Tools For Conscious Awareness
Newsletter For A Next Step...light center for emotional
healing
Vol 25 October, 2002
In Truth, Simplicity and Love
FEATURES:
WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
Blessings. Welcome to October 2002 Tools For Conscious
Awareness. Once again there's something for everyone
in your newsletter. Tools For Conscious Awareness
continues to be ad free.no pop ups, no filler. Just a
good read with ideas to encourage you to think, laugh
and even feel an emotion or two. Thank you for your
participation as a subscriber. Please send this
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Step.light center for emotional healing. It is our
desire to be of service. If you have any ideas or
suggestions you'd like to share or even vent.do email
us. We encourage communication.
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We are going to put in a plug for Toni and Kelley's
new adventure. Kelley usually deletes all "junk"
email. He found it particularly interesting to find
that he had opened what looked like a piece of "junk"
email. The email asked if he would be interested in
making a lot of money simply by giving away free CD's.
Kelley thought, "Yes, he could giveaway free CD's.what
was the catch?" So he sent for the CD.
The CD sat on his computer desk for about a week
before he opened it. When he did he wasn't that
impressed. (Maybe it's because this computer doesn't
have a sound card.) Anyway at one point the offer was
to "click here to see my checks", so he did. The
checks were of sizable amounts. He clicked off, then
stopped. Kelley thought, "Wait a minute," and clicked
back .thinking he had recognized something. There on
the checks was the logo and name of the company.
Sunrider International.
Both Toni and Kelley are familiar with Sunrider
International, a privately held company of over twenty
years and in thirty-seven countries.with superior
products that make you look good, feel good and create
excellent health.making hundreds of millions of
dollars a year. The lead in line was and is: Give away
FREE CD's - Earn $5K in 30 Days! PROOF! The label
on the CD reads: "We made $26,087 in 94 days. See the
checks yourself on this CD - and see how you can do it
too!"
Kelley and Toni will keep you up to date on this
adventure. If you want to know more about this, email
us and request a free CD or call toll free
1-866-203-2056 for information.
REMEMBER, the number one priority for humanity at this
time is for HUMANITY TO BECOME PROSPEROUS AND DEBT
FREE. Just think of all the good that you could
personally accomplish if you had money to feed and
employ families or provide clean water in places
where none currently exists, or create places of
sanctuary for animals and people.
Just think about all the good that could be
accomplished by you. Also feel what it would feel
like to be debt free. How much more personal energy
would you have "to be" and enjoy life if you did not
have to worry about paying the bills?
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Also, Toni's book: "Dancing With Death thru Senility
into Eternality". Is released!!We are excited and it
is time. You may go to the following address and see
the book and even order it.
http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0%2D595%2D24442%2D4
We've been told by the publisher that it will be a
month before it is on Barnes and Nobles.com and
Amazon.com. The cool thing is that it is happening!
We'll let you know as the release date approaches. We
also have a few copies available if anyone wants to
purchase one directly from us. Ask for a signatured
copy if you like.
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BURSTING THE BODY LIGHT - VIOLET FLAME OF FORGIVENESS
WORLD PEACE BREATH MEDITATION
We had a wonderful gathering for October's Bursting
the Body Light Violet Flame of Forgiveness World Peace
Meditation. It included a remarkable discussion on
how to best focus our energy in light of today's
current world situation. There are certainly both
sides of the extreme. The topic wavered from
condemnation to understanding and all around.
Toni's note pad had the following.
"Awakening to self empowerment through self
governance".
"Awakening to higher, eco efficient energy sources"
"Awakening of the Collective to see the fallacy of
war".
"Rise in consciousness"
"Ability to see the truth - fallacy of this war"
"Clarity in world situation"
"Clarity of individuals in world situation and
empowering themselves into right action."
We finally agreed on: " MAY ALL INDIVIDUALS GAIN
CLARITY IN THE WORLD SITUATION AND EMPOWER THEMSELVES
INTO RIGHT ACTION FOR WORLD PEACE." It was powerful
and inspiring, bringing a sense of hope and a calming
joy.
Please join us for November's World Peace Meditation
from wherever you are on November 3rd at 3 pm
mountain standard time. We usually share and come up
with a focus and then breathe at about 4pm. We are
making a difference.
It is our honor and priviledge to participate..it is
ultimately the trust and intent of all who share in
the vision of World Peace that will bring it into
physical manifestation. We appreciate your
participation in whatever way, wherever you are.
