Issue 40, April 30, 2008
Your Monthly Magazine for Increasing Conscious Awareness
Breathe and Grow Rich --in soft cover and e-book format!
BUILDING SELF-CONFIDENCE by Lloyd J. Thomas, Ph.D.
COPING CREATIVELY WITH YOUR STRESS 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:
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Re-minding ourselves of the omnipresent connection with the Infinite;
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Promoting cultivation and use of the spiritual power within one’s breath as a natural transformational and empowerment tool for the advancement of humanity beginning with the individual;
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Sharing uplifting ideas;
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Keeping our thoughts heading in the direction of our choosing, our emotions open and flowing, and physically feeling fully alive.
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Letter from the Editor (writer, proof reader and researcher)
A new cycle of sun spot activity begins this year and continues through 2012. Imagine a solar flare—an eruption from the sun and ejection of a ball of energy larger than our Earth into space. In addition to disrupting satellite communications, there is a surge within the human organism as well.
From the material view, this energetic affects the human (and other) bodies stirring emotions, especially those associated with fire—anger, resentment and revenge. From the cosmic view this energetic is reflective of the internal process within each human. Both are valid perspectives and, as all of 2008 is also a wind cycle, the fires are easily spread. At the level of your or my body it is increasingly important to daily reestablish our equilibrium and expand our capacity for handling stress. Yep—our friend Full Wave Breathing can be called and relied upon to assist us in the process.
- Emotionally, it assists us to remain centered while time—the sequencing of events—appears to speed up.
- Physically, it assists us to detoxify from the growing pollution.
- Mentally, it assists us to rise above media noise.
- Spiritually, it assists us with present moment awareness and peace.
Continue practicing Full Wave Breathing and you hear both the voice or fear and doubt (ego) and that of spirit within (Ego). As you breathe and “play” each voice in your head you can feel which voice to listen to; which one’s direction to follow. How simple can it be?
There are increasing two worlds from which to choose. Entering one—even in thought—causes decreased energy flow and discomfort. The other increases energy and feels right. It’s your choice!
It is also you choice whether
or not to practice your breathing—to keep your mindbodyspirit system open and
responsive to life. It is a simple thing isn’t it? And if it were as easy as
writing about it, then writing about it wouldn’t be required more than once.
Yes there will be ego resistance. One woman said that she clearly said that she
clearly heard the ego say, “Stop, you are hurting me.’ Now you know that voice
is ego, since the only downside of breathing too much is to fall asleep—an
unusual side effect of getting too much oxygen and one from which you simply
awaken.
The
ego “stuff” naturally arises as you breathe fully, for it was initially created
when you shut off your breathing. You “solved” the emotional issue at the time
by shutting down. Now you re-solve the issue—stored for many years—by opening to
the feeling avoided for so long and integrating it through the use of your
breath.
Do you need to go back through your history? No, you can resolve issues
energetically without processing them. Set your intention for Joy and dedicate
at least ½ hour of Full Wave Breathing daily to the procedure. Your result? More
energy and greater aliveness.
Repeated over time, this exercise enhances clarity and creativity. You are not your emotions. Isn’t it time to unload the baggage and step into your power (in the present) instead of dragging around your past?
As usual I don’t ask you to believe me and I do ask you to see for yourself. 30 days of this activity of your Full Wave Breathing for ½ hour daily with an intention of Joy will produce personal transformation? Who will you be? More or your real self.
Simple formula: do the work=get the result!
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?
IF No gulf actually exists between your life and God's life, except for your awareness of yourself, what then? What if there was no time or space existing between you and God's life? If that were true, then only the level of awareness from which you were living would determine whether you understand the unity or not.
That means the task is not to try to change things in time and space, but to bring yourself back into the moment where the possibility of this relationship already exists. It is a place of grace—effortless growth through your connection to joy.
Breathe into this space with Full Wave Breathing. Breathe in joy.
“…Spiritual growth means taking personal responsibility for all our thought, emotions and actions. We understand that we ourselves are the cause of our life from our first thoughts down to our last actions. We are responsible for how we see the world. And we know all effects are born from their cause which begins with our perception. Only with this knowledge, can anyone ever attain progress toward spiritual enlightenment.”
