21St Century Healing

Healing with Full Wave Breathing™

with Selected Case Studies

Prepared by the

Tom Goode, ND, DD

International Breath Institute
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21st Century Healing Contents

Breathing and Full Wave Breathing, an Overview 4

Less oxygen to breathe 5
Less capacity to breathe 7
Health care professionals comment on breathing 8
Full Wave Breathing, naturally 10
Full Wave Breathing, origins and background 16
Developers of Full Wave Breathing technique 18
The International Breath Institute 20
Facilitators comment on Full Wave Breathing 22
Selected Case Studies 24
Art’s Metamorphosis 24
Marilyn’s Deliverance 28
Gregory’s Sleep 33
John’s Emergence 34
Henry’s Transformation 36
Rose’s Miracle 41
Jake’s Voice 43
Stan’s Freedom 44
Linda’s Health 46
A’s Release 48
Future of Full Wave Breathing 49
Full Wave Breathing Instruction 50
Breathing and Full Wave Breathing, an Overview

If you breathe habitually with a breath originating from the lower abdomen, you

probably experience robust health and rapid, natural healing of occasional illness or injury.

If, on the other hand, you breathe shallowly and in a restricted way like 80 percent of all

people in the United States you likely experience fatigue, stress, and more frequent illness.

These events are associated with lack of oxygen in body tissues.

We all take oxygen for granted, as well as its presence or lack thereof, its quality,

its availability to the body, and the manner in which we choose to oxygenate our bodies.

Consequently, most people rarely think about the way they breathe and what that has to

do with the quality of their lives.

In truth, breathing has everything to do with our quality of life. Through directed

breath work, disease can be healed, stress can be greatly diminished, addictive behaviors

can be eliminated and emotional wounds can be healed. With health interests at an all-time

high, medical doctors, bodymind scientists and consciousness researchers have

rediscovered breath and its impact on health. At the forefront of “directed breath” research

is the International Breath Institute and its founders Drs. Tom and Caron Goode, the

developers of a powerful directed breath technique called Full Wave Breathing

This discussion of Full Wave Breathing explores the importance of adequate

oxygenation in protecting health, directed breath techniques and the evolution of Full

Wave Breathing, as well as the many benefits of regularly practicing directed breathing.

Information about the International Breath Institute (IBI), the background of its founders,
and the scope of IBI’s work is presented along with selected case studies that illustrate the

importance of incorporating a directed breath program such as Full Wave Breathing into

each of our lives. The purpose of this paper is to convince the reader:

 A daily practice of Full Wave Breathing vastly enhances physical, mental and

emotional health and creates foundation for a lifetime of optimal well-being.

 Full Wave breathing, in a program designed and implemented for corporate

employees makes a significant contribution to that sector of our society.

Less oxygen to breathe?

The most indispensable element on Earth is oxygen. Without it we cannot exist

because all body functions are governed by oxygen. We breathe oxygen into the lungs.

The hemoglobin in the blood distributes it to all cells. Then the process of oxidation

begins. Oxidation is part of the essential process by which the body converts nutrients into

energy.

Oxygen keeps cells clean and flexible, and it removes waste products from our

body. Oxygen softens things in our body, allowing the cells to cleanse themselves and the

body to move energy and disseminate waste products. Simply stated, less air means less

life.

The body’s resistance to degenerative disease is in proportion to the amount of

oxygen in the body. The lower the percentage of oxygen in the blood, the lower is the

detoxification ability of the body. The average concentration of oxygen in the blood ranges

from 60-70 percent. A measurement above 80 percent results in a tremendous increase in

health, vitality and the ability to throw off toxicity. With less than 52 percent saturation, a

human being dies.

Limited or deficient oxygen supply = declining energy = poor vitality,

mental focus and emotional balance

In our society, we need more oxygen than most of us typically breathe in for

optimal functioning. Gabriel Cousens, MD, says that 90 percent of our metabolic energy

comes from oxygen, while only 10 percent comes from solid food and water. With

increasing awareness of the role oxygen plays in maintaining good health, “oxygen bars”

were once stylish in certain parts of the country. You also have seen water and “energy”

drinks, pills and other potions claiming to boost system oxygen.

There is, however, is no substitute for learning to breathe. The single greatest

next-step that any of us could take for our physical health would be to adopt a program to

exercise the breathing muscles with consciously directed breath. For this reason, Full

Wave Breathing has been called the “single most important exercise for your health.”

Less capacity to breathe

There is an epidemic of bad breathing at large today, and children are the ultimate

victims. Some of the symptoms associated with poor breathing include sluggish

metabolism, , anxiety, panic, depression, headaches, sleep disturbances, inability to pay

attention, poor memory, and fatigue.

 Dr. Sheldon Hendler states in his book The Oxygen Breakthrough that breathing

should be the first place we look when symptoms present themselves, not the last place.

Knowing these facts and reading the following headlines featured in Time

Magazine (May 1, 1997) forces us to take a hard look at our children’s reality and become

proactive in prevention measures.

Asthma has become the most chronic common disease of childhood, the No. 1

cause of hospitalization and absenteeism. (p.79)

 The allergies and asthma have increased even in places where air pollution
has decreased (Philadelphia) and is nonexistent (Scotland’s Isle of Skye). This
makes researchers suspect indoor pollution, a miasma of cigarette smoke, pet
dander, chemicals, cockroaches, and dust.(p. 92)

The reason it’s more difficult to breathe today than it was 100 years ago is the only

thing that’s clear about our relationship with the earth and its environments. We’re

running out of fresh air. Because our environment is so polluted, we require a more

effective oxygenation mechanism than ever before in the history of humanity. When

oxygen in the air combines with pollutants, it neutralizes them. That’s the good news. The

bad news is that this chemical reaction decreases the amount of free oxygen in the air.

The same sort of process takes place in our body. However, the situation is more

drastic. Not only does the increased inner environmental stress require more oxygen

(which most of us don’t get), a complex problem results. The free radical (created when

oxygen combines with either a pollutant or bacterium) slips by the contractile mechanism

of the cell directly into the blood stream where it is carried to the immune system. That

leads to a toxic overload of the system and, eventually, the immune system breaks down.
The body degenerates and the result is the innumerable forms of environmental and stress

diseases.

The facts and figures speak for themselves. More specifically, respiration disorders

are a leading cause of death in adults and a major epidemic that has risen by 50% over the

last decade in the current population of children. What’s happening?

A number of good studies have emerged that demonstrate how forces of harmful

stress can make us more vulnerable to infections and even to cancer, according to Sheldon

Hendler, author of The Oxygen Breakthrough. When you add poor breathing habits,

declining oxygen rates, as well as more stress for ourselves and our children, the only

logical solution is to relearn appropriate breathing patterns for the full oxygenation of the

body.

Robert Fried, PhD, emphasizes in his book The Breath Connection that

“Breathing is the only vital life function which we can voluntarily control, and therefore

frequently manage to deregulate...All bodily functions are breath related, and they

interact in complex ways.”

Fried’s reminder is that we do have an influence and a measure of control in our

life and about how we feel. It is a goal of the International Breath Institute to convey this

awareness that breath is a tool we can use to help change our mood, fatigue, focus and,

ultimately, preserve and improve our health.

Health care professionals comment on breathing

Many doctors, researchers and health care professionals are taking a new interest

in breath work and how that relates to fitness and well-being.

“Breathing, in short, is the key that unlocks the whole catalog of advanced
biological function and development. Is it any wonder that it is so central to ever
aspect of health? Breathing is the first place, not the last, one should look when
fatigue, disease, or other evidence of disordered energy presents itself. Breathing is
truly the body’s most basic communication system.” - Sheldon Hendler, MD, PhD,
Oxygen Breakthrough, pg.96

According to a paper by Jack Shields, MD, lymph is a clear fluid containing

lymphocytes (T-cells and B-cells of the immune system) which circulate through
the channels of the lymphatic system carrying waste away from all parts of the
body to the lymph nodes. the lymph nodes filter out the wastes in the lymph,
particularly bacteria, preventing it from entering the bloodstream, while at the
same time allowing the lymphocytes to pass through.

