Benefits of BREATHWORK:
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| Info and articles on the breathwork process: On the physical level, the oxygenating of your body speeds the release of toxins and promotes physical relaxation and the release of stress. Surprisingly, only 3% of total body waste is eliminated via defecation and 7% by urination. The skin passes out another 20% leaving the remaining 70% to be breathed out. For this reason alone it behooves us to breathe fully and freely. On the spiritual level the breath has been used for centuries as a means of connecting with a deeper experience of who you really are in essence. Whether you call that essence God, all that is, or your higher self it is often a depth of experience beyond words. In breathwork it is not unusual to have this realm of experience through the use of your breath. If you take the word INSPIRE its definition encompasses what breathwork is - "to inhale; to breathe life into; to affect, guide or arouse by divine influence; to fill with noble or reverent emotion; to stimulate to creativity or action." On the mental level, just as breath is essential to life and vitality, affirmative thought is essential to intelligence and creativity. By upgrading the quality of our thoughts we upgrade the quality of our lives, therefore producing greater health, self-esteem and prosperity. Breathwork uses the tool of affirmations, a technique immersing new thoughts into our consciousness to release negative thought patterns affecting our behavior. Many of these patterns stem from our birth and later life experiences. Most people who practice breathwork go through major, positive changes in a short time and feel they have started their lives anew. Immediately breathwork is a tremendous boost to creative energy- within a short time & focused attention, breathwork accelerates healing expansion into joy and changes your life completely.. (See testimonials page for thoughts on the process and personal experiences from folks who have worked with Dayna Mondello) | " What is Breathwork" (as adapted from an article by Peter Kane) Breathwork involves breathing in a full, free manner (as guided by a trained breathworker); the result is an increase in the level of physical and spiritual energy in our body, thus cleansing the many tensions held there. The result of the physical cleansing is that the mental and emotional origins of tension come back into consciousness and can then be healed. By learning to breathe consciously and fully, we discover and release the core issues now held in our mind and emotions. The lineage that I practice from is called Rebirthing Breathwork. It was named Rebirthing because when Leonard Orr developed it in the early 70s both he and his first clients relived their births, discovering the tremendous impact birth had had on them. Rebirthing has since undergone many changes to become a more holistic process, addressing our entire childhood and life experience; some Rebirthers have not changed the name because understanding the birth experience is one of the valuable results of Rebirthing. Breathwork sessions are about two hours in length and
consist of counseling and the breathing process. The breathing process
usually takes between
an hour and
an hour-and-a-half. The experience during the breathing portion varies
from session to session, and from client to client. The most basic experience
is usually described
as tingling or vibrating. Breathworkers refer to this as an energy release,
a cellular cleansing of tension stored in the body. This is a result
of the
breathing
process increasing the level of physical and spiritual energy in the
body, which washes away old tensions. Most simply, rebirthing or breathwork begins by working with the physical body and as a result it cleanses the emotional and spiritual bodies. This almost always leaves the client in a state somewhere between peace and ecstasy. |
| BREATH LANGUAGE by Joy Manne author "Conscious Breathing" As long as we are still alive, the way we are breathing right now is the right way for us right now, and we can learn from it! As the freedom of our breath is restrained by the experiences we have repressed, our breath is teaching us about our state of consciousness. Breath is a language that expresses itself through the location of the breath in the body, breathing sounds, and breath rhythms. For example, when the breath is rapid and high in the chest, it is frequently communicating about grief and fear; when in the middle of the chest, it is about anger, when pulled into the belly in a ceratin way, it tells about feelings pushed away as far as possible. Our breath language tells us when we are "activated". In life, and in breathwork sessions, we are activated when our repressed experiences and their related suffering are brought to consciousness and we think and react under their influence rather than behaving autonomously. A breathwork session will activate