Essene Healing Breath

OVERVIEW OF THE ESSENE HEALING BREATH

The Essene Healing Breath is accomplished in three phases. In the first phase the student learns to completely relax his or her body. The depth of this relaxation so deep the student withdraws her or his consciousness and becomes unaware of his or her body. This phase is accomplished by steps one, two and three. When attained, this phase is called the "State of Deep Relaxation."

Phase Two is the process of withdrawing consciousness from the mind by completely occupying the mind with important meditative tasks. This phase is accomplished by steps four, five and six. When attained this phase is called the "State of Peaceful Mind." It's this state of deep relaxation and peaceful mind that allows us to enter a higher state of consciousness through the process or meditation. It's also in this State of Peaceful Mind that we can heal ourselves on every level of our being; and help others heal themselves.

Phase Three is learning to extend the periods of breathlessness for meditation or to contact spiritual guides, guardian angels, elementals, nature spirits, animal guides, other disincarnate beings or the Divine. Meditation can be used for all types of spiritual, psychic, esoteric or metaphysical work.

Phase Four is to just meditate. Go with the flow and meditate. Enjoy the bliss, the happiness, the joy, the peace and the unconditional love of the Divine. Meditate.

PREPARING TO DO AN ESSENE HEALING BREATH

The first thing we suggest you do is place yourself within a Sphere of Protection as a precaution. While you are meditating, contemplating, praying or healing yourself within this Sphere of Protection, no harm of any kind will come to you.

Most of the time nothing bad will happen anyway. But, as a precaution, we do suggest placing yourself within a Sphere of Protection any time you want to pray, meditate, contemplate or heal yourself. If nothing else, forming this sphere raises your vibration and makes the rest of your Essene Healing Breath practices easier and more effective.

Here's the Essene way of forming a Sphere of Protection:

1. Sit, recline or stand comfortably and close your eyes. Breathe deeply and relax.

2. Bring your consciousness to your heart.

3, See a dot of white light shining in the center of your heart. This white light is the Light of the Divine. It is the Unconditional Love of the Universe. This Universal Unconditional Love is protection against all things. See this dot of white light.

4. Each time you inhale, see this dot of white light slowly expanding. Over the course of seven breaths, see it expand so that it forms a sphere completely surrounding you.

5. Each time you exhale, feel the unconditional love of the universe filling you more and more. Watch this sphere of white light expand as you inhale. Feel the unconditional love of the Universe completely fill you as you exhale.

6. Stand, sit or recline within this sphere of white light, this sphere of the unconditional love of the universe for three breaths or more breaths and enjoy the peace, energy and love.

7. Give thanks to the Divine for protecting you and proceed with your Essene Healing Breath practices.

This is one way to create a Sphere of Protection to keep negative energy, power and entities away from you. There are several others. Choose one that suits you. You may want to consider the Sphere of Protection taught by:

The Ancient Order of Druids in America

The Magical Golden Dawn

We suggest you spend seven days practicing creating a Sphere of Protection around you before you continue learning the Essene Healing Breath technique. If you feel more comfortable moving ahead more quickly or more slowly, that's your decision to make. You need to take control of your own life.

INTRODUCTION TO THE ESSENE HEALING BREATH

This meditation technique is both easy to master and easy to dismiss without much effort. It's easy to master if you take a few minutes each day to do the weekly practices. It's easy to dismiss because it doesn't take much effort to master each step of this technique. Here are my observations based on training several hundred students in this technique:

The optimal practice session is about fifteen to twenty minutes. Less than ten minutes per session will usually not produce any noticeable results; so ten minutes should probably be considered as the least amount of time to be spent in a practice session. After twenty minutes the session tends to level off and very little further progress is made; so twenty minutes should probably be considered a maximum amount of time to spend in any practice session. More benefit is derived from more sessions rather than more time.

The optimal number of practice sessions per day is three or more . Fewer than two practice sessions a day slows your advancement and mastery of this technique. We used to recommend hour-long practice sessions. But research has shown that several shorter sessions are much more beneficial than one long session of the same amount of time

As with all things, do the best you can do and you will obtain noticeable results.

The relaxation technique taught by the Modern Essenes is commonly called "Progressive Relaxation." In the beginning it may take you fifteen to twenty minutes to work through your body from feet to head during Step One. After a few sessions you will be able to do this in a few minutes. After a several weeks, you'll be able to sit down and progressively relax your body in a few seconds. On the average, most students are able to completely relax in a few minutes after the first seven days of practice. Most students do not need to use muscle tension as a precursor to relaxation after a few days. By twenty-one days of practice they are able to completely relax within a few seconds. The secret is to take the time to painstakingly teach your muscles the process during the first few weeks.

As your muscles learn what's expected of them you will attain a state of complete relaxation more and more quickly. When your muscles have learned how to relax without first becoming quite tense, you may eliminate the tension part of the process. This is not necessary once your muscles become relaxed. Your goal is to be able to sit down quietly, close your eyes and in a few moments completely relax your body into a very deep state of relaxation. It will take you several weeks to attain this state of relaxation.

The more relaxed your body is, the better. The deeper the state of your body relaxation, the deeper the state of meditation you can obtain. Take the time to learn how to relax your body completely using Step One. We recommend you spend seven days practicing Step One before adding Step Two to your daily practice.

WITHDRAWING FROM YOUR HEALING BREATH

Withdraw from your practice session by first moving your toes. Then slowly work up your body by moving your legs, fingers, arms, shoulders, neck and head. Become aware of your surroundings. Relax and come alert. Touch your arms, shoulders and face. Open your eyes. Relish the energy and sense of well being that follows an Essene Healing Breath. Slowly stand up and move around when you're ready.

Essene Healing Breath - Phase One