by Mark Pitstick MA, DC
If you’ve not already, please read . . .
- ‘The Great News‘ (article #19 at SoulProof.com/Articles)
- ‘Eight Developments for Widespread Conscious Living Now’ (#125)
- Greater Reality LIVING Program: Integrating ‘The 8 Developments’ Into Your Daily Life (#72)
- Greater Reality HEALING Program: Journeying FROM Deeply Grieving TO Brightly Shining (#82)
The evidence-based information and holistic resources outlined in these articles will help you to:
- realize your true nature as an eternal being of consciousness / life-force / energy
- receive guidance and assistance from highly evolved energies and Source / The Light
- heal old wounds, release lower energies, and update erroneous teachings
- create the greatest life YOU have envisioned (YOU = your higher self / soul)
- help others by sharing your greatest gifts
- make our world a better place
As enough people do this, widespread personal and planetary change will naturally unfold.
Holistic Breathing Technique
(Disclaimer: Consult with your psychotherapist before using this technique if you have an acute and significant mental imbalance. Decrease the rate and depth of your breathing if your hands start to cramp and/or you feel lightheaded. If you get uncomfortable while doing this technique, stop doing it or just breathe slowly and relax during the remainder of the audio program. Check with your medical doctor if you have cancer of the lymphatic system since prolonged deep breathing can aid lymphatic drainage and perhaps spread that type of cancer. However, the greatly increased oxygenation of your body may assist it in destroying mutated cells that do not thrive in the presence of oxygen. I am not a licensed psychotherapist or medical doctor; this technique is not designed to replace care by either professional.)
Introduction
I developed the Holistic Breathing Technique after using different forms of breathwork for over 40 years. Visit About Dr. Mark Pitstick to learn about my experience and training.
Various breathing practices have been used across time in different cultures to expand consciousness and assist healing. Pioneers of such techniques include Stan Grof MD, PhD, Jacquelyn Small MSW, and Tom Goode ND.
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In the Aramaic language, ‘breath’ and ‘spirit’ had the same root word. In the Far East, the words chi, ki, and prana simultaneously conveyed meanings of breath, spirit, and life force. Breathing exercises are part of many orthodox and more esoteric religions and spiritual wisdom sources. Chanting, singing, exercise, love-making, and pranayama (yoga breathing exercises) are other ways to breathe deeply and rhythmically.
The Holistic Breathing Technique can benefit your body, mind, and spirit:
- Body: releases toxins when chronically tight muscles relax; deeply inflates the lungs; strengthens the diaphragm; increases oxygen levels; removes trapped carbon dioxide; alerts you to areas of your body that hold anxiety; increases awareness of tight muscles that need massaged; invites you to stretch muscles each day.
2. Mind: increases awareness about what is bothering you and what you can do about it; releases stuck emotions; allows a cathartic release via crying, laughing, and yelling; provides a creative time for jotting down insights and ideas; lets go of past lower-energy beliefs about yourself, others, and life on earth; assists grieving for all kinds of losses and suffering; helps you enjoy a more happy and peaceful life.
3. Spirit: assists a deep remembrance of who you are, why you’re here, and Who walks beside/within you always; deepens your faith and knowing about greater realities that explain life’s mysteries; reminds you that life and love are forever; helps you know that 99.99% of who you really are is a forever being who does not die and cannot be hurt.
While on living on earth, you have two sources of consciousness:
- Transcendent Source of Consciousness (TSC): also known as your soul, enduring self, essence, real self, and many other names
- Brain-Based Consciousness (BBC): this is the part of your awareness that is created by your brain and its supporting biochemistry
The quality of your earth-experience is determined by the degree to which your TSC and BBC are congruent. Life flows much more smoothly and wonderfully when your eternal consciousness and your human brain are on a similar wavelength and communicating. The Holistic Breathing Technique is a major key to making sure your TSC and BBC are on the same page.
