Issue 45, Oct 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.
  • Wake UP! The Wholeness Procedure: October 25, 2008 Learn more.

 


Articles for October Newsletter

THE MEDICINAL MUSHROOM by Dr. Linda Posch, MS SLP ND

LEADERSHIP AND YOUR LIFE by Lloyd J. Thomas, Ph.D.


 


Features for October Newsletter


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


 

For Your Health For Your Sanity
   

 

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.

WHO?

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

"No one can tell whether they are richer or poor by turning to their ledger. It is the heart that makes a person rich. One is rich according to what one is, not according to what one has."  -- Henry Ward Beecher

If the above quote has meaning for you, then reading Breathe and Grow Rich will be a rewarding experience for you. If you don’t relate to the quote, you need to read Breathe and Grow Rich. Every though there are less than 100 days remaining in this year, this book is still likely to be the most significant one you will read all year.

RAPT Report

There is a description of RAPT along with the latest comments from participants. Our next gathering is scheduled for Sacramento, CA on November 8.

Why attend the RAPT seminar? So your can harness your ego to follow the dictates of Your Will in Love and Service. Otherwise you are apt to carry out the ego’s will that is based upon the twin illusions of fear and separation.

The human condition is to view life thru the lens of the ego mind acting out its limiting perspectives in a robotic manner as if asleep. As Doctor Phil would ask, “How’s that working out for you?” Is it time for a shift, a change to transcend its limiting beliefs that have, up to this point, run your life? Are you willing to change (who you have been) in order to realize a higher possibility of yourself?"

Did You Know?

That each month there is an item added to the ABC’s of Higher Consciousness? You could use each as a seed thought for meditation; the basis for an affirmation; or just an easy way to re-mind yourself of who and what you are. See page 13.

New Contributor

Welcome a new contributor to your monthly Just Breathe! magazine for consciousness;

Dr. Linda Posch. A prolific writer with a private natural health practice, Dr. Posch tells you all about the health benefit of mushrooms. Enjoy.

IMAGINE

Imagine that you were the creator of your experience as was everyone else. That would imply that all of the stuff that is going on in the world is none of your business and instead is the business of whomever is experiencing it. So when you hear (watch or read) the news about someone’s suffering, what do you make of it?

GET A SHOT

You’ll be glad to know that the future promises you an inoculation for your addictions—including food, gambling and sexual addictions—as well as “substance and alcohol addictions. Smoking got you down? No problem, say the researchers, since our society is on track to develop the cure for what hooks you.

You’ll be able to give up coffee and desserts with ease as well. Of course there are no studies of the effect of the vaccine being made, no mention of possible side effects like weakening the immune system, loss of vision, dizziness and all of the other things that seem to accompany today’s Pharmamiracles.

The presumption is that an addictive gene can be identified and disabled through medication …and the shutdown rippling through the entire organism. Fortunately having to make the choice to be medicated for a caffeine or other drug addiction--or any other behaviors deemed by the government at this time to be “detrimental to society”-- is still optional.

The remedy to vices would be designer citizens molded by the pharmaceutical industry and traditional medical treatment. Free healthcare, supported by government funds, can become more than just a dream. Drop the right chemical in the water supply and who knows what good things might grow from it. Eradicate drug and alcohol addiction, and even further in the future, you’d see society electrochemicalize the victim so as to tolerate social drinking and support the  alcohol beverage industry.

IF the government wants you to be healthy, why don’t they pass a law making eating stuff that’s harmful to be an illegal act? Maybe they’ll create a monitoring and computerized tracking system of behavior and communicate directly to the brain to either compensate with pleasure, or correct with discomfort (pain). I’d rather breathe!

Refining Meditation

I spoke today with someone about meditation and despite the good that it can yield, most people aren’t getting it. Many sit with the intention to meditate and then repeat a mantra or affirmations. While both have their place, what usually happens is that the repetition puts the mind—and the meditator—to sleep. So you wake up with the idea that you’ve been meditating while what actually happened is that you took a nap.