Dr. Shields conducted a study on the effects of breathing on the lymphatic system.
Using cameras inside the body, he found that deep diaphragmatic breathing
stimulated the cleansing of the lymph system by creating a vacuum effect that
sucked the lymph through the bloodstream.
“This increased the rate of toxic elimination by as much as 15 times the normal
pace.” - Jack Shields, MD, Lymph, Lymph Glands, and Homeostasis, No. 4, Dec.
1992, pg. 147-153

“...the relationship between breathing and blood pressure has been known and
understood for a long time. It boils down to this: Elevated blood pressure
accompanies those bodily states where rapid, shallow breathing prevails. By
altering breathing to a slow a diaphragmatic mode, blood pressure decreases.
Elevated blood pressure is a major American health problem.” - Robert Fried,
PhD, The Breath Connection, pg. 152

“Healthy breathing should be the first thing taught to a heart patient. A Dutch
study, conducted by a doctor named Dixhoorn, compared two groups of heart
attack patients. The first group was taught simple diaphragmatic breathing, while
the second group was given no training in breathing. The breathing group had no
further heart attacks, while seven out of the twelve members of the second group
had second heart attacks over the next two years.
Many healings of other physical troubles have occurred in my clients after they
started to integrate breathing practices into their lives. There is a simple but
encompassing reason that may explain this. The human body is designed to
discharge 70 percent of its toxins through breathing. Only a small percentage of
toxins are discharged through sweat, defecation and urination. If your breathing is
not operating at peak efficiency, you are not ridding yourself of toxins properly.” -
Gay Hendricks, PhD, Conscious Breathing, pg. 16-17
 The “strength of our barrier to degenerative diseases is directly proportional to the
amount of oxygen saturation in the body.” - Gabriel Cousens, MD, in his column
“Health Today”

Robert Sapolsky, a biologist and researcher at Stanford University, has established

that when the body is in stress-a pattern that includes shallow, inadequate
breathing-it produces chemistry which has been shown to impair memory and
learning. Not only that, this “stress chemistry” actually can shrink the hippocampus
portion of the brain 8-26 percent. - “Worldwide News” column in Intuition
magazine, May/June, 1997

Preliminary research is in, and the truth is shocking. Unless we learn to breathe

properly, we directly poison the immune system, damage our brains, and bring on a myriad

of other ailments. The only way for our bodies to utilize oxygen fully is through full,

healthy, deep breathing.

Full Wave Breathing, naturally

The lungs do not breathe as they are immobile. We breathe our lungs by expanding

them, exercising the muscles around and under the lungs. Watch how an infant breathes

and notice the smooth and even rise and fall of the belly with the movement of the

diaphragm. The child naturally uses the healthy, pliable muscles, which slowly contract as

the child grows older and eventually harden, unless specifically trained to retain mobility as

in most Asian cultures.

By the time we reach adulthood, we rarely breathe this way. Instead, we most

often breathe erratically from the chest, sometimes pausing between breaths and even

gasping for air. Erratic breathing is exhausting, and it deprives us of the constant, full

supply of oxygen our mind and muscles need to properly function.

 Full Wave Breathing is a powerful catalyst to well-being. It opens the body to its

natural healing energies, complements many therapies and speeds up their results. Full

Wave Breathing is an easy, natural, and readily available technique that can be used

immediately to improve health.

Many people have shared their stories in using Full Wave Breathing to cope with

pregnancy, agoraphobia, depression, asthma and more. Full Wave Breathing has been

shown effective in the relief of these symptoms: asthma, distractibility, depression, anxiety,

panic disorder, premenstrual pain, nicotine addiction, and alcohol addiction. Moreover,

full wave Breathing is an antodite to the current stress epidemic plaguing all of us.

Drs. Tom and Caron Goode estimate from working with people for more than

twenty years that over 80 percent of the population exhibits restricted breathing patterns.

Through the International Breath Institute, the Goodes have been showing people that

they can alter their mental, emotional and physical states by directing their breath. Old

breath patterns can even be reprogrammed to achieve better health. But after years of

restricted breathing, most people usually require training and practice in directed breathing

techniques.

The most effective breathing pattern developed through IBI's extensive field trials

is Full Wave Breathing. This specific breath uses deeper, effective, breathing to draw in

deep, full breaths, inhaling and exhaling without pause. Full Wave Breathing is a three-

step process that involves bringing the breath from an expanded belly, up through the solar

plexus, and then moving the breath into the chest. By practicing this kind of breathing for

just five minutes every morning and during times of tension, anyone can develop a habit of

breathing fully and energizing themselves in the process.

 Although Full Wave Breathing may be successfully be employed as a

psychological and emotional change agent as illustrated in the case studies which follow,

its greatest potential lies in the ability to improve the health of virtually anyone. While

useful in preparing for and recovering from surgery and rehabilitating from trauma, Full

Wave Breathing as a personal exercise is the perfect remedy for everyday job and home

extremes of stress. It is immediately applicable as a stress management tool and as a long-

term treatment from the effects of stored stress.

Dr. Alan Hymes has suggested in Science of Breath that there are identifiable

associations between specific mental/emotional states and holding patterns of tension in

the body. As psychoanalysts have long observed, the body constricts in areas where we

experience and store the memory of uncomfortable emotions or trauma.

Since much of our emotional experience registers in the abdomen and torso, our

emotional responses interact constantly with our breathing. We hold our breath, pause, or

breathe shallowly to avoid feeling old trauma stored in the chest and abdomen. The body's

patterns of breath avoidance become habitual over time. The brain eventually ignores the

areas of isolated feelings to protect the nervous system from over-sensitivity and

stimulation.

Dysfunctional respiration reinforces chronic tension; the tension then suppresses

full respiration. The self-repeating loop of tension and shallow breathing becomes habitual.

The results are debilitating as emotional responses become increasingly inhibited and the

body loses energy. Organs and tissue structures can be adversely affected, and overall

immune response weakened.

 Full Wave Breathing interrupts this predictable loop by integrating stuck feelings

and resolving tension in the body. As new energy floods depleted areas, traumas are

energetically transformed, restoring natural vitality. Continued Full Wave Breathing

reconnects the supply line for all feelings, allowing them full acceptance and integration

into the bodymind system. The mind become quiet and inner peace and wholeness emerge

as natural states.

Deep breathing also stimulates and massages the internal organs and tones the

diaphragm and abdominal muscles. The high volume of oxygen absorbed by the lungs

cleanses and revitalizes the organ systems. Since 70% of the body’s many toxins are

released through exhalation, deep breathing is a natural and powerful detoxifier.

While IBI and its facilitators make no specific therapeutic or medical claims,

formal case studies report instances of many physical symptoms abating in Full Wave

Breathing. Still other cases chronicle the disappearance of lifelong disabling and addictive

behaviors. Working with healthy populations has yield increased energy, calm, clarity and

peace.

Although therapeutic in its benefits, Full Wave Breathing is not intended as

therapy. It may, however, be used as a complement to any type of mental or emotional

therapy and often is used in conjunction with it. IBI offers a training and certification

program for those wishing to incorporate Full Wave Breathing into their healing practices.

In various case studies, “Henry” said that Full Wave Breathing lifted him "out of

his mind and into his heart" after years of therapy and counseling. “Marilyn” overcame her

feelings of low self-esteem, stopped her drinking and was able to give up taking Prozac.
And “Rose” was able to alleviate chronic breathing problems and overcome asthma by

resolving her unexpressed grief.

These studies are of individuals gainfully employed in today’s corporate

environment who recognized they were having difficulty and sought help. How many are

there in our corporations who, perhaps suffering less, could gain so much personally and

contribute so much more in the job and community? Depression is a major concern of

many employers; yet, the body produces its own anti-depressant when breathing is healthy.

One physician said that it was impossible to breathe correctly and be depressed.

Substance use and abuse, including food, tobacco, recreational and illegal drug

use all raise corporate health and safety costs and decrease productive effect. Anecdotal

studies and small group samples show that individuals in this group have been able to quit

smoking and substance abuse as well as decrease reliance on drugs and stimulants.

Absenteeism is an increasing problem in the workplace even in light of company-

paid and supported wellness programs. Some of this is due to short-term physicall illness

as well as psychological overload. Also workers lose time due to the health concerns of

children and lose sleep staying up with them. Full Wave Breathing is easily taught to other

family members to improve their overall well being. .

Full Wave Breathing also addresses the individual’s need for balance in living by

providing a “down-time” that rapidly restores vitality and composure. In a busy world

people often perceive there to be too little time for personal exercise as they feel stretched

to meet the demands of job and family. Some of the aforementioned wellness programs

may actually be adding to the problem by increasing the demand upon an employee’s time.