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"Human beings have a higher degree intelligence and
manual skills than other created beings. With free
will, they have the ability and power to work with The
Divine Order and Purpose or to oppose it , either by
design or ignorance." ("I Am Harmony" by Radhe Shyam)
FREEDOM by Toni Delgado
Freedom or the possible loss of it seems to be on the
minds of a lot of people right now. And fear seems to
be in a lot of people's bodies. Freedom to me means
the ability to be at choice from within or without,
without constraint. And fear to me means needing to
defend or hide, because there is no trust inside or
outside. In other words, fear is the opposite of
freedom for me.
It feels like more and more personal liberties are
being removed from the lives of people every day. And
it also seems that there is little acknowledgement or
recognition of this fact. People are easily duped
when they have little personal power. And they have
even less when they allow fear to control them, their
decisions and actions.
Folks are being enrolled into giving up their freedom
by cunning, some is subtle, some is not so subtle
(9-11) manipulation. We are being told "If you let us
watch you, we can protect you better." So cameras in
stores, on highways, banks, workplaces are becoming a
way of life.
TV shows like "Survivor", are encouraging voyeurism,
so people can get used to being watched. We are being
asked to surrender what our forefathers fought to
create in the Constitution. My 82 year young
mother-in-law was frisked in the airport coming back
from Seattle. Yeah.she really fits a terrorist
profile.
Another one of my crone friends, (seventy nine years
young) attended an international conference recently.
She could not remember the name of it because she
forgets a lot of things. She said "It was really neat
how the military had invented this apparatus that
could tell you (and everybody else) where you are all
the time, so you could never get lost."
It saddens, anger and enrages me in differing moments
to see how disempowered, weak and careless many people
have become around what should be important to all of
us-God created us to be free and sovereign, yet many
of us have given this up so easily, almost without
comment or care. In times like this, I feel hopeless
around the human condition and how wimpy people are
becoming because of their fear.
We can only be in fear when we are steeped in the past
(our old conditioning) and holding on to an uncertain
future. God did not create us to flounder. When we
choose to breathe, relax , let go and be in the
present moment of now, we are connected, relaxed,
knowing, certain and fearless.
We make a difference in the Collective consciousness
whether we are holding our breaths in unconscious
habit and fear or whether we are consciously choosing
to connect to our breathing and the clarity and
support of the One Mind. Which of these do you want
to participate with?
We cannot know the amount of fear we hold in our
subconscious storehouse, because as Arthur P. Guyton
MD, (author of the most used book by medical
students, "Textbook of Human Physiology") says, "99%
of all sensory input gets disregarded by the brain as
unimportant. So your conscious mind cannot tell you
what or how much fear you are holding. You need
another power to show you this.
Breath, Conscious Connected Breathing or Rebirthing is
this other power and it resides within the confines of
your wondrous being. It can be connected to easily
with a good Rebirther or breathing coach. This
Conscious Connected Breathing can access all your
fears gently, lovingly. And the power of the breath
can transmute these old conditioned fears into
understanding, calm and peace. It can empower humanity
out of slavery and misery, into freedom and true
sovereignity.
I believe with all my heart that breath is the
antidote to all miscreations and limitations of the
human condition. Conscious Connected
Breathing-Rebirthing as taught by Leonard Orr is the
modern pranayama that Source has given us to save us
from our own tyranny. It is the path to Total Freedom
and Total Sovereignity.
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The following article is a response to the unfortunate
incident that occurred in Colorado some time ago. As
a result of the death of a child in a therapy session
that her therapists called "rebirthing", Colorado
outlawed "rebirthing" in that state. Now a bill is
coming before Congress to outlaw "Rebirthing" in all
states.
It is imperative that those of you who have done
Conscious Energy Breathing -- Rebirthing as has been
taught by Leonard Orr, Sondra Ray and other excellent
rebirthers, rise to teach the truth of this gift from
Source.
Leonard asks that you make multiple copies of the
following article and send it to your congressmen,
political representatives, media, friends,
acquaintances so that the truth be known.
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REBIRTHING IS SAFER THAN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
By: Leonard Orr
Rebirthing Breathwork is not Attachment Therapy.
A little girl was wrapped in a blanket. The Attachment
Therapist was using psychodrama to reenact her birth
in the hope that she would bond with her adopted
mother.
It wasn't working. The mother left the room. The
little girl complained that she couldn't breathe. She
said she was dying.
The therapist said (the whole session was video
taped), "Well die then. "Go ahead and die".
Then there was no sound from the little girl for over
20 minutes before the therapist unwrapped the blanket
and found the little girl had suffocated. The
therapists were convicted and sent to prison.