Naps are good in that they are relaxing and regenerative--and they aren’t meditation. Most people don’t get enough sleep, so it is naturally that when they sit quietly for a few minutes, off they go into the sleep state. What would happen if the same person began meditating upon awakening? The result would be different than falling asleep.

One of the benefits of Full Wave Breathing is that it is an active meditation. You can repeat your affirmations or mantras while breathing and remaining awake. As the breathing continues, particularly with the mouth open, the mindbody system is energized. Then, when completing your 100 breaths or 15 or 30 minute routine, you can sit with the mind quiet and still and then meditate quietly if you like. Try it and see—and let me know of your progress.

Whatever form you use, like Tai Chi and Qi Gong, it isn’t the particular form you use. Instead it is the “relaxation response” generated that is responsible for the renewing powers of mediation both sitting and moving. So if you simply sit and watch your breathing as it enters and exists, what do you think will happen? Right, you’ll fall asleep (if you are supposed to).

RECYCLING

Yet another trip to the library with the van laden with used books caused me reflect that in the last 30 years—since leaving the corporate world—I’ve probably read around 5 books a week on average (30x5x50=7500). Most have been about what is generally termed spirituality and self growth, including psychology, cosmology, epistemology, etimology, anthropology, physics and geopolitics.

What this makes me is an expert on reading and not necessarily on any of the above topics. That being said, most of what you read won’t help. In fact, reading about stuff in our culture tends to convey the idea that you then know the topic about which the words were written. Not so; you only know “about” as seen through another’s eyes.

For example, you can learn how so and so turned their life around by keeping to a schedule of Full Wave Breathing for a month. Feeling satisfied, as if you yourself had put in the time, energy and effort, you go back to your prior pursuits feeling ego expanded and quite content, thank you very much. Sad to say, you—without putting the practice into effect in your personal life—will only experience what most of the others in your world, non-readers of the book, will: a life of gradual  slowing with aging symptoms and functional decline.

Yep, I’m pretty sure this is so, and not so much from reading a few thousand books or writing a half a dozen. My knowledge comes from working with people over the last 30 years and seeing what they do (and don’t do) to counteract the societal tendencies, pressures and hypnosis.

Yeah, I know it takes time and trouble to do stuff. And its like having a dog as a pet. Take care of it; train it or it will take over. Your ego mind is like that too—unless you lead, it will assert its sovereignty. Decline unto death is its path.

Each month, I assure you it doesn’t have to be that way and suggest action you could take today to reverse downtrends. Eventually, however, like the stock market where too much credit was extended with too little backing, the proverbial chickens come home to roost. Been doing your internal work? Good and the only reward you’ll probably ever get for it is avoiding unpleasant physical and mental deterioration.

This month I celebrate 30 years without a cold; ‘tho I did have one bout of flu a few years ago. You could do the same. Is that enough to get you started on a self-love, self-care program? Probably not, so you have my permission to put off feeling progressively better

If, on the other hand, you’d really like to DO SOMETHING for yourself and something that works, order Breathe and Grow Rich. It offers you a transformative approach to supercharging your health. Read it; put it to work in your life; then tell me of your progress.

Order Breathe and Grow Rich today!

From The Edge

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.

Humans love to put their power outside of themselves and, in fact, have centuries of being trained to do so in the realms of religion, science, education and government. So last month, when I with tongue in cheek told you I’d write about conjuring, since it was in humor, I was surprised when the topic came up for this month’s ezine edition.

CONJURING FOR FUN AND PROFIT  Read More...

Your Healthy Heart (Part 5, continued from last month)--Read More

Messing with Mother—Part 4—Falstaff the Friendly Pig--Read More

BE VERY, VERY AFRAID…

I was disappointed to read in one of the self-termed “Higher Consciousness” newsletters a method of creating “psychic protection.” The idea is as old as the discovery of the psychic realm and the existence of negative thoughts. The idea, however, that you need to protect yourself from the illusion of another’s negative thought projection is not valid.


