Have you ever noticed that when you are stressed or afraid, you stop breathing?  It happens all of the time.  Our emotional state overtakes our energy field and we stop circulating the flow of vital energy throughout our bodies.  This locks up the coherent flow of our Vitality and entraps thoughts, emotions, disease, and toxins in our system.  We start to breathe in a shallow fashion and we feel compressed- actually we literally are.  The torroidal field of our vital energy starts to collapse and we densify- losing the flow of the Levity inducing charge that keeps us young and vibrant.   It is one of the most common ways we ail- something so simple.

Hanging out with Leonard Orr this summer, he and I discussed his form of circular breathing and how he uses prescriptions for people who come to him for a whole host of ailments.  This is very similar to what we do in my Qi Gong tradition- breath work for homework.  It is so easy yet so difficult.  Why so hard?  Because we don’t want to feel what has come up- breathing life to a thought or emotion dislodges it and moves it through our field.  If we learn to observe it with equanimity and an open heart, it simply passes and is gone.  The problem- we freak out and hang on- then the repressed charge gets so strong that we can hardly breathe.

The fix is easy- deep lower abdominal breathing for ten minutes or so and then breathe to the area of repression.

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