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* Issue # 431, Week of December 12-13, 2006
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In this issue:
-- Quotes of the Week
-- Personal Growth Products and Services
-- Article: Energy Breathing: Be Healthier, Feel Happier, Have More Energy, and
Achieve Peak Performance in Everything You Do! – By Chunyi Lin
-- Article: Discover the Number 1 Key to Building Success and Wealth – By Lynda
Lock
-- Book Review: You Can Be Happy No Matter What: Five Principles for Keeping
Life in Perspective – By Richard Carlson, Ph.D.
-- Brief News of the World
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*** Article: Energy Breathing: Be Healthier, Feel Happier, Have More Energy, and
Achieve Peak Performance in Everything You Do! – By Chunyi Lin ***
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The single most important action in all our lives is one we seldom, if ever,
think about--breathing! If we don't breathe, none of the rest of life is even
possible. Yet when was the last time you paid any attention to the way you
breathe? You know breathing is essential to keeping you alive. What you may not
know is that the way in which you choose to breathe is essential to how fully
you live. Opera stars know the importance of breathing. So do great actors. So
do champion swimmers.
Sadly, most of the rest of us, including most athletes, simply take breathing
for granted.
It is through breathing that we take in oxygen to fuel our minds and bodies. The
more fuel we have, the better we function. The more effectively we breathe, the
more effectively we live. The benefits of effective breathing include:
* increased oxygen intake
* increased oxygenation of the blood, tissues, muscles, and organs
* relaxation of the body
* calming of the mind
* balance of the emotions
* enhanced mental focus, clarity, and creativity
* relief of stress.
Put simply, proper breathing can make you faster, stronger, calmer, and smarter,
which is pretty wonderful when you stop and think about it--something so simple
can be so powerfully helpful and healthful.
Conversely, if you are not breathing effectively, you simply cannot be as fast,
as strong, as calm, as smart, or as healthy as you could be.
What I want to share with you here is a simple yet powerfully effective method
for enhancing the benefits of breathing. Call it "energy breathing." Energy
breathing is an easy way to enhance your mind-body-spirit connection. That is
the key.
Your mind and body are not separate things. Your mind affects every part of your
physical body, just as your physical body affects your mind. If your body is
tense, if your breathing is shallow or rapid, your mind cannot be focused and
calm. If your mind is focused on all the stress in your life, your body will be
stressed, also. You need to have your mind and body working in concert to get
the most out of life. This is especially true of your breathing.
Your spirit is your connection with the infinite. In energy breathing you
connect your mind and body with the limitless power of the universe.
You are mind, body, and spirit. It only makes sense to make the best use of all
three aspects of you.
I use the term energy breathing because everything in the universe is a form of
energy. Albert Einstein established this principle in the Western world more
than a hundred years ago. Ancient scholars in China and other cultures have
created health and wellness systems based on this principle for thousands of
years.
When I say everything is a form of energy, I mean this literally. A rock, a
tree, the air, every cell in your body, these are all forms of energy. You are
an energy being. Even your thoughts are a form of energy, and a very powerful
one. Every thought you have sends electrical impulses somewhere in your body,
and your body responds accordingly.
The ancient Chinese scholars saw energy as two main components: yin and yang.
Think of yin and yang like female and male, like the positive and negative poles
of a magnet, or like the positive and negative charges at either end of a
battery. They are opposites that attract each other. For optimal performance,
yin and yang need to be in good balance.
That is some of the background behind energy breathing. How you do energy
breathing is very simple.
Energy Breathing Step-by-Step:
* Sit or lie down in a comfortable position.
* Put a smile on your face (this helps relax your mind and body).
* Place the tip of your tongue gently against the roof of your mouth (this
connects the two main energy channels in your body).
* Breathe through your nose in slow, gentle, deep breaths.
* As you breathe in, gently pull your lower stomach in a little.
* As you breathe out, let your stomach out.
(The upper part of the body belongs to yang energy; the lower part of the body
belongs to yin energy. Breathing in is a part of yin energy; breathing out is
yang. One of the reasons we get sick is that yin and yang energies are not
communicating well. By pulling your lower stomach in as you inhale and letting
it out as you exhale, you are enhancing the communication of the yin and yang
energies.)
This is the body part of energy breathing. Now we connect it with the mind and
spirit by utilizing simple visualization and mental focus. Say in your mind the
"password":
I am in the universe. The universe is in my body. The universe and I are
one.
If you choose to use a different password, that is fine. The words are not as
important as their meaning--you are not alone. You are connected with the
infinite.
* As you breathe in,
* imagine you are using your entire body to breathe
* see and feel the air, the limitless energy of the universe, flowing into your
body through every part of your body.