Perhaps you recall when the USA employed psychics to send negative vibes to world leaders who opposed the country’s perceived interests during the time of the Cold War. There was nary a slip on a banana peel. You can “cloak: yourself all you want and, as long as you are alive, the root chakra remains open. Simply put, you could surround yourself with castle walls and they wouldn’t be very effective in keeping out invaders if you left the gate unlocked. The gate is always unlocked.

Your greatest protection comes from your inner light. Radiant enough light from within and any of the manifestations of psychic dark, 1.) won’t be attracted to you and 2.) will be repelled by the light. Even if you don’t believe in all of that dark/light/psychic stuff, you can benefit from an exercise to increase your radiance.

Simply sit and breathe 100 Full Wave Breaths—through the mouth or nostrils—while imagining the inner sun of your heart space expanding as you inhale. It doesn’t shrink as you exhale; instead staying the same, expanded size. Continue until you reach the count of 100 breaths or until you become the light itself, radiating in all directions. Aside of any protective value you might derive or the natural health benefits that result from the practice, it also feels great. Enjoy!

GIVING TO GIVE

Giving to get is what we all learn. We learn to behave to produce the results from our world. It is a powerful survival trait that benefited all of us. It is natural. So too is the natural desire to balance the getting with the giving. Nowhere except in sexual union is there the opportunity to be so wholly and fully giving and to, as part of the process, receive more than we give, in the fullness of desire for our partner’s greatest pleasure and benefit. We come to experience how “giving is receiving.”

That’s right, the easiest way according to how most people are taught to realize a feeling of oneness is thru the vehicle of sexual exchange with another body. The feeling is called Unity and derives from the orgasm and release of physical and psychic tension. Renewed, most of us enjoy the benefits of the ensuing biochemical state for a week or so. Without that biochemistry we are more apt to feel cranky, anxious and require more rest.

Words of the Wise

"It is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be read."--Thomas Jefferson

“No physical culture exercise that has been, or ever will be, invented can be a substitute for controlled breathing—Richard B. Noble, Rhythmic Breathing

The Duh Factor

If the tax payers bail out the corporations, who bails out the tax payers?

Another Overview of Religion

It is more blessed to give than to receive.--Christianity

Extend your help without seeking reward. Give to others and do not regret or begrudge your liberality.--Taoism

Bounteous is he who gives to the beggar who comes to him in want of food and feeble.--Hinduism

Blessed is he that considereth the poor.--Judaism

The poor, the orphan, the captive - feed them for the love of God alone, desiring no reward, nor even thanks. --Islam

In the News

Robert J. Samuelson in the September 15 issue of Newsweek in writing about Health Care makes a point:

“Countless studies have shown that many diagnostic tests, surgeries and medical devices are either ineffective or unneeded.”

He might well have added drugs and medications to the list. Get out of its way—through conscious diet (Daily Intake of Everything)--and the mindbody system has amazing recuperative powers.

The way things are going however, by the year 2025, Samuelson reports that the Congressional Budget Office expects that twenty five cents of every dollar spent in the US will be spent for health. In 1960 it was a nickel.

The trend toward higher costs will continue until society stops thinking about health care as a right and instead begins to view it as a responsibility—that of the individual.

We each have a relationship with our mindbody system that requires daily care for its best functioning. Neglect leads to medical care. Who knows where that leads?

Training and Training Wheels

What would happen if you each morning and afternoon you spent 15 minutes training the dog you adopted? The normal result is that within a couple of weeks, the dog would be submissively responding to your commands. All you have to do is put in the time to discipline the creature.

Think of your ego mind in the same way—a creature needing structure for best results and to keep it from running roughshod in your mental household and in your life. Imagine that you would take 15 minutes each morning and afternoon to train it—with affirmations as you breathe. What do you think would happen?

I suggest that your result is that your mindbody would begin to associate the breathing with the affirmation and the good feelings generated. Over a period of time, maybe as quickly as two weeks, every time you took a conscious breath, from deep within the positive affirmation association would trigger. This would make your breathing and your affirmations more effective, wouldn’t it? As usual, don’t take my word for it. Give it a trial period for a couple of weeks and see what happens—naturally—in your life.