--from Take Me to Truth—Undoing the Ego (Order Undoing the Ego)
“As lovingly and as gently as possible, we inform you that humans have only two remaining options: they must either self-determine or they will self-destruct.” Patricia Pereira—Eagles of the New Dawn
"Knowing others is wisdom; knowing the self is enlightenment."-- Tao Te Ching
How to Handle Scary Ads—Part 2
Future Promises Greater Discomfort
Taking a cue from the success realized by the auto and insurance ads depicting collisions, crashes and crunches, your networks are employing new tactics as well. What you now see with increasing frequency are ads for shows flashed at you, scenes shown in rapid succession complete with bright lights and displays of violence. These are supposed to make you desire to watch the drama being advertised. Does it work? You bet it does or the millions of dollars spent to brain wash viewers would not endure.
So, yes, you can continue to watch television for “relaxation” and retaining full awareness of your being targeted as a consumer. Continue to mute the commercials and practice connected breathing. During commercials, breathe!
This allows you to retain your sanity while the latest promo for American Idyll is being directed at you or while you are staying tuned for scenes from next week’s show.
Television can be used to uplift consciousness rather than dumb it down, and while the presentations that actually aim to accomplish that particular goal are few in number, you can find them. Think of it as panning for gold—and be prepared to sift a lot of sand. Yet there is a hidden benefit explained in the next article—so, for a moment, stay tuned in.
Television watching can also enable you to check into the mood and pulse of the country—so long as you make allowance for media bias and the unending promotion for profit that takes place. There is nothing, per se, injurious or inharmonious about television watching so long as you retain control over the process. And how do you do that? Remain awake and aware and…Just Breathe!
Watching Television as A Transformational Experience
If you see the happenings of the world as the result of people being asleep and unaware, innocent and uneducated, ‘your ego probably won’t get much from the experience.
If you see people acting in ways that you judge to be stupid or evidence of mental defect or instability, then you a being given a glimpse of your ego at work. What happens is that we project our own unconsciousness upon the screen and the characters who appear before us in the news, comedies or dramas displayed for our “entertainment.” If aware, operating from the “watcher mode,” we can see our own unconsciousness at work—in the form of judgment, opinion and projection. If asleep, we will just see other people acting out our own stuff. If awake, we have the opportunity to expand our compassion for the human condition and extend forgiveness and love. Remember this as you watch and Breathe!
Most people can 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.
Order Breathe and Grow Rich now and enrich your life step by step in a 30 day program.
Let’s imagine for a moment that you have adopted the fundamental belief that breathing is necessary for life. Next, imagine that you practiced a specific form called Full Wave Breathing.
What would you expect to gain; why would you go to the trouble of disciplining the mind and rising above old personality preferences of doing nothing in that regard and devoting time to your mindbodyspirit system’s health and well being? The answer to that question cannot be told. It can only be experienced.
To that end, you are invited to take a 30 Day Journey outlined in Breathe and Grow Rich and to contribute to the Just Breathe blog and share your personal experience as to what happens.
Each person’s experience will, of course, be different according to their needs, intention and commitment. Your participation will enable you to reach new levels of wellness—regardless of where you are now. The 30 days begins now. Connect with others on their path of transformation (realization, awakening) and have your questions answered on the Just Breathe blog.
Eavesdropping on a Conversation—continued
He had met Paul and his wife Carly at the Unity bookstore. They were giving a free presentation—love offering only—on the wisdom of the Tarot—and were going to lead a workshop on Saturday afternoon. He attended and the trio connected immediately. Paul was an esoteric teacher providing information on the spiritual journey and the use of the abilities that arose as a natural result and consequence of that journey.
Paul and Carly were housepainters when not teaching. They did both the inside and outside and Carly was an expert wall paper hanger. She was also very interested in finding and following the healthiest dietary guidelines and he was more the mystic, given to long periods of meditation and refining his presentation developing light and sound to enhance his effectiveness.
The two of them traveled across the country, generally residing a brief period of time in one of the major cities where they could ply their trade with people of like interest. They usually began their visits at the Unity Church of Christianity and, to a lesser degree, with the Unitarian Universalists as they connected with like-hearted souls. They’d stay in a place for three or so months, then move on to the next spot. They had a cat with double thumbs named, what else?—Thumbs--who rode as a passenger in their car as if it were the most natural thing for a cat to be doing.
She had her box on the rear floor tucked in behind the front passenger seat. While this presented a challenge to back-seat entrants, the arrangement appeared to work well for the cat. For anyone that has never traveled with a cat this sort of box arrangement is an all-important consideration.
Paul was also a member of a musical group that had originated on the West Coast and now was reconstituted along the East Coast. The Order of Orpheus as they called themselves after the god who created music, produced strange harmonies that evoked feelings of ease and relaxation among listeners. This occurred at a time when new age music hadn’t yet been labeled.