Full Wave Breathing takes little time to perform, can be done virtually anywhere, is easily
taught and simply leaned. Used as an exercise, Full Wave Breathing develops the habit of

diaphragmatic breathing which actually expands the mindbody’s capability to manage

stress. This habit benefits the entire mindbody energy system, powerfully increasing

immune functions and warding off colds and other infections.

As the exercise is learned, the importance of oxygen and energy is emphasized. It

is a natural progression for an individual who using Full Wave Breathing and noting

improvement to increase the interest in other choices which affect their oxygen source and

supply including diet, exercise and emotional balance. This empowers better choices for

health, wellness and wholeness. Employees who are healthy cost less for an employer to

maintain and contribute more. Those who remain well or improve their health lower

insurance costs. A company program which teaches Full Wave Breathing could thus

positively impact a corporate balance sheet for current, retiring and retired employees, and

their families.
Full Wave Breathing, origins and background

Historically, the best recorded theories and practice of breath control developed in

India and China, called Pranayama and Qi Gong respectively.

Breathwork in the Western world has a rich, if obscure history. It proponents have

published books since the late 1800’s and have included noted physical culturists, healers

and physicians. The movements started by Kofler, Fersen, and Dr. Wendt rose to limited

prominence before the 1930’s when and Paul Bragg was instructing large groups in better

breathing on the beaches of California and Hawaii. In the 1940’s Thomas Gaines was the

official breathing instructor for the New York City Police Training Programs. The 1950’s

voice for re-learning breathing was Dr. Bernard Jensen along with health advocate Paul

Bragg and Carl Stough. Stough, a musicologist, successfully re-directed the breathing

patterns of terminal emphysema patients with some restored to full health. In 1965,

Stough established a breathwork foundation in New York City while, on the West Coast,

having started her research in Germany in in 1935, Professor Ilse Middendorf founded her

institute in San Francisco to promote for growth and somatic healing. Stough was named

respiratory consultant to the 1968 U. S. Olympic Committee for the high-altitude Mexican

Games. His success in enabling athletes to greatly improve their winning performances is a

legend.

Breathwork therapies seemed to explode in the United States in the 1970s. Stan

Grof, MD, a pioneer in consciousness research with substances like LSD in Europe and

later in the United States, developed Holotropic Breathwork as a means to achieve

drugless, nonordinary states of consciousness. The goal of this breathwork is to move

towards wholeness and healing as physical, emotional, and mental experiences arise. In

1971, Norweigan psychotherapist Lillemor Johnsen published Integrated Respiration

Theory detailing her successful application of her form of breathwork in a wide variety of

settings over a twenty-four year history.

Other Western breathwork techniques developed in the 1970s, each with its

specific focus. Jean Houston explored altered states of consciousness through breathwork.

Jacquelyn Small developed Integrative Breathwork, a process similar to Holotropic, that

works primarily with the transpersonal realms of addictive and other disabling behaviors.

Leonard Orr developed a technique called Rebirthing in which shallow breathing creates

catharsis for the purpose of recreating the birth process and healing traumas. Radiance

Breathwork which is rapid and spontaneous breathing was developed by therapist, Dr.

Gay Hendricks. There are a number of other breathwork variations of which this list is not

exhaustive: Core Energetics, Vivation, and Breatherapy, all of which advanced the study

of directed breathing.

Following this body of knowledge, in the late 1980s, Tom Goode developed Full

Wave Breathing, focusing on intention, a continuous full-wave breath, and a philosophy of

wholeness. Differing from breathwork used exclusively under the direction and in the

presence of a physician or other health-care for the treatment of illness and disease, Full

Wave Breathing is a self-help exercise while also being suitable for use in treatment of

emotional and mental imbalances by professionals. Forms of direct breathing that

encourage rapid thoracic breathing causes stress to the body and induce catharsis. Full

Wave Breathing incorporates slower and deeper breathing to facilitate better health,

relaxation, calm and focus, and integration of emotional stessors..

 Currently in the medical profession there is a resurgent interest in the use of

oxygen therapies. Oxygen drip, hyperbaric chamber treatments, and respiration therapies

fall into this category. At various levels, these assist in the strengthening of the immune

system, helping the body in severe illness to heal, and relieving psychosomatic symptoms.

The nature of supporting evidence for breathwork therapies is primarily

experimental and anecdotal. In medical circles, a few controlled experiments have been

done with Qi Gong, and it has been proven effective in relaxing the autonomic nervous

system, improving overall cardiovascular health, and improving circulation. The benefits

are thought to derive from the “relaxation response,” a natural result also of Full Wave

Breathing.

Case studies with the use of Full Wave Breathing indicate effectiveness in the

healing of asthma in adults, managing chronic back pain and premenstrual pain, cessation

of smoking addiction and cocaine addiction, cessation of stress symptoms like low energy

and headaches, and reducing the symptomology of chronic fatigue syndrome.

When used in the classroom with children, Full Wave Breathing helps them calm

their energies and focus their minds. Children trained in Full Wave Breathing respond

enthusiastically to questions and demonstrate a more composed demeanor in various

classroom settings.

In the research gathered and conducted by the International Breath Institute, Full

Wave Breathing also has proven an effective method for detoxing the body befpre and

after surgery and drug use, dealing with episodes of depression or anxiety/panic attacks,

and preparing for childbirth physically and emotionally. These benefits are due to the
specific breathing approach of Full Wave Breathing with emphasis on inhalation and

oxygenation of the body.

Developers of Full Wave Breathing technique

Drs. Tom and Caron Goode have been working with breathing modalities and

refining their breathwork technique for many years. Tom initially developed

Transformational Breathing which later evolved into Full Wave Breathing. Graduates of

the IBI facilitator training program have gone on to rename the practice for their own use

and applications in workshops and seminars in the US and abroad.

Challenged by disease and injury from an early age, Tom has long been interested

in alternative therapies for improving health. After undergoing conventional medical

treatments for an “incurable” disease for 17 years, he began to explore the field of

alternative medicine in 1977. Within a year of adjusting his lifestyle to one that emphasized

healthy foods, regular exercise, meditation and daily breath work, Tom was symptom,

drug and disease free-- experiencing what some would call a “miracle healing.” At that

point, he left the corporate world to devote himself to alternative healing studies and

practice.

Tom’s remarkable story was first published in Prevention magazine in 1979. Since

then, he’s been trained in more than a dozen healing and bodywork modalities and has

received a Doctorate of Naturopathy degree from The Clayton School of Natural Healing

in 1993 plus a Doctor of Divinity Degree from the Compassionate Service Theological

Seminary. A dynamic workshop facilitator and motivational speaker in the United States

and abroad, Tom has been featured on television and radio programs and has researched
personal growth and development for more than 30 years. Tom is the author of numerous

articles on natural healing and of seven books, the latest of which is Fully Alive!, the

producer of The Cosmic Waltz, a musical program used with Full Wave Breathing, and

the Inner Harmony program for holistic health and balance.

Caron Goode, a practicing psychotherapist since 1983 has a rare talent for

personal development counseling and mentoring. After receiving her doctorate in

psychology from The George Washington University in 1983, she began to combine her

interests in education with a practice that emphasized self empowerment. That resulted in

the publication of several papers, articles, and books including Mind Fitness for Esteem

and Excellence, which, with its training curriculums for education and business detailed a

program for optimal learning and whole brain education. She also completed post-doctoral

studies with the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology and was awarded a Doctor of

Divinity Degree from the Compassionate Service Theological Seminary.

Other books by Caron include the Handbook for Parents of the Developmentally

Disabled and Coaching Your Child to Success, Nurturing Your Child’s Gift and Help

Kids Cope with Stress and Trauma.

A visionary therapist, researcher and writer, Caron’s energies are channeled into

her writing and work with children and parents. She and Tom formed the International

Breath Institute (IBI) in 1991 to further their educational and research efforts in

breathwork. In 1999 Caron created Inspired Parenting.net, a web-based resource for

parents and child caregivers. Caron edits the free monthly newsletter available at

www.inspiredparenting.net. In 2005, Caron and Tom announced the opening of the

Academy for Coaching Parents International to train coaches, teachers and parents in

modern child rearing applications.

The International Breath Institute

As managing directors, Drs. Tom and Caron Goode have created a holistic

educational and training organization in the International Breath Institute. Through

seminars and workshops, websites and newsletters, IBI teaches people how to improve

their personal performance and professional competence and trains health practitioners in

the use of Full Wave Breathing for clients and patients..

Years of research and refinement by IBI have gone into the development of Full

Wave Breathing. IBI's research reveals that Full Wave Breathing provides a wide range of

health affirming, stress resolving benefits. This particular kind of breathwork is a natural

method which mobilizes and supports the body’s progression toward balance and

wholeness.

