Breathing & Stress Reduction Tools
Breath Work becomes Conscious Breathing and not work.
Breathing Workshops which teach breathing exercises, methods and provide CD's for home use are available. Please look under "Workshops & Schedules" for a further discussion. Breath is the automatic renewable energy resource which will prevent stress, eliminate stress, heal and allow you to remain fully conscious and aware in the presence of negative and highly charged situations.
Stress Reduction Methods are Effective to enhance productivity, relationships, health and gain meaning from life. See "Workshops & Schedules" for further discussion of the Workshops and benefits of lowering your stress.
Stress is the force which causes about 85% of all visits to doctors and many illnesses which are stimulated by stress.
Stress can be lowered by simple techniques and by learning to be mindful and aware of your life. A combination of many "deep values and beliefs" need airing and changing in order to avoid the "automatic pilot" of stressing out. In addition to simple tools there has to be some "whole body and mind" growth. While the below list is repetitive from other writing in Spirit Camp's web site, they are worth considering in order to make a shift from a Fear-Based Life, which results in being stressed out most of the time, to a Love-Based Life. When stress does arise in a Love-Based Life, one can trace the origin to either some historical pattern or a current event and release the stress either by Breathing through it or other methods taught by Spirit Camp.
Stress Reduction Tools Continued: How changing your "World View", having a Paradigm Shift (a new way of seeing your life and reality) will lower your Stress Level. How the Goals and Tools of Spirit Camp with facilitate this beneficial change and growth in your life.
- The Primary Goal is to Provide various means and tools for assisting people to learn to live from their Heart rather than their False Ego and Mind.
- This is the toughest work on the planet.
- I have always contended that long after every star, planet and galaxy
have been mapped, explored and even inhabited as is possible, that
the ultimate frontier is a human beings “mind”. - Living from the Mind is living in stressful.
- Taking the journey from the Mind to the Heart has many moments of pure hell.
- Helping people receive and live their own personal permission to live. With your having permission to live, you will know you own happy way of living and wish it for others. Those who have permission to live, enjoy Freedom of Expression, Religion and Life… and they want the same for all other people.
- Spirit Camp is designed to be a “Religion Neutral” place, in that it honors all Religions and seeks to teach from the places where all religions agree.
- All major Religions teach love, forgiveness and kindness or caring for others.
- Many major leaders of various religions have espoused tolerance and acceptance of others Religions in order to foster understanding and cooperation.
- Spirituality has become an appropriate and acceptable topic of learning for many companies and organizations in the United States.
- In the Spirit of the 12 Step Programs, a goal of Spirit Camp is to encourage everyone to seek and follow their Higher Power, “God” for short, without getting into Religious complexities and arguments.
- Experts have agreed that about 28-35% of all people in the United States are without any sense of self, who they are, where they are going have no real feeling of personal value or feeling of belonging in their families or in their community. (See Viktor Frankl's book, Man's Search for Meaning under the "Books & Resources" tab.) We have a materially advanced culture with what some call a high loss of meaning, soul, and caring for one another. Many people at all levels of life in the Western World feel alone. Loneliness is a major cause of illness, disease, antisocial behavior, addiction and finally various forms of violence against oneself – the ultimate would be suicide and violence against others – the ultimate would be torture and murder.
- Working one person at a time is the only way to change the impersonal, unfriendly, and unrewarding aspects of anyone’s life and this culture. That one person means working on yourself, not anyone else!
- There is a huge need for everyone to form some emotional alliance and identity with everyone in the world. A Heart–Based Unitive feeling that everyone is the same and everyone is an equal child of God… at least on a spiritual level. Without this feeling that “we are all in the same boat together” there can be no good outcome for the United States of America or this world.
- Patriotism has to take a back seat to “Worldism”. No one country is better than or above the rest of the world. This attitude is necessary for world survival. We can still be proud of our country, but in recognition that ALL the people of the world are created equal and have to matter in order for ALL of us to survive.
- Fundamentalism in any religion, political party, family, organization, company or personality is the virtual death of Love. It's basis originates from fear and fear alone. By definition Fundamentalism brings a characterization of 100% Black or 100% White, 100% Right and 100% Wrong, and “We know the answer and you are wrong” kind of competition, judging and non acceptance of others. It presents the death of kindness and anyone living a good life. It closes Hearts. Fundamentalism attempts to force its version of the truth on everyone else. It is done by force, brainwashing and restrictions of free speech and the free choices of practicing a certain religion or non at all. Black and white living is called being stuck in Judgment, labeling, the duality of “me vs you”, us vs them, “we is good and they is bad”, and finally “we must control, belittle and/or kill the others”.
- Spirit Camp seeks to be a place of acceptance, non judgment, and a place to practice Love. Love is the ultimate healing force. Love still allows and requires setting boundaries and limits on negative behavior. Love requires high levels of personal maturity to use it properly. Love also requires that a personal love themselves before they can love anyone else. This level of life is the "we and us". The Unitive Level is also called the "God or Universal or Spiritual Level". This is the level of life that Mystics from all religions report back to the rest of us from.
- Forgiveness is 100% necessary or a person simply can not say in any sense of truth that “they love anyone else or themselves”. Failure to forgive brings down the ability to love to a level which negates the whole idea of love. Failure to forgive results in only the ability of “Convenient & Conditional Love”…which in truth are nothing at all. There is no such thing as "partial love" or "partial forgiveness'. This is one of those all or nothing states. They take a long time to reach in many instances, but once reached they are reached and a person can move on without ties to the past.
- To show people that we have “instant karma”… “as ye sow, so shall ye reap” and there is no escape from the Spiritual Principles which guide and control everyone’s lives.
- To open people’s minds to the Mystery of the Universe. To accept that there never is a 100% certain answer or level of knowledge or truth. By definition human’s have limitations and anyone who claims to “have all the answers”…run like hell from them. Anyone who feels their truth is the only truth has no respect for the reality of life being or having much of it in Mystery. Failure to allow for Mystery yields Fundamentalism, the death of life, creativity and happiness. Without a healthy respect for and an appreciation of Mystery as a truth and force in life people close their minds, hearts and lives to others. They become right, and the other wrong.
Spirit Camp seeks to bring Harmony into your life, your business and into our culture’s life.
There is no "list which can describe the Path of Heart". At best, there are many ways to describe parts of it, doorways to it, and characteristics of those who lead it.
If you chose to take your "Path of Heart", Spirit Camp will be able to assist, encourage and teach you. Spirit Camp does not have all the answers and we seek to be a resource along with the other resources you discover along your "Path of Heart".
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