Actively Living with
Energy
by Dr. D. Richard
Bellamy
The Power of
the Breath
Life begins
with a first breath and ends with a last breath. Air contains the electricity
that charges our vital capacitor with energy. Breathing, posture, physiology,
and function are interrelated in expressing our vital potential energy. Energy
is infinite and is universally available to the one with greater order.
Higher-ordered breathing transforms and liberates energy. Disordered breathing
stifles and imprisons energy.
Breathing
only from the chest is short, shallow, disordered breathing that depends upon
several muscles of the neck to elevate the rib cage. It is the 80% effort that
returns 20% results. It can literally be a pain in the neck because the muscles
manifest tension due to the stressful breathing. Symmetrical, diaphragmatic
breathing, which will be described shortly, is the 20% effort that returns 80%
results.
Greater
inhalations than exhalations excite. Greater exhalations than inhalations
sedate. Balance inhalations with exhalations. Balance long slow breaths with
short fast breaths. Both are useful.
Balanced,
even, symmetrical breathing generates great energy and brings the power within
and the power below into synergistic present-now consciousness with the Power on
High. Uneven, unbalanced, asymmetrical breathing brings the higher minded power
within and the lower-minded power below into a consciousness of guilt about the
past or fear of the future.
The
higher-minded power within directs our striated skeletal muscles. The
lower-minded power below directs our smooth, involuntary muscles. If you are in
future fear and past guilt, the lower-minded power below rules the higher-minded
power within you and you omit what is purposeful and commit what is
perpendicular or tangential to what is purposeful. Balanced, diaphragmatic
breathing keeps you on purpose.
Have you ever
noticed how a baby breathes? Babies "belly breathe" by innately utilizing their
diaphragm. They continue their diaphragmatic breathing until they are about 12
years of age. Perhaps it contributes to their boundless energy. The diaphragm is
the heart of the lymphatic system. Symmetrical, diaphragmatic breathing cycles
pump the lymphocytes and fatty plasma through the lymphatic system, and surround
and block off foreign invaders such as bacteria.
Symmetrical
breathing cycles, which begin and end with the diaphragm, balance and bring
order between the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system. Symmetrical
diaphragmatic breathing balances acid and alkaline pH. Symmetrical diaphragmatic
breathing stimulates both the left and right cerebral hemispheres and activates
the corpus callosum, the highest evolved, higher-minded part of the
brain.
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You can
easily learn diaphragmatic breathing as you practice perfect breathing a little
each day.
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Begin by
standing erect or lying supine. Place your hands upon your abdomen.
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As you inhale
through your nose for a slow count of seven, let your abdomen protrude. Feel it
move with your hands.
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Hold your air
for a slow count of seven.
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As you exhale
through your nose for a slow count of seven, use your hands to feel your abdomen
pull in.
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Continue
pulling your abdomen in and tighten it for a slow count of seven.
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Repeat this
cycle for a total of seven cycles.
Practice this
exercise perfectly for one week and begin to add cycles until you can complete
12 perfect cycles. Keep practicing for 21 consecutive days. After 21 days of
practice, you will have mastered diaphragmatic breathing to the point that you
can easily experiment with both slow and fast cycles of
breathing.
Practice
diaphragmatic breathing for periods of five, ten, fifteen minutes, or more. If
you feel like you are going to fall backwards, put your back against a wall.
Notice the feeling you experience as you complete the exercise. Realize that as
you control your breathing, you control your mental magnetic power to take
action with energy now.
Water - A Precious
Nutrient
Water is the
basic constituent of all living things. It is the source from which nature comes
and nature goes. Scientists estimate that our bodies are composed of between 70
and 90% water. Our cells, tissues, organs, vital fluids, and secretions are
largely water.
Water is our
most precious nutrient and oldest remedy. It promotes regularity, replenishes
lost fluids, and dilutes the minerals that pass through the kidneys, helping to
prevent kidney stones. Water bathes our cells, tissues, and organs, and cleans
and rejuvenates us in a number of ways, within and without. Water is better than
low-calorie: it has no calories! If you were to drink two 8-ounce glasses upon
arising you would be giving your power below a great gift. Properly watered, it
can more purposefully serve you. Drinking seven 8-ounce glasses a day is
wise.
Living with
Rhythm
Developing
rhythms in sleeping, eating, and eliminating brings greater order. Eating before
the sun goes down, and rising before the sun comes up, allows the power within
and the power below to align with the circadian rhythms of the sun. When our
neuroendocrine systems are aligned with the circadian rhythms of the sun, there
is greater order, and therefore abundance of energy liberated purposefully.
Benjamin Franklin spoke wisely when he said, "Early to bed, early to rise makes
a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
If we are
arrhythmic in our cycles, we align our neuroendocrine systems with the ultradian
rhythms of the moon. How surprised would you be to discover that in ancient
times the sun was revered for its dependability and rhythm, while the moon was
considered to be flighty and erratic in its cycles? No wonder that someone who
is extremely emotional, erratic, and impulsive to the point of irresponsible
conduct is called a "lunatic."
