Learn How to Use the Power of Conscious Breathing
Before you work with the exercises on this page, make sure that you have completed all the exercises on the Develop Your Ability to Visualize page.
Breathing is one of the most profound and direct ways we have of changing or tuning our chemical and biological state to affect our neurology. Within breath is contained life-force (energy, ki. chi, prana, etc.). The assimilation and direction of life-force can be further increased through awareness and by qualifying breath with particular attributes you'd like to embody.
Through breathing we interact with our surroundings. The air you breathe in now was the exhalation of someone else.
Breathing to Establish Rapport and Bonding
Matching the breathing of another, breathing in unison with another, is one of the fastest ways to create a rapport. You can change the state of another person by pacing (matching) his or her breathing and then leading by slowly changing the pattern, depending on what you desire to accomplish - e.g. stimulate more excitement or calm down another.
You can practice on human beings and even on pets. You can observe the rhythm in which the person whose breathing you desire to match breathes, by paying attention to the rise and fall of his shoulders.
Even if you're in a public place practicing on total strangers, you may
discover as you match someone's breathing that you suddenly like them
better - that's because you're now in "sync" - you're energetically
"alike" and people like people who are like themselves. You'll
also find that the person whose breathing you've matched likes you better.
Yeah, I guess you can practice on your parents, siblings, teachers and
classmates and see what happens. Imagine you just need to match the breathing
of another person and they may instantly like you much better than before
because now they sense that you have something "deep" in common,
even if they don't have a clue what it could be.
Breathing and Trance States
Deep, relaxed breathing promotes calmness and helps to induce a trance state. When breathing in, breathe deeply into your stomach, hold the breath for a few moments, and exhale very slowly. Repeat the process several times. You will notice an instant sense of increased calmness.
This kind of breathing also helps when you find yourself emotionally overwhelmed. Deep breathing will help you to let go of stress and restore mental and emotional equilibrium, enabling you to handle the situation more effectively.
One breathing technique that promotes overall relaxation is by focusing on different parts of your body and breathing through that part of the body until it feels totally loose and relaxed, beginning with your feet, and continuing with your calves, knees, thighs, buttocks, stomach, back, chest (breast), arms, shoulders, neck and completing the process with your head.
Maintaining your awareness on breathing, simply watching it without consciously attempting to change it (it will change of its own accord) promotes an awareness of the present moment.
When you are immersed in reading a book or when you are solving a mathematical problem, your mind is very much absorbed in the object of your focus. If you closely watch your breath on these occasions, you will find that the breath has become very very slow. Mind and Breathing and closely connected.
Breathing and Healing
You can use the breath to direct your attention and energy to specific parts of your body. In this way you can increase the awareness of your body, as well as stimulate the healing energy.
To accelerate the healing process, all you need to do is imagine that you are breathing through the the part of your body that needs healing. Health problems are a result of "congested energy" and breathing helps both to release this blockages and allow the unobstructed flow of energy through the body, as well as to increase the life-force in that part of the body.
Breathing and Pain Management
Directing breathing to a painful area of the body relaxes the muscles and helps to eliminate pain. For example, if you feel tightness in your stomach, you may notice instant improvement after just a few focused breaths. In this case, simply imagine that you are breathing through your stomach.
Breathing to Remove Emotional Blocks
Deep intense breathing brings you in touch with deep seated emotions, the fears, pains and anger, and releases them. A very effective breathing technique that releases deep seated emotions and released energy blocks that prevent the free flow of energy is conscious-connected breathing. In this type of breathing there is no pause between the inhalation and exhalation, just one continuous flow.
You naturally breath in this way after, what represents for you, an intense physical exertion - e.g. running a long distance. This is just about the only kind of breathing in which you may breathe (inhale and exhale) through your mouth.
Even if you breathe only for several minutes in this way - e.g. 20 conscious connected breaths, you'll release some emotional and energetic blocks. To experience the whole process, which may last even 45 minutes, it is best to contact a "certified rebirther" in your area. A "rebirther" is simply a guide - a person who has undergone this process and is experienced in guiding you through it.
The above process was initiated by Leonard Orr. The name "rebirthing" stuck because many people who went through the process would re-live their "birth" experience. The similar process, initiated by Stanislav Groff is "holotropic breathwork".
As you keep on breathing in the above manner, your body will feel energized and you will feel tingles all over your body. As the energy pushes through the energetic blocks in your body, initially you may feel a slight discomfort and attempt to resist the process. Resisting the process actually intensifies discomfort, so the only way through is to keep on breathing. As you surrender to the breathing process, at some point you'll even feel that it's not you who are breathing, but that the breath is breathing you, purifying every cell and atom of your body. As energetic and emotional obstacles dissolve, your breathing will gradually return to normal and you'll feel super-energized.
Breathing to Access Creativity
There are several techniques for accessing creativity through breathing. One of them involves switching the nostril through which you are breathing. Throughout the day you'll notice that the nostril through which you are breathing changes. For a while you breathe through the right nostril, then the nostril changes, and you breathe through the left nostril. After a while, nostrils change again. As the left side of the body controls the right-brain thinking (creative), and the right side of the body controls the left-brain thinking (logical), to stimulate creativity and right-brain thinking, you simply close down your right nostril (with your thumb) and breathe through the left nostril, thus stimulating the right-brain activity.
Breathing to Accelerate the Process of Manifesting What You Desire
Like God breathed life into his creation, magicians, shamans, and healers breathe raised energy into the desired outcome. Focused energy, like a laser beam, always hits the target and brings about the manifestation, yet to create a change, to shapeshift your reality, you need to generate energy. The more energy you have, the more power you have.
Individual with more energy easily re-arranges the lower-energy patterns. Or, if you will, in the conflict between the two, the one with more energy (higher vibration, more power) always wins over the one with lower energy (lower vibration, less power). More about this is mentioned elsewhere - throughout this website. Once the energy is raised (generated) it is directed, through breath and visualization, toward the manifestation of desired goal.
How To Generate Energy and Power Through Breathing
Imagine that your entire universe is made out of the particular quality you desire to experience and manifest in your life - energy, power, love, light, abundance, etc. Imagine that you are standing, or sitting or laying down in the middle of this universe where only this particular attribute exists. Then with your every inhalation imagine that you are breathing this particular quality into your being and that with every exhalation you are exhaling only empty air. Then go one step further. Imagine that you are breathing not only through your nose, mouth and lungs, but through every cell and atom of your being - that you are like a sponge hungrily absorbing water, and that with your every inhalation you are absorbing this particular quality through every pore, through every cell and atom of your being. Feel the intensity of the particular quality increasing within you and keep on breathing in this way until you have totally become that which you desire to experience.
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