It was also not yet well known among average people that music has such powerful psychotropic powers, influencing mood and altering internal biochemistry. Surely, however, that knowledge was intuited as demonstrated by the great attraction for many to rock groups during the 60’s and 70’s.
Music’s charms and the capability to powerfully influence the human organism would be used in the early 20th century to embolden the masses and send them forth on warrior quests. Later in the century, songs of love and peace would influence millions. Then new, electronic instruments would be used for both traditional expressions and what could be called the new dissonance. This would disrupt nervous system processes and enhance suggestibility in the undiscerning consciousness of global youth. Digital sounds would also company video games and other forms of entertainment for the unwary.
Paul had himself been a student of sacred geometry as well as music and had found the correspondences and relationships between mathematics, the harmony of the spheres and the esoteric teachings. Paul was a Jew also trained in Kabala that he related in his workshops and teachings.
Paul taught of the “god within,” long known and with a diverse teaching of how to contact it and bring it forth for the benefit of the world. Later day perspectives with forgiveness and love as the core were included along with rituals both recorded and those handed down only in oral communication.
He remembered Paul and Carly with fondness as two of his teachers along the way and breathed himself into his light body for travel. This time, he would meet with another of his teachers from the mental realms who held one of the twelve dimensional rays that create the etheric webbing of the planet. (to be continued)
Breathe THIS way, the Full Wave way, for awhile—never mind what you did before. Afterward see that you find yourself in a more receptive and prayerful state. What more proof do you need?
Breathe and Grow Rich Reminder
How is breathing connected with getting rich? It’s all about energy and having extraordinary physical energy directly influences emotional, mental and spiritual energy. They are all needed for extraordinary productivity. How can one expect to ignore the demands that the human body makes every day? You can’t.
Are healthier, happier employees more productive? Of course.
In a time of dwindling global energy in the form of oil there is also a dwindling of human energy owing to growing stressors. Ignoring the problem of human energy is a sure formula for personal economic decline. The remedy? You read about it every month. What exactly to do about it is revealed in depth in Breathe and Grow Rich.
You can’t expend more energy than you create. This truth included human energy. Individual energy crises require a person have the ability to participate in his own life, the workplace and society.
Doc, I understand you said that breathing is the most important exercise. Is that true? Thank you.-- Wanting to Understand
Dear Wanting to Understand,
What I said was that Full Wave Breathing is the single most important exercise. I didn't say "breathing". This is particularly so because 80-90% of people have impaired breathing and doing more of it simply compounds their problems. So if you do something that is not good for you, the solution is NOT to do more of it. ‘’
From the Edge views the appearance of a progressive unfoldment of humanity awakening to its Self. Will this unfoldment lead in a full-circle to where it once more becomes each person’s duty in life and their greatest joy, to live to the fullness of their potential? What part will you play?
The Intellectual Enlightenment was a time in history in Europe and the US from 1690 to 1730 that was the foundation of the US Bill of Rights as from this point on, thinkers and writers were held to be free to pursue the truth in whatever form, without the threat of sanction for violating established ideas. Today we see a reverse trend taking place.
Once lobbied for and set in print, the provision of and advertising of medical services was assigned to a select group of individuals receiving narrow training in methods of poisoning the body in hopes of affecting a cure, cutting out an offending part or injecting a toxic substance to ward off illness that might otherwise be handled quite capably by the body’s own immune function. In other words, you are being forced, coerced, hypnotized into having one kind of health care that is really sickness diagnosis. Insurance is a must within the system because the procedures are often complicated and expensive or the risk of mishap is so high (malpractice and medical error). Yet the insurance often does not pay for the services required that might assist in a healing outcome.
What if you were a free thinker with respect to health insurance— didn’t want
it; rather spend your money on organic foods, herbs and vitamins and a regular
loving massage? Then you can expect to be subjected to all varieties of inane
propositions to get you to change your mind. Television and other media will
loudly proclaim that the only cure is to war against something or other--and
that your dollars are needed for new and better cures. The cures never come;
yet, one is made to feel somehow unpatriotic when not deifying members of the
medical profession, their government servitors and the products they offer
complete with side effects that may now compromise your health if it hadn’t
already been weakened by earlier treatment.
You are being asked to trust the same people who mislead you about tobacco addiction, butter, children’s cough syrup, cholesterol and sugar substitutes. And never mind what is in your water!
