Breathe and Grow Rich

By Tom Goode

Breathe and Grow Rich is the result of over 30 years of research and results in private practice, workshops and seminars. It is about your health, wealth and joy. It offers new ideas, approaches and techniques to enrich your life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tom Goode
• Release date: May 15, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452443102

Tom Goode

Tom received a bachelor’s degree in commerce and finance from the University of Virginia in 1961 and a doctorate of naturopathy degree from The Clayton College in 1993. He received a Doctor of Divinity degree from the Compassionate Service Theological Seminary in 2007. He learned a great deal about health in recovering from polio at age 8 and a near fatal auto accident at age 16. Working in corporate America, his life changed radically at the age 38, when he was diagnosed with a terminal degenerative disease. Healing the condition naturally, Tom began a new phase of life, dedicating his life to helping others. His story was published nationally in Prevention magazine. Tom is the founder of the International Breath Institute and the Academy for Coaching Parents International. He is a dynamic workshop facilitator and inspirational speaker who has led fire walks, appeared on television and radio, taught college courses in intuitional development and presented workshops and seminars in the US and abroad for the last 30 years.

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Breathe

And

Grow Rich

Self-Care

Smashwords Edition

Linda Osga, LMT, CNC Tom Goode, ND, DD

© 2008, Thomas Goode

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Preface

If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life, as in hoping for another life, and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

—Albert Camus

Breathe and Grow Rich: Self-Care to Enrich Your Whole Life is a 21st century guide to enrich your life. It introduces Full-Wave Breathing™ that is, in the 20th Its underlying strategy of simultaneously stimulating and relaxing your entire system is simple to understand, easy to use and produces amazing results. It is an exercise for the whole person.Put Full-Wave Breathing to work in your life and you will find benefit. Will you get rich from money falling from the sky? Of course not, and how much better would you perform if you were at your best? The simple formula is: Do the work, get the benefit! The specific result, according to those who have done what this book suggests is individually appropriate. Likely you will find it refreshing and restoring leading to insight, ideas and resolution at all levels.

This natural method will help you feel better. If you already feel good, then prepare to feel great! Expect to think more clearly and feel calm and energized Breathe and Grow Rich is an invitation to experience breathing as you have never breathed before, and see how it works for you personally. Use your breath to control your brain and teach it to think the thoughts that produce the greatest benefit for you. Use your breath to harmonize your emotions and improve your relationship skills. Use your breath to stimulate your body’s natural regenerative power. Use your breath to de-stress and restore; and to be able to hear yourself think.

Full-Wave Breathing is an energetic approach to resolve life stressors stored in the mind/body system. It teaches you how to focus and master your thoughts in a daily practice while expanding your ability to embrace change and thrive in the face of increasing numbers of life stressors. Engage life by mastering your breathing. The Full-Wave Breathing solution has demonstrated its effectiveness in 30 years of group and individual sessions with the sick and the well, parents and children, athletes and elderly.

Breathe and Grow Rich could have also been titled Quantum Healing in the 21st Century. It is a long-overdue means to improve life on all levels. So let us together consider for whom this book is written:

For members of the baby boomer generation and all who expect to grow older and would prefer to do it in a positive frame of mind, body and spirit;

For Gen Xs and Ys who wonder what exactly is happening with the culture and social policies that lead to continuing difficulties with health and healing.

For the grandchildren of the present generation’s parents, that they might find the strength within to thrive in the face of growing numbers and increasing intensity of stressors;

For the chronically ill, that they might be able to lift themselves, find solutions, and gain both peace and comfort.

For the health-conscious seeker of practical solutions to ailments and advancing age.

And for the average person who has been told to prepare for an inevitable betrayal by the body, but is still open to experiencing an alternative future.

