Author: Steven Aitchison
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Tips for a better life #8
I first discovered someone called Win Wenger in 1998 when I started reading his site at winwenger.com . His site is a fantastic resource for furthering human potential. Win’s missions statement is:
• To enable as many human beings as possible to become more than a match for the situations, opportunities and problems or difficulties that they find around them, and
• To enjoy a richer quality of life and experience.
One of his techniques which I have used in the past and recently discovered again is called ‘Noise removal breathing’
Win hypothesised that for every situation in our lives there is a different breathing pattern. This is logical as when we are angry our breathing pattern is different from when we are calm and relaxed. This is obvious as the two situations are opposite ends of the spectrum. However breathing patterns are also different when we are calm and sleeping and calm and alert.
Using this information we can control and rid ourselves of certain behaviours, fears and phobias.
There are various methods for using these techniques but I will use the ‘noise removal technique’ to describe to you here:
This method is used to rid yourself of all the bad energy, toxins, and leftover emotions that dwell inside your body. It’s like having a really refreshing shower after a hot sticky day, only you are cleaning the inside of your body.
The noise removal method: (This is direct from Win Wenger’s site)
1. With each breath in, begin imagining (even picturing and feeling, if possible) that your air is coming in through the bottoms of your feet, all the way up from there. Breathe in as if you have to pull your air all the way up through ankles, legs and body, up to where you can breathe out through normal channels. (Perhaps picturing a nose in your feet might help, a nostril in the bottom of each foot between mid-arch and toes.) With each breath, breathe in against the pull of your air having to make its way up through the tissues and cells of your feet, ankles, legs and lower body …. Continue for several minutes, examining the effects you feel from this procedure ….
2. Picture or imagine piles of dried leaves or other debris being swirled up with each breath, out of your tissues and cells. Experience this stuff as being swirled up by each incoming breath, swirled up from the breath-swept tissues of your feet, legs and body, and swept up out of you on your deeply exhaled breath. Experience this as vividly as you can, with every breath. Sweep all that stuff cleanly out of you with your breath. (let all these leaves or debris represent all “noise”— tensions, toxins, tiredness, other pollutants which didn’t belong there.}
3. As these clouds of “noise” sweep cleanly out of you on your slowly, deeply, calmly exhaled breath, as all this debris hits the open air, see it flaming into showers of bright sparks!
(Even “noise” is energy: there is no such thing as “bad” energy, only congested energy compared to free flowing, useful energy, so that when this stuff is swept from “bad” configurations and hits the open air, it becomes good clean usable life-enhancing energy again.)
Sweep up as much of that stuff as you can with each and every incoming breath, blowtorch out that shower of bright sparks with your breath, deeply and softly breathed out as the flame of a blowtorch, and see how much more, with each breath out, you can fill the space around you with good released energy …
Continue for some minutes, studying the effects you feel from doing this…
4. Breathe in not only through your feet but through whatever parts of your body come to your attention in this context….. Breathe in against the pull of the air having to come in through the tissues and cells of each such part, swirl up as much “noise” as you can with each breath in; blowtorch out as much released energy in bright hot spark-showers as you can, with each breath …
(You may find it interesting to make mental note of just which parts of your body do come to your attention in this context, for you to breathe in through and to thereby swirl up and remove even subliminal “noise” from….)
Continue for several minutes, studying the effects you feel from this pattern of breathing and imaging.
5. In the same manner, use your breath to breathe up and away whatever could have in the slightest stood between you and even more profound levels of relaxed awareness. Continue this breathing-goal for several minutes, studying the effects you feel from it …
(In the same manner, use your breath to sweep up and away any feeling of discomfort, whenever experienced and not just during these exercises. Throughout your life, make it a reflex to respond to any problem, discomfort, difficulty or distress by this deep, slow, calm, releasing, noise-removal breathing. Emphasize breathing slowly when dealing with any distress … But first, before using this breathing on specific “targets” and problems, get in, over several sessions, a total of at least an hour’s worth of this type of breathing, emphasizing the clarity and pleasure aspects especially, to build your general comfort levels.)
For future reference—If and when you like: think back to some situation, relating to problems or difficulties or hurts you have experienced, and “breathe on it” in this manner, drawing up and away any static or negative feelings out of that experience, until you feel perfectly, wholly, comfortable while clearly recalling all aspects of that situation …. )
6. In the same manner, for several minutes before any task, creative work, schooling or performance of whatever nature, picture your goal for that activity and breathe up and away whatever could in the slightest have impeded full swift rich clean attainment of that goal—then go directly into that work and let fly!
7. In the same manner, breathe up and away whatever could in the slightest have impeded your clear, rich perception of beauty or of some insight ….
I am in no way being paid for this post, I just want to bring a great technique for you to use in your life. I believe it can make a huge difference.
