INTUITIVE TIP# 1. HARNESSING THE GIFT OF YOUR BREATH.
You were born with an extraordinary gift: the gift of breath. You have the ability to harness your breath so that you can create feelings of well-being and peace throughout your body. This, in turn, contributes to your shifting energetically to a higher vibration and releasing needed endorphins and neuropeptides that calm and relax the body. Several decades ago, Dr. Herbert Benson, of Harvard University, researched this for his cardiac patients; the result being a small but powerful and important book, The Relaxation Response. I have combined his work regarding the use of breath and blended it with techniques using imagery (your ability to imagine or “in your mind’s eye” see whatever you desire) in order to help you shift to a higher energetic vibration which, in turn, permits you to have a greater “psi experience.”
Find a quiet, restful place where you will have no interruptions. Play soothing music such as Pachelbel with the gentle splashing of ocean waves in the background or Native American music. Sit in a chair, feet on the floor, back relatively straight, hands resting on your lap, face up, eyes closed, and begin to breathe. On your in- breath, visualize a cord going from you to your higher source or God or angels; a cord which pulls in warm, healing energy (you can give it a color and texture). On your out-breath, visualize and experience a sense of this warm, relaxing energy traveling down from your crown or nostrils into every cell of every part of your body; see and feel your cells feeling the warmth as they are bathed in this breath. Breathe in in this manner to the count of ten(or lower, if ten is too difficult); hold your breath to the count of ten, if possible; breathe out ever so slowly to the count of ten (even more) if possible. Be sure to feel and see in your “mind’s eye” your felt-sense of your body’s cells experiencing a significant increase of warmth, calm and peace. Do this ten times. Practice this at least15 minutes a day (or at least five minutes at a time, several times a day.) Note with a number from one to ten your level of tension pre-breath and then following the breath work. You may do easy, normal breathing in and out between deep breaths, always noting new sensations and/or awareness of a shift in you energy.
We look forward to hearing of your own experience with the breath. Please e-mail us.