Once again, Gunnel is continuing her series of presentations on the healing potential of breathwork by taking us on an in-depth look at the physiological aspects of breathwork.

In this presentation she explores the themes introduced in the previous presentation but concentrates on how the breath is intimately connected and intermeshed with the body, its processes and emotions.

This is a must see presentation for any one who is serious about wanting to understand just what breathwork is and how it works.

I am someone who believes in the judicial system despite all the drawbacks we see. The United States Supreme Court disqualifying torture as an interrogation method, for example, even when the president of the country and his VP have, through legal artifices, tried to justify it.

Nonetheless, my belief is not shared by many people. A lawyer friend said to me that, “the law is not made to solve problems, but to prolong them indefinitely.” Just to exercise my imagination, I decided to use his theory to analyze Genesis, the first book of the Bible.

Recently, as I was about to enter my local supermarket I noticed a woman perhaps in her seventies, having trouble getting her left shoe back on her foot.

The problem was that she couldn't find a good place to steady herself so she could bend over and adjust the shoe.

Without a moments thought, I slid up next to her and kneeled down as I asked, "Would you like some help with that?"
"Oh please." she said "I took my shoe off because it had a small stone inside, and now I can't get it back on."

As this week's meditation tip we'd like to share with you the words of our beloved teacher OSHO, who did everything he could to de-mystify meditation and make it accessible to modern men and women in the form of Active Meditation. Just by reflecting on these words a seed can be planted in your being:

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. ~ Dalai Lama

If today were my last day on Earth and I could share 500 words of brilliance with the world, here are the important things I'd want to pass along to others...

Whatever you see lives inside of you. If you see something then it is your perception. If you go inside and deal with that perception then it can be cleansed and erased and given DIVINE LIGHT. The biology of cells holds memories but is influenced by the mind. Free the mind and free self for the LIGHT. Thus, freedom is what you give yourself and thus to others. If we do this then we are all in right relationship as a family of humankind walking planet earth. Youth are the doorway to the emerging new understanding. Trust them as you trust yourself and they will lead us into UNITY. Help them be our dreams. Show them as you heal yourself that what is emerging is for all of life and not the gains of outer forms based on greed and lust and power over.

Gunnel Minett has produced an extremely useful, engaging, informative and instructional series of on-line presentations to illustrate and educate about the healing potential of breathwork.

This, the first, provides an overview of how breathwork can heal or help healing. The issues and topics raised in this presentation will be looked at in more detail over the coming weeks.

Welcome to the August 2009 Breath and Breathing Report. I’m writing to you from Moscow. We just finished ten days on the shore of Issyk-kul Lake in Kyrgyzstan, surrounded by spectacular snow-capped mountains. Lesia has been my traveling companion, seminar co-leader, as well as my interpreter/translator. Her beautiful female energy brings a wonderful softness, lightness and balance to the work.

perhaps this might cast some light on my journey of dismantling, grief and  surrender

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Dear Daricha,

Thank you for sharing with me in our brief phone conversation three weeks ago tonight. I glimpsed a world broken, bare, numb, scorched and deeply imprinted with death and devastation.  I heard a distant whisper of your grief but I sensed such depth of pain it left me silent.

Health will follow sickness.
Happy will follow sad.
All life is cyclical.

When you release your musculature and breathe deeply, you are much better able to take in the energy that is available to you in any given moment. This is the essence of healing and high quality health!

Appreciate others, be happier. Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Steve of Freedom Education.

This strategy works so well and it’s so simple.  You can do this at home, at work, with friends, family or even with anyone at all.

You could even do it with a stranger.  What the heck am I talking about?

I’m talking about feeling good.  There is something you can do right now that will make you feel better almost instantly and here’s how to do it.