Conditioning No.0 Breathing

 Conditioning No.0 Breathing

Breath of Life

 We have two kinds of breathing. One is the normal lung breathing, and another is cellular breathing. We can call them outer breathing and inner breathing too.

We have a hundred trillion cells in an adult body. When those cells get oxygen, they enjoy, get activated and spread. The whole-body size becomes a little larger with very slow speed. We call this the “Breath of Life.”

From the fetus age, we continue this Breath of Life because in the womb there is no oxygen gas. The fetus breathing was also the Breath of Life.

To be with Life all the time

When you get the Breath of Life, you can be on the way to become Life. Listen to Life all the time, Life is resonating not only with Oxygen but with everything in the world.

Towards the Butoh of Life

This is useful for investigating what is "the Butoh of Life" which Hijikata longed for in his later years and could not complete, because of his death.

An unknown virgin frontier where nobody has stepped is waiting for you, right in front of you.

 

Tao breathing

 荘子 - Chuang-Tzu wrote in his book,

 "Normal people breathe by their throat, real people breathe by their heel."

What does it mean?

Some people understand what it means bottom breathing. From the viewpoint of a human, it may be so.

But I think that the thought of Tao by Laozi and Chung Tzu meant a viewpoint beyond human. It meant the Life tide which continues for four billion years.

Tao means to integrate all of the Ten-Chi-Jin (Heaven, Earth, and Human), and they investigated the principle of life beyond human qualities such as the ego, and self.

From the viewpoint of Tao, heel breathing must mean a kind of the Breath of Life for becoming one with nature, and the universe.

 

Multi-dimensional subtle breathing

Multi-dimensional subtle breathing means to breathe through every part of the body releasing yourself from the lung breathing which is bound by the idea of a human. We start from the feet.

Open your Yusen 
There is an important tsubo (point) in Shiatsu which is called "Yusen" at the center of the sole. That point is also the center of the hidden joints of the sole. Yusen means spring out a fountain in Japanese.  Open the Yusen with breathing with the earth. Feel all kinds of Qualia from under the ground passing through your body from the Yusen to head.

Breathe "the Breath of Life" from various points of the body
Not only Yusen, but we can also breathe from any point of the body. Try to breathe in and out from the toe, heel, knee, pelvis, sacrum, arm, forehead, top of the head, and so on.

Breathe "the Breath of Life" at various points of the body as subtly as possible. It is the breath of Life, not lung breathing. But don't make an effort to divide them strictly. It is always resonating among the Breath of Life and lung breathing. Listen to the resonance of both.

Slowly it transforms into various Qualia resonance of Life, not only breathing, but also every part starts dreaming, remembering, imaging, and traveling into various other worlds. 

You can slowly open the multi-dimensional resonance between Life and the world. Naturally, they are communicating with various other worlds.

 

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