediction of the sky falling down upon us. It is then only “normal” that we avoid activities of self-renewal. It is also thus normal for people to experience stress-related diseases that eventually overwhelm any healthcare system and any body.
As your breathing continues, you will find yourself more detached from the goings-on in the world. Keep breathing anyway. Tuning out can be as simple as turning off the television and not getting caught up in the drama of a pubescent adult discovering her life, or who the ten hottest move stars are for this year. Taking that time to go within—breathing and meditation—creates a space away from it. Think of your mind as an airport and thoughts as planes. Don’t let thoughts that don’t directly and positively impact your wellbeing land. You are the sovereign of your mind; choose carefully who may cross your borders.
As your breathing continues, you will find your compassion and joy growing. Keep breathing! To me, it is an interesting commentary that positive results promised produce less individual action than avoidance of negative consequence. Perhaps I should have worded this, as your breathing continues, and help prevent death from cancer and surgery. Anyway, keep breathing!—And utilize the IBI Library as a resource and a location of articles on whole-person health and parenting. www.internationalbreathinstitute.com
The teachers of Feng Shui point out that our most precious gift from the cosmos is energy. Energy, at once present everywhere is the spark of all life and the Source within us. IT is the source from which we draw our spiritual strength to actualize our goals of joy, health and aliveness.
The teachings say that when your aura is robust, your home vibrates with your personal energy. When you aura vibrates with happiness and confidence, your home gives out the same energy becoming a source of good luck and good fortune. Good energy people are said to be incredibly potent in manifesting feelings of love, fulfilling needs and realizing their goals.
How can we tap, enhance, strengthen our aura, our personal charisma? Easy! Energize yourself with frequent Full Wave Breathing breaks throughout the day and at least one longer session. Celebrate and regenerate yourself!
Your Healthy Heart (Part 3, continued from last month)
We recently learned of the death of Meet the Press moderator Tim Russert from a Heart Attack. Following the advice of his doctors, taking his medications and walking on his treadmill did not prevent the event or save his life. It is not an unusual story and had it happened to someone less well known, neither you nor I would have even heard about it. Yet it happens every day. Continue Reading
When its time for the cats to come in and I either carry them or escort them, there’s a communication going on. Usually it is, “I’m not ready,” or “I’ll do it myself.” Pick Max up and he relaxes into a “whatever’ mode and all 11.5 pounds of him goes limp. Indy is less relaxed about the procedure and squirms to walk into the house on his own power. And, from time to time, I’ll think the thought that we are done with the outdoors and the cats will head toward the door and without prompting enter entirely on their own. They are teaching me. Continue Reading
A Letter from the Future—Part 2
In the worst cases, cats were taken from and testified against their former keepers as they were called. The term “owner” had been outlawed at the start. The cats preferred the term, “sharer,” though keeper was the most favored human description. Cat therapy was administered by the state and included two weeks rehab before reassignment to another family. Since being a cat sharer was mandated, every one of those displaced by the unconsciousness of the keeper found a home. Continue Reading
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 and this, in turn, boosts you.
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 the 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 to produce a life of freedom, grace and ease —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. Think of grace as effortless growth through your connection with joy.
Heaven or Hell—We get to choose which state to 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 person-ality 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.
Multiplicity—The nature of the One is manifest in multiplicity. Imagine each choice giving rise to an alternate universe—All That Is encompassing every possibility. The mind cannot hold it all or decide amongst the choices. The inner battle is won when the mind defers to the heart’s wisdom.
Natural—It is natural for the body to heal itself when the impediments and blocks to healing are removed. You are already whole and complete as a being. You are naturally your best self. Nothing more is required than to be natural. To become natural usually requires removing the unnatural—the ego thoughts and programs of lack and limitation.