IBI provides public lectures, seminars and corporate workshops. The institute also

publishes material promoting directed breath technique such as books, monographs,

videos, audiocassettes, and via its website at www.internationalbreathinstitue.com

provides a variety of breath and health information.

Because of emotional or mental issues sited in the breathing mechanism and

biochemical resistance, most people benefit from learning and practicing Full Wave

Breathing in a structured class setting. IBI offers seminars and workshops for both

individuals interested in learning Full Wave Breathing and students who wish to become

certified facilitators.
 Graduates report greater mental clarity and focus, enhanced intuition, emotional

calm and increased physical energy.

Facilitators comment on Full Wave Breathing

All IBI certified Full Wave Breathing facilitators start their process as people who

simply want to breathe more fully, more healthfully. Along the way, many of them learn to

heal their illnesses, release their addictions, and move their lives in a more fulfilling

direction. As facilitators, they’ve helped thousands of people do the same. Here is what

Full Wave Breathing means to some of them:

“I have gained greater courage to be myself.” – Shelley Salvatore

“My personal miracle is the astonishing rapidity with which my life is changing to
wholeness.” - Elan Chalford

“It helped me integrate past abuse issues I was unable to resolve through therapy.”
- Brenda Lester

“I’m able to step outside of a stressful situation and become an observer rather
than a participant by changing my breathing. I’ve become aware of behavior
patterns in my life that are no longer useful to me.” - L.S.

“Full Wave Breathing has allowed me to better connect with my children, to

recognize the strength I have within, and how to begin to work toward my
purpose. My motivation is increasing daily.” - Brenda Ryder

“My relationships with others and myself have improved tremendously.” - Suzette
Brewer

“I can see that Full Wave Breathing has enabled me to accelerate and heal my body
from an injury two years ago. The healing would take much longer if it were not
for the breathing. I am less anxious and more patient.” – George Costas

“My life is exciting and transforming daily. All of my relationships have

strengthened and I’m able to communicate better.” - Shelley Salvatore
“My intuition is stronger and more immediate. Full Wave Breathing is miraculous
for overcoming anxieties.” - Shirley Trostle

“Full Wave Breathing has been my deliverance from half a century of walking
death. It is the first time in my life I have experienced the knowing of hope and the
actuality of lessened pain.” - Helen Claire

“I feel more empowered to live my life the way I want it to be.”

- D. Stankovich
Selected Case Studies

Since 1991, thousands of people have experienced the joy and health benefits of

Full Wave Breathing. These benefits include improved digestion, decreases blood

pressure, improved skin quality, reduced workload of the heart, relaxation and reduced

stress.

In his book The Breath Connection, Robert Fried tells us that prolonged energy

expenditure in managing stress cannot be carried on indefinitely by the body. If distress

goes on too long, it leads to psychosomatic symptoms such as sighing respiration, chronic

fatigue, depression, inability to concentrate, irritability, anxiety, various aches and pains,

and impaired memory.

The approach of Full Wave Breathing is a self-empowerment process that

increases a person’s energy, calms the emotions and clears the mind of “stress chemistry”

that has been linked to inadequate respiration. When stress chemistry is reduced and the

bodymind calmed, then health, insight and intuition automatically increase.

In the following remarkable case studies, you’ll learn about people who

experienced tremendous, positive changes in their lives as a direct result of their intention

to improve their mental, emotional and physical health and their discovery of Full Wave

Breathing.

Art’s Metamorphosis

Art is a 57-year-old adult child of alcoholic parents with a long history of

emotional repression and addictive patterns involving work, sex and tobacco. These

lifelong habits grew out of his unconscious search for love and approval. Unable to form
intimate relationships or express deep feelings, devoid of joy in his work, Art felt

spiritually bankrupt.

Art's mother is a recovering alcoholic who drank until her son was ten. He has no

memories of his first five years, and remembers the next five as being filled with

repercussions from his mother's drinking. She was too busy recovering from her

hangovers to have any love and affection for Art.

“The first ten years of my life were the last ten years of her drinking," Art says.

"She told me once about an incident that occurred after she had quit drinking and been in

a twelve-step program for a year or two. I came home from school one day and she put

her arms around me and said, ‘I love you, Artie. I love you so much.’ She says I looked up

at her in surprise and said, ‘You do?’”

Art begin smoking at eleven or twelve, and for most of his life continued to smoke

about a pack-and-a-half a day. He tried to quit a couple of times, but never managed more

than a day until he tried the Patch. Even then, he quit completely for only two months.

Like many children of alcoholics, Art did not want to follow in his mother's

footsteps. Art learned behavior patterns and coping skills growing up in an alcoholic

home. Some of this became clear to him in 1989 when he first attended Adult Child of

Alcoholic (ACOA) meetings.

He read a book that identified ten ACOA traits, “and seven of them,” he says,

“were dead on me, two of them were possible, and only one in ten was a miss.” He

realized for the first time that his experiences were not unique, but were in fact quite

common. “I wasn’t aware until then that when you’re raised in an alcoholic environment
you tend to develop certain kinds of skills to survive. If you don’t become aware of them,

you just keep using them, even when they may not work for you any more.”

Soon, Art realized that his battery of coping skills made for very poor marriage

skills. He married a woman who, like him, was a frequent drinker, and poured himself into

his work to avoid the marriage problems. He also engaged in extramarital affairs during

twenty years of his thirty-year marriage.

Art and his wife divorced in 1991 after which he decided to see a counselor who

specialized in addictive behaviors. He learned that the isolation of a child hungry for

parental love stayed with him through his relationships. During his two years of treatment

he came to see that in his marriage, “we were both frequent drinkers and we both had

behaved as alcoholics.”

He also realized that he had been living his life for his wife and children. He and his

family were invested in “this image we had of ourselves as this outstanding and unique and

fabulous family. Now that bubble was going to burst for all of us.” Most of the time he

was accumulating money and investing it. He had no sense of purpose in his life. Instead

what he wanted was good health, love and intimacy, and work that was joyous to do.

Art was searching for the missing elements in his life when he met a Full Wave

Breath facilitator in Concord, New Hampshire. He told her the three conclusions he had

reached about himself: that he had no sense of a spiritual connection, that he had been

stuffing his emotions, and that he had closed himself off from intimacy. She suggested that

he try a Full Wave Breath session which he did two weeks later in August of 1993. During

that first experience he “realized that here was something I could put to work to make the

changes I was looking for. It was so important for me that I broke down and cried in that
session about some of the tragedies I had experienced in my life. What a fantastic feeling

that was, to start letting go!” He had never cried before about any of it.

During the next eight weeks, Art had nine sessions. In order to learn to apply the

Full Wave Breath as well as other tools himself, Art enrolled in the Personal

Enlightenment & Professional Training in October and completed his certification in

February.

Art noticed rapid changes in his attitude and behavior as the training and his

breathwork sessions progressed. He was calmer about things, and the stress he had felt for

years abated. He says, "Full Wave Breath allowed me to experience full honesty with

myself and with someone else." He was changing from a scarred, lonely divorcee into a

man who was willing to allow love for the first time.

His friends and colleagues remarked on the changes in him almost immediately.

When Art went to work on the Monday following his first session people were asking him,

"What happened to you? You look different-lighter or brighter."

According to Art, "My life had changed and was never going to be the same. I

didn't even know what I meant. Yet, I knew it was true. My life was going to be

different.”

Art made a number of rapid lifestyle changes. By December of 1993, when he

appeared at the second weekend of the Personal Enlightenment and Professional Training,

he had stopped ingesting meat, caffeine, alcohol and nicotine.

“Full Wave Breathing,” he says, “was the key to reclaiming myself. I was able to

make decisions that were for my good, and follow through with those decisions.” He

retired from the computer industry which gave him new found freedom. “I wanted to live
my life for me, and without the breathwork, I would not have given myself the chance to

do something that is joyous.” Art now guides group and private breathwork sessions with

his partner, who, like him, is a Full Wave Breathing facilitator.

Marilyn’s Deliverance

Marilyn was reared in a strict home environment where she, her brother and sister

were discouraged from expressing their feelings. Marilyn experienced both of her parents

as emotionally unavailable. Her alcoholic father started sexually abusing her when she was

three years old.