* As you breathe out,
* visualize any tiredness or stress, pain or sickness, any doubt or worries
changing into smoke
* and visualize it shooting out of your body to the ends of the universe.
As you continue breathing in this way, feel your mind and body becoming
completely relaxed. Know that every cell in your body is being restored to its
perfect, balanced state, revitalized and rejuvenated.
To end your energy breathing session:
* take one final, slow, gentle, deep breath
* slowly open your eyes
* rub your hands together, palm to palm
* gently massage your face...
* running your fingertips gently up each side of the bridge of your nose
to your forehead, then out and down to your chin in a circular motion
* repeat this motion several times.
That's all there is to it. Energy breathing is just that simple.
The key is to allow yourself to relax and enjoy the experience. Do not concern
yourself with whether you are "getting it right." There is no right. There is
only good, better, and best. The more you practice energy breathing, the better
off you will be, and the more you will empower yourself to be your best.
Why not take a few minutes now to practice energy breathing. Even just five
minutes of energy breathing is helpful. If you can do it several times a day or
for a longer period of time, that is even better.
Breathing is what you must do to stay alive, but the way you choose to breathe
can empower you to truly live.
About the Author:
This article was written by Chunyi Lin, contributing author to "101 Great Ways
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Chunyi Lin is a certified International Qigong Master and the founder and
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*** Article: Discover the Number 1 Key to Building Success and Wealth – By Lynda
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Do you remember your classmates from school who were always top of the class,
who never seemed to try very hard but still got the good grades?
Perhaps you struggled to even reach the minimum score to pass an exam, or maybe
you simply didn't rate yourself as an overly intelligent person. It's amazing
how many people believe that in order to be successful and to build great wealth
you need to have done well in school.
How many of these "intelligent" people now run multimillion dollar companies, or
have found great success in some business venture or another and have an income
that most people can only dream of? It's quite likely that very few of them ever
made anything much of themselves. In fact, some of them may have spiraled into a
life of self-destruction that we would otherwise reserve for the "uneducated" --
a common occurrence in highly intelligent individuals who experienced great
pressure from family to be exceptional. High intelligence is no guarantee of
success or wealth in life.
At the core of any major success story -- whether it be in sport, business,
medical research, or any other field of expertise -- is one
thing: persistence.
No matter how intelligent one may be, how high their IQ, or what their exam
results were in school, persistence is the one thing that is required if you
wish to become wealthy.
Persistence is a quality lacking in the majority of human beings, and this is
why: Although we all have the same opportunities if we just keep an open mind to
avoid missing them, very few people achieve great things in terms of wealth and
success. Too often they will return to their comfort zone, choosing short-term
relief and comfort in order to avoid the temporary discomfort of working hard
and having to persist through the tough times.
Failure cannot cope with persistence. Sure, "failure" is experienced by most
highly successful people along their path to great wealth and success; however,
the difference is that they see failure as an opportunity to grow and learn,
rather than a reason to give up. Through their desire to succeed, persistence
takes hold and failures become mere stepping stones on the path of success.
In order to become wealthy, first must come a strong desire, which is the fuel
that feeds the fire of achievement. Then must come a plan of action -- a set of
stepping stones to take you to your ultimate destination. Then to bind these
things together, and ensure a recipe of success, persistence must play the
leading role because failure cannot cope with persistence.
Without persistence, success and wealth will not come. Desire and planning is
not enough, and we know that because we see it every day.
How many people talk about their desire to buy an expensive sports car but are
never seen driving anything other than the car they've had for years and years?
How many others talk about their plans for the future but get to the end of each
year finding that time has slipped by and nothing has changed?
These types of people may very well have started a savings plan for the new car
or investigated some of the options available for their future, but more often
than not, life will get in the way, the excuses will come, and before they know
it, time has moved on but they haven't.
Look at the last five years of your life and how many things have changed. I bet
if you were at the beginning of those last five years again and someone said,
"You know what, you're going to be doing exactly the same thing in five years
time as you are now," do you think you'd be happy with that? Probably not.
We all have an opportunity to achieve wealth, and if we grasp the concept that
all we need is some strong desire, a plan of action, and a never-ending supply
of persistence, then we can become wealthy and live the kind of lives that most
people would only ever dream of.
Without persistence defeat will get you before you've even started. With
persistence, you will emerge the ultimate winner.
About the Author:
Lynda Lock is a business mentor to others who wish to run their own businesses
from home. For more information go to:
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*** Book Review: You Can Be Happy No Matter What: Five Principles for Keeping
Life in Perspective – By Richard Carlson, Ph.D. ***
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By understanding five key principles -- Thought, Moods, Separate Realities,
Feelings, and the Present Moment -- we can discover a new mode of living that
doesn't repress natural emotions nor allow us to become overwhelmed by feelings
and thoughts. We are raised to believe our happiness depends on outside
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