Be Well, Be Prosperous, Be Blessed,

Tom Goode, ND, DD

Introduction

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has. —Henry Ward Beecher

Breathe and Grow Rich is the result of over 30 years of research and results in private practice, workshops and seminars. It is about your health, wealth and joy. It offers new ideas, approaches and techniques to enrich your life. To recognize the connection between health, wealth and joy, let’s review some definitions as they apply to the book.

Rich—powerful, noble, productive;

Wealthy—possessing wellbeing; happy;

Wealth—abundance of resources;

Joy—the feeling of connection with all of life.

Most people say they want to be rich, and I want to make sure that is your goal—becoming a powerful, noble and productive person. Also, most people I know would like to be wealthy—possessing wellbeing and happiness. These two attributes exist as part of your greater joy and you will achieve these goals by using the Breathe and Grow Rich strategies.

My experience of health, wealth and joy comes both from my personal health problems and working with clients for 30 years. I worked with financially successful clients who were poor of spirit and bereft of joy. They demonstrated that having money, financial freedom, was not a guarantee of a rich life of optimal health or loving relationships. I sat with dying clients and watched joy shine through their eyes at the prospects of new adventure. They demonstrated their connection with their inner spirit. My clients, at various stage of disenchantment, learned to embrace their joy and found an inner peace. They dramatically improved the way they felt about their lives and their joy.

The Simple Truth

True wealth is our health, and without it, nothing else matters. The moment when Mark Victor Hansen, co-author of the best-selling Chicken Soup for the Soul series, uttered that truth in a conversation we had, he was summarizing my life’s mission: to restore people’s sense of connection, or joy, to their lives.

Remembering joy improves any situation you may face or struggle with because it provides a core resilience that you can always depend on. You will never feel alone again if you remain connected to joy, which you can remember by breathing in a certain way. Witness the results when people restore their reconnection to joy:

Improved health;

Increased harmony in their relationships;

Greater mental clarity;

Finding their purpose in living.

Health Means Holy

Health comes from the German, hilde, (hielida), meaning whole, wholesome, holy. The word addresses the interconnectivity of all parts: the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects of human life.

In my own quest for health, my life experiences with illness and dealing with medical systems and Medicare, I’ve utilized a little-known key to health that will make you feel better, do better and enrich your life. My credentials:

Recovered from polio (age 8), unable to walk.

Recovered from auto injury (age 16), compound fracture of left humerus, brain injury, paralysis from waist down on left side, lost all teeth, shattered jaw, crushed cheekbones, silver dollar sized chunk from roof of the mouth.

Mastered weight-rebounding (age 16), from 175 to 125 to 197 in 1 year, subsequently normalizing and remaining at 175 for most of my adult life. (presently 182).

Recovered from brain damage of left-frontal lobe from previous auto injury (age 21), would be aware of processing and not getting result; no ability to memorize—blessedly learned about mnemonics.

Recovered from nerve damage (age 23) to sciatic and peroneal nerve paralysis from dislocated hip of previous auto injury. Told I’d wear a footbrace for the rest of my life. Threw away the brace after a year and a half; limped for a couple of years while in pain but worked/walked out of the limp though I still cannot ice skate.

Recovered from depression (age 29) Hid in house for 6 months.

Recovered from endocrine failure (age 38), likely from 10-15 cups of coffee/day and prescription amphetamines.

That’s just the short version, and since those events, I’ve not had a cold or experienced any medical condition in the last 30 years. I now pass onto you what I have learned during the course of my adventures with the medical community. My hope is to spare you and your loved ones some of the inevitable pain and suffering that otherwise is waiting in your future: to relieve some of the discomforts you have with your present life and empower your richer and fuller life.

Over the last 30 years, I have become a filter of information about life riches, health and joy. Let me pass on 30 years of chasing such knowledge. In essence, all is energy and 90 percent of disease is stress-related.

When your mind and body are out of balance as an energetic whole, symptoms pop up. When the out-of-balance condition is corrected, the symptoms disappear—as if by magic. If they are not dealt with, there are more serious consequences. To care for your condition is the only loving thing to do.