In adolescence, she sunk into period of substance abuse, depression, and

unsuccessful relationships. She felt sad, angry, confused and withdrawn. Her mother, a

diagnosed manic-depressive under psychiatric care for eight years, recommended that

Marilyn see a psychiatrist. Marilyn underwent four months of Freudian analysis and then

quit.

At twenty, Marilyn saw another psychotherapist for another four months. By then,

she says, “I was in complete denial about the depression. The therapist would ask me

questions like: Are you sleeping at night? Do you have mood swings? I knew what she

was aiming for, because I was used to dealing with my mother’s depression. So I would

answer no--even though the answer was yes to all of them--and then I would stop going.

The truth was that I felt awful.” Despite several more brief forays into therapy, prompted

each time by lingering feelings of sadness, mental and emotional confusion, and low self-

esteem, she did not receive a clinical diagnosis of depression until 1991.
 Meanwhile Marilyn's drug use had increased to four times a week by the time she

was seventeen. That year she moved out of her parents’ house. To cope with her feelings

of loneliness after leaving home, Marilyn says she did what she had seen her parents do:

she drank.

Marilyn married her first husband when she was twenty-one, and had a child

immediately. Divorced less than a year later, she soon began another relationship, living

with her partner for five years before marrying him. With her second husband Marilyn

drank and used cocaine five days a week, and smoked two-to-three packs of cigarettes a

day. She wanted to do coke every day, but she couldn’t afford it. Her regular cocaine use

continued for five years, as did her heavy drinking and smoking marijuana.

Her second husband divorced her in 1989. She lost custody of her daughter and

lost a business she had partnered in that same year. In her words, she “hit rock bottom.”

She had noticed the effects of alcohol poisoning in her face and her eyes, which were full

of broken capillaries.

Deterred by the high cost of private counseling, she decided to try AA meetings

instead. “I hated every minute of it,” she says. “I didn’t feel very comfortable telling my

life story, and I didn’t feel comfortable saying I was an alcoholic. The people weren’t very

nice either. I just felt it wasn’t for me.”

However, Marilyn did stop drinking. She also quit using cocaine, but she

continued to smoke marijuana.

Marilyn began to practice meditation in 1990 and intentionally spent free time

alone at home. She experienced what she refers to as “my spiritual awakening, some

incredible experiences of inner vision and peacefulness.” She got a job in a bookstore
specializing in books about spiritual practices and became an avid reader. That year she

met the man who would become her third husband. “And that was when everything went

downhill again.”

Marilyn's new partner was married. “That’s how bad I felt about myself,” she says,

“putting myself in a relationship like that. Even after all the meditation, I was in incredible

pain emotionally. I started drinking again.” They both drank heavily through the period of

his divorce, and married in 1991. She says, “We were fighting and drinking all the time.

He was working, I wasn’t. I was home all day by myself and just drank. I didn’t know

what else to do.” During this time of low self-esteem Marilyn had a strong desire to do

something for herself. She reached two decisions: to quit smoking and to become a

vegetarian.

Marilyn saw a psychiatrist who finally diagnosed her condition as depression, and

attributed her drinking to the depression. He prescribed Prozac.

She began taking Prozac in September of 1992. “It wasn’t working for me

anymore after a few months, but I continued to take it and I continued to drink.” She was

instructed not to drink by her psychiatrist, who asked her every week if she was still

drinking. “I would tell him I was drinking just a couple of glasses of wine a day when I

was actually going through a magnum every night and still doing the Prozac.”

By December, Marilyn was still depressed and her sleep patterns were erratic. She

was experiencing intense feelings of self-loathing and paranoia. She walk into a grocery

store without feeling scared. She had extreme mood swings. “I didn’t just get angry,” she

says. “I was enraged.”

 Marilyn was working in a health food store when a woman who was facilitating a

workshop at the holistic bookstore came in for a candy bar. Marilyn remembers the

woman explaining something about a process that sounded spiritual. "I don’t even

remember if she mentioned the breath. I could hear her saying let me make an

appointment for you, and every fiber in my body just said, 'Yes! OK, I’ll do it!' I didn’t

even ask her how much it costs. It was just meant to be.”

In 1993 Marilyn experienced nineteen sessions of Full Wave Breathwork between

the end of January and the beginning of July, nearly one session a week. She says that in

her first session of Full Wave Breathwork she released a great deal of the self-loathing that

had plagued her throughout her life. After this session, she says, “People at work were

looking at me and saying, ‘Boy, you’re in a good mood today. What’s going on?’ I had a

smile on my face and I wasn’t in my negative self mode.”

After her second session, Marilyn slept through the night for the first time since

she began taking Prozac. She ate lighter foods after her third or fourth session. “I couldn’t

exist any more on the fast food stuff. I was already a vegetarian, but I was still eating junk,

a lot of candy. So I cut out sugar and fat.” As a result, she says, “My body just felt

better.”

After her fourth session, Marilyn stopped taking Prozac. “That was a big step,” she

says. “Even though it wasn’t working for me, at least it was something I could hold onto.”

She stopped seeing the psychiatrist who had prescribed the Prozac. “I knew the breath

was working for me,” she says, “and I felt very empowered for the first time in my life. I

was finally taking control of my life.”

 In March, 1993, Marilyn stopped drinking and smoking marijuana, and has not

resumed. In July, 1993, she began the IBI Personal Enlightenment & Professional

Training. Her lifelong depression has finally disappeared. “I feel at peace,” she says, “even

when I’m feeling my emotions. I don’t make them wrong or right. It’s okay to feel anger.

It’s okay to cry. I’m much kinder to myself and I’m much more allowing.”

She reports a blossoming spiritual transformation. She meditates daily for one

hour, and now finds that her meditation experience brings her a deeper sense of

connection with God than she ever felt before. She has become a more giving person by

shifting her focus from trying to make other people feel better to simply “realizing that

strengthening my own connection to Source is what service is all about.”

Marilyn is presently managing a health food co-op. She is also a certified

Transformational Facilitator, seeing breathwork clients regularly. These days, she enjoys

her work. “With the Full Wave Breathwork I’m just doing what I love to do. I feel that

way about the co-op too.”

The biggest change that Marilyn attributes to the Training and the Full Wave

Breathwork is her strong sense of self-worth. “I thought that there was nothing to love,”

she says. “I love myself now and I really believe that for the first time in my life. If you feel

good about yourself, then your life is great!”

Gregory’s Sleep

Gregory, an eight-year-old son of two medical professionals, had reason enough to

be an anxious child. Expectations for his performance were high, and his mother reported

that she was over protective because Gregory’s younger brother had died of Sudden

Infant Death Syndrome.

Gregory’s anxiety manifested at night after he had been asleep several hours. He

would awaken with cold sweats, be fearful, and describe a variety of nightmares to his

mother. These events started when Gregory was seven and happened about once a week.

Over the course of a year, the panic episodes increased in frequency to several times a

week. At the time Gregory’s mother called about Full Wave Breathing, she and Gregory

were usually awake most of the early morning hours.

After three sessions, Gregory had learned to build breath capacity and all three

steps of Full Wave Breathing. He also learned to watch and compare his breath and body

symptoms while in as well as out of anxiety states. He learned to dialogue with his body

when he felt anxiety symptoms coming on. He changed his panic state to one of calm with

consciously directed breathing. He learned ways to stretch and move his body to release

tension and fear. Gregory learned to breathe while moving slowly around a room and

stretching.

When he awakened in fear at night, he followed the plan he had devised: He

would turn on his light, look around his room while still in bed to reassure himself that

there was nothing out there to be afraid of. Then he would check his breathing patterns.

Typically these would be shallow and rapid.

 Then he would lay down, put his hand on his belly, and breathe into the abdomen,

causing the hand to rise. He observed his breath and waited for his body to calm down. If

he could not go back to sleep, he read. And if the panic was overwhelming or he felt

unsafe or out of control, he would wake his parents.

Gregory changed from a fretful, nervous child to one who laughed more, loosened up and

took a major step in learning to manage his life.

John’s Emergence

John was sixty years of age and diagnosed with agoraphobia, a fear of open or

public places, and Arterial Sclerotic Heart Disease. John had not left his home, more

specifically his bedroom, for more than ten years. His Agoraphobia began shortly after his

twenty-six year old son was shot and murdered. When John developed heart disease, he

was rushed to the hospital and due to his intense anxiety had no recall of the entire

hospitalization. Following his discharge from the hospital, John was seen by a visiting

physician in his own home, and treatment was restricted to the home.