High Energy
Foods
Have you ever
eaten a fat-laden meal and discovered that you suddenly felt groggy and sleepy?
You can easily understand that a greasy or fat-laden meal taxes the smooth
muscles of the digestive system controlled by the lower-minded power below,
causing it to draw energy from the higher-minded power within that controls the
striated skeletal muscles which take action on your purpose.
I invite you
to consider that the highest energy-generating foods are those that seek the
sun. Greens and other colored vegetables, whole grains, legumes, fruits, nuts,
flesh, fish, eggs, and dairy all have their place. A wise intake ratio is
approximately 20% greens, 20% grains, 20% legumes, 20% fruit, and the other 20%
a combination of nuts, fish, flesh, eggs, or dairy.
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Life-generating foods — such as soaked and germinated seeds, nuts,
grains, and legumes — are highly life-sustaining and
energy-generating.
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Fresh,
unprocessed raw fruits and vegetables are life- and
energy-sustaining.
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Foods that
are cooked are life-decaying yet energy sustaining.
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Any raw or
cooked food that is not fresh is life decaying and energy-draining.
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Foods with
additives, or those that have been processed, refined, or preserved are
bioacidic and life and energy-decaying.
For optimum
energy, eat a balance of fresh raw and fresh cooked foods. Eat foods that rot,
but eat them while they are fresh. Raw foods stimulate red blood cell
production. Cooked foods stimulate white blood cell production. Both are
necessary and balance the other for optimum energy. Remember, eat to live for
your purpose; do not live for the pleasure or pain of eating.
Prioritizing Your Actions
Prioritized
actions, ordered breathing, and abundant pure water form a tripod that stands
you up on the vertical plane toward your purpose. If you were to add regular
body rhythms and balanced, moderate food intake, you would have five spokes on a
wheel, making you so well rounded you could immediately move toward your purpose
with incredible energy now.
Prioritize
your actions to your core purpose and align your physical habits to support it.
You can easily find yourself breathing diaphragmatically and drinking plenty of
water. Suppose that following your purpose required you to lose some sleep or
travel extensively, breaking your daily rhythm. Or perhaps you find yourself in
circumstances that do not allow for the best or wisest food intake. Improvise
and adapt to whatever is available to you at the present time. All things in
moderation, including moderation. If you were to be obsessive about something,
be obsessive about writing, reading, listening to and saying your words of
power, and asking yourself what action you are taking with energy immediately to
accomplish your purpose.
I encourage
you to prioritize and link your goals and action steps to your purpose today.
You, the power within, and your lower-minded power below have a divinely
inspired mission. The power within that is you is immortal. As you can clearly
see, you — the higher-minded power within — are connected to the Power on High.
The Power on High is the ocean and you — the power within — are the wave. As you
begin to become aware that you — the higher-minded power within — are infinitely
connected to the Power on High, and that the Power on High is beyond time and
space, I invite you to realize that the lower minded power below is mortal and
exists in time and space.
The Choice
Your mission,
if you choose to accept it, is to follow the pole star of purpose in time and
space as you live your earthly life. In a sense, you only have so much time and
energy, so prioritize your goals and action steps to your purpose. Do what is
most on purpose, delegate what is necessary to support your purpose if you can,
and forsake what is left with love. Nothing can give your life more meaning than
your purpose, so waste no energy on tangents, and if you do, realize that
maximum evolution toward your purpose occurs at the transition from lower order
to higher order. Even in your chaotic entropic mistakes, there is a divinely
blessed system seeking syntropic higher order, guiding you toward a conservation
of energy toward your purpose from:
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Unconsciously
unconscious to
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Semiconsciously unconscious to
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Semiconsciously semiconscious to
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Consciously
semiconscious to
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Consciously
conscious to
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Super
consciously conscious to
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Super
consciously super conscious.
You have a
choice. You may not want to accelerate your evolution of consciousness toward
your vision, inspiration, and purpose now. But if you did choose to do so, you
can easily see the incredible higher-ordered energy and power you would generate
toward your purposeful goal.
Imagine what
it would feel like if you were to liberate higher and higher orders of energy,
empowering you to take prioritized action steps on your purposeful goals today.
Imagine what would happen if you were to take immediate action while you
continue to feel the incredibly empowering feeling that energizes you from
above, down, inside, and outside of you as you magnetically move toward and
attract the perfect people, ideas, and circumstances to fulfill your purposeful
goals now. I encourage you to take purposeful action with energy on the matter
at hand today.
 This article was excerpted with permission from:
Twelve Secrets for Manifesting Your Vision, Inspiration and
Purpose
by Dr. D. Richard
Bellamy.
Published by PHI Publishing.
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About The
Author
Dr. D. Richard Bellamy, a philosopher and
expert in human potential technologies, is a dynamic and inspirational coach,
speaker and seminar leader sought after worldwide. He helps hundreds of people
through his Chiropractic practice in Houston, Texas. He is a masterful teacher
of powerful seminars including 'The Breakthrough Experience' which he leads as
small, intensive groups throughout the year. These experiential workshops help
people lead more powerful lives and experience their own Vision, Inspiration,
and Purpose (V.l.P.).
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