Opportunity—Each moment brings us the choice to serve the ego or the true self. You can usually tell which choice you made by the way you feel. Are you calm and filled with peace? If not, as the Course in Miracles says, choose again. Take a few Full Wave Breaths, affirm that you serve the true self and continue with what you were doing. Doing so is a reminder that you are already whole and complete and, if you were serving the ego, had simply gone temporarily insane. It is no big thing, for with even one conscious breath to power your intention to be your best self, you are back on track and leaving the thoughts of worry and regret or anxiety and tension. Enjoy yourself! (Pump joy INTO your self)
Purpose—What if your purpose in life as a divine being was Joy—its embracement and expression? What if you had been born with a virtually unlimited capacity for joy and your culture had taught you to suppress it? Then all you would have to do to regain or recapture it would be to acknowledge and express it. What if joy were already inside of you, at the core of each cell? Then all you’d need to do to fulfill your purpose would be to relax and allow the joy within to guide your outer activities. How to do this is simple: Just Breathe!...and then do the next thing.
Query—The path is strewn with debris—old ideas handed down without experience. Dogma and unproven belief are potholes and cracks in the pavement to be avoided on our path. Over time they can become sinkholes, swallowing up the spiritual student and denying the light. Find out for yourself. Put teaching and techniques to the test in the laboratory of your own life. Otherwise you cannot know and eventually must be betrayed by the immortalized words of the unknowing who, believing, blundered blindly ahead. Have your beliefs been given you to control, enroll or enslave? Challenge them.
Regeneration—literally a new birth is given for the asking with each breath. More than the replacement of tissue or the growing of a lost limb, regenerations is a change of heart spoken of in the Bible as a passing from death to life. It occurs naturally when individual life is dedicated to spiritual instead of ego purpose. Spiritual purpose is love and dedication to It’s experience and practice bestows a renewal of the mind or quickening. Breathe the idea of regeneration fully into you body and see how it feels to you. Let your experience in “putting on” this idea be your guide as to its value in your life. Repeat often.
Spirit—is all That Is. Manifesting as Life, Spirit informs us. Contacting and living from the inner spirit was once the responsibility of every member of every tribe and contributed to the whole. It was also the only way to stay alive. Later the connection to and study of spirit was accorded to those who led cloistered lives, the sainted figures in history and those who received initiation. Now it is open to all who choose to follow such a pursuit, bestowing peace, love and joy for its practitioners. Breathe with the idea of remembering your connection with Spirit and test its benefit in the laboratory of your own life.
What do you let into your consciousness? What is your Daily Intake of Everything (DIET)? Does your life energize or drain you? Where does it drain you?
What negative or limited belief do you hold to create such a condition that allows you to become drained from it? What would be the opposite, expansive or positive belief that, if you substituted it, would stop the debilitating effect?
Make that belief into an affirmation and before reading further, take ten Full Wave Breaths as you repeat the phrase in your mind. Allow your belly to swell outward and your chest to expand sideways in acceptance of the new belief. Anchor the new feeling into your body. Repeat until you get over your self and into your Self.
Just Breathe! is from Dr. Tom Goode, sharing ways to stay awake in the dream and keeping:
- Your thoughts heading in the direction you choose
- Your emotions open and flowing—
- And physically feeling fully alive.
Just Breathe! provides ideas, tips and suggestions for attaining optimal health and wellness through lifestyle management--learning to live in harmony and alignment with our holistic nature…and a sometimes humorous look at life on Planet Earth. Just Breathe! is both a magazine of higher consciousness and a home-study course.
JB! 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 one’s spiritual nature. Just Breathe! is for people consciously embracing their spiritual path.
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 or gift to others 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.
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.
This ezine is for those whose 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 function 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 because growth is logarithmic rather than linear.
Having awakened to, become cognizant of, the process of awakening, the usual next step is to heal the physical level. Otherwise energy that could be utilized at another level of being 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.
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 more alive.
Think About It:
Each of us is a cell in the body of humanity, totally unique--just like everyone
else. Each is tasked with job of expressing their potential. An awesome task, it
is impossible unless you breathe well.
My chosen job is to train joy generators, individuals who seek to be avenues of healing and upliftment to the world around them. The by- product of being a joy generator is that you live in the flow of life, balanced and harmonious in your world. Isn’t it really your mission to pursue joy—the soul connection with life? Once you get the joy part, you then have a new mission to spread the joy. Joy generators are much needed. Today.
