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chest treasure
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image: Close your eyes. Breathe in and out three times. Release any concern for breathing constriction. Discover that your mind is full of treasures and allow yourself to, just this once, engage in a treasure hunt, seeking out the secrets in the mental undergrowth behind your own daily thinking. Let your mind return to your breath and discover that around, over, in between and under any interruptions or interference, there is the act of breathing, gathering to yourself, the wealth of life itself. Allow your mind to understand that this one act of exploring one's self, is a treasure beyond price. Take a moment to enjoy the satisfaction of possessing it. Allow yourself now, to take a long, well considered moment, to examine just why it is, that there have been restrictions, here within this treasure. Let all the answers come to you honestly, even those truths least likely to please you, or save your pride. Notice, that no matter how physical the problem or obstruction, there has always been an element of closing down, not wanting to breathe, holding on, resisting the emotions of the moment, the events of the moment, for the moment itself and as the list grows longer, you begin to laugh. It may start perhaps as a chuckle, or a giggle, or a single bark, hard to distinguish from a laugh, but it is laughter and it grows and you find yourself, laughing stronger, longer, more out of control and loudly, than you have ever remembered or could ever have imagined before now. Let the laughter continue, and feel it breaking up restrictions and coughing out obstructions for you from your chest. Allow yourself to laugh for as long as your chest of treasures, can use the help, even if it means that you can do nothing else of hours at a time, then when you have opened yourself to even greater riches than you have ever taken in before, allow your eyes to slowly open once again. (Chavez)

uses: asthma, bronchitis, emphysema, pneumonia


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