Health Becomes Our Personal Responsibility

The average age of people in the United States is increasing, with those over 50 now representing the largest percentage of the population. In the younger ages, there is a 9000 percent increase in the incident of diabetes, a surge in heart disease and growing problems related to? obesity. Unless the current trends are interrupted, the medical system will continue toward eventual overload and collapse. Here is some recent data from the National Center for Health Statistics:

In 2003 Americans made 113.9 million visits to hospital emergency rooms, a 26 percent increase over 1993;

Hospital emergency departments decreased in number by about 12 percent during that period;

Sixty-two percent of American adults do not perform regular exercise of 10 minutes or longer duration;

Fifty-nine percent of Americans engage in no exercise activity at all.

The Downhill Trend

The US now ranks 22nd among industrialized nations in the longevity of its citizens, a figure that has been worsening the last two decades. Where are we headed in the US and the rest of the Western world with increasing pollution, decreasing nutrition and a decaying sickcare apparatus? In terms of simple logic, let’s recognize that if the traditional approach to personal health worked, we wouldn’t be in the situation in which we find ourselves with:

Medical insurance that is out of the reach of growing numbers;

A government that is unable to afford its expanding welfare;

Treatments that increase costs and may compromise, rather than contribute to, our health

What You Can Do

The solution to the predicted sick/care crisis rests with you. Your health is in your hands in the form of self-care. Self-care is a form of love that involves your receiving and using information and instruction on optimal functioning. Lifestyle modification, such as this book suggests, offers an effective remedy for many diseases including heart disease, type II diabetes, high blood pressure, and Alzheimer’s. You need only to know what to do. So here, in this book, is what you need to know and how to put it into practice to feel better, look better and do better.

What Is Needed

My friends and clients convinced me to write this book after years of seeing results in private practice and seminars. In Breathe and Grow Rich, you will discover breathing is the master key to unlocking your inner riches. It controls 85 percent of your physiology and reveals an inner reservoir of joy. Release that joy and you revolutionize your personal health. Just one tool, then, that I will teach you, can be used for the total wellbeing of your body, mind and spirit.

Simple Concepts

Use the tenets in Breathe and Grow Rich as a guide and let every day carry you forward into greater riches. Growing rich implies a process of unfoldment, progression and expansion in matters of health. Many think only of their physical health. Think instead of your energy system.

In the human energy system, all is connected; everything affects your health. A negative thought drags it down, a smile boosts it. In addition to mind and mood, the environment, work and your lifestyle create chronic stress that pulls at your mind/body. How can you keep yours operating at an optimal level?

The most significant exercise, supported as an evidence-based health practice, is deeper, effective breathing to lower your blood pressure, eliminate breathing problems, manage pain and feel more pleasure and resilience. Begin slowly because of stored stress and years of dysfunctional patterning. After a month you are well on your way.

Breathe and Grow Rich teaches you how to use Full-Wave Breathing as the single most important exercise for your health. In truth, if you did no other exercise but this one, you would still experience lasting benefits for your health. Full-Wave Breathing is a pathway to feelings of profound joy that enhance your health. Your breathing allows you to control your attitude and manage and master your stress. For the future, stressors in your life are more likely to grow than to shrink. Therefore, expand your breathing capacity to engage master stress resolution now. As you do so, you will learn to thrive instead of just survive, as you stimulate your natural healing capabilities and uncover your natural joy.

Full-Wave Breathing reveals your joy to you, the feeling of unity with, and connection to, all of life. Most of us experienced joy as a child when we laughed freely and had spontaneous moments of play. Gradually, as we learned to focus our intellect on the concrete world, we lost touch with the joy that is still inside. How would you like to reconnect with and expand your joy to enrich your life in all good ways? By reading Breathe and Grow Rich and practicing Full-Wave Breathing you will have joy.

