Breathing As A Way Of Life, Part 4 - by Win Wenger
Blowtorch Breathing
1. In this same manner, reflect back on some situation about which you have felt anger or annoyance, or some person at whom vou have felt (or should have felt) such irritation .... even some petty annoyance, no matter how unjustified or inappropriate it seems for you to be irritated by such a matter ....
Note the shower of bright, hot sparks riding each deeply exhaled breath out....blowtorch your deeply exhaled breath slowly, see if you can singe the far wall or ceiling with the shower of hot bright sparks riding each breath out....
All this is, of course, good clean life energy, released from whatever had held it in undesired configurations. There is no way to hurt anyone with good clean life energy; what you want to do is to burn up the left-over irritation "noise," burn up the bases of anger between you and that situation or person, burn up the negative frame-of-reference in which you and this situation or person are holding each other ...
2. Picture that situation or person (eventually, each such situation or. person) with which you've felt some such irritation. Shower your sparks on that picture and see what and how much you can burn up with your sparks....really blowtorch that shower of released hot sparks out and let things evolve .....
Examine how much this release changes sensations here and there in your body, see how much you can release into these showers of bright sparks ....
Study the effects of this blowtorching on the way you feel about that situation or person, and on the way you feel generally.....
3. Now project these showers of bright sparks as a way of adding good clean life energy lo whatever/whoever was involved ...make this energy an outright gift, study the way that unreservedly giving this energy to this person or situation now feels to you . . .
lf you feel any hesitancy or reservation whatever, go back and forth between "burning up the pictures" with your hot blowtorch showering sparks, and using those sparks to give the gift of good clean life energy, until you find yourself feeling wholly comfortable and unreserved about the whole thing, or until any remaining formerly suppressed anger releases in laughter.
Rest absolutely for a minute or so, studying your changed bodily sensations and any insights you have gained during this process. Then:
Satisfaction Breathing
1. Remember the delicious smell of vanilla. or of some other delicious aroma—bread baking in the oven, pine trees, roast in the oven, lilacs, freshly-mowed lawn, frying onions, some special perfume—remember some delicious aroma and breathe that aroma in deeply ...
2. Breathe in as if you were smelling and sensing that delicious scent, breathe in slowly, deeply and rewardingly as if you were drawing in that wonderful scent .....
As you take these satisfaction-breaths, these deeply-satisfying breaths, discover where in your body this delicious smell seems to come to .... satisfaction-breathe in this delicious aroma until you are clear on where in your body this scent seems to come to ....
3. Now breathe in "through" that part of your body where you felt this aromatic breath come to, breathe in more and more of this delicious aroma through there deeply, slowly, rewardingly—see if, through there, you can fill your whole system with this utterly delicious, rewarding smell.....
Make this aroma still more delicious ... exhilarate your entire system with these utterly rewarding breaths....continue this exhilarating breathing for several minutes.....
Stairstep Recall
1. Examine how you now feel .... take a kind of mental photograph of how good and how profound all this feels now .....
With this mental photograph, later you can easily recall what this feels like and come back to this same range of clarity and good feeling just by remembering it .... so then you can do this breathing to go further rather than just to get to the same ranges of effects ....
2. Study the clear, deep, peaceful, exhilarated feeling you now have from this breathing you've been doing .... Use your memory of this feeling, next time, to re-create this feeling, then use this breathing to go beyond this feeling to even better, cleaner, more profound ranges of experience.....
Notice especially how it feels to have your system so noise-free, so clean, clear, released, so much of the stuff that hadn't belonged simply swept away .... Being so free of "noise" frees your system to re-integrate toward even better health and well-being than before: enjoy it!
3. Reintegrate to here and now—refreshed, clear, feeling extraordinarily good!—and ready to take on whatever is before you.
Did you have any difficulty discovering something you felt anger or annoyance toward? Interestingly enough, most people do. Yet suppressed anger is one of America's (and other modern nations') main source of health problems. Irritation and anger are experienced, to greater or lesser degree, by everyone at various times. It is the long-term suppression of such feelings which causes difficulty. Take the head of steam down on your backlog of annoyances and, after a while, you will no longer need to suppress and can safely express, in situation-specific, appropriate ways, such feelings when and if annoying situations arise. Especially if you had difficulty discovering a time and circumstance in which you had felt anger toward something or someone, search out such earlier experiences in your life and "blowtorch-breathe" at least a few of these until they are free and clean.
Using "Calm-Breathing Patterns" to heighten your career productivity
In any work, before any major task—and before any creative task, especially—noise-removal breathe for several minutes ant then go straight into the work.
Even the first time you do this, results will seem like a miracle. Your work flies straight, true and clean—no false starts, no hesitations, error rate is almost nil. And each time afterward that you do this, it gets even better!
During long tasks, every half-hour or hour, noise-removal breathe for 2 to 3 minutes; the time spent is repaid many, many times by heightened efficiency. (If you need reminding, get a little oven-tlmer and set it to remind you when the time for noise-removal breathing has arrived.)
Many thousands of children are too short of breath to read to or listen through to the end of any of the sentences they must deal with, and consequently they are unable to get the full meaning. (Some of these children are diagnosed variously as "hyperactive" or with "attention deficit disorder.") There are more than enough children who have reading difficulties for other reasons, to ensure job security for all of those who now are entrusted with getting our children to read.
The same problem also affects levels of perception and thinking. If someone is too short-breathed to have a span of awareness in which several different elements can be considered at the same time, there is no way for that person to begin experiencing and thinking in terms of relationships! Such a person is doomed to only the most concrete levels of thinking and experience.
