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Intro to Buteyko Breathing

A Russian physician named Constantin Buteyko discovered some important principles of breathing in the 1950’s, and the breathing method he developed has a long history of safe use. It corrects hyperventilation, which causes many common disorders, and surprisingly 98% of us are actually hyperventilating as our usual way of breathing!

The Buteyko method is sometimes known for treating asthma or panic attacks, but really it’s for everyone who can’t hold their breath for 60 seconds comfortably!

The Buteyko website says this about what it can treat:

“Most of all, diseases, which often accompany bronchial asthma: chronic rhinitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, hypertension, and stenocardia. Bronchial asthma and stenocardia are only 2 distinctive models, which effectively demonstrate application of the Buteyko method. However, these are, by far, not the first diseases, which can be successfully treated using the Buteyko method.

Normalization of the immune response removes appearance of various forms of allergy. Improvements in blood supply and oxygenation of the whole organism make application of the Buteyko method efficient in solving problems which are connected with toxicosis of pregnancy, sleep disturbances, insomnia, snoring, sleep apnoea, and also for a wide range of neurotic diseases of the nervous system.”

This is based on the fact that CO2 is actually not purely the waste gas we think it is, but that CO2 actually helps to make O2 available to the cells. Without enough CO2, you can gulp air and still not feel like you’re getting enough.

This is the situation not only with asthmatics but with people who have chronic anxiety, panic attacks, depression, any condition associated with stress, all kinds of nervous and immune system disorders, cardiovascular disorders, migraine, etc.

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Some thoughts on approaching this challenge…

Cancer is the expression of an unlived life. Life forces that have not been able to be transformed for higher spiritual purposes, take on a life of their own, out of control.

First I would emphasize that curing/healing is always possible, and it may require letting go of a lot of old beliefs and habits, in other words a total lifestyle change, but what do you have to lose?

If a person believes they can’t heal, their belief may be actually part of the disease, which is possible to remove in the same way as any other disease entity. Heilkunst treatment excels here. Hypnotherapy methods can often help release the blockages there that are supporting the “I’ll never be well” belief, which is just a phantom thing, not real.

But even such parasites that ultimately aren’t real can drain our life force, even though they have no power of their own and only take the power that we permit them to. So closing up those etheric holes that allow that, is the thing.

My personal choice would be to work with the practitioners at the Hahmenan Center for Heilkunst in Ottawa. Phone consults work well. That kind of deep curing/healing requires some patience and trust in the process, but the initial “orientation” consult can provide the inspiration for that.

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A Unique Refrigerator List
Thoughts for Healing

..(if you have a huge refrigerator!)

These are some thoughts I put down in no particular order. You can read them in no particular order, no particular amount. Close your eyes and point. (I wish I had known about that method in high school).

You’re not supposed to learn anything from this. Let’s get that out of the way first. I’m just writing this because I’m a writer, and some days I do things like this. More about that later. For now, just be assured that the things I’m suggesting have been rigorously field tested under the most extreme conditions of lying there on the couch in quiet desperation. I’ve been there.

I think this is going to be more like recipes than a shopping list, come to think of it. Recipes, or experiments, tested under surreal conditions, so your safest bet is to test them yourself.

The first one, and one of my personal favorites, is to abstain from the language of suffering and limitation. This one really comes out amazingly well. Try it for one day, one hour, or just in that one second when you find yourself indulging in thoughts of helplessness. Decide not to say what you were going to say, or interrupt the thought in progress. Then just notice how you feel.

Discover in how many peculiar forms you tend to express that. Listen to yourself, when you affirm helplessness by stating it in so many subtle ways. You’ve crafted those subtle ways to get under your own radar. It’s not your fault, so don’t blame yourself for being an idiot; that would really be idiotic. But just get curious about how you do that.

Not why, but how. That alone can be more useful than many hours of analyzing problems.

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Here are some very simple reminders …

• You can always do small, easy things each day that make a difference.
• Even a shift of attention that takes two seconds can have a powerful effect.
• Even when there are physical limitations, you can stretch those limits gently and keep allowing the healing process to occur.
• Love and support is all around, coming to you in ways that you can open to more.
• You are helping many people in unimaginable ways, too, just by being who you are.
• You don’t have to do a single thing in order to be valuable and loved. You just are.
• We all feel down sometimes. You feel what you feel, and remember that moods are just moods. Thoughts come and go, and you don’t need to take them too seriously.
• The mind does some funny things. It’s okay. We’re all in the same boat.
• Things change, and that’s good; otherwise, we’d be cement.
• Effort is what we do to heal and grow, but we don’t need to struggle and strain.
• Things don’t need to be perfect, and still they can be easy and light.
• Things are sometimes more easy and sometimes more challenging, but you are always okay in the midst of it. We all sometimes forget that, and even that’s okay.
• You don’t have to run the universe.. What a relief!

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