No, personally, I don’t have health insurance, choosing to drive carefully, and not engage in activities that might produce accident or injure. Also, the body is fed judiciously, exercised appropriately and enjoys a harmonious balance between stress and recovery.
Prior to learning self-care after leaving the corporate job, the body was still a participant in insurance with regular check-ups and experiencing colds, flu, shots, and being fed according to the Standard American Diet (SAD).
After learning that it is the condition of the inner terrain that determines outer health, I began a several year program of cleansing, progressively refining the diet and eliminating toxins. It has been 30 years since beginning the process and just a couple of years ago at age 66 I finally gave in to having a colonoscopy. The physician said it was the cleanest colon he’d ever seen and to come back in 30 years.
The body houses viruses and bacteria. When everything is working well, old ones die and new ones are created in harmony. The eliminative functions take care of the waste and health is maintained. Upset the internal balance however—thought, word or deed—and the integrity of the system is threatened. Chronic, ceaseless stress configures inner chaos resulting in illness and disease.
Yet you don’t have to go through all of this. You, the spiritual being can minimize the need for insurance and take preventative measures to avoid disease by properly feeding, exercising and watering your physical animal. Give it a rest daily, ideally 20 minutes before you mount up in the morning and 20 minutes when you dismount at the end of the day. The best way to do this is to breathe it. Your physical animal will thank you.
Advice on insurance? I don’t give it. How are your genes; what is your cumulative exposure to toxins; what’s going on in your mind, body and soul? Life is complicated and only you have the answers you need for the future. Yes, I am happy to assist (facilitate) in the process and you can read about both the coaching services and mentoring on the IBI website: www.internationalbreathinstitute.com
On A Path of Conscious Evolution or Personal Transformation?
Why should I listen to you?
Good question. Think of me as a part of you that has the time and interest to pursue matters of health and life enrichment and save you time, energy, money, and effort by sharing the results of my research in books, programs, workshop, and inner explorations.
My regular life ended at 39 when I was diagnosed as having a condition that was to become terminal in two years. I wanted another opinion; and thus visited energy healers and nutrition experts. Since a year later the body was disease, drug and symptom free and I had experienced a personal awakening, I became a “healer”—facilitator for others based upon my experience, education and background.
As an only child who spent many pleasant hours reading, I was also to discover that one could find out about most anything by reading and was delighted when my mother gave in to the pitch of encyclopedia salesman. Much later, after college I would take reading programs to increase my speed and retention to keep up with all that was going on and, as a result, have read approximately 3 books per week for the last 40 years—in addition to countless magazines and newsletters.
All this knowledge helped me to transcend the need for information regurgitation and move toward greater knowing instead. Now, I work for you. So imagine having someone (me) looking out for you so that of all that is written, you get the info you most need to facilitate your greatest progress as a spiritual being on a path of awakening and transformation.
I’ve been on the path for many years and thus may be a step ahead of you and can point out both potholes to avoid and shortcuts that are safe and effective for your journey. My purpose in this regard is to save you hours of your own searching, and help keep you from being distracted by the paranormal and supernatural—they are both valid dimensions though heir pursuit might cause you to spend lifetimes of effort following false paths. My job (Joy of Being) is your conscious realization and actualization of your true identify. In my roll as reflecting your wisdom self, allow me to re-mind you of who you are and help keep you conscious through your breathing. (To be continued)
Thanx to our friends at the Peers network for bringing the following message to our attention. To read the entire article go to: http://www.weboflove.org/divinewisdomunderstanding
The wisdom and understanding of our own inner essence is like a beacon that invites us inward toward ever deeper connection with the Divine. Yet rather than look within, most people prefer to look outward for divine wisdom, thus maintaining a dependence upon a vast hierarchy that stretches between the individual and the Divine. In all our wanderings away from the Divine, humankind has obscured its most compelling features through a persistent belief in limitations arising out of the controlling mechanisms of this hierarchy.
The Divine dances outside of the confines of any hierarchical structures. It is complete within itself, and has a singular purpose of demonstrating the collective potential of all life within the universe. It is the archetype of perfection. It is the standard bearer of each soul's innate design and ultimate destiny. The essence of the Divine is so far beyond mental conception that humanity’s tendency is to resort to the limiting language of the hierarchical paradigm to define it.