Oh, by the way, joy comes from living in the now, neither pulled into the past by guilt and regret nor thrust into the consideration of the future in worry and anxiety. There are 3 Steps to Joy
- Open Your Breathing with Full Wave Breathing
- Become Aware of Your Breathing Throughout the Day
- Just Breathe and then do the next thing
Focusing in the present using the breath is an easy way to be constantly re-minded of our nature as spiritual beings. Observe your cat or dog as breathing takes place. The inhale and exhale are connected—just like in your Full Wave Breathing exercise. Notice how you breathe today. And exercise your breathing at least once daily for as little as a month and see if it doesn’t help:
- The way you feel in general
- The way you feel about things
- The way things feel to you.
I’ll be challenging your to become more joyful and providing timely information:
More From Your Healthy Heart—Your Heart Speaking—Lessons of Love.
View From The Edge—Plain Speaking about the Spiritual Journey—a continuing column
Remedy to Spiritual Bypass—the body; go back to basics; breathing is basic.
The Best Deal in the World—Freedom from Respiratory Stress—The Price—Full Wave Breathing. It is a free service you provide for your Self.
What is personal realization? I use this term instead “enlightenment” to describe what happens when you realize you are part of the One—actually the One—looking out from the personal identity eyes. The task, after having such an awakening, epiphany or illumination, is to live from that glimpse of conscious awareness full time or to “make real” the awareness.
People who take our workshops often report such awakening or enlightening experiences. Then, as is inevitable since we are in bodies for a purpose, the euphoria passes and we are once again confronted with our daily lives. The stressors have not disappeared. Hopefully, however, the insights gained in such moments enable us to embrace life with more love and less reaction.
Yeah, don’t we wish! Too often, the weekend ends, and tomorrow is rush hour again, tugs on mommy’s skirt and the pressures of hunting down the next meal. How is a person supposed to deal? As you have learned, there is no “supposed to.” Each one of us is already well-equipped to deal with our lives. The solution, as you continue to be reminded, is simple: Just Breathe! and then do the next thing.
So I am hoping you’ll continue to be a member of the IBI (say those three letters aloud 3 time and see how it feels) community. If you like, I won’t refer to you as a heavy breather. Besides I’d rather know you as a conscious soul.
My job? (Acronym for Joy Of Being) My job is to tune into what is needed in the readership group and write about effectively handling the challenges presented by living in a body in these increasingly challenging times.
For those who have journeyed with me this far in the ezine, there is a special announcement. A new workshop is set for those who wish to fly highest and fastest in their spiritual exploration and journey. It requires that you have reached a certain level of what is termed “spiritual growth” before participation would be appropriate for you. I promise, however, for those who do attend, truly amazing results. Special Announcement.
You’ll begin to notice that the people around you find it more difficult more people to stay centered and balanced. Your job is to maintain a heart-oriented focus as you observe this taking place. Doing so is a gift to yourself and those around you. Avoid many of the difficulties inherent in living in these exciting times by remembering to Just Breathe!...and then do the next thing.
Remembering is easier than ever with Full Wave Breathing and this ezine as reminders. So consider the Just Breathe! Ezine as champion of your cause.. Just Breathe! is a simple statement with which to begin. Then the newsletter provides ways to most effectively discover what the next thing IS for you.
I look forward to increasing my service to you. As always, you can email me with any questions or suggestions.
Some of the information in the ezine is repeated so it becomes ingrained in your consciousness. Simply reading the material is of benefit. Each month the words change slightly, the concepts 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.
A Simple Message That Bears Repeating
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 to Just Breathe! readers. Breathe and Grow Rich—Self Care to Enrich Your Whole Life leads you to the missing link to manifestation. Get Breathe and Grow Rich If there were only one book you’d read this year, this is the one I’d recommend for you.
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. If you have a condition, take care of it. Get the help you need. And do ask inside. Pose your question about your condition is your mind: Mindbody, what do I need to do about _______? 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 what steps to take.
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 self-care 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?
“Deep breathing is the first line of defense against chronic stress and resultant high blood pressure” –Bruce West, MD
“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
Full Wave Breathing promotes the unimpeded flow of consciousness through every cell in the body as healing takes place on all levels.
Our Breathing Affects
- Physical vitality
- Emotional calmness
- Mental focus
- 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 reading Just Breathe!