John wore glasses, but because of his agoraphobia had not had his eyes checked in

ten years. He did not see a dentist during this time though he had some loose teeth. His

driver’s license expired and he became totally dependent on his spouse who worked as a

clerk in a nearby hospital.

As John’s coping abilities diminished, he was in a constant state of depression and

anxiety. His emotional problems, including the agoraphobia, negatively impacted his

medical illness, and he was not compliant with medications and treatment regimes. At last,

he physician suggested he try Full Wave Breathing. John was capable and willing to

participate in directed breathing.

 At the end of the first six week period, John was demonstrating a strong Full Wave

Breathing pattern that he practiced 3-5 times a day, depending upon his anxiety.

In the course of therapy, it became clear that John’s phobia was related to his rage

toward the police. The court did not prosecute the alleged murderer of his son. John felt

that he had failed his deceased son and that he would not be able to control his raging

impulses toward the police. The therapist did not deal with these issues directly. Rather

she attempted to help him manage his fear of leaving home, knowing that success and self

worth would diminish the defensive postures.

John continued to speak of his amazement about how he felt before and after his

breath sessions. After twelve weeks, John was able to keep an appointment with an

optometrist with assistance from his wife. He was also thinking about going to the

dentist. Then John shared with the therapist that he had been spitting up blood. The

physician ordered portable x-rays, which showed a large tumor in his left lung.

John faced the news of lung cancer with great fear, but he did not experience any

panic. He took the initiative in calling the oncologist’s office and making arrangements for

a private area in which he could have treatment.

Notably John was feeling more control over his life, despite the fact that he was

facing a possible terminal illness. John showed distinguished courage during his

chemotherapy treatments. He uncharacteristically conversed with his physician, nurses and

technicians who treated him. During this period he even obtained his driver’s license.

Long after John’s Full Wave Breathing regimen was complete, he continued to call

his facilitator to update her on his progress. He said that he was breathing through his
chemotherapy to manage his emotions. He stopped taking his antidepressant medications

and was compliant with his medical regimen.

A few times John expressed deep regret that he had spent the last ten years in his

bedroom. Through Full Wave Breathing he felt he had regained some measure of control.

His dependence on others diminished tremendously, his self worth improved, and John felt

“alive” again. John’s journey to wholeness began in May of 1996, and treatment ended in

September of that year. In November, 1997, John completed his radiation; and in January,

1997, he completed his chemotherapy. John died on March 18, 1997. He discovered his

wholeness, and his journey was complete.

Henry’s Transformation

Henry, an engineering manager, saw that his life was falling apart in his late forties.

He separated from his wife and moved out of state. A few months later he suffered a

complete mental breakdown, experiencing severe depression and thoughts of suicide.

As a child, Henry had found it difficult to express his feelings. He had learned that

in his family that it was risky to show them. Henry’s childhood home environment was

emotionally and physically violent. His father beat his mother and tormented her

emotionally. He abused his children in the same way. “I had to be extremely alert,” Henry

says. “He was a rage-aholic. I knew the gun was going to go off in my face at any

moment, but I never knew when.” Henry learned to survive by becoming defensive--

emotionally, physically and mentally.

In this tense family environment, withholding feelings was an important survival

behavior. Henry learned to be stoic from his mother, herself an incest survivor. As she told
Henry recently, she felt terrible abandonment as a child and in her marriages. Henry’s own

feelings of abandonment may have been exacerbated by the fact that his father felt so

jealous of the attention Henry got as a newborn that “he basically forced my mother to

hand me over to a wet nurse.” Henry never did experience the tenderness from her that he

wanted.

With pressure from both parents to be alert, to perform up to high expectations

and to keep his feelings to himself, Henry spent his childhood trying to be “a classic super

kid.” If he did everything right, he might win some measure of his mother’s love. If he did

anything wrong, he earned her indifference or criticism, and there was always the

possibility of a beating from his father.

Another way he learned to survive was by converting his fear into anger. He

believes his father practiced the same behavior. Whenever something happened that was

not what his father expected or wanted, he would get angry. His explosive rages occurred

when he felt threatened. Henry likens this behavior to his own. “When something would

go awry for me, my first and strongest reaction was anger. That was the only emotion I

felt comfortable expressing.”

Henry’s survival skills-his “perfect” behavior and stuffing all of his feelings-carried

over unnoticed into adulthood. So did his fears. He continued to experience fear of being

judged, fear of people, and especially fear of being in front of an audience. He found

making oral presentations at work especially traumatic because “I was putting myself at

risk in front of other people, and I was always very fearful about the possible outcome,”

he recalls.
 Henry named his assortment of psychological affects codependency. “It’s the only

serious illness I have ever had,” says Henry. “I was always in control, always stuffing my

feelings, taking care of everyone else first, being the super achiever, the super husband and

super father-absolutely alone within myself because I couldn’t let these feelings out. I was

afraid to admit I had feelings, let alone express them.”

Problems in Henry’s marriage led to a separation in 1991 and divorce in 1994. He

moved out-of-state for job reasons in 1991. Nine months after settling anew he underwent

a major depression that he calls his “crash and burn” period. He contemplated suicide.

“Finally I realized that I was not in control here and needed help,” he says.

Surrendering control and asking for help were new experiences for Henry. He

believes that his willingness to surrender was vital for his recovery and subsequent

spiritual awakening. He went to a family therapy counselor who described his behavior as

codependent, his marriage as abusive, and his emotional state as repressed.

He learned that he had repeated some of his parents’ behaviors in his own

marriage. While he wasn’t physically abusive or abused, he expected perfect behavior from

himself and his spouse. As a “caretaker” for his wife and his children, he disguised his

controlling behavior as nurturing.

Henry and his therapist embarked on inner child work to resolve the pain and

trauma of childhood and to create healthier adult behavior patterns. Henry attended

codependency groups and entered a cocounseling group.

After five months of private sessions, his therapist told him that he was OK. They

agreed that he just needed to keep using the basic twelve-step tools, and he stopped going

to therapy. “The counseling and group experiences showed me the origins of my behavior
and how I got to be the way I was.” Henry now says, “It was principally mental work.” It

stopped short of changing behavior. “Eventually we just ran out of the domain of her

experience.”

In 1993, Henry was seeing another woman and they went on a sailing vacation in

May. During that trip, Henry says, “a very arrogant side of my personality emerged,”

which caused a break in the year-old relationship. “It shocked me to see the work that I

still had left to do.” He was acting out deep feelings and old behavior patterns that he had

thought were gone. In desperation, he resumed counseling, but wanted something more.

Four months later he had his first session of Full Wave Breathwork.

In his first TB session, he felt an incredible release of stress. He says he found

himself expressing deep anger and hurt from childhood, followed by empathy for the

injured child he had been. He felt as if he were being “held in an angel’s arms.” This

experience ushered in a deeper sense of spiritual connection that grew more profound as

he continued TB sessions.

He did five breath sessions during the next five weeks. He enrolled in the IBI

Personal Enlightenment & Professional Training in November, which provided him with

twelve breath sessions over the course of the training period and the transformational tools

he needed to restructure his life.

Full Wave Breathwork enabled Henry to accept his feelings. While his therapy had

given him intellectual understanding of his behavioral patterns, the breathwork gave him

the emotional and spiritual permission to feel.

Once his feelings started flowing, Henry noticed the potency of his anger. “Even

the smallest things provoked it, like not being able to find my car keys. It would pass very
quickly, but it was there, and for about four months I had this heightened awareness of it.”

This was the behavior pattern he had learned from his father-to become enraged when he

felt unsafe.

The Full Wave Breath enabled Henry to integrate his angry feelings and resolve

them. The anger, for example, has left him. While breathwork didn’t shift him completely

out of the mental realm and solely into feelings, it did give him balance and equilibrium.

His episodes of anger or fear or resentment became fewer. “I could see more rapidly what

was going on and process the feelings very quickly as they came up.”

Soon he was using Full Wave Breath techniques whenever uncomfortable feelings

came up. Henry went from a thirty-year smoking habit to two packs a day to two

cigarettes a day. Then stopped smoking completely. His blood pressure dropped slightly

from 110/76 to 110/64.

Today Henry feels incredibly at ease around other people, and his fear of being

judged is almost gone. His friendships are deeper than ever before because he feels “no

need to nurture them the way I would have in the past. They’re effortless.” He doesn’t

need to control people or events in his life anymore, and has no attachment to the

outcomes of his actions. This is a dramatic about-face from his earlier orientation. “The

Full Wave Breathwork got me out of my mind and into my heart,” he says, “and that was

where I needed to experience.”