The therapist broke many basic rules that are basic to
good therapy as well as good Rebirthing.
1. The parents should do the work before the child. A
good Rebirther would have given the parents ten
Breathing sessions before working with the child.
2. Attachment Therapy is not the same Movement as
Rebirthing Breathwork. Rebirthing Breathwork teaches
people to breathe, it is not psychodrama.
3. Rebirthing is client centered. The Attachment
Therapist was not listening to the little girl.
As the founder of the largest Rebirthing Breathwork
Movement, I have never been interested in psychodrama
or techniques that force people into their trauma and
drama. I have always felt the people have enough drama
and trauma in their everyday lives and my goal is to
teach people to relax and go for peace. One Year
Seminars and all Rebirthing workshops and trainings in
the Movement which I established are oriented toward
spiritual enlightenment, spiritual psychology, and
spiritual community. We give people tools to heal
themselves so they can be spiritually self sufficient.
The style of "Rebirthing" used by Attachment
Therapists may have originated from a woman named
Elizabeth Far in the 60's, if my memory is correct,
who constructed a tunnel out of mattresses for her
clients to crawl through.
There is also such a tunnel in the San Francisco
Museum of Science which has been a great attraction
for decades.
Birth regression work is also common among
hypnotherapists.
The kind of Rebirthing Breathwork I represent is also
called Conscious Breathing, Intuitive Breathing,
Energy Breathing, Spiritual Breathing, etc. Its
origins are the Christian tradition. Although the
methodology is more like prana yoga, the power of
moving Divine Energy by doing a relaxed, gentle,
connected breathing rhythm is more like charismatic
Christianity. It is well described by Jesus in the New
Testament Gospel of John, chapter 3.
In the 28 years of Rebirthing Breathwork history, I
have noticed that the worst quality Rebirthing is
usually done by people with credentials.
There have been lousy Rebirthers and Breathworkers
without credentials, but they usually don't last long
enough to do much harm. They fail and do another kind
of work. However, Rebirthers with academic credentials
and some kind of State licenses for various kinds of
therapy are interested in making money from their
credentials and they often last long enough to do much
harm. This is well illustrated by the Attachment
Therapy crimes.
The tendency seems to be that the more that therapists
charge in their fees, the more drama and trauma they
have to incite to justify their fees in their own mind
as well as their clients minds.
My basic ethic is to allow the client to set the fee
at the end of each session based upon the value they
received.
The little girl was suffocated because of the
technique and insensitivity of the therapist.
Intuition and gentleness were not present.
You can see by the above comments that the Attachment
Therapists had no decent training in Rebirthing
Breathwork. Yet their behavior damaged the reputation
of Rebirthing which is a very fine high quality work.
Rebirthing Breathwork has spontaneously spread to
millions of people since I started the movement in
1974 almost without incidents of any kind. Learning to
breathe better is totally harmless and health
enhancing.
Rebirthing Breathwork is so successful because it is
so simple. Everyone who experiences ten high quality
sessions is amazed by its simplicity and power. Most
clients of a good Rebirther Breathworker feel the
spiritual peace that passes understanding after the
very first session. Sometimes they feel exhausted from
releasing so much tension and stress, but usually
relaxed and energized.
Most people who learn it enjoy sharing it with all
their loved ones and friends. Teaching high quality
Rebirthing Breathwork is easier than riding a bicycle,
prayer, cooking, or playing basketball. It can never
be legislated nor should it be because learning to
breathe the Breath of Life is our birth right as
children of God. Even young children and teenagers
often give Rebirthing Breathwork sessions to their
parents. I've trained many elderly seniors, even in
their 90's to be Rebirthing Breathwork practitioners.
However, I am glad that laws, if necessary, are being
passed against using force in any therapy as well as
therapists using their position of trust and intimacy
to take advantage of their clients sexually or
financially.
Good Rebirther Breathworkers only guide a person's
breathing rhythm into the most natural way that humans
can breathe. It is a gentle, relaxed, connected
breathing rhythm. We teach people to breathe the way
newborn babies breathe and the way that we breathe in
the middle of deep sleep. This breathing rhythm is
what keeps us alive.
When we learn to do conscious connected intuitive
Energy breathing voluntarily as a personal or
spiritual practice, we have a very valuable ability.
We are cooperating with our Creator's design for
breathing freely, fully, and properly.
It is totally inappropriate to label Rebirthing as
harmful when most Rebirther Breathworkers only teach
people to relax and release stress.
