The Air Element: Personal Alchemy Part 3
Nov.24, 2009
Hello my fellow Alchemists!! Today I bring you part 3 of my Personal Alchemy series. If you haven’t seen my other videos in this series Click Here for part 1 and Click Here for part 2. This week I am focusing on the Air Element which to me represents our Etheric body. When I was a baby I had challenges with my lungs and my breathing and as a result I have put a lot of my attention on the air element in my life and have extensively studied “the perfect breath” and breathwork. Watch my video below to learn about this most vital element…
First, I must say, more important than any special way of breathing is to become aware of our own breath and follow our own body’s rhythm. It’s best to let every part of your body breath. Allow your body to move and undulate when you breathe. Babies breathe with their whole bodies, even their fingers and toes. Practice trusting your breath and allowing “spirit to breathe you.” That being said, it is also helpful to practice certain breathing techniques and explore the inspiration, insight, healing and relaxation which come with it. Here are my favorites…
1. Breath of Love: This is a particular rebirth breathing pattern I have studied and have become certified in. It is supposedly the “ideal breath” that humans and animals are meant to use. It represents our relationship to the universe. On the inhale you take in as much air as possible, filling both the lower abdomen and upper part of your lungs. This represents how much you are willing to take in from the universe around you, how much you are open to, how effortlessly you are open to it, and how satisfied you are when you get what you want. The exhale is then quickly dropped with no effort or force. You just relax your abdomen and lungs. This represents what you think the universe does: does it accept your old, stale, used substance? Does it reject you? Do you have to fight to get rid of something? The in and out breath is connected and flowing like the waves of the ocean crashing onto the sand and pulling back into the ocean. This represents your willingness to be present and live in the moment, Right NOW.
2. Rhythmic Holy Breath: This is a common Yoga breath. The pattern is inhale-hold-exhale-hold for equal amounts of time. I like to add visualization to my breathing such as…
*On the inbreath, breathe the love/light of God into your body
*As you hold your breath, visualize assimilating the love/light of God
*On the outbreath, expand the love/light of God into every cell, organ and electron of your physical, etheric, mental and emotional bodies
*As you hold the breath out, deliberately project the assimilated love/light of God into the heart of every man, woman and child
Repeat this pattern for several minutes until you feel light, calm, and relaxed:)
How To Cleanse Your Respiratory System:
1. Nauli: It’s best to do this exercise first thing in the morning before you have had any food or drink. Stand outside or near a window to receive fresh Prana filled air. Bend over at the waist and fully exhale. When you feel you have exhaled fully exhale even more. Then stand up and pull your belly in. Your abdomen will be concave. Hold for a little bit and then push your belly out and slowly allow air to come back in to your lungs. The bottom of our lungs can hold in stagnant air for a LONG time and this yoga technique will clean it all out!
2. Neti Pot: This will clean out your sinus passages. I haven’t quite mastered this one yet (it took me a while to even get the guts up to try it;), but it really does work and there are many things you can do with your neti pot. I suggest you research how to best use it. Adding a little sea salt and essential oils to your water is very refreshing and healing too.
Ok, it’s now time to watch part 4! Click Here to get started:)
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April 19th, 2010 on 2:56 amrose…
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November 27th, 2009 on 3:38 pm
Thank you so much, Debbie for those breathing techniques! Isn’t it amazing how much we can do and connect-with with the breath?
My parents are using the neti pot every morning! All of their friends do too, I can’t believe it… They totally feel a difference.
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December 5th, 2009 on 2:07 pm
I saw the movie, Yes Man. It was a fun movie. When they translated the bible they did not know what many words really meant. Say in thousands of years the English language no longer exists. There is a good chance that they will not know that the word “gay” completely changed meaning.
At one time it meant ‘happy’ so with that usage you can say that Rose is gay in the video. But then it changed to mean ‘homosexual’. If you confuse them, then you get things that make no sense. Now in the bible there is a famous line that makes no sense. It also uses a word that if you look up what this word means in the bible, it says that scholars disagree on what this word really means.
The line is (Jesus was fasting), “Man does not live by bread alone but by every word of God.” So the word that I was talking about above is “word.” Of course it cannot mean words in the bible because people were alive before the bible was written. Also the bible has many words, not one word.