If you’ve ever watched babies breathe, you know that their breathing pattern is usually uninterrupted belly breathing. You were the same way. At birth, your breathing was open, full, and connected. Unless you were distressed, life was experienced fully in the moment. You felt vibrantly alive and joyful. You innately knew the big picture of life and understood with every part of your being that you are a wise, infinite, special, and powerful being.
Some cultures recognize the importance of this life-stage and provide extended conscious care for the infant. However, for most of us, the density of this earth-plane quickly interrupted our knowing that it’s all good, it’s all God. We came into contact with negative energies or stressors that hampered a deeply internalized knowing about our true natures and lofty potentials. Examples of stressors include excessively bright lights, loud noises, poor quality food, unnecessary prescription drugs and medical interventions, cigarette smoke, illness, and mental, physical, and/or sexual abuse.
Over time, you learned that halting your breath could help block negative feelings from flowing through your body. Holding your breath or breathing shallowly limited your awareness of pain, fear, and suboptimal environmental factors. This may have helped temporarily, but it was a limiting strategy in the long run. Why? Because it shut off your body’s circuit breakers and thus decreased available energy and awareness.
Over time, emotional trauma were likely stored in your muscles and caused trigger points or chronic tightness. Toxins from cigarette smoke, prescription drugs, junk food, heavy metals, and chemicals stored in your body. You probably internalized judgment – whether real or perceived – from others, yourself, and limited images of Creator. You may have suffered ridicule, discrimination, and other forms of emotional abuse. Physical injuries and stressors added to the mix. These negative impacts continued on year after year. The result is feeling closed down and not able to access your full energy and remembrance of who you are.
The good news is that the Holistic Breathing Technique can help release all of the above. It can begin restoring your physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. It can help you regain a more heaven-on-earth level existence—no matter what’s going on within or around you right now. Regular use of this technique can restore your rightful state as a healthy, happy, enthusiastic, and enlightened human.
Technique Information and Tips
(The following tips are described in the Introduction track on the audio product.) Use noisy, open-mouth, and diaphragmatic breathing. Let yourself make a sound during inhalation and exhalation. Your abdominal muscles should be relaxed and bulge outward when you breathe in. This allows the diaphragm to lower so the lungs can fully inflate. When you exhale, the reverse should occur: your belly muscles pull in and up as the diaphragm raises and assists full release of air.
The most important thing to remember throughout this technique is to keep breathing! Whenever you realize you’re not breathing properly, simply resume it. Don’t get upset with yourself or wonder where your mind was. Don’t analyze anything you caught yourself thinking about.
The music will change periodically to keep your over-analytical brain and its brain-based consciousness off balance a bit. Why? So you can access your inner wisdom, your transcendent source of consciousness that preceded the birth of your body and survives bodily death. That innate intelligence knows what to do and how to get healthy and happy again.
During the session, I’ll yell out words of coaching and encouragement. But remember the bottom line: whatever is going on inside or around you . . . just keep breathing!
You may want to laugh, cry, move around, or yell out. Those are all ways to release old wounds, needless fears, and past limiting teachings. Use the technique in the privacy of your home so you can pound the mattress or pillow. You may feel called to deeply massage tense body parts. Let yourself do that! To heal fully, let it go without inhibition or embarrassment. Old feelings and memories may arise. Do not analyze or revisit these; just allow them to wash through.
During the technique, some people start prolonged toning or moaning. If this happens spontaneously, OK, but it’s really not part of the technique. Again, just resume the noisy, open-mouth, diaphragmatic breathing as soon as you’re aware you’re not doing it. (It’s similar to meditation and picking back up the mantra when you become aware that you’ve “zoned out.”)
You may experience tingling sensations as your life force circulates more strongly throughout your body. This is a pleasant and natural effect of the technique. As mentioned, your hands may cramp up a bit or you may feel lightheaded if you breathe too deeply and/or too fast. Just slow down the rate and depth of your breathing.
