To breathe properly is to live properly

"When the breath wanders, the mind is unsteady, but when the breath is still, so is the mind still." Ancient Yoga principle. 

Take food or water out of your life and you can live for days. Take away breath and you will die a quick death. Breathing is essential to living. Learn to breathe properly and you will not only develop the skill of changing your state of mind, you will dramatically enhance your energy levels. Good breathing practice fully oxygenates the body and charges up every one of your cells to fuel your activities and keep you in a state of high vitality. Good breathing practices will unleash the vitality that now lies inside you waiting to be released. Elite athletes do deep breathing exercises to fully relax and achieve peak performance at an important event. If you want to live longer, be happier and think stronger, learn to breathe properly and practice the following exercises regularly. 

Breath and Hold

This technique, which will dramatically increase your energy after only a couple of weeks of steady use, is simple to practice and can be done anywhere. It is also one of the best exercise to improve your concentration if you are weak in this key area. 

The essence of the exercise is to inhale to a count of two, hold your breath for a count of eight and exhale fully to count of four. To aid you in your counting, you may use walking steps: walk for two steps while inhaling fresh air deep into your lungs, hold for eight steps and exhale strongly for four more footsteps. You will soon notice the difference in your energy level and overall health levels. 

Alternate Nostril Breathing. 

This is a thousand year old technique used to boost the energy levels and to produce a wide array of lasting benefits to the mind, body and spirit. After practicing it, you will feel a mild feeling of euphoria. 

Sit in a quiet area with your feet crossed and back straight. At all times, your mouth should remain closed. Place your right thumb over your right nostril and inhale to the count of two through your left nostril. Close your eyes when you do this and imagine a giant balloon expanding in your tummy when you take the inhalation. Now hold for the standard eight count and, at the same time, cover your left nostril with your right pinky (little finger). Next, exhale to the count of four through your right nostril. Next, your inhalation will be through the right nostril, hold and exhale through the left (your thumb is now on the right nostril). Practice this alternate nostril breathing for five minutes every morning and the benefits will come fast. 

The Pump. 

This is a quick energy booster which you may use before a big presentation or meeting. Simply sit down and place your hands over your belly as if your were cupping a balloon. Now push/pump in your stomach at the belly button area and exhale strongly through your nose at the same time. Then, inhale through your nose and push the belly outward. Repeat the process twenty times, speeding up as you grow more comfortable. 

Green Fog Breathing.

This a technique developed by the world-class martial artists of the Orient to place themselves into a state of serenity and elevated calmness before competition. The first principle of good breathing practice is to breathe with all of your lungs and not just from the top portion of them. Proper breathing occurs when you are using the top and bottom of the lungs, as you do naturally when you sleep. 

Now lay down on your back in a place of quiet and shut your eyes. Repeat aloud the following phrase slowly, “I am serene, strong and focused.” Then, while you inhale, visualize the air as deep green fog entering your body through your nostrils, moving slowly into the depths of your abdomen. The green fog then moves through the limbs and throughout the body. Next, when the calming green fog has travelled through the body relaxing every muscle, exhale it along with any tensions that may have accumulated.  Keep doing this deep breathing exercise for 5 to 20 minutes daily for immediate calmness and internal peace. Deep breathing can change the state of your mind and the state of your life. 

The above breathing exercises reflect the very best breathing conditioners for the mind, body and spirit. You can take your general health to a far higher level simply by applying these techniques and you will surely reap huge gains and carry out all important tasks with improved vigor and enthusiasm. With the greater energy reserve deep breathing generates, you can do more, achieve more and transform your world from the commonplace to ideal.

You are what you eat

                    In our society, a great plague is our lack of energy. 

You are what you eat. By transforming your diet, you can dramatically reshape your body, moods, energy levels and overall vitality. It is believed that mental clarity and mental toughness are directly related to the nature of one’s diet. You just need to follow a strictly natural diet. A pure diet is one based on living foods-those created by the natural interaction of the sun, air, soil and water. The pure diet emphasizes fruits and their juices, vegetables and grains. By making changing to your diet to ensure that these Mega-foods form at least 70% of your diet, you will take the first step to ensuring physical mastery and a vital life. Here are some of the proven benefits you will receive when you start to eat living foods regularly rather than dead foods. 

1.      A significant increase in your energy and stamina. 
2.      Enhanced concentration and creativity. 
3.      Decreased obesity, loss of body fat. 
4.      Enhanced complexion, skin tone and vitality. 
5.      Lower sleep requirements. 
6.      Less digestive difficulties. 
7.      Improved alertness and mental agility, memory benefits. 
8.      A longer life. 
9.      A greater sense of harmony with Nature. 
10.  General health excellence.