It is as wrong to blame Rebirthing for the death of
Candace as it would be to blame education or the
public schools for the Columbine, CO High School
murders.
It is as wrong to blame Rebirthers for the action of
low quality Attachment Therapists as it would be to
blame school teachers for the action of the students
who shot their fellow students.
Furthermore, Rebirthing Breathwork is a spiritual work
closer to the rebirth experience described by Jesus
Christ in John 3, than psychodrama. Rebirthing is a
beautiful and powerful experience of Divine Energy
that includes Spirit, Mind and Body. It is a self
healing tool that gives people peace and productive
Life Energy for handling successfully the stress of
every day Life.
Attachment Therapists have served a few thousands of
clients. Rebirther Breathworkers have served millions
of people all around the planet - without any such
tragedies, nor incidents.
On the other hand, Rebirther Breathworkers leave a
trail of happy, productive, gentle, loving, healthy
people who were their clients behind them. I am just
beginning to research Attachment Therapists and have
read about some who do good work. It is unfortunate
that bad therapists smear the reputation of those who
do good work.
It is just as unbalanced to smear all airplanes
because one crashes, or to condemn all automobiles or
drivers because some crash. Or to close all public
schools because of the murderous shooting in
Columbine, CO and other places. Or to close all
Christian churches because they teach "rebirthing".
Maybe the legislators are unconsciously protesting
their own birth trauma.
I am as saddened and upset by bad people in any
profession. Medical doctors and nurses according to
USA Today kill over 100,000 people per year by
accident in hospitals. Even Attachment Therapy is
safer than this.
I have personally always campaigned against group
Rebirthing. I feel it is low quality, insensitive
work, motivated by greed and power.
I always recommend that people seeking a good
Rebirther Breathworker should interview three
Rebirthers before choosing one to do ten sessions
with. Clients and students of Rebirthing Breathwork
should learn from someone they feel good about and
feel safe with. Most Rebirther Breathworkers are
gentle, loving, intelligent people.
I've trained medical people, psychotherapists,
ministers, priests, nuns, body workers, school
teachers, yoga teachers, and people in all
professions. I've lectured at NIH on the subjects of
Rebirthing, Breathwork, and hyperventilation as well
as in hospitals, medical schools, and universities
around the world.
Rebirthing Breathwork is normally taught in ten high
quality private sessions about one week apart. Each
breathing session is done in a reclining position so
that the student can feel comfortable and safe. Each
session normally lasts from one to two hours. During
the ten sessions, people experience a basic
transformation of their breathing mechanism as body
memories and tension is released. People also learn to
breathe from the Breath Itself - which is God, the
Source of our Life Energy. The average session is a
spiritual experience, an emotional experience, and a
physical experience. It is an experience of Loving
Divine Healing Energy.
It would be good for legislators, media people, and
community leaders to get accurate information and to
experience ten sessions before condemning it or trying
to make laws about it. Rebirthing, in the main form
that is practiced around the world, is as basic to
human health and well being as good nutrition and
exercise.
There are many good books about Rebirthing in many
languages. My two latest books are Breaking the Death
Habit and the Story of Rebirthing Breathwork - the
Power of God for Peace, Healing, Energy, and Success.
I have maintained a full time training center since
1974. This training center offers high quality 5 Day
and 9 Day Trainings every week of the year so that
high quality trainings are always available to
interested people. This training center has always
practiced a liberal scholarship policy so that money
has never been a barrier to the healing power of
conscious breathing.
In some cases, loving, intelligent, and intuitive
Beings who have a predisposition to success can be
trained for a new successful career teaching
Rebirthing Breathwork in only three weeks. On the
other hand, some people take 5 to 10 years to become
successful professionals.
People who have the right combination of gentleness,
love, combined with intelligence and intuition can
become successful even if they never had a conscious
breathing session before starting the training. The
full time training enables these gifted people to
integrate their first ten sessions by doing three
sessions per week during their weeks of training.
There are also training centers in many countries
throughout the world.
For more information :
Websites: www. rebirthingbreathwork.com or
leonardorr.com
Email : rebirth @rica.net
Phone: 540-885-0551
P.O. Box 1026, Staunton, Va. 24401-9552.
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Earth and ourselves that Peace Prevail; that we return to the Truth
of Who We Are. We use Bursting the Body Light-Violet Flame of Forgiveness
for this breath meditation because it silences our monkey mind and allows
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for yourself, Humanity and Mother Earth. Our next World Peace Breath
Meditation is Sunday August 4th, 2002. We meet at 3pm mountain standard
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