Éiriú-Eolas - Breathing Program

[abstract]

I just finished a session. What struck me as peculiar about this session was that I kept wanting to cut it off early, do it later or something. It's like it was bringing out my

tendencies of procrastination. I did the whole program though, had a hard time staying comfortable but I know that if I can't commit it's no good, so i push through and finish.

I've never really enjoyed my tendencies of procrastination, I hope i can work through that.

 

[Renaissance]

Having said that, the program falls this year on two -holidays-, mainly only for westerners, but nonetheless: this week on Thursday (24th) is Christmas in some European countries and one week later the last day of the year: New Year's Eve. And I thought if we could bring some thoughts together and integrating some parts in the meditation part, for example: remembering Pepperfritz, or just be thankful for this, well -smashing- year?

You missed a third one, and perhaps the most significant - today (or yesterday if ya count the wee hours of the morning), the winter solstice!

Reminds me of an article Laura wrote a couple of years back:

Winter Solstice: From Chaos to Creation

We also consider the fact that, in the grand, cosmic scheme of things, being in a celebratory frame of mind at this moment when our Sun is in a dynamic dance with the solar system, might make a difference for the Universe! Who knows what it might REALLY mean, to celebrate the standstill of the sun and the slow return to longer days and shorter nights in the Northern hemisphere? For all we know, there IS a cosmic energy that we participate in if we look at it the right way?

 

[Evolutionary1]

The new intro is very well done, inspiring, and has cleared up quite a bit for me--I will not worry so much now that I'm doing it wrong. I am grateful and feel a renewed sense of faith in my ability to use this program effectively. I am also quite excited to know that newcomers will have such an eloquent introduction to Eiriu Eolas and the Work. Laura, I am happy to see how comfortable you were--or at least it seemed that way. Thankyou and all involved for yet another helpful innovation. Your strength and loving kindness bring tears of joy to my eyes.

The last part goes for all of you forumites, too. Your posts inspire me when I can find none in my life, and I look forward to contributing more and lurking a little less as I benefit more from the program. Already, I'm "hiding" less and opening up more in my every day life. It is still a challenge, but (finally!) I actually feel connected to others, less motivated (and limited) by fear and self-interest. I'm beginning to believe that freedom is actually a possibility for me...

I wish you all the best. :)

 

[knowledge_of_self]

Laura, & team awesome intro vid. Cleared a lot of stuff and answered a lot of questions people may have. Laura as many have said you look great! It's nice to see you in this healthy condition I hope you will always stay this way

I just finished a session. What struck me as peculiar about this session was that I kept wanting to cut it off early, do it later or something. It's like it was bringing out my

tendencies of procrastination. I did the whole program though, had a hard time staying comfortable but I know that if I can't commit it's no good, so i push through and finish.

I've never really enjoyed my tendencies of procrastination, I hope i can work through that.

I must admit that this happens to me more than I like to admit but I've never written about it. I just think it's some sort of anxiety I need to work through. My breathing exorcises have been somewhat uneventful. I should do it more often...
Still listen to POTS every night though.
That's all

 

[vinny]

Ya'll check out the new intro video here:
http://paleochristianity.org/eiriu-eolas/

And see if the end segment helps with pipe breathing.

This is masterfully done. Really nice.

I've just watched carefully through the whole thing, and it covered every point I could think of. Every time I started thinking "is Laura going to mention such and such...", or "how is she going to deal with xyz issue...?", you covered it. The images are excellent too, especially the one that helps visualise the diaphragm - something that people might otherwise have a problem with. It also handles the peripheral subjects (psychopathology etc) in just the right way, IMO.

Clearly a lot of work went into this. It will provide a great foundation for introducing the program to those who need it.

Next, what we need is more singing ;)

 

[Nienna]

I just finished a session. What struck me as peculiar about this session was that I kept wanting to cut it off early, do it later or something. It's like it was bringing out my

tendencies of procrastination. I did the whole program though, had a hard time staying comfortable but I know that if I can't commit it's no good, so i push through and finish.

I've never really enjoyed my tendencies of procrastination, I hope i can work through that.

Maybe something to help you continue to push through this is that while you are pushing yourself to continue, you are taking control of the program, instead of it controlling you, and rewiring your brain. :)

 

[forge]

Ya'll check out the new intro video here:
http://paleochristianity.org/eiriu-eolas/
And see if the end segment helps with pipe breathing.