past suffering and bring it to consciousness for integration. The breather arrives at insight into the cause of the problem at vision with regard to its solution. Breathwork sessions may be individual, accompanied by a professional breathworker, or take place in groups led by professional breathworkers. The pattern of a breathwork session is ACTIVATION, INTEGRATION, INSIGHT, VISION. This pattern can be repeated several times during the same session. At the end of a breathwork session, once the breath has done its work, it is likely to completely fill our physical body and our energy bodies. Then we breathe in from below our feet, take our breath above our head, and let it go like a wave, down to below our feet. This breath is about transcendental harmony. | THE BREATH from Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth ...Being aware of your breathing takes attention away from thinking and creates space. It is one way of generating consciousness. Although the fullness of consciousness is already there as the unmanifested, we are here to bring consciousness into this dimension. Be aware of your breathing. Notice the sensation of the breath. Feel the air moving in and out of your body. Notice how the chest and abdomen expand and contract slightly with the in- and out breath. One conscious breath is enough to make some space where before there was the uninterrupted succession of one thought after another. One conscious breath (two or three would be even better), taken many times a day, is an excellent way of bringing space into your life. Even if you meditated on your breathing for two hours or more, which some people do, one breath is all you ever need to be aware of. The rest is memory or anticipation, which is to say, thought. Breathing isnt really something you do but something that you witness as it happens. Breathing happens by itself. The intelligence within the body is doing it. All you have to do is watch it happening. There is no strain or effort involved... ...Many people's breath is unnaturally shallow. The more you are aware of the breath, the more its natural depth will reestablish itself. Because breath has no form as such, it has since ancient times been equated with spirit- the formless one Life. "God formed man out of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and the man became a living creature" The German word for breathing-atmen-is derived from the ancient Indian (Sanskrit) word Atman meaning the indwelling divine spirit or God within. The fact that breath has no form is one of the reasons why breath awareness is an extremely effective way of bringing space into your life, of generating consciousness.... ...Being aware of your breath forces you into the present moment-the key to all inner transformation. Whenever you are conscious of the breat, you are absolutely present. You may also notice that you cannot think and be aware of your breathing. Conscious breathing stops your mind. But far from being in a trance or half asleep, you are fully awake and highly alert. You are not falling below thinking, but rising above it. And if you look more closely, you will find that those two things- coming fully into the present moment and ceasing thinking without loss of consciousness- are actually one and the same: the arising of space consciousness. |
 OSHO: ON INTELLIGENCE Intelligence is a natural phenomenon -- just as breathing is, just as seeing is. Intelligence is the inner seeing; it is intuitive. It has nothing to do with intellect. Never confuse intellect with intelligence, they are polar opposites. Intellect is of the head;it is taught by others, it is imposed on you. You have to cultivate it. It is borrowed, it is something foreign, it is not inborn. But intelligence is inborn. It is your very being, your very nature. Drop the fear. Fear was taken up by you in your childhood, unconsciously. Now consciously drop it and be mature. Then the life can be a light which goes on deepening as you go on growing. |
| From Thich Nhat Hanh's BREATHE! YOU ARE ALIVE sutra on the Full Awareness of Breathing Breathe and you know you are alive. Breathe and you know that all is helping you. Breathe and you know that you are the world. Breathe and you know that the flower is breathing too. Breathe for yourself and you breathe for the world. Breathe in compassion and breathe out joy. Breathe and be one with the air that you breathe. Breathe and be one with the river that flows. Breathe and be one with the earth that you tread. Breathe and be one with the fire that glows. Breathe and you break the thought of birth and death. Breathe and you see that impermanence is life. Breathe for your joy to be steady and calm. Breathe for your sorrow to flow away. Breathe to renew every cell in your blood. Breathe to renew the depths of consciousness. Breathe and you dwell in the here and now. Breathe and all you touch is new and real. | A possible explanation about life, God and everything?
