Do It Go

I was fortunate to experience a new way with which some teaching hospitals are using breath as a vehicle for healing. At first I was skeptical, but after only a week with using a certain breathing technique, I’m a believer. I’ve suffered from asthma as an adult for over a decade and my attacks can be life threatening, so much so I end up in the emergency room at least twice a year. But, my last asthma attack, which happened while I was staying at one of the New York casino hotels, I was taken to the emergency room where the emergency doctor who was treating me, mentioned this new breathing technique and recommended I go to a breathing workshop. He told me that I’d be very surprised at just how effective it is and that I’d come back to him and thank him for recommending the breathing workshop. I laughed, but I did take his advise.

I learned there were two specific healing initiatives which are implemented as illustrations of how our breath is both a subtle organizing property and a material manifestation. Like singing, music therapy which organizes the intentions of the physiological abilities of anther person as they recover from a coma. The second is Qigong for the treatment of asthma. I was shown that Qigong’s breathing is also used as and intentional activity which will improve my own breathing abilities and heal what essentially is a breathing problem, the material manifestation of air-flow.

Breathing is a central part in healing and communication which forms the basis of many disciplines in therapy. With the breathing workshop, I became very aware of just how little I breath when I’m stressed out. This in turn hurts my entire body, which creates stress on all my organs, which creates more stress on me emotionally. Lack of a good breathing habit, created an endless cycle of stress for me. With my practice of Qigong, I have been able to balance my breathing, and I have been asthma free for over a year now. I did go back to New York (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York), recently, and thanked that doctor who recommended that breathing workshop.

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