What does Spirit mean?
Breathing to release Stress and facilitate Healing!
In some other cultures there is a word for “Spirit” which means the “Breath of God”. To be in tune with your Higher Being or God, one needs an avenue from which to receive God. In Meditation and Yoga, breath is the carrier of God, Love & Healing. Spirit Camp helps people to use their own Breaths to receive an infusion of Love, Healing and identification with the God and Higher Power of their choosing.
In many religions it is used to be the prime force of life or energy with which God, the Supreme Being, brings us the life energy.
STRESS & BEATHING:
Breathing from your belly first then expanding the inhale to your chest last lowers stress, releases anger, frustration and raises your immune system. Breath brings us renewal and healing. Spirit Camp gives instruction and experiences which will help you in learning to breathe.
DEFINITIONS of BREATH and its relationship to SPIRIT in many cultures:
Genesis 2: 7 states that “breath is in fact the essence and beginning element or energy which was used to create mankind. And “then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being”.
Ch'i (Oriental) means air, breath, and came to mean a cosmic energy. The Primordial Breath.
Spiritus (Latin), meaning breath.
Pneuma (Greek) (πνευμα) Greek for air, wind, spirit, and breath, which metaphorically describes a non-material influence or being.
Ruah (Hebrew) (רוח)
Prana (Hindu) Life Energy. A Sanskrit word meaning 'breath' and is understood as the vital, life-sustaining force of living beings and the vital energy in all natural processes of the universe.
The distinction between soul and spirit became current in Judeo-Christian terminology (e.g. Greek. psyche vs. Pneuma, Latin anima vs. spiritus, Hebrew ruah vs. neshama or nephesh; in Hebrew neshama from the root NSHM or breath.)
Spirit has various Metaphysical meanings:
- An incorporeal, ubiquitous, non-quantifiable, substance or energy present individually in all living things. Unlike the concept of human souls, which is believed to be eternal and preexisting, a spirit develops and grows as an integral aspect of the living being. This concept of the individual spirit is common among traditional peoples. It is therefore important to note the distinction between this concept of spirit and that of the pre-existing or eternal soul because belief in souls is specific and far less common, particularly in traditional societies.
- A daemon spirit, or especially ghost. A ghost is usually conceived as a wandering spirit from a being no longer living, having survived the death of the body yet maintaining the mind and consciousness.
- In religion and spirituality, the respiration of the human being has for obvious reasons been strongly linked with the very occurrence of life. A similar significance has been attributed to human blood. Spirit in this sense denotes that which separates a living body from a corpse and usually implies intelligence, consciousness and sentience.
The Metaphorical use of the term “Spirit” likewise has several related meanings: The loyalty and feeling of inclusion in the social history or collective essence of an institution or group, such as in school spirit or esprit de corps.
As a synonym for 'vivacity' as in "She performed the piece with spirit." or "She put up a spirited defense."
As a term for alcoholic beverages stemming from medieval superstitions that explained the effects of alcohol as demonic activity.