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.

Order Breathe and Grow Rich now and enrich your life step by step in a 30 day program.  

Breathe and Grow Rich Reminder:

Q&A

I have questions about the new book, Breathe and Grow Rich.

Answer 1. Prosperity includes an abundance of all good things—Wholeness, including Health, Wealth and Joy. Breathe and Grow Rich is a step by step guide engaging a person in activity leading to goal acquisition, achievement or manifestation.

2. Is this like “The Secret?”

Only in the sense that it promotes a better understanding the value of being able to focus one’s mind in living the best life possible. It is unlike in that it does not “sell hope without technique.” Breathe and Grow Rich provides an understanding of “the process” backed by method.

3. Breathe and Grow Rich is a how-to for those who’d like to have more energy and accomplish more in their lives. The promise is noticeable beneficial change in less than 30 days.

4. The subtitle of the book is Self-Care to Enrich Your Whole Life. What does that mean?

Accepting responsibility for, being responsive to one’s health is the first step. The first step in doing that lies in learning and using a breathing technique as if it were an exercise like walking—something you do because it benefits you and feels good.

Few actually achieve their goal of living a life of purpose, passion and productivity. They run out of energy—physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. The answer to the problem could be attributed to low energy. 

As energetic beings we can control the 85% of our bio-chemistry that help us think better and be clearer, have a better mood and feel lighter. The secret in this case lies in your breath.  Order Breathe and Grow Rich.

The Ongoing Process

Breathing is one of the things to be looked after because it is one of the most important things.

If you are not breathing fully, you cannot live fully.  Then almost everywhere you will be withholding something, even in love. In talking even, you will be withholding. You will not communicate completely; something will always remain incomplete.

Once breathing is perfect everything else falls into line. Breathing is life. But people ignore it, they don’t worry about it at all, they don’t pay it any attention.

And every change that is going to happen is going to happen through the change in your breathing.  --Osho

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

Take a Breath

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:

·Tune into the Love channel

·Access essence

·Understand

·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

·The joy in life

·Daily expression of gratitude

·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.

Trust—the Life that you are. The Universe is a complex unfolding too profound to understand with the linear mind. Yet each person has an inner connection that provides information about safety. The spirit that lives within and manifests as all things around you leads life through you. Since the Universe is too large to worry about, what’s a person to do? Feel your way through it by keeping your breathing open. When you feel tightness or a constriction in your breath it’s a signal that you are TEMPORARILY out of balance. Breathe, rebalance and ask within regarding the situation you find yourself in.

Unique—each one of us.  There has never been another you or me. It all the Universe and all the dimensions known and as yet unknown, we are the only one with the specific embodied characteristic. We all are alike in this regard. Though our physical expressions as tall or short, dull or bright;  each is unlike any other and a required part of the whole. Spirit manifests through us as an artist expressing in form. Surely, in all of creation that is another you or me that is and inch shorter or taller; and otherwise the same—along with all possible variations. Yet this one of you or me is unique. It could not be otherwise. Yet we learn to desire to be like others. It drives some of us crazy; others of us sane. Which are you?

Exercise for the Soul

What do you think would happen if, taking 5 Full Wave Breaths, you were to ask to feel your uniqueness in your heart? Do it now and repeat throughout your day. Repeat, asking to feel your uniqueness within the whole. Continue until you appreciate your self.

Just Breathe! is from Dr. Tom Goode, sharing ways to stay awake in the dream and keeping:

  • Thoughts heading in the chosen direction 
  • Emotions open and flowing—
  • 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.

Who It Is For

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.

Render Greater Service

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.     

Content

The Just Breathe! ezine expresses a view of the mindbodysoul aspects of holistic health. It is a monthly newsletter for the awakened and awakening--who know themselves to be multidimensional (energetic, divine sparks) beings with physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects. It is for those who practice their spiritual purpose by living lives of greater enlightenment and service through the pathways of Love, Joy and Peace.

The Soul

This ezine is for those 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. 

Healing

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.