{ 6 comments… read them below or add one }
I love the idea of picturing that air is coming in from the bottom of my feet. Thanks for enlightening me with a great article about breathing. I practice yoga, but breathing definitely needs more of my focus.
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Thanks again,
Karl
Breathe
“Ilchi Lee believes that a habit of good breathing can prevent much unhappiness. So, if you become emotionally upset, do not try to analyze your situation by thinking. Instead, focus on your breathing. This is much easier and more effective. Stop thinking for a moment and concentrate on your breathing. Deep breathing will quiet your emotions and enable you to better assess your circumstances.” -SRV
Breathing right is a very powerful method of inducing positive energy in the body. Vipassana is a method which is based on meditating while concentrating on your breathing. However, unlike the method suggested by you above, it requires not to make any changes in the breathing style of the moment.
Whatever the method, all these methods are very effective. As Michael has suggested above, just concentrating on the breathing alone is effective enough. I have also followed this technique whenever I am mentally or physically tired. It is a matter of seconds only, before I descend into a deep sleep. And, when I wake up, I am deeply relaxed.
Pranayama, a yogic method involving breathing techniques, has brought about a health revolution of sorts in India. people report that they get relief from many physical ailments, just by following these methods.
But, whatever one does, one should always get proper guidance before trying out anything on her own.
First off, excellent blog, ive been following it for a few months now, and have particularly enoyed this post.
I practice meditation whenever i can and this post on breathing exercises is excellent, visualising the movement of your breath and the air is a great technique i frequently use.
Keep up the good work!
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Another way of looking at the manifestation of health and the prana that sustains us.
I hope you feel the spring in the air. In the midst of the storm or the sweet calm of evening there I AM. We are living at a time in history filled with promise and hope as well as apparent chaos and difficulty. It is increasingly important for us to remember that wherever thou are there I AM. It is increasingly important to maintain a spiritual practice and center ourselves in Love. All that is going on around us need not penetrate us; it is not the Truth of who we are.
It is nice to chat with you in this way and to talk about this seemingly elusive subject of “getting what you want” in your every day life and affairs; and that is what I should like to try to explain. HOW TO GET WHAT YOU WANT while here in this earth plane of mortal being in your karmic evolution. The ability to get and enjoy whatever you may desire is merely a matter of Knowledge of, and correct conformity to, the Magic Laws of Nature; for to KNOW the Law and live it is to abide in a veritable kingdom of “heaven” of your own making. That condition of well-being we call “heaven” is a state of Consciousness which reflects into the affairs of our everyday life. Moreover, nobody but you can get what you want for you, promises, assurances and threats to the contrary notwithstanding.
Nearly everybody is, in some measure, seeking that intangible and enjoyable condition of being we commonly call “Success” which I maintain is the easiest attainment imaginable, when rightly understood.
After all, what is Success? What do you mean when you think of one who is, or has attained Success? Most people think of Success in terms of riches, or position, or title, or other tangible evidence of accomplishment. Few persons have any idea of the real meaning of the term “Success: I submit for your consideration that true Success is the effect or result of one’s ability to Be or Become, Do, and Have whatever is desired; in other words, the ability to GET WHAT YOU WANT.
He or she who has acquired riches is not always a Success. Sometimes the humble loot maker is a greater Success than is the industrial giant. Success for one may mean something quite different from what another may call Success. In any event, any degree of success, in any avenue of endeavor, is the effect, or result, of the Right conscious attitude, as has been demonstrated by every man and woman who has ever been acclaimed a Success.
I repeat, the Secret of Success lies in our maintaining a healthy, positive mental attitude. A negative, destructive conscious attitude harbors fear and worry which only leads to failure and distressing consequences. I am sure you have heard the statement, “there is nothing to fear but fear itself.” Fear shuts us down. It literally blocks our connection with the Infinite Omnipresence from which all blessings flow. There is One Universal Mind which we all use This Mind is Divine Intelligence, Infinite Knowing and is available to us if we but keep our attention on the good.
Where our attention goes, energy flows and results happen. Our thoughts (that is our beliefs, attitudes and emotions) are powerful and will produce results. Think of disaster and you will create disaster. Think loss, you will create loss. Think new opportunity and you will create new opportunities.
The world in which “we live and move and have our being” is a world of illusion. For we and all about us are but the reflections of the eternal verities of the Infinite Omnipresence. We are like so many “ cups of water” reflecting the “Light of The World” which is innately and inherently WITHIN us because of our spiritual at one-ment with The Infinite Omnipresence.
Success, you see, is NEVER a matter of material acquisition, but rather, of spiritual Understanding and expression in Thought. We keep these little “cups of water, which we call conscious mind, powerful and effective for Good by Right Thinking.
Hopefully these few thoughts have been interesting to you and I will continue in my next message with the next step in the road to success.
Best wishes,
Richard
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