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I. The Power of the Breath
Life begins with a first breath and ends with a last breath. Air contains
the electricity that charges our vital capacitor with energy. Breathing,
posture, physiology, and function are interrelated in expressing our
vital potential energy. Energy is infinite and is universally available
to the one with greater order. Higher-ordered breathing transforms and
liberates energy. Disordered breathing stifles and imprisons energy.
Breathing only from the chest is short, shallow, disordered breathing
that depends upon several muscles of the neck to elevate the rib cage.
It is the 80% effort that returns 20% results. It can literally be a
pain in the neck because the muscles manifest tension due to the stressful
breathing. Symmetrical, diaphragmatic breathing, which will be described
shortly, is the 20% effort that returns 80% results.
Greater inhalations than exhalations excite. Greater exhalations than
inhalations sedate. Balance inhalations with exhalations. Balance long
slow breaths with short fast breaths. Both are useful.
Balanced, even, symmetrical breathing generates great energy and brings
the power within and the power below into synergistic present-now consciousness
with the Power on High. Uneven, unbalanced, asymmetrical breathing brings
the higher minded power within and the lower-minded power below into
a consciousness of guilt about the past or fear of the future.
The higher-minded power within directs our striated skeletal muscles.
The lower-minded power below directs our smooth, involuntary muscles.
If you are in future fear and past guilt, the lower-minded power below
rules the higher-minded power within you and you omit what is purposeful
and commit what is perpendicular or tangential to what is purposeful.
Balanced, diaphragmatic breathing keeps you on purpose.
Have you ever noticed how a baby breathes? Babies "belly breathe"
by innately utilizing their diaphragm. They continue their diaphragmatic
breathing until they are about 12 years of age. Perhaps it contributes
to their boundless energy. The diaphragm is the heart of the lymphatic
system. Symmetrical, diaphragmatic breathing cycles pump the lymphocytes
and fatty plasma through the lymphatic system, and surround and block
off foreign invaders such as bacteria.
Symmetrical breathing cycles, which begin and end with the diaphragm,
balance and bring order between the sympathetic and parasympathetic
nervous system. Symmetrical diaphragmatic breathing balances acid and
alkaline pH. Symmetrical diaphragmatic breathing stimulates both the
left and right cerebral hemispheres and activates the corpus callosum,
the highest evolved, higher-minded part of the brain. You can easily
learn diaphragmatic breathing as you practice perfect breathing a little
each day.
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Begin
by standing erect or lying supine. Place your hands upon your abdomen. |
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As you
inhale through your nose for a slow count of seven, let your abdomen
protrude. Feel it move with your hands. |
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Hold
your air for a slow count of seven. |
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As you
exhale through your nose for a slow count of seven, use your hands
to feel your abdomen pull in. |
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Continue
pulling your abdomen in and tighten it for a slow count of seven.
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Repeat
this cycle for a total of seven cycles. |
Practice this exercise perfectly for one week and begin to add cycles
until you can complete 12 perfect cycles. Keep practicing for 21 consecutive
days. After 21 days of practice, you will have mastered diaphragmatic
breathing to the point that you can easily experiment with both slow
and fast cycles of breathing.
Practice diaphragmatic breathing for periods of five, ten, fifteen minutes,
or more. If you feel like you are going to fall backwards, put your
back against a wall. Notice the feeling you experience as you complete
the exercise. Realize that as you control your breathing, you control
your mental magnetic power to take action with energy now.
II. Water - A Precious Nutrient
Water is the basic constituent of all living things. It is the source
from which nature comes and nature goes. Scientists estimate that our
bodies are composed of between 70 and 90% water. Our cells, tissues,
organs, vital fluids, and secretions are largely water.
Water is our most precious nutrient and oldest remedy. It promotes regularity,
replenishes lost fluids, and dilutes the minerals that pass through
the kidneys, helping to prevent kidney stones. Water bathes our cells,
tissues, and organs, and cleans and rejuvenates us in a number of ways,
within and without. Water is better than low-calorie: it has no calories!
If you were to drink two 8-ounce glasses upon arising you would be giving
your power below a great gift. Properly watered, it can more purposefully
serve you. Drinking seven 8-ounce glasses a day is wise.
III. Living with Rhythm
Developing rhythms in sleeping, eating, and eliminating brings greater
order. Eating before the sun goes down, and rising before the sun comes
up, allows the power within and the power below to align with the circadian
rhythms of the sun. When our neuroendocrine systems are aligned with
the circadian rhythms of the sun, there is greater order, and therefore
abundance of energy liberated purposefully. Benjamin Franklin spoke
wisely when he said, "Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy,
wealthy, and wise."
If we are arrhythmic in our cycles, we align our neuroendocrine systems
with the ultradian rhythms of the moon. How surprised would you be to
discover that in ancient times the sun was revered for its dependability
and rhythm, while the moon was considered to be flighty and erratic
in its cycles? No wonder that someone who is extremely emotional, erratic,
and impulsive to the point of irresponsible conduct is called a "lunatic."