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. Each is tasked with job of expressing their potential. An awesome task, it is impossible unless you breathe well.

Work Task

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

Three Steps to Joy

  1. Open Your Breathing with Full Wave Breathing
  2. Become Aware of Your Breathing Throughout the Day
  3. 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.

In The Coming Months

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.

Realization

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.

What’s Ahead?

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.

Training the Brain

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 leads you to the missing link to manifestation. If there were only one book you’d read this year, this is the one I’d recommend for you.

Sickcare—The System

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.

Self-Responsible LoveCare™

How would you treat illness if it was not your enemy, and was instead only a message concerning stressors in your mind and body? Most likely you would cooperate with the body using principles based upon natural health. The first place to begin is with the basic foundation of life, your breathing.

Our mind and body work well until overloaded with stressors accumulating in cells and tissues. Chronic stress then makes us become a shallow breather, wearing down the immune system. Blood becomes toxic, and lacking oxygen and energy, the body is unable to defend itself against either internal or environmental stressors. The result is discomfort, disease, disability and premature death. Fortunately, for the wise, there is an alternative!

Each of us can practice protective and preventative, remedial and restorative 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!

Holistic Practices

  • 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!

Simple Yet Vital

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.”

Hope is Here

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!

Just For Today!

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

  1. Love Me with all of your heart, mind and soul;
  2. Love others as Self.

We are taught to see difference. Learning to see oneness, the problems in relationships begin to disappear. If all is God, what is not Self?

BREATHE!

The Spiritual Dichotomy

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.

Q & A

What does personality learn during this time of soul emergence?

1.         Surrender

2.         Detachment

3.         Accommodation

4.         Acknowledgement

5.         Acceptance

Surrender:

  • To be willing to follow where soul leads;
  • 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


1. Belly Breathing

2. Crown Focus

3. Love Feeling

Myth—the Self must die and be reborn.

Inside Stuff

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.

Old Words of the Wise

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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The Mask of Knowing

Didn’t you wonder why nobody could recognize Zorro as he wore his skimpy mask? His heroic character was a reminder to us all of the inner hero who wears a mask. We forget we wear masks and appear to have forgotten the inner heroine or hero of life that we came to play. Like Zorro, we may have our turf be a small town or village. Batman—needs a bigger mask—takes care of a city. Zorro puts on the mask and becomes another personality.

When you don the Mask of Knowing, you too will become another personality. Put it on as you become the knowing self; Wearing it allows you to sit quietly and ask questions of your inner being and clearly hear the answers. Never mind about being intuitive. Instead put on the Mask of Knowing. You can even wear it while shopping—no one will know who you are.

The Mask of Knowing is a Powerful Device for Your Conscious Mind. Wear and you know. I can’t disclose what you know, that’s private. Yet you will know from the first minute you put on your mask of knowing. No more of those troublesome “I don’t know” statements when asked what, why, how, when and those things.

Now, wearing your personal, comfortable Mask of Knowing, you will instead, say, “One answer is…(you wait for a thought to arise while focusing on your heart and another answer is….” You  will be surprised and delighted with what you do know as you wear your Mask of Knowing.

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  • The Wonderful Breathing Beanie Set
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  • The Wonderful Well Wishing Wristlet
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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.  Coming next: The Detector

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.

All Is Energy

Since all is energy and each individual is connected to the whole, then each person has the power to direct their energy. 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.

Who Am I?

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.

The Final Word

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.

(I now have openings for 4 new students)

Keep breathing!
Tom

EXERCISE CORNER:

Full Wave Breathing is a natural, drug-free, and dramatically effective way to experience health, joy and aliveness that mobilizes and supports your progression toward balance and wholeness. It is a method which accelerates and complements modern healthcare and treatment practices. Use it to inspire yourself so you can inspire others!

The Single Most Important Exercise is Full Wave Breathing

There are 3 Steps, simple as A B C: Abdomen, Belly, and Chest. First, breathe into the lower abdomen and keep your focus there until you can comfortably fill and relax that area of the body. Use your muscles to expand your lower abdomen, beginning at the top or your pubic bone.

