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 from the body and becomes unaware of it. 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 trivial tasks. This phase is accomplished by steps four, five and six. When attained this phase is called the "State of Peaceful Mind." It's in this state of deep relaxation and peaceful mind that allows us to enter a higher state of consciousness through the process or meditation..

Phase Three is using and extending the periods of breathlessness between each inhalation and exhalation and between each exhalation and inhalation. It is these periods of breathlessness that are called the Window of Opportunity for it is during these periods the student accomplishes the purpose of his ot her meditation. This purpose may include contact with spiritual guides, guardian angels, elementals, nature spirits, animal guides, other disincarnate beings or the Divine. It may also be healing of self or others, abundance for self or others, or mental, emotional, psychological, psychic, physical or spiritual advancement. It can be anything selected by the student.

Thereafter, 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.

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

1. Sit or stand comfortably and close your eyes. Relax and breathe deeply.

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. It is the protection against all things. See this dot of white light.

4. Each time you breathe out, 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 breathe in, feel the unconditional love of the universe filling you more and more. Then watch this sphere of white light expand as you breathe out.

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

7. Give thanks to the Divine for protecting you and proceed with your purpose for forming this Sphere of Protection around you.

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 Order of the Golden Dawn

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 the 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..

The optimal number of practice sessions per day is between two and three. Fewer than two practice sessions a day nets very slow advancement while more than three doesn't seem to net further advancement.

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. 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.

WITHDRAWING FROM YOUR MEDITATION

Withdraw from your meditation by first moving your toes. Then slowly work up your body by moving the 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.

Essene Healing Breath - Phase One