A diet rich in vegetables, grains and fruits is truly what nature intended for us to have. Compare how you feel after eating a steak for a meal, with the way you feel after eating fresh salad. Natural foods such as fruits are easily digested, leaving the energy available for more productive pursuits like achieving your dreams and becoming the very best that you can be. One need only look at the most powerful animals on the planet. The elephant, rhino and gorilla (which has thirty times a man’s strength) all survive on vegetables or fruits. Energy is the first fundamental of life excellence for without an abundance of it you are like a rocket without fuel. For peak energy, it is important that you eat according to the natural cycles which occur in your body. They are as follows: 

1.   The Welcoming cycle Noon – 8 p.m. (Mega-foods such as fruits taken in and digested)
2. The Absorption cycle 8 p.m.-4 a.m. ( the foods are used)
3. The Removal cycle 4 a.m. –noon (foods are eliminated)

By recognizing these natural body cycles and eating in a way to allow each cycle to be most effective, you will release your tremendous energy reserves and see more vibrant health than ever before. The key is to ensure that toxins are flushed out of the body and the body remains pure inside. In a recent study in Finland, researchers learned that 38% of the new vegetarians studied reported that they felt less fatigued and more alert after only seven months. So, start eating more ethnic foods and you will finally be able to have the fun you always wanted to have and, ultimately, live the life you have always wanted to live!

Out of the 168 hours in your week, can you not spare 6 or 7?

    “The person who has no time for exercise must make time for illness.”

Transform your life and lift it to a much higher level by one simple activity: exercise. People are willing to go under the knife to look years younger, try bizarre diets and coat their bodies with New age longevity creams when everyone knows that the surefire way to look young and feel fantastic is to spend time everyday in some form of physical activity. Top leaders and other peak performers all have one thing in common: they have understood the tremendous power of vigorous exercise on a daily basis as a tool for self-mastery and life excellence. Do not say that you are so busy you cannot afford to exercise. Out of the 168 hours in your week, can you not spar 6 or 7 in the interest of your longevity, mental toughness and happiness? Physical exercise will change you. It will add power and focus to your dreams. Make one of the best decisions of your life and make the commitment to an exercise routine today. And if you really want to transform your life then start with yoga which plays vital part for both body and mind conditioning. Yoga is the Sanscrit word meaning union of mind and body. This 5000 years old activity will boost your stamina, provide you with exceptional relaxation and increase your concentration dramatically. Yoga when combined with a healthiest diet and positive thinking will have truly dramatic effects on your life and the passion that you bring to it. Try it a few times and you will never give it up. You will stay younger longer, be far more productive, erase the worry habit and radiate an exceptional degree of vitality. The practice of Yoga offers not only physical but mental training as well and is the world’s oldest system of personal management. And remember one thing 1000 mile journey begins with one step.

Steps to turn your dreams into reality

“We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter’s evening. Some of us let great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them, nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.”-Woodrow Wilson

Einstein, Emerson, Napoleon Hill, Olympic athletes and many other high achievers have used this strategy in one form or another for one reason-it works!

• Clearly decide on your goal and picture its attainment in your mind every night just before you sleep. Picture yourself having achieved your outcome. Make your visualization clear and colorful. 
• Develop a strong belief that it will come true by autosuggestion (repetition of the idea aloud) throughout the day. Self-suggestion has been used very successfully in the East for over 4000 years and is an age-old method of developing strong faith. Repeat your desire aloud ten times before your sleep. 
• Through repetition of thought, the goal will become a burning desire. 
• Develop a clear plan of how you will achieve the goal and seek out all opportunities for its fruition. 
• Write out the goal, the plan of action and the date by which you will achieve it. Repeat this aloud 10 times a day with belief in its purpose and with intense feeling. 

As mentioned, this success formula may seem odd but it has been used by some of the world’s most successful leaders and it will surely work for you. Do not apply it for only a day and then give up. Have faith in this formula and it will work wonders for you. All your dreams will be placed at the forefront of your consciousness and the forces of thought will make them come true.

Set clear goals with deadline and strategy

                    "A goal is a dream with a deadline."-Nepoleon Hill 

Set clear goals with a deadline and make a strategy to achieve it. Clear goals are the essential foundation of success. Without clearly defined goals for both the near future and the long-term, you are like a ship moving through the deep seas without a course. You are like a jet flying without a flight plan. You are like a brain surgeon operating with a blindfold on. Once you know the direction in which you are travelling through life, your days take on new. When you set your clear goals then next move is write out your goals and attach firm deadlines to them so you will not put them off. Then make a daily plan of attack which breaks the big goal into smaller bite-sized chunks that are easy to swallow and far less intimidating. If a goal is too overwhelming, it will not be tackled. But if it is broken down into smaller bites it becomes manageable and even fun. Rick Hansen, the man who travelled around the world in his wheelchair was asked the secret of achieving this exceptional feat. He said that rather than focusing on the 24,901 miles he had to cover, he simply thought only about taking one session at a time, 23 miles per session, three sessions a day. Start off small. Small victories always lead to large ones. Highly successful people, from leaders in the world of finance to parents leading happy, loving families, all share one powerful habit: they set goals with a deadline and make a strategy to achieve the goals. Remember that ageless principle your inner world determines your outer world.