The Hierarchical Paradigm: Searching for Connection and Wholeness
When people are unaware of their inner wisdom and wholeness, they tend to search for order and security outside themselves. Uncertain of their place within the hierarchical order of the world, they define themselves based upon their insecurities. Individuals thus become only pieces of their wholeness and like shards of glass from a beautiful vase, they bear little resemblance to their aggregate beauty. Within the hierarchy, many in high positions of power have taken advantage of our collective insecurities in attempting to guide the development of all humankind. They have obscured the direct connection between the individual and the Divine through a variety of means designed to intercede between our inner essence and our divine source.
Each individual can come to know themselves to be free of all forms of hierarchical control. This is not to imply that we should not trust others or join together in bonds of friendship and community. It is simply a reminder that relative truth is constantly shifting in the hands of those who desire to control. And even when the motive for their controlling behaviors may be of good will, it is still a form of control. When the revealers of "truth" within the hierarchy withhold and suppress information, they are usually positioning themselves to acquire and maintain power rather than to disseminate empowerment to all.
This article continues for several pages. You can read it in its entirety http://www.weboflove.org/divinewisdomunderstanding
The Adversary (continued from last month)
The energy that we put into the world is the energy that returns to us. To illustrate: If we are experiencing fear, then fear is what we are magnetically attracting by putting the same energy out. If we feel support out there in our urban jungle, then others feel that energy flowing from us. When our soul entered the earth plane, we each decided there were experiences necessary for our advancement. It is frequently past fears that we must confront and transmute. Then ego and psyche are congruent and harmonious.
Please be aware that we create our dissenter or adversarial roles. We establish for ourselves the dynamic with the one we face repeatedly until we remember that we created this dissenter. We are never the victims of it. We will come to understand in this realm that all energies are negative, positive, or neutral. (It is the neutral part that most of us forget is also an option.) We face the same fear, the same adversary, the same enemy, until we remember that the perceived enemy is only some facet of ourselves that we chose to face through our interactions with another as our reflection. THE ADVERSARY IS OUR EXPERIENCE OF CONFRONTING THE FEAR THAT WE CREATED. THE PURPOSE OF THE CREATION IS TO MOVE US TO HARMONY AND LOVE. (Concluded next month)
Your Healthy Heart (continued from last month)
Traditional medicine as currently practiced examines sick people and works very hard to fix them. Natural medicine examines the principles embodied in well people and learns from them. One of the first things you would learn is that happier people are generally healthier and have healthier hearts. They create more abundance, have better relationships and enjoy better health. It works the other way around, too. Healthier people have more energy with which to create abundance, participate in life, and enjoy the company of other people. It’s a cycle of health that feeds itself to keep a person feeling energetic and constantly renewed regardless of physical age.
Your Healthy Heart teaches you how to initiate this cycle of health and keep it going. Traditional medicine alone is inadequate, because you are much more than a mechanical body. Surgery and synthetic medicines are drastic measures; there are other less extreme, less invasive measures available to you to keep you healthy without causing disturbing and disabling side effects.
In this book, the focus is upon your heart for a very good reason. The heart is much, much more than a pump. It is at the center of your body and the core of your very being. Did you know that your heart produces ten times the electromagnetic field of any other organ? This is important for you to know, because after all, you are an energetic being.
There are three realms to your physical existence: the physical, the non-physical, and the spiritual. You have a physical body made of cells and atoms, comprised of bones, skin, blood, organs, hormones, and so much more. You also have a non-physical body that holds your emotions and thoughts; this is where archetypes are held. Your physical, emotional and mental bodies together form your soul.
Energetic vibrations from the spiritual realm are attracted to the soul and coalesce into physical matter, sparked by Life. You breathe in spiritual essence, bringing oxygen to the blood that pumps through your heart and feeds every part of your body.
Traditional medical methodology approaches heart disease based on Newtonian physical principals. Yet, because we also live in a non-physical world, the endless analysis, naming of symptoms and looking to constituent DNA yield only partial answers. In the meantime, heart disease and stroke increase their grip on an aging population.
The non-physical world of thought and emotions are important aspects of your health often overlooked by doctors trained in specialized uses of drugs and surgery. Drugs and surgery have their place in symptomatic remedy and repair. However, in no way are they the ultimate answer. A long-term, real solution requires that a much broader scope be taken into account beyond just treating a collection of physical symptoms.
Needless complication makes it difficult for the average consumer to know what to do for their heart. Drugs, even when they work, frequently have disabling or life-threatening side effects. There are usually natural substances that work much more gently, without destroying other parts or systems of your body.
The non-physical world understandings of quantum physics, invisible particles and non-linear dynamics have important information for all who value their health. The latest sciences of psychoneuroimmunolgy (PNI) and psychobiology reveal how all parts of the mind-body system are interconnected and in constant communication.