Second, after filling the abdomen (A) shift your focus to your entire belly (B) or midsection, stretching and distending your diaphragm and ribs as you inhale. Relax everything as you exhale. Use your muscles to push out the lower abdomen, then expand the area just above.

Third, filling A & B, shift your focus to your chest (C) and above. Having expanded the lower portions of the body, stretch up into the chest and back. Make all of your physical movements gentle and slow. All the movement to become very subtle and gentle as you alternately inhale and exhale without pause.

You may find it more comfortable to begin with distinct movements of your body. Allow the process to become like a dance of movement from bottom to top, top to bottom. Later, allow your body to remain completely relaxed as you visualize the movement of energy through you.

Repeat often for the most dramatic results. For more detailed instruction, read below:

Step One of Full Wave Breathing

Place one hand on the abdomen below the navel and the other on the chest. As you inhale, hold the chest still; allowing the abdomen to expand as if you is filling a balloon. Stretch and extend the lower belly. Relax completely into an inhale at the point where the abdomen is distended fully and the lungs are filled. After exhaling, inhale immediately. The chest does not move at all.

Continue breathing with no pause between inhales and exhale. All of the emphasis is upon your inhale. The exhale is a release of the tension created during your inhale. So you will Inhale and relax...inhale...and relax. Continue as you read this instruction to see how simple it is to perform. Breathe through your nose or mouth as you desire. You increase oxygenation by over 50% when you breathe through your mouth because of the normal restriction in nostril breathing.

Close your eyes as you are breathing and then relax for a few minutes when you are done. Allow your breathing to normalize before continuing with your activities. You may perform this exercise while sitting at the computer, riding in the car, or even watching television. Start practicing this exercise today and you'll be pleased with your result!

To help you stay focused on your breathing, place a book or weighted bag on your lower abdomen when lying down and performing the exercise. If you are sitting, to keep your spine erect, imagine that a rope is attached to the middle of your head. The rope rises into the air. In your imagination, allow the rope to gently lift you up until your spine is erect. Sit straight, be open, and breathe.

Step Two of Full Wave Breathing

Continue breathing with no pause between inhales and exhale. Inhale and Relax...Inhale...and Relax.

Count 1 as you inhale and expand your lower abdomen in Step One. Count 2 as you lengthen your inhale and push out the middle of your torso at the solar plexus. Release tension and allow the body to exhale and repeat. Perform this exercise anytime to relax. Do not perform connected breathing when driving or operating machinery.

When lying down, place a pillow under your knees, not under your neck. When sitting, allow yourself to stretch and open your spine as you sit and breathe.

Close your eyes as you breathe and then relax for a few minutes when you are done. Allow your breathing to normalize and return to your tasks.

Step Three of Full Wave Breathing

Continue breathing with no pause between inhales and 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.

Visit These Websites:
www.internationalbreathinstitute.com; www.inspiredparenting.net
www.heartwiseparent.com and www.drtomgoode.com. Check out the books, cd’s, exercises, personal coaching and back issues of this ezine.

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

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

Tom and Caron, I just wanted to say how much the Cosmic Waltz has been helping me sleep and calm my nerves during this hectic time of year for me.  I feel so blessed to have met both of you.   Wendy      Learn More...

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

Books

Breathe and Grow Rich—Self Care to Enrich Your Whole Life. Learn More...

Fully Alive! - How to Live a Longer, Livelier Life, Have More Energy and Increased Enjoyment. Learn More...
The Holistic Guide to Weight Loss, Anti-aging and Fat Prevention - a no-fluff all you need to know manual to assist in your quest for health. Learn More...
Help Kids Cope - New stressors make our children's life more difficult that we can imagine. Learn how you can help them now. Learn More...

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.  

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

This book is a metaphorical tale leading your to yourself and helping you to awaken more fully.      

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Email Tom @ thomasgoode@earthlink.net
To reach Caron, call 817-847-8758.


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Email him at: thomasgoode@earthlink.net
To reach Caron, call 817-847-8758

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