Set one or two positive intentions before each session. Then forget about them and let the breathing create what you most need. The intensity of your breathing directly affects the amount of health and happiness you gain, so keep breathing with noise and gusto as much as you can. When instructed to do so, slow down your rate and depth of breathing after about 25 minutes. Then breathe normally about 5 minutes after that.
I recommend using this technique twice per week until your tears, anger, and other painful emotions are better as evidenced by less crying, anger, and other volatile emotions. Then use the technique once per week for a while. Using the same guidelines—less sadness, crying, and anger—eventually reduce the frequency to twice a month. I recommend a monthly session for preventive and fine-tuning benefits.
Instead of crying, you’ll likely at some point find yourself laughing as you start to remember “the big picture of life.” You might recall that your soul likely volunteered to go through difficulties and suffering because of the potential for greater growth and service to others. You’ll better understand why the French philosopher Voltaire said: “God is like a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.” Your spiritual amnesia will gradually subside as you remember that you are one with the One and part of Source Energy right now and always.
Eventually, you’ll start experiencing enhanced creativity so be sure to have a pen and paper nearby. You can capture million dollar ideas for creating the greatest life you have envisioned—not in spite of, but because of past challenges.
Again, visit Holistic Breathing Technique for the digital audio or CD product.
Recommendations Before Using the Holistic Breathing Technique
– Be completely rested so you have enough energy to do the technique full out.
– Eat a light, healthy meal a few hours beforehand so you aren’t hungry or have low blood sugar. However, you don’t want your stomach to be too full.
– Avoid excess caffeine or sugar for 24 hours before the session. Avoid using alcohol and recreational drugs for at least three days beforehand.
– Practice diaphragmatic breathing before starting the technique.
– Get as relaxed as possible before the experience
– laying down on a bed, mat or thick carpet is best
– have a pillow and blanket if needed
– wear comfortable clothing that will not bind
– bring lip salve to prevent dry lips during the prolonged open-mouth breathing
– drink water and use the bathroom just before your session
– turn off any phones, pagers, or other potentially interrupting devices
– have Kleenex handy for wiping tears and blowing your nose
– set an intention for just what you need at this time to greatly improve your life.
Recommendations for After the Session
– Enjoy quiet time to internalize your insights and enjoy the inner peace.
– Be careful and really focus if you drive soon afterwards.
– Share your experience with trusted loved ones if you like.
– Keep a journal to note any additional benefits that arrive in dream or waking states.
I hope you will use this technique as instructed and experience the wonderful benefits. I’ve led thousands of people through this session and now you can use it at home and share with others.
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Thank you for telling others about this article! Your life, and that of others around you, will be more enriched when you:
- read the article again so you really know it.
- discuss with close family and friends to more deeply internalize it.
- take action steps that seem right for you.
- share it with others via social media, discussion groups, and other ways.
Hugs, love, blessings, and let it shine!
Mark
Mark Pitstick, MA, DC
author, lecturer, counselor, and holistic chiropractic physician; spokesperson, research assistant, and strategic planner for the SoulPhone Project; founder of Greater Reality Living, Healing, Helping, and Sharing Programs
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Mark Pitstick, MA, DC is a master’s clinical psychologist, holistic chiropractic physician, and clinical nutritionist. He has also helped others in pastoral counseling and suicide prevention / education settings. His goal is to help you know and show that this earthly experience is a totally safe, meaningful, and magnificent adventure amidst eternity.
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Note: This article is intended as a reference source, not to replace professional treatment for physical, emotional, or mental problems. The author disclaims any liability arising directly or indirectly from the voluntary use of action steps discussed in article.
I created this article while ‘wearing the hat’ of a clinician, counselor, and educator. My statements are based upon some scientific research; much clinical and experiential evidence; my personal experiences; and my best current understandings. This program does not reflect my roles with the SoulPhone Project since those require solid scientific data for all statements.