On Christmas Day (2009) the movie, Sherlock Holmes, opens. Sherlock Holmes says “when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?” Word! Word up!
Do you think that people who have never read a word of the bible cannot live more than 5 minutes? What can you not live without for more than 5 minutes? Air. That is what this post is about.
Now let us put in the correct word for current English. “Man does not live by bread alone, but by every breath he takes (receives from God).” Now that statement that Jesus says makes sense, and it is profound. Air is much more important than food or water. Medicine says that without air for more than 5 minutes, your brain dies. The exception is if you are in a frozen lake.
Now pregnant people have more trouble breathing. The same happens when you eat too much food. But when you have fasted for a few days then there is much more room in the lower abdomen and breathing becomes much fuller.
So for 40 days Moses and Jesus lived off of air alone or air and water alone. I live a block from a creek and woods. Once I go into the woods (forest) I just have to follow the path. In there, the only thing that you can see are trees. But the oxygen content in the woods are higher since the trees make most of the oxygen in the air.
My friend moved from Philadelphia suburbs to Arizona since it is much warmer there and a lot less humid. But he says that he can feel the lack of oxygen there due to the lack of trees compared to Philadelphia. Pennsylvania means Penn’s woods (as in William Penn). At one time all the land in Pennsylvania was owned by Penn.
There is a lot of information from ancient India about why the bible refers to the word of God or the name of God. The most popular book in India is the story of Rama (Ramayana). Rama is God in human form. The book is all about how great Rama is. But in the beginning it explains why the Name of Rama is greater than Rama. Note that Rama’s Name or the Name of Rama is not ‘Rama.” It is really referring to the sound, word or name that an in-and-out breath makes.
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December 5th, 2009 on 3:12 pm
So what would Eckhart Tolle think about this corrected statement of Jesus? On page 244 of the book, A New Earth, he says “Be aware of the word in the bible.” Just kidding! He says “Be aware of your breathing as often as you are able, whenever you remember. Do that for one year and it will be more powerfully transformative than attending all these courses. And it’s free.”
He also says (page 245) “The German word for breathing– atmen– is derived from the ancient Indian (Sanskrit) word Atman, the indwelling divine spirit or God within.” I would translate Atman as soul. I would also say that when you breath, God is speaking His Word inside of you.
On 246 Tolle says “Whenever you are conscious of your breath, you are absolutely present. You may notice that you cannot think and be aware of your breathing. Conscious breathing stops your mind.” This sub-chapter in his book (4 pages) is called The Breath. I say that the breath is the Word of God. What do you, Jesus and Tolle have in common? You breathe all the time during your life in this body.
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December 6th, 2009 on 12:14 pm
I re-tweeted this from here yesterday which uses the old style tweet. Then I re-tweeted this from your Twitter page today to get the new style re-tweet. Actually when someone controls the breath, it is not the word of God. The word of God is that thing that moves the breath unconsciously or involuntarily.
Here is an experience of an American Buddhist nun with breathing. Pema Chodron has written a few books on Buddhism. She says:
“I remember when I was first given meditation instruction. It sounds so simple: Just sit down, get comfortable, and bring light awareness to your breath. When your mind wanders, gently come back and stay present with your breath. I thought, ‘This will be easy.’ Then someone hit a gong and I tried it. What I found was that I wasn’t present with a single breath until they hit the gong again to end the session. I had spent the whole time lost in thought.”
In anticipation of the fire element post, here is my comment. It is harder to comment on a post before it is written but I am sure that Rose Goddess will do a great job. In India they say that fire rises so it can join its source which is the sun. Of course this is a myth since at night it rises and goes away from the sun.
But the sun is the source of fire. Rocks and dirt do not burn. Only organic things that were or are alive burn. Oil comes from dead things. If you grow a plant for 5 days and burn it, you will get the fire from 5 days of stored sunlight. That is not much.
But if you burn a 300 year old tree, then the fire from that is from 300 years of stored sunlight. So now we are burning thousands of years of stored sunlight every single day.
Decades ago everyone in China walked or rode a bike. Now they are making cars at a faster rate than ever in America. So feel free to use any of this in your post if you want. I did not make it up but got it from an impressive article in a magazine.
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May 2nd, 2011 on 6:05 am
My wife forwarded me this post – pretty neat
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