Conscious Connected Breathing: An Overview
You may think you know how to breathe. However, drawing on over twenty-five years of study and research into breathwork and body-centered therapies—as well as working with thousands of people worldwide—for all practical purposes we can freely say that everybody breathes inhibitedly.
Discover how breathing can free you from past pain and release your full energy and ability. Learn how to plug into the inexhaustible reservoir of happiness and power hidden deep within you, and draw from it unceasingly.
If life feels dumb or dull
Based on yogic teachings thousands of years old, Conscious Connected Breathing improves physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well-being, and has now been proven effective by modern medical science. Conscious Connected Breathing purifies not only the body and the energy channels of the body, but the heart and the mind as well. If life feels dumb, or dull, that’s because the body, heart and mind aren’t pure.
Crisis = danger + opportunity
Conscious Connected Breathing increases energy flow in the body and induces relaxation, which in turn release tension and negative feelings, as well as drive out toxins, impurities and traumas from the body and mind. As a result, we go through a range of bodily sensations, emotions and memories.
Sooner or later, however, something or other will come up to make us feel like not breathing. Sometimes we don’t want to breathe anymore. We get tired of breathing over and over again. At other times we feel we can’t get through it. We want to quit. (A lot of people get stuck at this point.) Yet, this is exactly the time to hang on, stay the course, and allow the purification to occur. Simply continue breathing and endure the duration of the crisis (be it a body, an emotional, or a mental crisis), even when it seems to you that it’ll do you no good to do so. Above all, don’t try and come up with some special solutions to do something else to solve it. If this breathing is strong enough to bring on a crisis, it sure is strong enough to get you through that crisis. Even when it gets rough, or intolerable, keep on breathing and relaxing, just go with the breath, and after awhile the crisis will pass away.
What you resist persists
Pain. Try to look the other way, pretend it’s not there, and it barks its head off. Try to make it go away, and you can’t get rid of it. Fight it, and it hurts like hell. Once you understand this, you relax.
Don’t try to stop or remove the symptoms. You don’t need to make them right, but at least don’t make them wrong. Relax into them and go on breathing. You know you’re resisting it because you’re not feeling it. The fastest (and most painless) way to get past this autonomic resistance is to breathe through it without trying to get rid of it. Open to the pain (or whatever the pattern of energy might be at the moment) and breathe through it. Breathe through it, but don’t push through it. Your breathing should flow.
Perceive exactly where and what you’re feeling. Breathe right into that place. Let yourself feel it completely. Let go and feel it all. Keep breathing, and the pain will go away. That’s how one converts suffering into pure joy. ‘Cause it’s not our experiences that cause our suffering; it’s our resistance to those experiences. Our resistance makes us suffer. And to make matters worse, “what you resist persists.” So be aware in every last detail of everything that you’re experiencing. Allow what is there—physically, mentally and emotionally. Don’t analyze it. Don’t try to make sense of it. Rather, accept and experience fully whatever comes up during the breathing.
We get a mixed response from forcing and resisting. We get some pleasure and some pain. There’s this special thing about surrendering to what is so in our experience—we get only pleasure.
Freeing the life energy
The magic of breathing is that it is both energizing and relaxing at the same time. We breathe to free the life energy in the body, feelings and mind. As we breathe longer, the respiratory rhythm and pattern change frequently, and the energy gets more active and intense. There is a tremendous buildup of energy and emotion. By letting go in breathing, this released energy is transformed. The breathing ends slowly, bringing peace and tranquility, and very often bliss. Eventually, clarity, insight and wisdom will come to you.
Conscious Connected Breathing loosens the grip of the will over the Divine Energy in the body, causing rapid evolution. Later in meditation, the connected, circular breathing occurs spontaneously. Then one can fully understand and appreciate the significance of breathing. Finally, the sexual energy gets transformed into the pure love energy.
Breathing as medicine
Birth trauma, hurts, negative thoughts and feelings, emotional stress and anxiety, smoking, breathing bad air, etc.—they all inhibit and traumatize our breathing, giving rise in turn to various psychosomatic disorders. Conscious Connected Breathing repairs our breathing, and the forceful energy flow heals, even in a short time, many physical, emotional and mental illnesses. The repressed, unconscious material—that drives people into neurotic behavior—is brought into conscious awareness and integrated. Incidentally, Conscious Connected Breathing enhances the effectiveness of any growth practice one might be doing.
What are you waiting for?
Intensely pleasurable, safe, simple, easy to learn, its results are permanent.
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