There were parts where i almost cried and the video had all in all a healing effect on me it was definitely uplifting! Your hair looks fabulous, compliments to the hair dresser!
At the pipe breathing explanation part, i did the breaths with you and noticed almost getting into a relaxed, altered mind-state while looking at your face. I'm thinking on a separate video consisting of Laura counting the whole 12x, 12x, 7x breathing aloud from Eiriu Eolas. Just an idea. Could be used for a sort of relaxing hypnosis: very calming. Looking at Lauras face while pipe breathing resulted in this one point breath-focusing meditative hypnotic effect in my case. But again maybe i'm completely off base with this one.

Great editing on the video, congratulations to everyone!!

 

[truth seeker]

An interesting thing happened last night. I kept smelling a strange odor in the house and it kept bothering me, but I couldn't figure out what it was. I laid down for meditation and then sleep. As I was doing the meditation, I still was questioning what the odor was but continued. I then saw a flash in my mind of a fire (as though our apartment was on fire). I immediately got up and walked to the kitchen. It was then that I realized that my boyfriend left the gas running accidentally! Because the smell of gas is different here than in New York, I didn't recognize the odor. That was really wild...

 

[Bluestar]

At 12:47 PM eastern central time 12/21/09 was the turn of the winter solstice. When I learned this, at 12:47 PM, I went and did the EE program in full. For me it was truly the new year and thoughts of potential growth filled my being. Did not have any issues this time around except having to pause after the pipe breathing to do something for my husband, he asked :) Had no feelings towards it, just did it. Then got back to meditating.

During POTS there was a feeling of joy and I noticed that my head kept tilting upwards even though I was lying down. Kind of like I was lifting my head towards the Divine. Though the Divine is in all directions.

Afterwards I had many things to do, my family comes to our home on the Solstice for a huge meal and we give gifts and have a wonderful evening. It has been a tradition in our home for years. There was enough energy in me to do all that needed to be done and then some.

One of our traditions is to give gratitude to those things that have made a difference in our lives and I would like to share that here.
Thank you all for your sharing and the gifts that you bring to the table. Our table is immense and world wide. And there is much room there for all. Someday I trust that we will all be able to sit around the table and look eachother in the eyes, hear eachothers voice and Share eachothers heartsong. A very Blessed Yule to all.

 

[Gawan]

Having said that, the program falls this year on two -holidays-, mainly only for westerners, but nonetheless: this week on Thursday (24th) is Christmas in some European countries and one week later the last day of the year: New Year's Eve. And I thought if we could bring some thoughts together and integrating some parts in the meditation part, for example: remembering Pepperfritz, or just be thankful for this, well -smashing- year?

You missed a third one, and perhaps the most significant - today (or yesterday if ya count the wee hours of the morning), the winter solstice!

Reminds me of an article Laura wrote a couple of years back:

Winter Solstice: From Chaos to Creation

We also consider the fact that, in the grand, cosmic scheme of things, being in a celebratory frame of mind at this moment when our Sun is in a dynamic dance with the solar system, might make a difference for the Universe! Who knows what it might REALLY mean, to celebrate the standstill of the sun and the slow return to longer days and shorter nights in the Northern hemisphere? For all we know, there IS a cosmic energy that we participate in if we look at it the right way?

I know :(, I realized it about 10 minutes after I finished the EE program, that Winter Solstice had been that day.

Ya'll check out the new intro video here:
http://paleochristianity.org/eiriu-eolas/

And see if the end segment helps with pipe breathing.

Really well done, I just watched the first 20 minutes and for this short time it has been amazing, perfect look of Laura, well selected pictures a very good film cutting.
I also found it very good to state that people with epilepsy can still profit from the other parts of the program.

 

[abstract]

Ah, yes I should mention that I agree with the others, laura looks quite well! Congrats on your health, ma'am! :)

The new video is nicely done and i'm going to finish watching it very soon...

 

[andi]

The vid is so nicely made , all those 3d explenations are just stuck in my mind now, every time I breath the wrong way I am reminded by the animation. The info cuppled with the visual just stays with me.

