When a child is born, what is the first thing the newborn does to get more living out of life?
Does the child repeat a positive phrase, mantra or affirmation?
Or visualize?
Or set goals?
Here’s a startling statement:
From what I’ve observed, most people who study and teach in the field of self-development, skip the step that carries the greatest charge.
And what carries the greatest charge?
It’s the power contained within a relaxed and deep breath.
Did you know the Chicago Cubs were cursed for 108 years?
That’s correct. They were cursed because a ticket holder who wasn’t allowed to bring his pet goat into the ball park with him, got angry and “cursed” the team.
That’s why the Cubs were a disaster for 108 years.
At least that’s what many people truly believed.
Then along comes a new manager who believes in some very strange ideas and principles … one of which is … “deep breathing.”
It’s no surprise to me, then, that the Cubs broke the curse and won the World Series in 2016.
After all, I’ve been telling people about this miracle that’s available to all for decades.
Over and over in my Theatre of the Mind audio program – (over 10 hours worth of material that Nightingale-Conant published three years before the Cubs won), I spoke about the uncanny power deep breathing has in your life.
It’s Biblical, too.
There’s a reason, back in the book of Genesis, that God breathes life into Adam. It’s instructional just as much as it is allegorical.
You can add more life to your goals and actions by breathing life into them.
Now, what’s the first thing you did after being born?
You took a deep breath.
Sure, you cried, but that was part of expanding your lungs and your life, too.
I can understand how some people scoff at visualization and the use of your imagination.
They don’t understand how their own mind works when they function at their best – and don’t care to learn, either.
But I have a much tougher time with people who scoff at the value of deep breathing.
Your breath is your power. It comes before your word.
Your breath is the key to adding a little something special to everything you do, that others can never quite figure out.
Your breath holds the key to breaking the bonds, the negativity, the limitations that seem to be running your life.
They aren’t. And you’ll see how this is true when you breathe through them.
Inhale….
Exhale…
Repeat, repeat, repeat.
Now go hit one out of the park.
Matt Furey
P.S. The Theatre of the Mind program I referred to in this dispatch is NOT the 20-minute DVD you may have seen years ago. This is a full blown course on the subject and those who have the program listen repeatedly because it’s that good. In fact, many listeners tell me it’s THE BEST program they’ve ever heard.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