IV. High Energy Foods
Have you ever eaten a fat-laden meal and discovered that you suddenly
felt groggy and sleepy? You can easily understand that a greasy or fat-laden
meal taxes the smooth muscles of the digestive system controlled by
the lower-minded power below, causing it to draw energy from the higher-minded
power within that controls the striated skeletal muscles which take
action on your purpose.
I invite you to consider that the highest energy-generating foods are
those that seek the sun. Greens and other colored vegetables, whole
grains, legumes, fruits, nuts, flesh, fish, eggs, and dairy all have
their place. A wise intake ratio is approximately 20% greens, 20% grains,
20% legumes, 20% fruit, and the other 20% a combination of nuts, fish,
flesh, eggs, or dairy.
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Life-generating
foods — such as soaked and germinated seeds, nuts, grains,
and legumes — are highly life-sustaining and energy-generating.
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Fresh,
unprocessed raw fruits and vegetables are life- and energy-sustaining.
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Foods
that are cooked are life-decaying yet energy sustaining. |
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Any
raw or cooked food that is not fresh is life decaying and energy-draining.
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Foods
with additives, or those that have been processed, refined, or preserved
are bioacidic and life and energy-decaying. |
For optimum energy, eat a balance of fresh raw and fresh cooked foods.
Eat foods that rot, but eat them while they are fresh. Raw foods stimulate
red blood cell production. Cooked foods stimulate white blood cell production.
Both are necessary and balance the other for optimum energy. Remember,
eat to live for your purpose; do not live for the pleasure or pain of
eating.
V. Prioritizing your actions
Prioritized actions, ordered breathing, and abundant pure water form
a tripod that stands you up on the vertical plane toward your purpose.
If you were to add regular body rhythms and balanced, moderate food
intake, you would have five spokes on a wheel, making you so well rounded
you could immediately move toward your purpose with incredible energy
now.
Prioritize your actions to your core purpose and align your physical
habits to support it. You can easily find yourself breathing diaphragmatically
and drinking plenty of water. Suppose that following your purpose required
you to lose some sleep or travel extensively, breaking your daily rhythm.
Or perhaps you find yourself in circumstances that do not allow for
the best or wisest food intake. Improvise and adapt to whatever is available
to you at the present time.
All things in moderation, including moderation. If you were to be obsessive
about something, be obsessive about writing, reading, listening to and
saying your words of power, and asking yourself what action you are
taking with energy immediately to accomplish your purpose.
I encourage you to prioritize and link your goals and action steps to
your purpose today. You, the power within, and your lower-minded power
below have a divinely inspired mission. The power within that is you
is immortal. As you can clearly see, you — the higher-minded power
within — are connected to the Power on High. The Power on High
is the ocean and you — the power within — are the wave.
As you begin to become aware that you — the higher-minded power
within — are infinitely connected to the Power on High, and that
the Power on High is beyond time and space, I invite you to realize
that the lower minded power below is mortal and exists in time and space.
VI. The Choice
Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to follow the pole star
of purpose in time and space as you live your earthly life. In a sense,
you only have so much time and energy, so prioritize your goals and
action steps to your purpose. Do what is most on purpose, delegate what
is necessary to support your purpose if you can, and forsake what is
left with love.
Nothing can give your life more meaning than your purpose, so waste
no energy on tangents, and if you do, realize that maximum evolution
toward your purpose occurs at the transition from lower order to higher
order. Even in your chaotic entropic mistakes, there is a divinely blessed
system seeking syntropic higher order, guiding you toward a conservation
of energy toward your purpose from:
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Unconsciously unconscious to
• Semiconsciously unconscious to
• Semiconsciously semiconscious to
• Consciously semiconscious to
• Consciously conscious to
• Super consciously conscious to
• Super consciously super conscious |
You have a choice. You may not want to accelerate your evolution of
consciousness toward your vision, inspiration, and purpose now. But
if you did choose to do so, you can easily see the incredible higher-ordered
energy and power you would generate toward your purposeful goal.
Imagine what it would feel like if you were to liberate higher and higher
orders of energy, empowering you to take prioritized action steps on
your purposeful goals today. Imagine what would happen if you were to
take immediate action while you continue to feel the incredibly empowering
feeling that energizes you from above, down, inside, and outside of
you as you magnetically move toward and attract the perfect people,
ideas, and circumstances to fulfill your purposeful goals now. I encourage
you to take purposeful action with energy on the matter at hand today.
by
Dr. D. Richard Bellamy |
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Dr.
D. Richard Bellamy, a philosopher and expert in human potential
technologies, is a dynamic and inspirational coach, speaker and
seminar leader sought after worldwide. He helps hundreds of people
through his Chiropractic practice in Houston, Texas. He is a masterful
teacher of powerful seminars including 'The Breakthrough Experience'
which he leads as small, intensive groups throughout the year. These
experiential workshops help people lead more powerful lives and
experience their own Vision, Inspiration, and Purpose (V.l.P.).
This article was excerpted with permission from Dr. Bellamy's book
'Twelve Secrets for Manifesting Your Vision, Inspiration and
Purpose', published by PHI Publishing. |
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