ELEVEN BREATHS

The Eleven Breaths is a wonderful spiritual tool that I learned from my healer, Sara Allen. She in turn had become aware of this technique through a lecture she attended given by Stuart Wilde.

In it, he told the story of how his company had been going through a prolonged audit, which was a drain both financially and emotionally. He finally approached his Daoist teacher asking for a solution. The Daoist monk instructed him to do the Eleven Breaths as follows:

Before you inhale, name the issue. In this case, it was the audit. Before you exhale, say,"Love", and send love to the issue as you exhale. Do this for ten breaths. Upon the eleventh breath, state the issue again, but this time, visualize a hologram of the situation resting in the palm of your right hand. After you say "Love" for the eleventh time, "blow" the issue away, imagining it dissolving with the healing energies of Divine Love.

He did as he was told, and much to his surprise, the audit was cancelled the very next day. The day after that, the auditor showed at Stuart's company, applying for a job!

Sara also told me about one of her clients, "Susan", who had been coming weekly for 4 years, because of lingering anger towards her mother-in-law. The two had had an argument over 30 years prior, and they had not spoken since. At every session, Susan would repeat her story angrily with self-righteousness.

One day Sara informed Susan that she needed to do the Eleven Breaths. Sara's client was outraged, fuming, "I can't believe that you want me to send love to that woman, after all she did to me!"

But Sara held her ground, and guided Susan through it, meeting with considerable resistance and mounting fury. Susan finally completed the Eleven Breaths, storming out of Sara's office after the session was over. Sara fully expected to have lost Susan as a client.

Much to her surprise, Susan called her back almost immediately. Upon returning home, Susan found a message waiting for her on the answering machinge. It was from her mother-in-law, calling to apologize for that oh-so-long-ago fight.

Sara explained to me that I could use this technique in many ways. I could use it to send away any health concerns, even tumors. I could also use it for others as Sara does for clients who are in need of healing. In this case, you don't "blow" the person away on the eleventh breath. You simply say "love" and exhale as you do on the first ten breaths.

This is a technique that I use daily, often finishing my morning energy work by choosing one or more quality in the world that I would like to see less of, such as greed, ignorance, narrow-mindedness, or self-righteousness. I then do the Eleven Breaths, sending love to this quality for ten breaths. On the 11th breath, after I've said, "Love", I "blow" it away, imagining it vaporizing .

I have had dramatic results using the 11 breaths. In late June of 2010, sudden storms blew through our area with winds exceeding 70 miles an hour. Our house is surrounded by large, beautiful trees. During this storm, they swayed wildly in the wind.

Truly frightened for them., I told them urgently how much we loved them and how much we wanted them there, begging them to be strong and survive the storms in tact. As soon as I finished communicating that, the following thought flew into my mind unbidden: "Do the 11 breaths. Send away the danger." I was extremely startled by the idea, but had nothing to lose, so I immediately began doing the 11 breaths, saying "Dangerous storm and winds" before inhaling, and then "Love".

By the 4th or 5th breath, much to my amazement, the trees were barely moving, no longer in danger. The wind had died down almost completely.

It stayed that way until another storm came through about 45 minutes later. The winds picked up once more, but this time I was ready for them. I did the 11 breaths again, obtaining the same results.

A week later, tornados cascaded into our area. This time, the winds were still quite fierce after I finished the 11 breaths, so I did a 2nd round. That accomplished my purposes, as the winds immediately died down substantially as soon as I was done.

All around our neighborhood, people lost trees, and had power outages lasting a few hours to 2-3 days. Our lights went off for about 2 or 3 minutes and that was it. All of our trees made it through the storms safely.

After this experience, I sent Sara an email about it. She replied with, "What else is there but energy? And energy is always willing to take direction. That is the power of wisdom, knowing what to tell the energy to do."

We all are powerful beings who are in this world, and thus have a stake in it. We also have the ability to shape the realities of this world. However, in this day and age, it's quite easy to minimize one's own range of influence. We may tell ourselves,"But I'm only one person. How can I possibly bring about the kind of changes that I would like to see in this world?"

This is where the 11 breaths come in beautifully. If you don't like something out there, do the 11 breaths for it.. For example, if you are concerned about corporate greed, do the 11 breaths for that on a daily basis until you see a shift in the outer world. This works.

NOT SURE I WANT TO KEEP THIS: Think of it this way: You are planting energetic seeds, and you have every right to plant seeds of love, kindness, and hope.

On a personal level, if you are suffering from joint pain, before you reach for the aspirin, reach for the 11 breaths and send love to that pain for ten exhalations, dissipating it on the eleventh one.

The more we step forward into the knowingness that we have vast reserves of untapped power, we begin to see that we are capable of bringing about positives changes in this world. Indeed, it is up to us to do so. We become powerful by using power, with the awareness that we were born as powerful beings and this is our birthright. Practice feeling powerful. Then gently use that power for the highest good of all.

I would love to hear your Eleven Breath success stories. Feel free to send them to me. Let me know if you would like me to post them on my website.

It is my vision to create an eleven Breaths Community where we can all decide to focus on a certain issue at the same time, magnifying our energies by joining them together. Feel free to contact me with any input about this.