Many volumes have been written on this subject since ancient times. What the Indian sages thousands of years ago called prana, the ancient Chinese named CHI or KI and the Druids refer to as OD. What is commonly agreed though, that it is the life force, the miniature building stone of the universe, too small or etheric to be perceived by any kind of instrument or measuring device to date. Even modern science has now found out that prana exists and that our seemingly so solid world vibrates in an eternal dance of swirling atoms. These in turn consist of even smaller and smaller particles, which finally turn out to be pure energy densified in various wavelets and aggregates - higher dimensional energy, manifesting on this plane as prana. Prana is not just in the air, it is everywhere. There is nowhere that it is not; it even exists in a vacuum or a void. Nothing exists without prana, neither animate nor inanimate. Prana is the smallest, most refined building block of life, inseparably connected to spirit, god or the creative energy, and creates and sustains simply everything (physical matter, thoughts, feelings, energy... etc.). In general, there are two things which we take in when we breathe. One is air and the other is prana, pure life-force energy itself, more vital than air for our existence. If you take away air, you have a couple of minutes before you die; if you take away water, you have even more time; and if you take away food you have much more time still, but if you break prana from spirit, death is instantaneous. So taking in prana with breath is absolutely crucial in sustaining our life. I guess I have always been interested in Prana. Being a Rebirther for many years, I have discovered, that the amazing effects which I continuously witness in a ''''breathe'''', can''''t be produced just by the oxygen content accumulated in the session or my contribution alone. There always seems to be an inner intelligence at work that undeniably suggests to me a connection with the Divine. So what actually happens during a breathing session? We humans are an inticrately layered four body energy system consisting of a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual body - made of prana in various states of densification (i.e. wavelengths or vibrational harmonies). Each of these bodies is an electromagnetic energy field in form of a grid system, which resonates, in a specific frequency, not unlike an electronic computer memory bank. Each of these bodies functions on a different level and performs vital life interactions, e.g. processes information, holds memory and performs a multitude of other functions. The four bodies are linked through the chakrasystem. If unaligned (through shock, trauma, emotions) the mesh of these grids collects densified energies (unreleased feelings, dysfunctional thought patterns... etc) instead of letting them float through. These unprocessed energies get trapped in the system. Moving through the layers, thoughts densify into emotions, emotions densify into physical sensations and finally solidify in physical symptoms - dis-ease and illness. Breathing intentionally in a conscious connected manner increases the prana content in the four layers of the gridsystems. Accumulating prana in the bodies helps to realign the grids by energising them, which raises their vibrational frequencies. This in turn entices all four grid systems simultaneously to resonate in a higher frequency and they automatically attempt to achieve a state of unity, a place of balance. Through the re-alignment the trapped densified energies loosen up, and get ''''washed out'''' by the free floating prana, to be transported to the electromagnetic surface (consciousness). There it can be processed by re-experiencing and released as thought, emotion or sensation. This leaves your system more cleansed, realigned and connected. As we established a few paragraphs before prana is in everything and everything consist of it. God (Source, the creative principle) per definition also is everything and everything consist of and through him/her/it as well. Therefore it seems clear to me that prana must be of divine nature and has a direct connection to Source. As prana is pure spirit the ''''breather'''' usually also directly connects to Source via the spiritual body in a breathing session. Besides feeling warm and internally glowing, cared for and loved, experiences include mystical revelations and unity consciousness experience in the integration phase. Another fascinating by-product of this breathing technique is that it actually induces permanent Higher Self-connection. In the beginning you just get in touch with your Higher Self but over time you will be able to firmly establish a permanent connection to your inner knowing, the Divine One Within (DOW) and your true nature as soul having a human consciousness.... ....It is possible to charge and program prana with your intentional thought energy and to use it for conscious creation, for yourself, for the highest good of this planet and its people. Creating your reality and radiating out your personal and hopefully positive charge. With love and light Gerd Lange www.breathoflight.co.uk |
READING LIST
A Course In Miracles Foundation for Inner Peace
Rebirthing Dieke Begg
Breathing in Light and Love, your call to breath and body mastery Jim Morningstar
The Shamanic Way of the Bee Simon Buxton
The Little Prince Antoine De Saint -Exupery
Sacred Contracts Carolyn Myss
Conscious Breathing Joy Manne
The Only Diet there Is Sondra Ray
You Can Heal Your LIfe Louise Hay
Breaking the Death Habit Leonard Orr
The Power of Now Eckhardt Tolle
The Kryon series Lee Carroll
Zero Limits Joe Vitale
Dissappearance of the Universe Gary Renard
A New Earth Eckhardt TolleA THOUSAND NAMES FOR JOY Byron Katie
HEALING WITH WHOLE FOODS Paul Pitchford
Birth Into Being DVD
What Babies Want DVD
Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born. - Deepak Chopra