Home Winsights No. 29 (May 1999)
"Breathing as a Way of Life — 2"

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Brief Glossary of special processes used
Basic Calm-Breathing Pattern: continuous breathing-in and breathing-out, very deeply on exhale as well as on inhale, very slowly and letting go with each breath—savoring the long deep slow passage of each rewarding breath.

Relief Breathing: breathing each breath as if it were that very first, tremendously relieved breath you would breathe freshly freed of a heavy, burdensome suit of armor.

Noise-Removal Breathing: calm-breathing with the images of pulling air in through various parts of the body or sectors of experience, with that incoming air swirling up great clouds of debris ("noise"), sweeping all that stuff cleanly out of your system on your deeply exhaled (and warm, rich) breath—so that stuff becomes showers of bright sparks as it hits air, the open air, and releases into good clean life energy. One of the most important of Psychegenic breathing patterns, noise-removal breathing should be practiced very frequently for cumulative effects of self-cleansing and release.

Yawn Breathing: noise-removal breathing giving way to successions of profound yawns, if need be triggering these yawns by taking a good, deep stretch every 10 to 20 breaths. Yawn-breathing removes fear and some forms of anger.

Blowtorch Breathing: noise-removal breathing and showering the resultant sparks in your exhaled breath, slowly, gently, hotly in a blowtorch stream, upon various pictured situations and/or people, to burn away the bases of anger. Includes built-in bio-feedback testing for left-over anger by examining the feeling of unreserved giving of life-energy to the former anger-stimulus.

Satisfaction Breathing: calm-breathing with the emphasis on the reward of each breath. Use a real or imagined delicious aroma; breathe that satisfying aroma "in through" the part of your body that aroma first seems to come to. An exhilaration technique which prevents or abolishes depression, grief or other "down" feelings and deconditions the stimuli which gave rise to them. One of the more important of Psychegenic breathing patterns, strongly recommended for frequent practice.

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Other Definitions
Psychegenics: "psyche" means "mind-" and "-genics" means "derived from"—hence, Psychegenics is the study of those effects which are produced through and with or by the mind. The opposite of psychegenic is psychogenic, meaning some form of psychosomatic dysfunction. Historically, as a discipline Psychegenics has mostly been engaged in pursuit of higher actualizations of human potential.

"O.K." and "Beyond O.K." refer to the distinction between "average," meaning ordinary, customary, or the condition of most people, and "ænormal," in the health sense of being whole, intact, actualized. Our goal is to leave customary norms behind (after all, even "o.k." is still pretty mediocre) and evolve up toward the more fully actualized.

Stairstepping: to mentally photograph an effect and especially the feeling of that effect, next time to use the remembering of its feeling to re-create the effect, and then to use whatever first built the effect to add on to this re-created effect, going further carrying the effect to even more profound levels.

Innate Learning Methods: methods of learning and teaching which engage resources already innately within the learner—a set of ways to pick up the learning already experienced and bring it into the context of the learner's present learning efforts.

Second-Generation Creativity Methods: as compared to first-generation methods such as brainstorming and Synectics-type methods, which essentially are step-by-step analytic ways, or multiple-response-forcing ways, to compel the pre-conscious to form insights, inventions, and creative solutions to problems and then to force these creative events out into conscious expression. The contrast is that second-generation methods are based on the discovery that the insights and solutions are already there, in a subliminal mental holograph of impressions surrounding every problem, every question, every datum. Second-generation methods reach directly, efficiently and immediately into these mental holographs for such creative insights and solutions and so escape a lot of plodding formerly associated with creativity methods and creativity training.

Modulation: a term from information science, meaning when anything is affected by something else, it carries (potentially retrievable) information about what affected it. Modulation of the wiggly grooves in an LP stereo record disc, for example, carries the information which in play-back becomes a recreation of the music, speech or other sounds which were originally recorded onto those wiggles. After a pebble-toss into a pond, once the ripples have reached throughout the pond and are still active, every particle in the pond carries information about the size, texture, shape, weight, speed, direction, trajectory and position of that pebble, which information potentially can be retrieved. Actually, whatever is affected by something else is modulated by and carries information—potentially retrievable information—about that something else.

Holograph: from laser technology. Bounce a stream of coherent light off some object onto a photographic plate; that plate retains a three-dimensional image of that object and will project that image in 3 dimensions when that laser light shines through the plate. What makes this phenomenon holographic is that if you break the plate, every fragment of that plate will prove to have that entire 3-dimensional image! Every particle of that plate carries the complete record of information. The more profound aspect of this phenomenon is that:
  • Everything is affected by virtually everything else, hence is modulated by virtually everything else, hence carries information about virtually everything else;
  • This information is potentially retrievable;
  • The result is that virtually everything is a holograph of virtually everything else;
  • The finest instrument yet developed for retrieving this holographic information is the right side of the human cerebral cortex.
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