Essene Healing Breath
Phase One

PHASE ONE: STEP ONE - RELAX

Sit comfortably. Relax. With each exhalation, tell yourself to relax more and more. Tense your toes and feet as tightly as you can clench them. Hold your breath while clenching your toes. Hold this tension for a few seconds until you need to breathe or can't take the tension. Then relax your toes and your feet, relax and breathe deeply.

Tense your calf and lower legs. Clench them as tightly as you can while holding your breath. Hold this tension and your breath for several seconds as before. When you let go, let go completely. Relax your lower legs and breathe deeply.

Tense your thighs, your upper legs. Clench them as tightly as you can while holding your breath. Hold this tension and your breath for several seconds as before. When you let go, let go completely. Relax your upper legs and breathe deeply.

Feel the warmth in your legs as the blood flow increases in your legs as they relax.

Tense your abdomen. Clench your stomach muscles as tightly as you can while holding your breath. Hold this tension and your breath for several seconds as before. When you let go, let go completely. Relax your lower abs and breathe deeply.

Tense your back and chest. Clench these muscles as tightly as you can while holding your breath. Hold this tension and your breath for several seconds as before. When you let go, let go completely. Relax your back and chest and breathe deeply.

Feel the warmth in your body and legs as the blood flow increases in your body and legs as they relax.

Tense your hands and fingers as tightly as you can clench them. Hold your breath while clenching your hands and fingers. Hold this tension for a few seconds until you need to breathe or can't take the tension. Then relax your fingers and your hands, relax and breathe deeply.

Tense your lower arms. Clench them as tightly as you can while holding your breath. Hold this tension and your breath for several seconds as before. When you let go, let go completely. Relax your lower arms and breathe deeply.

Tense your upper arms. Clench them as tightly as you can while holding your breath. Hold this tension and your breath for several seconds as before. When you let go, let go completely. Relax your upper arms and breathe deeply.

Feel the warmth in your arms as the blood flow increases in your body, arms and legs as they relax.

Tense your shoulders and the muscles of your neck and face. Clench these muscles as tightly as you can while holding your breath. Hold this tension and your breath for several seconds as before. When you let go, let go completely. Relax your shoulders, neck and face and breathe deeply.

Feel the warmth in your whole body, your legs, stomach, chest, arms, shoulders, neck and face as your whole body relaxes and the blood flow improves. Feel the calmness of this relaxation. Sit back and enjoy it for the rest of your twenty-minute session. During this time mentally scan your body. Where you feel pain, will it to go away. Where you feel tightness or tension, will it to relax. When you feel discomfort of any kind, let it go and enjoy Stage One.

Continue this practice until you can completely relax your body in a couple minutes.

PHASE ONE: STEP TWO - BREATHE DEEPLY & RHYTHMICALLY

Become centered and breathe deeply and rhythmically. Continue to relax with each exhalation. Calm your mind. Continue to relax more and more as you breathe deeply, slowly and rhythmically.

Breathe in Divine Unconditional Love. This is the Healing Power of the Universe. As we fill ourselves with this energy we heal ourselves. As we set up the flow of this energy for the benefit of others we provide them with the raw material to heal themselves.

Breathe out all the toxins of your body. Emotional, psychological, mental and spiritual toxins can be released right along with the toxins of the body. Let your breath flow easily and smoothly. Let it cleanse you as it flows.

Breathing deeply is best accomplished by relaxing completely and letting your abdomen rise during each inhalation and descend during each exhalation. When you're completely relaxed this will happen automatically. Simply be aware that as your diaphragm moves down when you inhale and up when you exhale. As your diaphragm moves down during an inhalation, your stomach area moves outward to make room for your diaphragm. As you diaphragm moves up toward your lungs during each exhalation, your stomach area moves inward to occupy the vacated space. This is called abdominal breathing and it's the healthiest form of breathing we can do. We do it automatically when we relax completely.

Breathe deeply and continue to relax deeper and deeper.

PHASE ONE: STEP THREE - EXTEND YOUR BREATHING

As you continue to relax and breathe deeply, slightly pull in your abdomen toward the end of each exhalation, or slightly push out your abdomen at the end of each inhalation. Optionally you can do both. It's very important to do this without any effort whatsoever. Just naturally and easily pull in your abdomen at the end of an exhalation or naturally and easily extend your abdomen at the end of an inhalation. You may also opt to both extend and pull in your abdomen at the appropriate times.

Continue to relax, breathe deeply and extend your breathing.

This completes Phase One of the Essene Healing Breath. Continue to practice the three steps outlined here until you reach a state where you are completely unaware of your body. Then proceed to Phase Two, Steps Four through Six.

Essene Healing Breath - Phase Two

Essene Healing Breath - Introduction