| 1. All babies breathe naturally and deeply.
2. In the process of going through childhood, we are required to control and repress our feelings.
3. We stuff down our feelings by holding our breath and become shallow breathers.
4. The repressed feelings and emotions are stored into the body and become partially or totally unconscious.
5. Shallow breathing is detrimental to our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health.
6. Everybody can learn to breathe naturally and deeply all the time.
7. At a physical level, natural deep breathing can enhance body function and relieve many physical ailments.
8. Our unconcsious negative emotions, stored in the body, need to express themsleves as they are not content to lie dormant within us.
a. To do this they either make us ill, or act as magnets to life situations that trigger the emotion. For example, if the unconcious emotion is anger then it will attract situations to you that trigger your anger.
b. The trigger is only a trigger and not the cause of the emotion.
9. The emotional content, locked in our bodies, can only be accessed through our bodies.
10. The emotional content can only be released by letting go of the story and staying with the emotion. This leads to its release, its clearance and healing.
11. Learning this process usually requires, in the beginning, the assistance of an experienced practioner.
12. The process is gradual and is similar to learning a musical instrument: You need initial training and then the more you practice the better you get at doing it.
13. Breathe and Heal leads to healing which can be described as:
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