Archive for March, 2009

The Breath is our lifeline to the Divine.  It is the Inspirare’, the Breath of Life.  It is our first task upon merging through the womb and our final task as we leave the physical.  It can be said that as a person breathes, so they do life.  That is self explanatory but just in case it wasn’t clear, if your breath is open and consciously engaged, you are fully alive; if however your breath is shallow and often stops, you are living a contracted and less than fulfilling life.

Take a full and luscious breath right now; breathe deeply.  How do you feel?  You feel open, ready to let in life, right?  Of course it may have scared you, to take a deep and connected breath that is.  Only you can answer that but the simple act will always tell you volumes about your present state of BEING.  If it hurts or feels difficult on any level – you NEED TO BREATHE.  It’s that simple.

Breathing seems so ordinary that most people are not conscious of the delicious nature of the Breath; in fact, many people today are simply not conscious; and, the breathing mechanism is the perfect gauge for our ability in any moment to truly live a full life.

Rebirthing breath is a spiritual awakening and a reconnection to our own core essence.  The session itself may heal all manner of misperceptions a person has incorporated during a lifetime but more importantly it has the ability to shift the energetic clout of the aberrated thought.  So, let’s go through that again.  Thoughts that are not for our own good, like “I will never be able to do that well”, have an energetic power that keep them there.  The energetic nature of a thought is more powerful when the circumstance that set it in motion is suppressed or put out of the conscious mind.  In other words the more painful the experience, when there is need to shove it out of consciousness to get on with life, this is especially true of children when they are emotionally damaged, then, it becomes more powerful.

Thoughts that have a lot of suppressed energy around them are thoughts that seem very real.  They are not true but they feel very true, and they continue manifesting as a person’s reality.  They have been given energetic life.

Life is energy; you and I are energetic beings; everything that occurs in our lives is being manifested because it is what a person believes to be their truth.  So good or bad, every person is creating out of nothing, simply the unconscious and conscious mind.  That may sound like a cruel or painful trick but it was actually meant to be the greatest gift ever to humans. 

As a person breathes during a connected breathing session, a professional rebirthing facilitator will make sure that something called a completed energy cycle happens.  That one act allows for the release of contracted or stored energy, followed by a neutral state wherein the breather can make new and healthier resolutions about life.

If you’re planning on having a baby and wish for a gentle and trauma free birth, your fist plan of action would be a ten week series of sessions for both mother and father.  It will not be possible for the baby to be birth trauma free if everyone involved has not handled their own birth trauma first.  The fear and apprehension of the parents is mostly what the child is processing, not only at birth but in the womb.
 

One session never fixes all; just as one of any method will not ensure a particular phobia or emotional block will not re-emerge.  It is the beginning of a person’s relationship with their ultimate life machine – their Breath.

Ten sessions are recommended as the minimum for anyone to feel really comfortable about breathing on their own.  It also gives time for the greater part of contracted energy to be released in the presence of someone who will be there with the breather, lend compassion, and help them process any unresolved residue.  The presence of a conscious and successful practitioner also lends energy to the highest resolution of the session, and gives credence to the true pure nature of the breather.  This is most important because many people have never been affirmed for their goodness or their ability to achieve this lifetime.

Rebirthing is a technique I learned in 1988. It made such an impact on my ability to expand and see certain circumstances in my own life clearly, and reconstruct them.  It was amazing and I wanted to give that same gift to others.  In 1989 I was trained by Stephanie Dravis to become a rebirthing facilitator.  From 1990-1996 I had opportunity to work with Leonard Orr the founder of the Rebirthing Movement.  I still use rebirthing breath with clients and self.  I have my own unique processing at the end of each session, after the energy cycle has been accomplished, and design a concentrated program during the ten – twelve weeks unique for each client.

Rebirthing is definitely a spiritual experience.  Depending on the clarity of the facilitator and the willingness of the breather, I definitely see it changes lives for the better.  With some constructive direction after the fact people have opportunity to literally start fresh.

What Really Causes Overweight Conditions and Bad Health?
by Ellen Valentine, CNC

First of all lets talk why proper foods and the right combinations make all the difference, especially when a person shows symptoms of disease.  There has to be a root cause of any disease, right?  So, lets get down to the bottom of it.

We can say digestion begins in the mouth; and actually, that process starts with what the nose smells. Think of what happens when you smell turkey cooking.  Your mouth begins to salivate, right?  Salivary amylase in the mouth begins the breakdown of carbohydrates.  That process, with carbohydrates should be completed in the small intestine.

Carbohydrates begin digesting in the mouth, not so with proteins.  Chewing proteins alerts nerves in the stomach to begin creating hydrochloric acid, imperative in the digestion of proteins.  When HCL is at a low, something that happens to most people as they age, then the other component in digesting proteins, pepsinogen wont work properly.  HCL stimulates pepsinogen to turn into pepsin.

The process of digesting proteins takes several hours and will only be confused if sugars, fats and carbohydrates like breads are in the mix.  So depressing, people with poor digestion should never eat sandwiches. 

The small intestine is the major digestive organ in the body.  It begins at the pyloric sphincter, a valve-like gate way leading from the stomach to the duodenum, the first section of the small intestine, and ends at the ileocecal valve.  When foods have been combined correctly there is less stress in the duodenum.

Small bits of food at a time are digested in the duodenum, the first segment of the small intestine.  The pyloric sphincter, the gatekeeper between the stomach and the small intestine only allows small amounts in at a time so that digestive juices, enzymes produced by the pancreas and the liver have ample time to be produced, meet in the hepatopancreatic duct, and then travel to the duodenum through the hepatopancreatic ampulla.

When all of this occurs with ease, digestive juices are flowing and foods are combined in a way that makes the body’s assimilation work, the body is well nourished, healthy and symmetrical.  When the body has to struggle to digest, to find nutrients, it uses more of its precious energy and resources to digest and less to restore, build, repair, regenerate.  Aging occurs much more rapidly in this last state.

Why is all of this important to good health and the healing process?  Once food begins to sit too long in any area of the GI tract it begins a process called putrefaction.  This is the beginning of disease and the acid conditions in the body that cause headaches, body aches, constipation, really every other disease including being overweight.

Medicines may suppress the body responses: headaches, indigestion, sleepless nights, aching joints which are really an alarm that something is wrong and needs the owners attention but the underlying cause is still there.  The underlying cause is bad digestion.

The assimilating factor in the small intestine, which spans the many feet of the small intestine is aided by finger-like projections called villi and micro-villi, and is slowed immeasurably when the body gets bogged down with days old undigested waste.  Once this pattern is established, once illness sets in, what should you do?  What are the next steps back to health?  Stay tuned.

To Your Best Health, Ellen Valentine, NC

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