At the smallest level, every cell is alive, tuned into the cellular communication network throughout your body. Bring joy into each one, and the cell relaxes and renews itself. You are able to rest more easily. Then, in a relaxed state, you don’t take your emotions so personally, seeing them as energy in motion.

Breathe and Grow Rich also contains exercises for your emotions. You learn how to identify emotions and safely feel and express them to produce harmony and balance. You’ll also learn how to best treat yourself—how to be more loving toward yourself and others. Healthy relationships enrich us in many ways, including increasing our longevity.

How much life would you like to have in your years? If you would like to have a livelier and longer life, Breathe and Grow Rich provides what you need to know to:

Regain control of your life and health

Improve your performance and satisfaction in your personal and commercial life

Live with a greater sense of inner peace and connection to Life itself.

Many people have sought answers to questions about their health, only to encounter outmoded tried and un-true, solutions for their effort. The techniques, exercises, tips and tools in Breathe and Grow Rich have been successfully used by every-day people to enrich their lives. You’ll read some of their amazing stories and first-hand testimonials. These methods will work for you too, having been tested over 30 years in worldwide workshops and private practices. The utilization of these techniques provides you with a revitalization of your mind-body system. You will achieve greater influence and control over your health.

Virtually all medical practitioners agree that the body heals itself. So creating the optimal conditions for it to do so is using good, common sense to have control and choices over your own condition.

The information presented in Breathe and Grow Rich differs from the traditional approach or what you already know. Does it work? Yes, because it considers the energetic nature of the mind body system. More than an exploration of theory, however, the book provides practical, everyday answers for the stresses, struggles and strains. In addition to the premier mind-body tool using your breath to resolve stress-related symptoms, you are given emotion-based and mental tools such as:

Active imagery

Intentions

Affirmations

Journaling

Conscious Course-Correction (a new breathing technique described below)

CARE prescriptions at the ends of some of the chapters.

The methods employed are effective, promote no particular dogma, and can be taught and used by everyone. Parents will also find these methods useful for assisting their children and extended family.

If joy is the juice of life, attracting wealth and a boon to health, having more of it in your world is a good thing. So, forget, for a moment about the sick-care system, medical problems and predicted doom, and focus on you.

Would you be willing to take a different approach; one that has worked for others and could work well for you? Would you be willing to use your life as a laboratory to discover for yourself how you can live differently, better, and have more energy and fun doing it? If you can do this, you are going to be extremely grateful amazed at what happens in your life enrichment.

There you find more stories of growth and healing, and overcoming what were called impossible conditions. You will read about amazing health breakthroughs and improvements, plus have access to free downloads and more ideas for your benefit.

Linda, my co-author, and I make it simple and easy for you. Take a new road in life, one that leads to joy. The ideas that are presented in Breathe and Grow Rich come from centuries of experience, the latest sciences and real results from real people. It is my joy to share them with you.

It will be your joy that you recall, experience and empower as you make this simple yet profound practice part of your life. Allow your joy to enrich your life and love yourself into greater health.

Tom Goode, ND, DD

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.

Willing is not enough; we must do.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Linda: Awakening to My Joy

This book, Breathe and Grow Rich, is your guide to feeling incredible, a workbook for expanding awareness, and an unparalleled health resource. If there were only one book that I would recommend to my clients, family or friends, this is it! You have never read a book like this before. It holds nothing back in telling you what you need to know to rapidly improve your life physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. Let me provide a little background for you.

For a long as I remember, I’ve have been on a diet regimen, exercised religiously, and watched what I did to protect my health, maintain my appearance and support my spiritual search. It has taken a lifetime, thus far, to learn methods that provide results and make true health easier for those who come to me for assistance.

For twenty-three years, I’ve been a licensed massage therapist with a successful practice in Rhode Island. Along with being a nutritional consultant and Full-Wave Breath™ Facilitator, I am also a certified yoga instructor and a student of its practices for over twenty years. I have also shared my expertise as an educator to massage and