For Henry, “The single most amazing thing about Full Wave Breathwork is that

the changes are just extremely rapid.” He believes many people are looking for something

to help them in their lives because “the classical techniques are not doing anything for

them. This will. I’m having a great time and it’s so effortless.”
 ²²²

Rose’s Miracle

Rose was sexually abused by her grandfather when she was three and a half years old and

also witnessed her sister being raped repeatedly. She spent the next thirty-five years suffering

from a myriad of physical ailments, beginning with asthma at age four and recurring anxiety and

panic attacks at fourteen. In her teens she developed allergies and severe pain with premenstrual

symptoms. She saw a chiropractor regularly for treatment of back pain. Exhausted and fed up

with these lifelong debilitating patterns, she sought answers outside of traditional medicine.

As an adult, Rose experienced the anxiety that had haunted her childhood. She didn’t trust

anybody, and felt inadequate and alone. Rose neither liked nor understood herself. “I didn’t know

who I was,” she says. Beneath all of her other disturbing feelings she was aware of a deep,

unrelenting sadness.

In 1991, she became terrified while taking a shower. The episode convinced her to get

help. “I decided that it was time to find out why I felt this way all the time.” Psychotherapy

enabled Rose to remember the rape incidents, and this helped her make sense of her continuing

pain.

Her chronic breathing problems seemed connected with unspoken feelings. “My sinus and

respiratory infections,” she says, “were my pain from all the unexpressed grief I was holding

inside, and my asthma came from needing to receive permission to speak about my childhood

experiences. I didn’t tell anyone-even my conscious self-about the rape for thirty-four years.”

Because she never expressed these powerful feelings, she was exhausted her whole life. “It takes a

lot of energy to block feelings.”

 While therapy gave Rose valuable insights, her feelings of sadness and anxiety persisted. In

June of 1993, after two years of therapy, she and her psychotherapist agreed that it was time to

end her treatment. “There was no point in continuing to talk about my problems. I still had this

grief in me, but we just weren’t able to dredge it up. It was time to do something else.”

Rose began Full Wave Breathwork in August. One of the reasons Rose tried TB was that

she hoped to alleviate her chronic breathing problems. In her initial breath session, she noticed a

significant improvement. Her lungs expanded to a volume that she had never experienced before,

and the constant pain in her upper back lessened considerably.

Rose felt so encouraged after one session that she stopped taking her asthma medication

and hasn’t resumed since. She estimates that she may have used her inhaler “once or twice since

then,” and not at all since the first four sessions of TB. She stopped taking antihistamines because

she no longer had sinus problems. She stopped taking antibiotics, over-the-counter remedies, and

all other medication in the fall of 1993. She no longer needed them, and in fact, they had

detrimental effects. “My mind felt like mush. I couldn’t get out of my own way the whole day.”

Today, Rose's outer world reflects her inner changes. Her health problems have virtually

disappeared. After being unable to work for two years due to illness and emotional instability, she

took a part-time job as an artist. She held the job until recently, when new career opportunities

opened for her.

Now Rose facilitates breathwork sessions for her clients as a Certified

Transformational Facilitator and travels nationally selling her original designs and teaching

needlework at American Cross-stitch festivals. Her confidence level has soared. “I never

could have done the things I’m doing now. I am crossing new frontiers."
Jake’s Voice

Jake was a ten-year-old stutterer referred for his anxiety about stuttering. In

speaking with Jake and his family, the breath coach discovered a child sensitive to

emotional criticisms and very timid in new situations. Jake lived with his grandparents and

interacted primarily with his grandmother. The grandfather was a considerably older

gentlemen who didn’t participate much in Jake’s life except for his opinions about the way

his grandson did things. There was no other family history explained except that Jake

began stuttering around age six when he entered school.

The breath coach observed that Jake’s stuttering patterns happened mostly at

home in the presence of his grandfather. Jake’s physical and emotional reaction to his

grandfather was to freeze and not be able to respond. The breath coach couldn’t determine

what it was about the grandfather-tone of voice, gruffness, stern face, curt attitude-that

became a stressor for Jake. What the breath coach did observe was that Jake caught his

breath and clammed up, then became anxious.

Jake had very little trouble learning the full wave of Full Wave Breathing. He saw

that he could immediately use it in school when he felt anxious about something, and begin

to do so on his own. The next step, applying it to his stuttering, became the real challenge.

The breath coach asked Jake what he loved the most, and he responded,

“the ocean.” One Saturday, Jake and his breath coach drove several hours to the beach to

practice Full Wave Breathing. Jake learned to inhale on the full wave breath, pause, and

then speak what he wanted to say. The coach took Jake to the beach where he would feel

free and uninhibited, and then slowly prompted him to combine his method of relaxation

with speaking.
 With practice, he became fairly proficient (with a 75 percent success rate) in

speaking to strangers while using the full wave breath to think about what he wanted to

say and then say it. The breath coach was enthusiastic and Jake caught that attitude.

The breath coach worked with Jake for a full year on a bimonthly basis. They

would breathe together, and Jake gained a friend he could speak to about his anxiety.

During that year, the breath coach visited Jake in his home; they breathed together there

until Jake could apply his technique to anchor fluid speech with his grandfather. It did

work with time and patience. And the breath tool, self esteem, and successful feelings will

last all of Jake’s life.

Stan’s Freedom

Stan, a forty-eight-year-old military flight instructor, spent most of his life fueled

by an intense need to excel in his career while ignoring his precarious health and family

problems.

He was an alcoholic who drank for more than twenty years before quitting with the

help of a twelve-step program in 1992. By that time his life had collapsed. He was

suffering from acute stress and recurring back problems. He was a two-and-a-half pack-a-

day smoker. His wife was sleeping with their foster son, and Stan's biological son had

become a cocaine addict. To add insult to injury, the military had banned him from flying

because of his drinking problem. Worst of all, Stan was unable to express any of the

intense feelings locked inside of him or change any of the behaviors that were dragging

him down.

All of that changed with the breath. The Full Wave Breath helped Stan stay sober.

His first session occurred a month after he stopped drinking. He had already tried to quit

several times, but one thing or another had always brought him back to the bottle after a

few days, a few weeks or sometimes just a few hours. When he tried TB he was making

an effort to work the twelve steps, but couldn't calm his mind or quiet his churning

feelings long enough to make any progress. He found in the breath a way to release the

feelings he had been suppressing his whole life, as well as a path to the deepest peace he

had ever known.

During the next eighteen months, through weekly and biweekly sessions, Stan

stayed sober, quit smoking, healed his back, and completely changed his diet. He won his

freedom from the compulsive behaviors that had ruled his past and learned to allow
feelings to play an important part in his life. He learned to accept himself without

judgment and found a deep connection with a higher power. His son now uses the breath

to aid in his own recovery from drug addiction.

Stan is flying again-literally and spiritually. Looking back on the journey he has

traveled through Full Wave Breathing Stan says, “Whatever it took to get me here, it's

been worth it.” He calls his transformation “absolutely miraculous.”

²²²

Linda’s Health

By the summer of 1996, Linda had experienced symptoms of Chronic Fatigue

Syndrome for a period of nearly six years. In 1994, she left a job as psychotherapist and

director of a program in Tucson providing therapy and mediation services for divorcing

families.

At the time of her resignation she felt very strongly that she had to leave her job,

even though the funding for her husband’s job was due to end in two months, and his

future employment was uncertain. But within three weeks of her resignation, her husband

found a job in Boulder.

“I came to Colorado naively believing that a year of simple rest would return me to

the state of health and activity that I had previously enjoyed,” Linda explains. “But two

years later, I was more exhausted-and more discouraged than I ever had been. I had tried

every treatment regime, supplement, rest, and therapy that I could find.”

Then she learned about Full Wave Breathing and attended a lecture where a

remarkable story of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome inspired her to try directed breathing.
“Something inside me knew that this was potent stuff,” she says, “that the breath was

connected to something very powerful-powerful enough to change my life. From there it

began: the individual sessions, Modules 1, 11, and 111, the Abundance class. And as a

facilitator assured me, ‘Step by step and breath by breath’-a new way of life. The modules

were a wonderful combination of solid information, movement, meditation and breathing.

The written materials were helpful in an unexpected way-it was enormously comforting to

see my own experiences in print.”

Linda says she believes that Full Wave Breathing has allowed her to choose health.

Shortly after starting a breathing program in September, 1996, she began working with a

doctor who believes many of the symptoms of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome could be treated

with oxidative IVs to oxygenate body tissue, reduce yeast imbalances, and reduce viral

activity.

