Essence of Breema

Essence of Breema: 22 March, 2022
Tree buds blossoming in the spring.

When you see things as they are, and yourself as you are, you understand the meaning of “the truth shall set you free.” Your aim becomes to have your Being manifest in your life as much as possible. Then you can appreciate this planet Earth as a school, because no other place could show you so...

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Essence of Breema: 8 March, 2022
Water droplets populating the leaves of a green plant.

When your eyes open to what is taking place around you on this planet, you may see that the only solution is for us to find the right attitude towards life. We can’t have a correct attitude just by someone telling us about it, because our own crystallizations don’t allow us to hear. We have to first...

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Essence of Breema: 8 February, 2022
Great blue heron gliding above the canopy silhouetted in sunset.

When you take a picture, the shutter opens for a fraction of a second, light comes in and allows what you see through the lens to be registered. We also need light to see things as they are. The name of this light is I am. When we come to body breathes, we have a chance to have a tiny glimpse of...

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Essence of Breema: 25 January, 2022
bright pink ranunculus flower in bloom surrounded by buds.

In the heart of Existence, the divine love of the Absolute is emanating, moment after moment. Because there is one Existence, everything is interrelated and interconnected. Nothing is separate, and so in our heart also, divine love is emanating, moment after moment. We know it and experience it when...

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Essence of Breema: 28 December, 2021
Twinkling light on the dew drops collected along a branch.

So many things we heard in childhood stick with us. Never verified, they became the foundation of how we think and feel. To see this is so and to accept it gives us a chance to have new thoughts, new feelings, and a new posture toward life. That doesn’t mean something new you read in a book that...

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Essence of Breema: 14 December, 2021
Arlie Mischeaux practicing Self-Breema exercises.

Coming from complication to simplicity means coming to the body by registering the breath. Then everything falls into place. At any given moment, you have a chance to experience that moment only. Not what happened in the past, not what’s going to happen. This moment is what is given to you to...

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Essence of Breema: 30 November, 2021
Blue blossoms close up.

If you examine all your fears, all the things you’re afraid of, you’ll see you are not afraid of something. You’re afraid of the thought of that thing. That’s how thoughts create fear. And fear is connected to the desire to not be afraid. Conflict between fear and desire creates suffering. We suffer...

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Essence of Breema: 16 November, 2021
A cluster of garden water bowls as a fountain.

It doesn’t matter that you fall back into your thoughts a hundred times. The moment you see you were in thought, that’s a new opening, a new chance to come back to the taste of the present moment. You don’t have to go back to the past. You don’t need preconceived ideas or expectations, because they...

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Essence of Breema: 16 November, 2021
Water trickling down a fountain made of bowls.

It doesn’t matter that you fall back into your thoughts a hundred times. The moment you see you were in thought, that’s a new opening, a new chance to come back to the taste of the present moment. You don’t have to go back to the past. You don’t need preconceived ideas or expectations, because they...

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