Sacred Breathing is a Most Powerful Mindfulness Technique

“Sacred Breathing is a most powerful mindfulness technique” I said to  South African podcaster av**@po*******.club Avik Chakraborty on his “Healthy Mind, Healthy Life” show this week. (It will air first of next week:  https://www.podpage.com/on-air-live-healthy-waves/episodes/)   “It’s one of my Sacred Senses methods to remind you who you are, a divine being.”  He seemed to like that.  Let’s explore it today.  What it is, how it works, and why do it?

What is Sacred Breathing, This Powerful New Mindfulness Technique?

Mindfulness meditation techniques, used for centuries by Buddhists, are scientifically studied as well as popularized by Jon Kabat-Zinn founder of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine at the University of Massachusetts.  His mindfulness meditation research has proven that such techniques can impact your health and healing in many ways, including positively affecting the effects of stress and also a variety of diseases.

My new book, The Amazing Benefits of Meditation, explores the broad range of benefits and offers some new techniques that are particularly useful.  It just takes a moment for us to pause and take a Breath that has a particular purpose determined by our intent:  Sacred Breaths, Christ Breaths, Transcendent Breaths, Healing Breaths, Love Breaths, Forgiveness Breaths, to name a few.

Sacred Breaths are certainly a way to raise our consciousness, the vibration of our Being.  In summary, a Sacred Breath works by expanding the Spirit lying within all of us on the in-breath, pausing for a second to let Spirit pool up, and then radiating Spirit out into your world on the out-breath.  Doing so illumines us and the world around us.

Value of Sacred Breathing

Sacred Breathing is a powerful new mindfulness technique to soothe our body/mind.  Thus, helping us develop a “new normal” where Spirit/Mind is in charge.  Causing our internal systems to operate at a higher vibration.  I remember when this experience of higher vibration was new to me.  It was intriguing and scary to my mind as I observed my mind’s reaction to the new experience.

I liken this to our 8-year-old cat’s reaction when we brought a new kitten home.  Annie Cat acted intimidated and intimidating with 5-week-old Cleo.   She did not like the change and acted very territorial with the little one.  Hissing, growling, and puffing up.

There was no justification for this except that it was Annie’s natural reaction to change. Much like our human mind when we introduce something new into its system.  Slowly, Annie learned that there was no threat.  That this new creature was harmless.  Perhaps, as my wife Lynne speculated, she knew that this was a baby feline, worthy of mothering.  Annie befriended the baby kitty and, before long, she had company and didn’t miss us as much when we went away for a weekend.

Sacred Breathing’s Many Uses

Here are just a few uses of Sacred Breathing, as outlined in more detail in The Mindfulness Book:

• A quick trigger to raise our vibration any time we use it. Simply say the following phrase, “Peace, be still” and take a long, slow breath.  This immediately put us into a different state of mind.  It can bUse it anytime, anywhere.    Nobody else needs to know.  I have used this exercise in many different situations.  For example, I will take a Sacred Breath just before any challenging task: starting a meeting, beginning a tough conversation, serving a tennis ball.  It enriches the moment and puts me into a better frame of mind to accomplish the task.

• As a consciousness shifter while doing a repetitious, frightening, or physical task: digging a ditch, having teeth drilled, or cooking some food. I think my fish always tastes better and has more love cooked into it when I practice Sacred Breathing.

• Subconscious mind breathing.  We each have a subconscious or unconscious mind–a concept popularized by Sigmund Freud. Since its introduction, empirical evidence suggests that subconscious mind constructs include repressed feelings, automatic skills, subliminal perceptions, thoughts, habits, and automatic reactions.  As well as complexes, hidden phobias and desires, and repressed memories of painful incidents. Take a moment when “stuff comes up” to breathe a Sacred Breath into it.

Using This Powerful New Mindfulness Technique–A Few Personal Stories.

Story 1.

