Healing Practices: Breath

Exercises:

Overview:

• The Soul (Ruh) is the Divine Breath, it purifies, revivifies and heals the form through which it functions. Concentrate on the breath and this contemplation each day for a few minutes.

• All diseases are created in the mind, before they come into the body. The Soul constantly heals mind and body.

• Illness, pain and discomfort is unnatural. It indicates something out of balance.

• In disease there is a lack of life. By focusing and breathing upon the diseased part, life is brought.

• Lack of rhythm is one of the most serious causes of problems. If you are out of rhythm and tired - relax. If you find difficulty in relaxing, try and relax your eyelids. It will make the relaxing of your body easy. For relaxing: breathe several times rhythmically in and out. Try the practice of saying mentally, when inhaling: Ya Shaffee and when exhaling: Ya Kaffee. Do this every time you feel yourself out of rhythm. If someone else in out of rhythm and you are doing long distance healing you can also do this for another, by thinking of that person.

Some Practices:

1. Breathe a coarse/heavy breath. Be aware of it.

2. Breathe a refined breath. Be aware of it.

3. Breathe in and out the left nostril. Turn left. Place palms up. Be aware of feeling more or less receptive or expansive - positive or negative - male or female.

4. Breathe in and out the right nostril. Turn right. Place arms up with hands out. Be aware of feeling more or less receptive or expansive - positive or negative - male or female.

5. Try different variations on #'s 3 and 4. See which movements, arm positions, and breaths work complimentary or contradictory.

6. Catch the feeling of the breath in most receptive and most expressive. Remember that.

7. Take a thought, inhale, hold the thought. Exhale and try to hold the thought; there will be a difference. Thus we can learn there is an association between breath and thought, breath and life.

8. Breath in and out 4 count. Hold for 8 count. Repeat. Increase length of time.

Now here are two other practices. First to project the breath, imagining that the breath is a current of light. Sit about 6 feet in front of a wall, facing the wall. Then send this current to the right side and to the left side, and upwards and downwards. By practicing the projecting of the breath as current of light in five directions, one will be able to develop, not only the healing power, but at the same time the inspiring power, the power of helping more and more. And in this way one will be able to communicate mentally with others by the means of breath.

Second, is the practice of enfoldment. Project the current of breath on the left side of the breast, on the right side, and in the center, which means: on the solar plexus. By projecting the current on the left side it will bring about the development of personality. By projecting the current on the right side it will give power of action. And by projecting the breath in the center, means to the solar plexus, it will help the soul to unfold latent inspiration, and power will develop.