Daleth/Full Wave Breathwork  is designed to assist the participant in gaining a greater sense of health, well-being and balance in an ever changing world.

It is a self-empowerment tool designed to give the participant the ability to reclaim mastery over their life by opening the inner doorways to the innate wisdom of their own body and Soul. This dynamic tool is for everyone who wants to quickly and efficiently transform old, nonproductive habits and thoughts patterns into a life of freedom and joy.

The simplest and most effective tool for Awakening, is breathing.  Breathing can bring joy, peace and clarity in your life.  Simply put, if you don’t breathe you don’t live.  We all understand that, yet there is more to the power and process of breathing.  Every spiritual tradition focuses on the power of breathing and making your breathing process ‘conscious’. 

Many spiritual paths talk about breath as spirit.  The Native American tradition talks about wind as spirit.  All meditation and yoga classes teach some form of breathing. Sometimes it is a rapid in and out through the nose.  Other times it is a slower breath.

Spiritual paths have always known, that in order to have joy and peace in your life, in order to feel in control of your life, in order to stand in the Divine Now moment, you must use Conscious Breathing.  This type of breathing will assist you in your everyday life. 

In the Hindu tradition focusing on the breath is called ‘Pranayama’.  Prana means first energy, it is the energy of the entire universe.  That is what you are actually bringing in to yourself.  Oxygen is the carrier of Prana, or Life-Force, or God/Goddess.  Even in Genesis, the Bible, says that God breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and man became a living soul.  Breath is that life-force that animates us all.

One type of Buddhist breathing, focusing on and counting your breaths, is to bring you to a meditative state, in order to deepen your connection to all things.  All spiritual paths have understood the importance of breathing.  Deep proper breathing is really all about connecting you with your soul. 

Your soul is always in joy, your ego is always suffering.  Your ego is the part of you that doesn’t want you to breath.  Your ego is afraid that if you breath you won’t need to suffer anymore and therefore it will be out of a job.  Any time you begin to quiet your mind you begin to access the still small voice within, that is your soul. 

All of us need to be living from our soul in this modern time.  You’ve tried all the material things.  You bought the right car, the right house, the right boat, etc.  You’ve had the right relationship, the right vacation, the right job and yet nothing brought you long lasting fulfillment.  The only thing that will bring you true fulfillment is connection with your soul, that divine part of yourself.  The quickest and easiest way to obtain that connection with your soul is to breathe. 

It doesn’t matter what your spiritual belief system is, when you pray to the God or Goddess of your choice, breathe.  When you meditate, breathe.  Breathing brings us calmness and peace.  Breathing allows your individualized self to move aside and reconnect with the Oneness of All That Is.  Breathing opens all the inner doorways to your higher self, to your soul.  When you breathe you are bringing in your Divine Self more fully and completely, you are Awakening.

We can go without food for 40 days or so without dying, we could go without water for 5-7 days without dying, but only 4 minutes without breathing.  Your body is giving you a reminder of the importance of the breath.  Breath is life!

Most things in your body are automatic.  You don’t normally control your heart rate, you don’t control your digestive system, you don’t control your pupil dilation, and for most of us these things are way beyond our ability to control.  But all of us can take conscious control of our breathing.  When you begin to think about your breathing and play with the breath, it allows you to enter some very deep spiritual places.  It also gives you a sense of control over what is happening in your life. 

An example is the “fight or flight” response.  Right now, put one hand on your stomach and one hand on your chest, allow yourself to breath normally.  Now, which hand is moving?  Is your stomach going in and out or is your chest going in and out?  Most people are only breathing with their upper chest.  This activates the “fight or flight” response.  This creates stress.

If you are not breathing fully it can effect your blood pressure, your circulation, your stress level and your life in negative ways.  According to Dr. Alfred Coodley of the University of Southern California Medical School, “Stress is a major contributing factor in 100% of all disease.”  In our modern culture, 90% of the population have a restricted breathing pattern creating chronic tension in their body.

All that is necessary to change this pattern is to become conscious of your breathing.  It is important to breathe fully and fill your lungs completely.  This will assist in clearing toxins out of your body. 

The more that you breathe properly the more your lungs will get used to this kind of full breathing.  This will clean and clear your body out.  80% of the bodies toxins are released on the breath and everyone has toxins that need to be released. 

Breathing consciously is a practical tool that you can use every day, all day long.  If you are sitting at your computer working on a project and you realize that you aren’t breathing deeply, than just pause a moment and take 2 or 3 deep connected breaths.  You will notice that you will immediately begin to calm down and feel more centered.  You will also be able to think clearer and therefore be more productive in your life.

What is connected breathing?  Think about a small child or an animal’s breathing pattern, it goes in and out, in and out, constantly without a pause, filling the lungs completely.  Your belly should extend with the inhale and fall with the exhale.  This is the proper style of breathing, this is a connected breath.  

The best part is that there are no deleterious side effects from breathing, unless you consider more joy, happiness and peace a bad side effect.  The primary thing that breathing does is bring your soul more fully into your body, moving you toward Awakening.

Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness,
which unites your body to your thoughts.
Thich Nhat Hahn
 

Benefits of Proper Breathing

Physically:

• improves you circulation

• accesses more energy

• deepens your relaxation

• strengthens your immune system

Emotionally:

• resolves stress & anxiety

• clears emotional & energetic blocks

• resolves body memories

• assists in gaining clarity of purpose

• alleviates worry

Spiritually:

• deepen your meditations

• staying in the Divine Now moment

• awakens your inner potential

• experience greater joy

• reconnects you to your Divine Self

• integrates the mind, body and spirit within you

With time, we may notice that our way of breathing
perfectly reflects our way of life.
Michael Sky