Follow the instruction for the Full Wave Breathing exercise. 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.
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Two Commandment Path of Relationship
- Love Me with all of your heart, mind and soul;
- 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 we either teach joy and love or yes, we 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.
What does personality learn during this time of soul emergence?
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Surrender
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Detachment
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Accommodation
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Acknowledgement
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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.
This is not to say that we disregard mind completely. For in order to achieve stability, common sense in the third dimension world is just as important to making things happen as is the flow of our intuitive perception. To surrender means that we cease to fight the current, ending struggle, anxiety, and confusion.
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
- To adapt to change
- To engage with understanding
Accommodation is also used to imply the implementation of a new purpose or strategy—such a living for a soul rather than an ego perspective.
Acknowledgement
- To admit the truth
- To surrender to one’s spiritual nature
- To live life based upon one spirit
Acceptance
- To believe that all comes from God for our benefit
- Living in a safe world
- Allowing others to be whomever they need to be
Steps to Being In the Flow
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Belly Breathing
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Crown Focus
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Love Feeling
Myth—the Self must die and be reborn.
Imagine that you had a subconscious mind filled with fear-based survival programs and defense mechanisms. They came from your ancestors and culture and are viruses that, unless dealt with, grow to take over the human bio-computer. Disarming them is the first step. Restoring the system, the second; and upgrading is the third. To clean the hard-drive involves the activity of breathing to detoxify. While this process is taking effect, the mind is quieted providing a valuable active form of meditation. Intellect and feelings work together in one system.
The decision to live a mediocre life is usually a result of default programming. We sort of wind up with our health and our life. To change our software involves the conscious effort to think thoughts that produce harmonious mind body states.
There are repeated monthly for your Greatest Joy and Ease:
“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
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Actually I promised an imaginal product called Exercise Without Movement. It’s called Full Wave Breathing and you already know how to do that even if the without movement part isn’t completely accurate since if you continue with it you will get turned on and want to dance. I am, however, running out of silly products to suggest and have fun with. Any ideas from readers?
Most recently I read an email offer—very professionally done--about another blood pressure-lowering device—another $400--that is breathing based and you squeeze a device as you inhale and exhale to keep you on track. Buy a tennis ball and squeeze it as you inhale and exhale instead. I’ll send you a dozen for only $200 and pay for the postage as well. You’ll get a free sucker of the month club sticker for your bumper as well as complete instructions on how to apply it. Hurry, hurry!
The gullible are an ever-present percentage of the population and who among us hasn’t wished that the device you strap around your middle and plug in to receive tiny electrical sensations would actually work to reduce fat and tone flab? If the wishing would work, I’d surely buy one.
Other imaginal products for your well being:
- The Wonderpill
- The Octagonal Live O Generation
- The Wonderful Breathing Beanie Set
- Joy Juice (Holy HOH)
- Negative Person Repellant
- Instant Karma Remover
- The TriColor Thymus Thumper
- Healer In A Box
- Miracle Horoscope Helper
- The Towel Trainer
- Religion Reliever
- The Angel Activator
- Happy Hair
- Beingness Beads
- The Wonderful Well Wishing Wristlet
- Holistic Hard Drive Repair
In the months ahead you’ll have the opportunity to learn about even more mindbody tools for dynamic well being and your greatest health. Call before ordering products so you can learn of any possible risks involved and reduce our potential liability. Warning: Feeling Great is Addictive.
The Final Answer? It will probably involve breathing.
Please forward a copy of the Just Breathe! Ezine to those you care about and who would enjoy a laugh or two—or at least smiling.
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 the Self. Transformation is also available for the more daring.
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?
Why engage Tom Goode as a consciousness coach?
Passion and Purpose—I perform this work because I love it. I have dedicated my life to helping people transform their lives, rising above their perceived limitations and living a life of love, purpose and joy. Review my credentials, read my biography; call and talk with me. There is no charge for the first ½ hour and…
I’ll assist you in engaging in disciplined self-reflections, finding the answers within and in better understanding your place in the cosmos. My cause is your conscious enbrightenment.
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Keep
breathing!
Tom
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 exhales. 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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Tools for
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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.
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Books
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New Book—Still recommended
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.
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