Essence of Breema

Essence of Breema: 30 October, 2018
Baker sprinkling flour over freshly kneaded dough

There is something phenomenal about Breema—it can enter into every aspect of human activity. If you are a baker, you can work with the Nine Principles and your bread will be a little different. If you are a carpenter, the home you build is a little different. If you are a mechanic, the car you fix...

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Essence of Breema: 16 October, 2018
River with rocks and trees along its bed on a foggy morning

Everything exists to support everything that exists. This is the direction that leads to true happiness. Not happiness because of “this” or “that”—happiness that’s free from “this” or “that.” When you taste your own existence, it’s as if all your desires are fulfilled. You become free from desire...

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Essence of Breema: 2 October, 2018
Shovel and wheel barrel in a newly tilled bed of a vibrant garden
Our mind, feelings, and body are tools. If a gardener has all his tools, and doesn’t know how to use them, what value do they have?  When you are more conscious, you use your tools correctly. You use mind when mind is needed, feelings when feelings are needed, body when body is needed. When you use your
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Essence of Breema: 18 September, 2018
Felipe De Oliveira practicing Breema bodywork with a man lying on the floor

There are two ways to look at your body. You can look at it as a teacher you can learn from. And you can look at it as a child you need to care for. 

Combining these two ways of looking brings you to a correct relationship to your body. And from there you can also find a correct relationship to...

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Essence of Breema: 4 September, 2018
Snow top mountain range and its reflection in a lake

Living from the heart means your Being is manifesting. The heart never loses track of the meaning of that which is. The heart itself is that is-ness. The first step is to be with the body. When your mind and body are together, the heart contributes its presence. 

You are what you see in the...

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Essence of Breema: 21 August, 2018
Students sitting in a Self-Breema class circling the kidneys

Our health is constantly affected by what we think. Like our clothing, our way of thinking covers our body and affects it. But our thoughts are based on self-interest, and when we live in the past and future, we never have a new thought. 

In order to become healthy, we need to have a healthy mind...

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Essence of Breema: 7 August, 2018
Creek lined with flowering bushes trickling into translucent lake

At any time, you could ask yourself, “What can I do to be more available?” For one thing, you could bring the attention of your mind to the process of inhalation and exhalation. When your mind registers the effect of inhalation and exhalation on your body, it becomes quieter. The quiet mind is like...

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Essence of Breema: 24 July, 2018
Under a canopy of lush green pine trees with sun rays

When you go into a forest, you see many, many trees growing, filled up with life. Where does all that life come from? Those trees are alive because sap is flowing through them. It’s the same with us. There is one energy. You have to be connected to it. The more connected you become, the more vibrant...

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Essence of Breema: 10 July, 2018
Denise Berezonsky practicing a Breema bodywork seqence with Alexis Mulhauser

Stating it very simply, we are either at war or at peace in life. And in war, we lose. Even if it looks like we’ve won, we haven’t. In war, everyone loses. 

We don’t know it, but we are at war with ourselves. We always wish to be something we’re not. We wish others to be different, to change...

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Essence of Breema: 26 June, 2018
Sun beams on flowing creek through forest trees

In the street, there’s constant noise from many cars going by. Those are like our thoughts—they’re from mass consciousness. When you stay with the process of inhalation and exhalation, the traffic thins out. At some point, it looks like there’s no traffic. That’s when the feelings join the mind and...

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