“The two ways out of suffering” - which do you take?

“People are living in suffering. There are only two ways out of it: They can become meditators – alert, awake, conscious… that’s an arduous thing. It needs guts. Or the cheaper way is to find something that can make you even more unconscious than you are, so you cannot feel the misery. Find something that makes you utterly insensitive, some intoxicant, some painkiller that makes you so unconscious that you can escape into that unconsciousness and forget all about your anxiety, anguish, meaninglessness.”

                                                               The Key To Living In Balance, Osho

What are your “escapes” that are lowering your aliveness?

Distractions into unconsciousness:   

Numbing: 

Which will you absolutely cease, forever?
                                                      

While we are discussing breathing, I'll bet you're not doing it right and not using "the tools" to feel better!

(Click on the title of the post to read the entire post.)

(We have been discussing breathing in our blog posts and in our pieces on Vipassana.)

Most people do a form of hyperventilating, with shallow, rapid breaths, which is not only deenergizing but also helps sustain anxiety and the stress that is causing that type of breathing in the first place.

Most people have, over time, just "lost it" and no longer know how to breathe right normally.

They also do not access a quick simple tool for truly energizing and they don't use the tool that is calming, no matter how poor your mind control is.

These tools work!  You should use them!

After all, breathing qualifies for the highest payoff activity to correct, as all repeated activities are the ones that will give us multiplied, repetitive benefits that add up to huge value.  We breath, in a normal life, more than 420 million times...

Need I say more?

I recommend that you read the reading sequence and master the three breathing tools for a better life:  Breathing - For Oxygenation, Restoration, Calming, Energizing - Contents, Links, Test.

This will make a major difference in your life.

Keith
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There are very few people in developed countries who do this right, at great cost to themselves and their lives.  If you wish to share this with anyone, please click on the little white envelope right below this post.