Because each part of your whole mind-body system is connected, what benefits your heart health automatically benefits your overall health. A heart-healthy approach to daily living staves off not only heart disease but also other physical ailments, as well as the perhaps more elusive but equally significant ailments of the mind and conditions. Whole heart-healthy living can reduce depression, anxiety, panic attacks, and similar illnesses.
Knowing how the organs, cells and molecules communicate enables you to stimulate powerful healing responses within your mind-body. Then, taking self-loving action, you begin to feel better. People notice that you look and act younger. Your mood improves and you have energy for all that you want to do.
In addition, within what is called the “non-local field” you are in constant connected communication with other energy fields, including the individual energies of other people. Learning how the field works gives you powerful tools in your relationship with others. Use them for your health, wealth and happiness. (continued next month)
Give your mindbodyspirit system a gift of peace for the new you. You are one who recognizes that though you cannot control how others act, you directly contribute to the emotional energy of a situation. Thinking love, radiating peace, you support others in making the most constructive choices. Your intention of radiating peace is itself a gift to others that, in turn, boosts you. Empower your intentions with Full Wave Breathing.
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Just Breathe!
The ezine of The International Breath Institute (IBI) is sent from Dr. Tom Goode. IBI shares ways to stay awake in the dream keeping:
- your thoughts heading in the direction you choose
- your emotions open and flowing—
- and physically feeling 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 a great deal of energy that could otherwise 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.
Context
Full Wave Breathing, among a host of alternatives, is the single, most
important exercise for our life and whole
health. Those who use it regularly feel better and more alive.
Think About It: Each of us is a
cell in the body of humanity, totally unique--just like everyone else.
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:
How Affirmations Can Be Hazardous to Your Health, Unless….
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.
Eavesdropping on a Conversations with The Master—a continuing column
The Adversary—a continuing column
The Best Deal in the World—Freedom from Respiratory Stress—The Price—Full Wave Breathing.
The Matter of Weight—Many Reasons—Steps to Balance
To Insure or Not?
What is personal realization? I use this term instead of the one more often thrown about, “enlightenment.” Personal realization is 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.
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 suggestions and ideas so you can 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. (Link)
If you don't take care of
your own health you become a participant in what is known as Healthcare,
Sickcare a system based upon the study of sick people and focusing on how
to "fix" them. It addresses symptoms rather than causes and treats disease as an
enemy to be eradicated. Imagine instead that you observed healthy people and
adopted their practices. What might then be the result and the state of your
health?
It is not that you ignore pain. Do get out of pain first. 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
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Physical vitality
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Emotional calmness
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Mental focus
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Spiritual awareness
Practice Full Wave Breathing for 30 days, and see if life doesn’t absolutely transform!
Utilize Full Wave Breathing daily as an exercise leading to a healthy habit, avoiding many dis-ease states and enjoying life more fully. Enjoying life more fully enables us to make a greater contribution to the life in whatever way we desire for “soul satisfaction.”
Since we will be breathing for as long as we are alive. Doesn't it just make good sense to perform it in a way that supports rather than undermines health? Of course it does—so start today!
Build a new habit of breathing that enhances instead of diminishes the Life Force in the body.
- More energy
- Harmonized emotions
- Clearer thoughts
My desire and hope for you is for you to that you will suspend any tendency toward disbelief and actually test the information presented. When it works, and you be the soul judge, then make it part of an enlightened life. Thank you for reading Just Breathe!
Follow the instruction for the Full Wave Breathing exercise. (Link to page) 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.
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.
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.
Sit on the front edge of a chair or stand with your feet spaced shoulder width apart with your arms in front of you, palms facing down and hands relaxed. As you inhale through your nostrils, sniff once as you push your lower abdomen out and raise your arms in front of you level with your waist. With a second sniff, push out on your mid-section and, hands still relaxed, raise your arms to shoulder level. With a third sniff, fill the rest of your lungs with air, raising your arms with palms open and facing the ceiling or sky. Exhale through your mouth and contract your abdomen toward the spine. Perform this breath to a count of one-two-three on the inhale and one as you exhale.
This breath stimulates and energizes the physical body. Continue for three minutes and see how you feel. Imagine your body increasing in brightness with each breath. Make it your intention to connect with unlimited energy as you breathe and visualize your entire body glowing brightly. Repeat insets of ten repetitions, working up to ten minutes daily.
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Two Commandment Path of Relationship
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Love Me with all of your heart, mind and soul;
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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 ei