It is an entire system of breathwork, that is completely separate from any others and highly complex. Balance Breathing is designed to generate greater well-being and raise your sense of joy in life and inner peace. Balance breathing can help with all sorts of trauma, including not just physical, but also spiritual and mental injuries.
Besides curing wounds, balance breathing has other uses, especial in the maintenance of optimal health. Balance breathing provides a significant number of benefits, not just physically, but spiritually and mentally as well. To be completely healthy, you need to keep all three of these aspects aligned, something which can be hard to do nowadays. Once you do, however, you will notice an immediate boost from the increased energy flow.
Regarding just your physical aspect, balance breathing serves to boost the oxygen levels throughout your body, while simultaneously stimulating your circulation. The increased blood oxygen levels will improve your physical energy and health, besides resolving a number of other issues such as headaches, respiratory problems, and other anaerobic diseases - as well as anything else that depends on oxygen.
Problems that may have affected you in the past, such as hyperventilation or asthma, may well have had, and still have, a large effect on your life. However, Despite the tremendous number of sufferers, there is a simple solution. Balance breathing will quickly resolve these problems and let you get your life back in shape. So, why continue suffering?
Speaking of the mind, balance breathing can reduce anxiety and stress, while also relieving other emotional problems like excessive or chronic worrying, or depression. Balance breathing will also bring you a much increased clarity of thought, which will allow you to work through traumas and focus more easily on the positive parts of your life.
This will in turn lead to a higher self-esteem, which will let you quickly spot thought self-sabotaging thought patterns, that might otherwise lead you back into negativity without you even being aware of them. Once you can stop problems before they occur, and see all the positive aspects of your life clearly again, you will find your enjoyment of life is greatly increased.
Then there is the spiritual part. A lot of people, perhaps even the majority, do not even consider the spiritual parts of their life. Nevertheless, it is an important side to you, and balance breathing will help you balance it. Only when all parts of your life, even the parts you pay no attention to, are balanced can you can you fully appreciate the positive aspects.
The purpose of balance breathing is to address all the most problems of your life, and solve each before it becomes significant. When you use balance breathing to keep your physical, mental, and spiritual sides healthy, you will never encounter a problem you cannot handle. Balance breathing is a vital tool to keep yourself from being overwhelmed.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
The Power Of Faith
Think back to when you were a child and you watched a friend or an older sibling ride a bicycle. You felt a desire start to build in you to be able to do that too. The more you saw them having fun riding their bicycle, the more desire you had to have one also. Finally you were able to persuade your parents to get you a bicycle.
With the help of a parent or older sibling, you learned to ride it. As your proficiency at riding a bicycle grew, your belief in your ability to do so became stronger. When your belief became very strong, you developed faith that you could do it any time you wanted to.
Once you had faith that you could ride a bicycle, you did so without much conscious thought. The same thing happens with everything that you believe you can do. When your belief in your abilities to do it becomes strong, you develop faith that you can do it whenever you want to.
The power of faith is greater than the power of knowledge, just as the CEO of an organization has more power than a junior manager. The power of faith is so superior to any technology that we presently have, that it is an injustice to equate faith with technology. When the power of faith is placed into action, the amount of work that we can accomplish becomes greater and greater, and whatever our purpose may be, we will positively scale the heights.
The power of our faith changes how we perceive the value of our abilities. If our belief in our capabilities is strong, we know that our ability will allow us to accomplish whatever we decide to undertake.
The power of faith is like the mystery of love. You know it is there, but you cannot see it. You feel it working and guiding you, but like the air that you breathe to sustain your life, it is not visible. Only the results of its presence prove its existence.
We think of faith as having the ability to move mountains (which it can), but the power of faith is as subtle as it is dynamic. The power of faith is relative to how much one truly believes something is possible. If you truly believe with every fiber of your being that you can do something, your mind will find a way to accomplish it.