Greate work... this will make BBC look like wanna-be'z.

And Laura, what a cute smile you have :D ... Can't wait for the next one.. :P

 

[forge]

internal upheaval, distortion program

I would like to say quickly here that since my fear disappeared as an effect of the Eiriu Eolas Breathing Program - hate to use abbreviations i feel committing disrespect - and Clarity set in that made a lot of things pop up on my radar screen, there's an unexpected turn of events, a change after ~1.5 months of Clarity:

Appeared out of nowhere an all-pervasive feeling that i'm lying in everything, can't say nothing correctly, a sensation of what i post is skewed, distorted, has imperfect alignment. The predator's mind increased attacks recently made me thinking if this deliberate distortion program of The Lizard Ego Within is not just another desperate attempt to delay the inevitable: it's ejection from my mind into the vacuum of outer space filled with black holes and icky-sticky darkness where it belongs?

I had for long planned revelatory posts, curiously, attacks have increased manifold, preventing me from writing?

 

[StrangeCaptain]

Hello all,

My only practice is doing the Prayer of the Soul at night before I go to bed in combination with the pipe breathing. I can do both without detracting from my ability to "phase out" as we have been calling it from time to time. I stopped for a month or two after 3 months of very deep sessions several times per day. Now I just have the one session at night.

I have noticed after the pause in my practice and when I miss a couple of days that it takes me a few days to start going "deep" again. By deep, I mean that the first few days my mind is often cluttered and then I start reaching a level inside of me that is filled with emotional pain and physical tension in my core body like my lower back and midsection. After I reach this level for a few days the dreams of violence and of other lives start again. I also find that I experience 3 dimensional images in my mind like faces and landscapes and shapes through which I have a physical sensation of movement. Because of this I feel a tinge of fear each time I start the prayer like "What am I going to experience this time?"

I believe (I am not yet sure) that the Prayer of the Soul helps redistribute the misappropriated energy of the sexual center. We discuss the "abuse of sex" sometimes here. By "abuse of sex" I mean to say in the Gurdjieffian sense. There is a oft-quoted discussion of this and this post has that quote:

http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=6213.msg42868#msg42868

In the past I have noted that I can reach a state in which all of my physical emotional and mental perceptions are colored by a sense of fervor that is entirely inappropriate to the situation at hand just as Gurdjieff discusses in the above quote. I find this awful fog greatly relieved by the Prayer of the Soul (and by 5-htp!!!!!).

Before finding this prayer, I thought life would be one long holding action against this abuse of the sexual energy, that the best I can do is cope and try to minimize the damage I do when I am in that state. Now I feel real hope that a fundamentally different way of life is possible.

Long live the Prayer of the Soul, 5-htp, and buckwheat pancakes!!!

 

[Gawan]

internal upheaval, distortion program

I would like to say quickly here that since my fear disappeared as an effect of the Eiriu Eolas Breathing Program - hate to use abbreviations i feel committing disrespect - and Clarity set in that made a lot of things pop up on my radar screen, there's an unexpected turn of events, a change after ~1.5 months of Clarity:

Appeared out of nowhere an all-pervasive feeling that i'm lying in everything, can't say nothing correctly, a sensation of what i post is skewed, distorted, has imperfect alignment. The predator's mind increased attacks recently made me thinking if this deliberate distortion program of The Lizard Ego Within is not just another desperate attempt to delay the inevitable: it's ejection from my mind into the vacuum of outer space filled with black holes and icky-sticky darkness where it belongs?

I had for long planned revelatory posts, curiously, attacks have increased manifold, preventing me from writing?

Hello forge,

I'm running since some weeks into something similar, like the -dark-side- is showing up within myself (anger for example) and it lead also to an depression, feeling not motivated anymore, empty and nothing did make sense. Yesterday I couldn't clearly decipher anymore what is real and what is not.

How was your program yesterday going?

From one session:

Q: Well, I guess that all of us tend to keep one or another area sacrosanct and think that it is not subject to attack, or that we can use logic and 3rd density thinking to explain it or "fix it." Until a person realizes that attack can come through even one's self, wives and husbands, children and parents, friends, virtually ANYBODY - NOBODY is exempt.

Maybe this is related, something Laura wrote some months back: "the side you don't like in yourself"

Hope it helps.