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Holistic Health Practices - Part 11
What is Breath Awareness?
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A significant number of
religions and psychotherapies employ "proper breathing" techniques as a
supposed regulator of physical and psychological health, or for purposes
of so-called spiritual (occult) enlightenment. Because breath awareness
methods are often influenced by Eastern or occultic philosophy and
practice (e.g., yoga) and because they are frequently designed to alter
one’s consciousness, they are also encountered in the many occultic
forms of transpersonal and fringe psychotherapy. Eastern mystics and
yogis have long claimed that the breath is a vital tool for altering
one’s consciousness. Concentration on the breath and regulation of its
"flow" are necessary to attain occult enlightenment. For example, the
yogic practice of pranayama attempts to use the breath to
regulate the control of mystical life-energy "underneath" the breath,
prana. The end goal is occultic enlightenment which frequently
involves spirit contact and/or possession. Breath awareness methods have
little to do with cardiovascular exercise. They are what the name
implies – breath awareness or breath meditation.
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AUTHOR:
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One of the major trends for the last days is a coalition of nations that will come against Israel. Dr. Jimmy DeYoung describes those nations and what brings them together.
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