After six months of Full Wave Breathing, her blood work (which reflects 12

hydrogen peroxide IVs, dietary changes, supplements and daily breath sessions) shows

significant changes: Candida blood levels decreased dramatically, liver function returned to

the normal range, HDL increased substantially, triglyceride levels dropped, and viral

activity appears to have greatly diminished.

There are no lab tests which clearly identify Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or its cure.

Although researchers are beginning to identify physical abnormalities, the routine lab work

of most individuals diagnosed with CFS is “normal.” But in Linda’s case, she says she has

“no doubt that there is now concrete evidence to support my perceived improvement. I

believe that in time, my body will once again support me in the way I am meant to be in

the world.”
 As a psychotherapist, Linda became very disenchanted with the limits of

psychology, and not knowing how to take it further, went into administration. She now

facilitates breathing with a very different approach. “I fell in love with my work-perhaps

for the first time,” she says. As for her experience with CFS, she reflects on it as a “period

of quiet, sacred space. It is a time for being and deepening in the most profound and

meaningful way.”

A’s Release

A was suffering from severe depression when she began Full Wave Breathing. Her

brother introduced her to a facilitator in 1995, and as A explains, “I knew my life was

about to change permanently. I breathed for harmony that first day (don’t ask what

prompted that one) and was granted a feeling of ‘connectedness’ to the universe that

lasted for two full hours. It was the most magnificent feeling of my life!”

Her first experience prompted her to schedule five more breathing sessions and

eventually attend a seminar. According to A, Full Wave Breathing enabled her to stop

taking antidepressant drugs and reclaim her life.

“From what little, admittedly, I have seen of people caught in the American

Medical Associations cycle of treatment for mental disorders,” she says, “I would say that

few people are able to remove themselves from the cycle with any real chance of

permanent success. Of the people I talked to while in a hospital, most were repeat

customers who felt that another visit was in their future. This was not acceptable to me.”

A emphasizes that she was not cured overnight by breathwork, and in fact, didn’t

like doing it, but knew she had to for her survival. But after attending a Full Wave

Breathing seminar was able to stop taking her medication completely.

 “Through breathwork and association with the people involved, I have been able

to identify my issues and slowly divorce myself from them, leading me to a happier

existence step by step,” A says. “I am pleased to say that I have finally gotten to the point

where I look forward to my breath sessions and breathe just about daily.”

A man who released suicidal tendencies, a woman who stopped drinking and

abusing drugs, and a child who found his voice-these are some of the remarkable stories of

personal transformation from the International Breath Institute. Many more are being lived

every day.

Future of Full Wave Breathing

The American public will be well served by a national information program on the

benefits of directed breathing and Full Wave Breathing in particular.

Professionals and individuals concerned about the health of themselves and their

families are likely adopters of directed breathing techniques. The types of professionals

who are likely to use breathwork include chiropractors, massage therapists, doctors,

respiration therapists, psychotherapists, social workers, teachers and child care providers..

More controlled research and the use of breathwork with specific physical and

mental conditions is greatly needed, along with a systematic categorization of breathwork

therapies. Comparisons and contrasts of techniques and suggested applications would be

extremely useful to all who are exploring ways to better oxygenate their bodies and

improve their health.

 Complete instruction for this amazing process, articles and a free monthly
newsletter are available at www.internationalbreathinstititue.com
Instruction
How to Perform Full Wave Breathing

Full Wave Breathing is a natural, drug-free, and dramatically effective way to

experience health, joy and aliveness that mobilizes and supports your progression toward

balance and wholeness. It is a method which accelerates and complements modern

healthcare and treatment practices. Use it to inspire yourself so you can inspire others!

The Single Most Important Exercise is Full Wave Breathing

There are 3 Steps, simple as A B C: Abdomen, Belly, and Chest. First, breathe into

the lower abdomen and keep your focus there until you can comfortably fill and relax that

area of the body. Use your muscles to expand your lower abdomen, beginning at the top

or your pubic bone.

Second, after filling the abdomen (A) shift your focus to your entire belly (B) or

midsection, stretching and distending your diaphragm and ribs as you inhale. Relax

everything as you exhale. Use your muscles to push out the lower abdomen, then expand

the area just above.

Third, filling A & B, shift your focus to your chest (C) and above. Having

expanded the lower portions of the body, stretch up into the chest and back. Make all of

your physical movements gentle and slow. All the movement to become very subtle and

gentle as you alternately inhale and exhale without pause.

You may find it more comfortable to begin with distinct movements of your body.

Allow the process to become like a dance of movement from bottom to top, top to
bottom. Later, allow your body to remain completely relaxed as you visualize the

movement of energy through you.

Repeat often for the most dramatic results. Read below for more detail.

Step One of Full Wave Breathing

Place one hand on the abdomen below the navel and the other on the chest. As you

inhale, hold the chest still; allowing the abdomen to expand as if you is filling a balloon.

Stretch and extend the lower belly. Relax completely into an inhale at the point where the

abdomen is distended fully and the lungs are filled. After exhaling, inhale immediately. The

chest does not move at all.

Continue breathing with no pause between inhales and exhale. All of the emphasis

is upon your inhale. The exhale is a release of the tension created during your inhale. So

you will Inhale and relax...inhale...and relax. Continue as you read this instruction to see

how simple it is to perform. Breathe through your nose or mouth as you desire. You

increase oxygenation by over 50% when you breathe through your mouth because of the

normal restriction in nostril breathing.

Close your eyes as you are breathing and then relax for a few minutes when you

are done. Allow your breathing to normalize before continuing with your activities. You

may perform this exercise while sitting at the computer, riding in the car, or even watching

television. Start practicing this exercise today and you'll be pleased with your result!

To help you stay focused on your breathing, place a book or weighted bag on your

lower abdomen when lying down and performing the exercise. If you are sitting, to keep
your spine erect, imagine that a rope is attached to the middle of your head. The rope rises

into the air. In your imagination, allow the rope to gently lift you up until your spine is

erect. Sit straight, be open, and breathe.

Step Two of Full Wave Breathing

Continue breathing with no pause between inhales and exhale. Inhale and

Relax...Inhale...and Relax.

Count 1 as you inhale and expand your lower abdomen in Step One. Count 2 as

you lengthen your inhale and push out the middle of your torso at the solar plexus.

Release tension and allow the body to exhale and repeat. Perform this exercise anytime to

relax. Do not perform connected breathing when driving or operating machinery.

When lying down, place a pillow under your knees, not under your neck. When

sitting, allow yourself to stretch and open your spine as you sit and breathe.

Close your eyes as you breathe and then relax for a few minutes when you are done.

Allow your breathing to normalize and return to your tasks.

Step Three of Full Wave Breathing

Continue breathing with no pause between inhales and exhale. Inhale and

relax...Inhale...and relax.

Count 1 as you inhale and push out your lower abdomen. Count 2 as you raise the

breath and energetic focus to your solar plexus. Count 3 as you move your breath and

muscular focus up into your chest, stretching your intercostal muscles, shoulders and back
of the neck. Relax completely when you exhale, allowing the muscles to soften. There is

no effort or tension involved in your exhale.

Close your eyes as you breathe and then relax for a few minutes when you are

done. Allow your breathing to normalize before continuing with your activities. Perform

this exercise anytime you are sitting passively to provide a quick and effective energy

boost and relaxation.

Keep your spine straight if sitting and allow to your body to move as you breathe

and relax. Feel the wave of inhale as air enters your body and the wave of exhale as it

leaves. Increase the volume of air and pace of breathing and feel how it affects your

experience.

Since resolving stress at the cellular level is below our awareness, there are times

when the breathing is accompanied by laughing or crying as old chemistry breaks up.

Simply keep breathing! Allow your body any movement that arises and remember to relax

fully when you exhale, softening all your muscles. Continue breathing at your own pace,

deeply and fully.

Maintain your own pace and be willing to experiment. Your pace will normally

change from day to day and during a session of Full Wave Breathing. Playing music as you

breathe helps keep you focused in a gentle rhythm. The Cosmic Waltz, offered by Inspired

Living, is the best I know of for this purpose. It focuses on the heart center and expands

relaxation throughout the body.<FON

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Email him at: thomasgoode@earthlink.net

All material herein is presented as information only and should not be constructed as

medical advice or instruction. Readers should consult with appropriate licensed health care

providers on any matter relating to their health. The information provided is believed to be

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