Project Renaissance has drafted a program for profoundly improving breathing span, as a way to address such problems of language-comprehension and perceptual/thinking level. The main part of the program presents held-breath underwater swimming, resulting in ribcage expansion of about one inch per week. To receive this brief for free and know what to do and why and how to do it (and also for some more ways to test to your own satisfaction the validity of this issue), inquire of Win Wenger by email.
It appears that at least half of all high school or college-age persons with serious reading problems are shortwinded, and their reading problems would disappear if their shortwindedness were corrected. Project Renaissance discovered this surprising relationship in 1983, and no contravention of the finding has ever emerged,
Brief Glossary of special processes used
Basic Calm-Breathing Pattern: continuous breathing-in and breathing-out, very deeply on exhale as well as on inhale, very slowly and letting go with each breath—savoring the long deep slow passage of each rewarding breath.
Relief Breathing: breathing each breath as if it were that very first, tremendously relieved breath you would breathe freshly freed of a heavy, burdensome suit of armor.
Noise-Removal Breathing: calm-breathing with the images of pulling air in through various parts of the body or sectors of experience, with that incoming air swirling up great clouds of debris ("noise"), sweeping all that stuff cleanly out of your system on your deeply exhaled (and warm, rich) breath—so that stuff becomes showers of bright sparks as it hits air, the open air, and releases into good clean life energy. One of the most important of Psychegenic breathing patterns, noise-removal breathing should be practiced very frequently for cumulative effects of self-cleansing and release.
Yawn Breathing: noise-removal breathing giving way to successions of profound yawns, if need be triggering these yawns by taking a good, deep stretch every 10 to 20 breaths. Yawn-breathing removes fear and some forms of anger.
Blowtorch Breathing: noise-removal breathing and showering the resultant sparks in your exhaled breath, slowly, gently, hotly in a blowtorch stream, upon various pictured situations and/or people, to burn away the bases of anger. Includes built-in bio-feedback testing for left-over anger by examining the feeling of unreserved giving of life-energy to the former anger-stimulus.
Satisfaction Breathing: calm-breathing with the emphasis on the reward of each breath. Use a real or imagined delicious aroma; breathe that satisfying aroma "in through" the part of your body that aroma first seems to come to. An exhilaration technique which prevents or abolishes depression, grief or other "down" feelings and deconditions the stimuli which gave rise to them. One of the more important of Psychegenic breathing patterns, strongly recommended for frequent practice.
Other Definitions
Psychegenics: "psyche" means "mind-" and "-genics" means "derived from"—hence, Psychegenics is the study of those effects which are produced through and with or by the mind. The opposite of psychegenic is psychogenic, meaning some form of psychosomatic dysfunction. Historically, as a discipline Psychegenics has mostly been engaged in pursuit of higher actualizations of human potential.
"O.K." and "Beyond O.K." refer to the distinction between "average," meaning ordinary, customary, or the condition of most people, and "ænormal," in the health sense of being whole, intact, actualized. Our goal is to leave customary norms behind (after all, even "o.k." is still pretty mediocre) and evolve up toward the more fully actualized.
Stairstepping: to mentally photograph an effect and especially the feeling of that effect, next time to use the remembering of its feeling to re-create the effect, and then to use whatever first built the effect to add on to this re-created effect, going further carrying the effect to even more profound levels.
Innate Learning Methods: methods of learning and teaching which engage resources already innately within the learner—a set of ways to pick up the learning already experienced and bring it into the context of the learner's present learning efforts.
Second-Generation Creativity Methods: as compared to first-generation methods such as brainstorming and Synectics-type methods, which essentially are step-by-step analytic ways, or multiple-response-forcing ways, to compel the pre-conscious to form insights, inventions, and creative solutions to problems and then to force these creative events out into conscious expression. The contrast is that second-generation methods are based on the discovery that the insights and solutions are already there, in a subliminal mental holograph of impressions surrounding every problem, every question, every datum. Second-generation methods reach directly, efficiently and immediately into these mental holographs for such creative insights and solutions and so escape a lot of plodding formerly associated with creativity methods and creativity training.
Modulation: a term from information science, meaning when anything is affected by something else, it carries (potentially retrievable) information about what affected it. Modulation of the wiggly grooves in an LP stereo record disc, for example, carries the information which in play-back becomes a recreation of the music, speech or other sounds which were originally recorded onto those wiggles. After a pebble-toss into a pond, once the ripples have reached throughout the pond and are still active, every particle in the pond carries information about the size, texture, shape, weight, speed, direction, trajectory and position of that pebble, which information potentially can be retrieved. Actually, whatever is affected by something else is modulated by and carries information—potentially retrievable information—about that something else.
Holograph: from laser technology. Bounce a stream of coherent light off some object onto a photographic plate; that plate retains a three-dimensional image of that object and will project that image in 3 dimensions when that laser light shines through the plate. What makes this phenomenon holographic is that if you break the plate, every fragment of that plate will prove to have that entire 3-dimensional image! Every particle of that plate carries the complete record of information. The more profound aspect of this phenomenon is that:
· Everything is affected by virtually everything else, hence is modulated by virtually everything else, hence carries information about virtually everything else;
· This information is potentially retrievable;
· The result is that virtually everything is a holograph of virtually everything else;
· The finest instrument yet developed for retrieving this holographic information is the right side of the human cerebral cortex.
Copyright 2010 Win Winger, all rights reserved in all media.
About Win Wenger: Win has sought to emulate the original natural philosophers who began science, by using direct first-hand observation as a main way to find out things, not only as regards breathing patterns here, but in his pioneering work in the field of creativity and creative problem-solving (see for example http://www.winwenger.com/solving.htm) and in educational methods (please see http://www.winwenger.com/replay.html and http://www.winwenger.com/BottomLine_TL.htm).
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