A good example of this was Terry Fox, the one legged Canadian Hero who ran a marathon a day to raise money for the Cancer Society. Even professional marathon runners cannot run a marathon a day. However, this young man had faith that he could do it, and in all kinds of weather he ran a marathon a day for weeks, running from the east coast of Canada nearly to Thunder Bay where cancer over took him.
The power of faith is what miracles are made of. The power of faith is not seen in spectacular healing miracles or in getting people to laugh or make animal noises. It is seen in the everyday accomplishments of people who do things that no one expects them to be able to accomplish. However, they have so much faith in their capabilities that they confound their critics and accomplish something that seems to be impossible, like the blind man who climbed Mount Everest and the young university lad who was allowed to play the last few minutes of a basketball game and scored 27 points.
You too can do anything that you want to do if you develop faith in yourself. Do not let anyone tell you that you cannot and do not doubt yourself for a minute.
With the help of a parent or older sibling, you learned to ride it. As your proficiency at riding a bicycle grew, your belief in your ability to do so became stronger. When your belief became very strong, you developed faith that you could do it any time you wanted to.
Once you had faith that you could ride a bicycle, you did so without much conscious thought. The same thing happens with everything that you believe you can do. When your belief in your abilities to do it becomes strong, you develop faith that you can do it whenever you want to.
The power of faith is greater than the power of knowledge, just as the CEO of an organization has more power than a junior manager. The power of faith is so superior to any technology that we presently have, that it is an injustice to equate faith with technology. When the power of faith is placed into action, the amount of work that we can accomplish becomes greater and greater, and whatever our purpose may be, we will positively scale the heights.
The power of our faith changes how we perceive the value of our abilities. If our belief in our capabilities is strong, we know that our ability will allow us to accomplish whatever we decide to undertake.
The power of faith is like the mystery of love. You know it is there, but you cannot see it. You feel it working and guiding you, but like the air that you breathe to sustain your life, it is not visible. Only the results of its presence prove its existence.
We think of faith as having the ability to move mountains (which it can), but the power of faith is as subtle as it is dynamic. The power of faith is relative to how much one truly believes something is possible. If you truly believe with every fiber of your being that you can do something, your mind will find a way to accomplish it.
A good example of this was Terry Fox, the one legged Canadian Hero who ran a marathon a day to raise money for the Cancer Society. Even professional marathon runners cannot run a marathon a day. However, this young man had faith that he could do it, and in all kinds of weather he ran a marathon a day for weeks, running from the east coast of Canada nearly to Thunder Bay where cancer over took him.
The power of faith is what miracles are made of. The power of faith is not seen in spectacular healing miracles or in getting people to laugh or make animal noises. It is seen in the everyday accomplishments of people who do things that no one expects them to be able to accomplish. However, they have so much faith in their capabilities that they confound their critics and accomplish something that seems to be impossible, like the blind man who climbed Mount Everest and the young university lad who was allowed to play the last few minutes of a basketball game and scored 27 points.
You too can do anything that you want to do if you develop faith in yourself. Do not let anyone tell you that you cannot and do not doubt yourself for a minute.
Beat Depression Before It Harms Your Health
Depression is a volatile issue in the Christian community. Some claim it's a disease. Others claim it's an emotional state caused by sin. Regardless of which camp you're in, you have to agree that depression can have serious repercussions on your health. It can contribute to heart disease, cancer, obesity, and many other health challenges. But there's a simple way to stop depression in its tracks before it becomes a chronic issue and a threat to your health.
Many people have short bouts of depression that last a day or two, or maybe even a week. This isn't at all uncommon. I know I've had them myself. In fact, I had one a few years ago and a friend of mine gave me an incredible remedy. Since then, I've given it to several other people and it has worked every time. Of course, that's not a scientific study, but I believe that this is definitely a remedy that works. And I think you'll find it very useful.
Before I tell you what this remedy is, let me tell you what it is not. It is not an antidepressant drug. These drugs can cause some of the same health problems as the depression. So I think you should be very wary of treating depression with drugs.