I  have found it helpful to breathe into that part of myself that becomes agitated by something in my interior or exterior environment.  Recently, for example, I woke up with a feeling in the pit of my stomach.    I didn’t recognize it at first, thinking it might be indigestion (which I never get).  I spent 15 minutes in bed working on dissolving the fear, reaching for some good feelings, using my meditation techniques.  Nothing much worked.

I got up, did my usual yoga routine, and spent about twenty minutes in an intense meditation.  Really Breathing into the pit of my stomach.  The fear began to subside and the “aha” moment came.   I had gone to bed without meditating the night before, after listening to a webinar that ended with the usual “scarcity” scenario. “If you don’t buy this product before midnight, you will lose out”.  I wasn’t even that interested in the product, a software solution to a problem I didn’t have.   My subconscious mind, however, was hooked by the message.

A few more Sacred Breaths and my consciousness moved in the direction of Awareness.  My vibratory rate rose.  The fear subsided and was replaced by an eagerness for the day.   A sense of feeling good and a feeling of lightness.  It was with this that I could begin the day.  Lynne and I went shopping and found some great plants for the yard.  I worked in my office for a while and some pieces of a project fell into place.  All in all, it was a good day.

I learned long ago to avoid watching scary movies, or anything else that is fear-based, before I go to bed.  Such input lodges in my subconscious mind, and my dreams are often troubled when I do.

Story 2.

Lynne recently pointed out that I was speaking to another person in our Tai Chi class in the same overbearing way my father used to use. It never worked for him very well, but I think I learned it from him   It sometimes comes out in inappropriate ways.  That evening, I spent a while breathing sacredly into that part of me where the behavior was lodged.  Since then, I have been able to catch myself before launching into this rude behavior.

Story 3. 

Last week, during a longer sit-down meditation, a powerful new mindfulness technique inspired me. “Breathe me,” I said to my Higher Consciousness.  “In me and through me.  Breathe me and be me.  Fill my very lungs with Spirit.”  I felt the intake of Spirit and the exhale of Spirit, into my world and into Eternity.  I thought, “All I have to do is do this and I am filled with Light.”  This incident led me to include Sacred Breathing as a key part of the Higher Consciousness Meditation sit-down process which I developed/  Which you will love.  (See The Meditation Book.)

Other Quick Exercises to Try

• Take a Sacred Breath anytime you think about it. This intentional act is one of the best ways to increase your vibratory rate and to “charge” the surrounding atmosphere.

• Pause as you go through a door and take a Sacred Breath as you make that transition. We all go in and out of doors frequently.  The idea is to make an association between one activity (going through a door) and another (taking a Sacred Breath).

Observant Jews take this one step further.  Inside a little rectangular case, mounted on the inside front door frame, they hang a Mezuzah.  Two chapters from the Torah written on a rolled-up scroll.  The first verse is “Hear oh Israel, the L-rd is our G-d, the L-rd is One.” When leaving the house, they touch the Mezuzah and remember that God is One.  We can borrow from this tradition and put whatever we want on the door frame.  As a reminder, to elevate our consciousness as we leave our home to go out into the world.

• Prime yourself for good dreams before you go to sleep. Take a series of Sacred Breaths as you snuggle down until you fall asleep.  Not only will it be easier to go to sleep, but your dreams will be better.  Write them down when you wake up.  If you have a bad dream, breathe several Sacred Breaths into your subconscious mind to discover what you might learn.  Rejoice in the higher vibration dreams you experience.

Conclusion

The powerful new mindfulness meditation technique mentioned above is a way to breathe your way to Illumination.  A Sacred Breath will elevate your vibratory rate and heighten your awareness.   And it’s so easy to do.  Use it regularly and you will see what I mean.  It will cause you to light up and breathe your way to Illumination.

Have you used or even developed such practices yourself and what did you find?  I’d love to hear your comments below.

For a more complete discussion of the many benefits of mindfulness meditation, get a free e-copy using this link: The Amazing Benefits of Meditation.

And when you are ready, grab a copy of The Meditation Book.