No, this remedy is simply some words of truth. I was feeling down and I told my friend about it. His reply was humble and without any accusation, but it still cut hard. He said, "You know, any time I start feeling depressed I evaluate my thoughts. And what I find is that most of them are focused on me."
It cut hard because I realized my depression was caused largely by thoughts that I deserved more than I was getting. Whether it was unfulfilled expectations, something bad happening to me, or some type of failure on my part, I knew I was down because I wanted more. I wasn't content. I thought more was owed to me. But when I gave up my right to "more" and focused instead on serving God and others, my depression vanished. I was amazed at how well this remedy worked!
This may not solve every case of depression, but it certainly can't hurt to try. After all, I've never seen one single case of disease caused by contentment. Getting your focus off of yourself and on to others may do wonders for your condition!
Many people have short bouts of depression that last a day or two, or maybe even a week. This isn't at all uncommon. I know I've had them myself. In fact, I had one a few years ago and a friend of mine gave me an incredible remedy. Since then, I've given it to several other people and it has worked every time. Of course, that's not a scientific study, but I believe that this is definitely a remedy that works. And I think you'll find it very useful.
Before I tell you what this remedy is, let me tell you what it is not. It is not an antidepressant drug. These drugs can cause some of the same health problems as the depression. So I think you should be very wary of treating depression with drugs.
No, this remedy is simply some words of truth. I was feeling down and I told my friend about it. His reply was humble and without any accusation, but it still cut hard. He said, "You know, any time I start feeling depressed I evaluate my thoughts. And what I find is that most of them are focused on me."
It cut hard because I realized my depression was caused largely by thoughts that I deserved more than I was getting. Whether it was unfulfilled expectations, something bad happening to me, or some type of failure on my part, I knew I was down because I wanted more. I wasn't content. I thought more was owed to me. But when I gave up my right to "more" and focused instead on serving God and others, my depression vanished. I was amazed at how well this remedy worked!
This may not solve every case of depression, but it certainly can't hurt to try. After all, I've never seen one single case of disease caused by contentment. Getting your focus off of yourself and on to others may do wonders for your condition!
Help Always, Hurt Never
Revenge, the desire to hurt others who have hurt us, only bears bitter fruit. It hurts those whom we have inflicted our wrath upon. And it hurts us, because no single act in the universe goes unrewarded. From that singular act, our own consciousness is wounded by the expression of our animalism.
Nations pride themselves on the swiftness of their retribution but inevitably collapse in on themselves because the seeds of discontent that they sow, hurts all of life. Rome, the greatest civilization that the world had ever known, built on the finest arts and sciences known to the ancient world, the epitome of legal and architectural order, collapsed from within, destroyed by its own impulse to use its mighty force to strike out and subdue.
Today our world is dying because of this impulse to strike out.
We are destroying each other at an alarming rate, both individually and collectively.
And even the earth itself, is collapsing at a faster rate than we can repair. Scientists now estimate that by the year 2050, we will have exhausted the earth of all its natural resources.
The science that we celebrate, the genius of our efforts, are wasted on destructive uses. Instead of using the power of the nucleus to build great civilizations we are busy using it to stockade bombs.
Billions of dollars that could be used to heal the broken places on our planet are used to send people to horrific deaths.
When we seek to hurt life, we hurt ourselves, for we are life.
Revenge it is said is a dish best served cold; but whether it is served with cold deliberation or hot reaction, it is a dish in whose very preparation we imbue a poison that will return to destroy us.
The greatest illusion is this: that we can hurt and not be hurt, that we can wound another and remain unscathed. When we inflict harm upon another, we inflict harm upon ourselves. What goes around comes around. A rudimentary study of history will prove this.
When we love, we reach out to align with life, to nurture and make others better, and in that act, we redeem ourselves from our own past follies.
This love is a precious act. It is our extension of spiritual power in the world. It is a moment of sympathy and support that we have for life. When you bend down and help a child tie its shoelaces, you are tying up all the knots of the world. When you listen in silence and understand another's intention, you are spreading the meme of empathy through all of time and space, for thoughts are cosmic waves that do not know any barriers.
As we extend love to others, it comes back to us.
Yet we cannot love others unless we love ourselves as well.
We cannot live without making mistakes of judgment and do things that we will later regret, because we are naïve and do foolish things out of that naivety. But we do grow, and looking back at the harm we have invoked, we feel grief. Our act of love, then, is to forgive ourselves. Yet instead of taking this simple act, we damn ourselves repeatedly, and in this way, we still hurt life, because we are life.
When we feel the urge to strike out, we must remember how it feels to have the wound inflicted upon our own flesh, because everything returns to the author of a deed.
Help always, hurt never. Do this and your life will be a blessing to the world and you must reap the harvest from what you have sown.
Nations pride themselves on the swiftness of their retribution but inevitably collapse in on themselves because the seeds of discontent that they sow, hurts all of life. Rome, the greatest civilization that the world had ever known, built on the finest arts and sciences known to the ancient world, the epitome of legal and architectural order, collapsed from within, destroyed by its own impulse to use its mighty force to strike out and subdue.
Today our world is dying because of this impulse to strike out.
We are destroying each other at an alarming rate, both individually and collectively.
And even the earth itself, is collapsing at a faster rate than we can repair. Scientists now estimate that by the year 2050, we will have exhausted the earth of all its natural resources.
The science that we celebrate, the genius of our efforts, are wasted on destructive uses. Instead of using the power of the nucleus to build great civilizations we are busy using it to stockade bombs.
Billions of dollars that could be used to heal the broken places on our planet are used to send people to horrific deaths.
When we seek to hurt life, we hurt ourselves, for we are life.
Revenge it is said is a dish best served cold; but whether it is served with cold deliberation or hot reaction, it is a dish in whose very preparation we imbue a poison that will return to destroy us.
The greatest illusion is this: that we can hurt and not be hurt, that we can wound another and remain unscathed. When we inflict harm upon another, we inflict harm upon ourselves. What goes around comes around. A rudimentary study of history will prove this.
When we love, we reach out to align with life, to nurture and make others better, and in that act, we redeem ourselves from our own past follies.
This love is a precious act. It is our extension of spiritual power in the world. It is a moment of sympathy and support that we have for life. When you bend down and help a child tie its shoelaces, you are tying up all the knots of the world. When you listen in silence and understand another's intention, you are spreading the meme of empathy through all of time and space, for thoughts are cosmic waves that do not know any barriers.
As we extend love to others, it comes back to us.
Yet we cannot love others unless we love ourselves as well.
We cannot live without making mistakes of judgment and do things that we will later regret, because we are naïve and do foolish things out of that naivety. But we do grow, and looking back at the harm we have invoked, we feel grief. Our act of love, then, is to forgive ourselves. Yet instead of taking this simple act, we damn ourselves repeatedly, and in this way, we still hurt life, because we are life.
When we feel the urge to strike out, we must remember how it feels to have the wound inflicted upon our own flesh, because everything returns to the author of a deed.
Help always, hurt never. Do this and your life will be a blessing to the world and you must reap the harvest from what you have sown.
Is It Blasphemy To Ask If Jesus Was Married?
The commandment of God from the very beginning was that a man should leave his father and mother and cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh. (Gen 2:24).
It would not make sense if Jesus were to break his own commandment, unless there is any evidence to be found that marriage is a "necessary dirty" instituted to keep man from going all wild. The Messiah would not have to obey that kind of commandment.
But there is nothing in the scriptures that portrays marriage as anything but a holy order of God. We still call it "Holy Matrimony" today.
Neither do we find any example of Jesus breaking the laws that he himself gave in the Old Testament times, when he was known as Jehovah.
He was accused of breaking the commandments, but it could always be understood in the light of him breaking a lesser commandment in order to following a higher law.
In a National Geographic program there was a Catholic padre of the sect Opus Dei who emphatically proclaimed that it was blasphemy to suggest that Jesus was married. But he didn't say why it would be blasphemous!
Is marriage immoral in the Catholic view? Wouldn't that make God an accomplice in our immorality, since he gave the commandment? But the Catholic faith is family centered, so it cannot harbor such feelings, surely.
And Jesus called himself the Bridegroom! He couldn't possibly do that if the institution of marriage was filthy. He would have found another metaphor.
Jesus likening himself by the bridegroom doesn't mean that he was a bachelor on earth. No, it meant that he is faithful to the bride, the House of Israel, just as he expects her to be faithful to him (If there are any women preparing to actually marrying him, I'm afraid it is not going to happen)!
Jesus visited weddings, and made them more pleasant to attend. He would not do that if he would be against the institution as such.
But did he get married? We have no record telling us that he did. But sometimes we should look for what is not there, rather than for what is actually there.
At the time of Jesus it would have been absolutely astonishing if an influential Rabbi, such as Jesus, didn't have a wife. It would be so strange that it would have been a part of the recorded history!
If he was married, that would not be written, since it would be like writing that he had fingers on his hands, or that he had legs. But if he was not married at the age of 30...
No, blasphemy is to suggest, or right-out say, that Jesus was promiscuous, or in any way breaking the law of chastity. Further, it would be blasphemy to suggest that Jesus, if he was married, did not have the sense and sensibility to know to keep his private life private.
Now, if Jesus in deed was married, we might get the answer to one interesting question: Why did Mary, the mother of Jesus, ask Jesus to save the wedding where the wine was running out? Why did Jesus take it upon himself to let this be the time to perform his first miracle? Unless Mary was in charge of this wedding, and the groom was no-one else than her son, the carpenter...
It would not make sense if Jesus were to break his own commandment, unless there is any evidence to be found that marriage is a "necessary dirty" instituted to keep man from going all wild. The Messiah would not have to obey that kind of commandment.
But there is nothing in the scriptures that portrays marriage as anything but a holy order of God. We still call it "Holy Matrimony" today.
Neither do we find any example of Jesus breaking the laws that he himself gave in the Old Testament times, when he was known as Jehovah.
He was accused of breaking the commandments, but it could always be understood in the light of him breaking a lesser commandment in order to following a higher law.
In a National Geographic program there was a Catholic padre of the sect Opus Dei who emphatically proclaimed that it was blasphemy to suggest that Jesus was married. But he didn't say why it would be blasphemous!
Is marriage immoral in the Catholic view? Wouldn't that make God an accomplice in our immorality, since he gave the commandment? But the Catholic faith is family centered, so it cannot harbor such feelings, surely.
And Jesus called himself the Bridegroom! He couldn't possibly do that if the institution of marriage was filthy. He would have found another metaphor.
Jesus likening himself by the bridegroom doesn't mean that he was a bachelor on earth. No, it meant that he is faithful to the bride, the House of Israel, just as he expects her to be faithful to him (If there are any women preparing to actually marrying him, I'm afraid it is not going to happen)!
Jesus visited weddings, and made them more pleasant to attend. He would not do that if he would be against the institution as such.
But did he get married? We have no record telling us that he did. But sometimes we should look for what is not there, rather than for what is actually there.
At the time of Jesus it would have been absolutely astonishing if an influential Rabbi, such as Jesus, didn't have a wife. It would be so strange that it would have been a part of the recorded history!
If he was married, that would not be written, since it would be like writing that he had fingers on his hands, or that he had legs. But if he was not married at the age of 30...
No, blasphemy is to suggest, or right-out say, that Jesus was promiscuous, or in any way breaking the law of chastity. Further, it would be blasphemy to suggest that Jesus, if he was married, did not have the sense and sensibility to know to keep his private life private.
Now, if Jesus in deed was married, we might get the answer to one interesting question: Why did Mary, the mother of Jesus, ask Jesus to save the wedding where the wine was running out? Why did Jesus take it upon himself to let this be the time to perform his first miracle? Unless Mary was in charge of this wedding, and the groom was no-one else than her son, the carpenter...
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