ONSITE Opening To Consciousness Through Breathing w/ Dr Diane Hamrick

**1:30 -2:30 pm (EST), Every 2nd & 4th Tuesday at bliss, 1007 Johnnie Dodds Blvd, The Mezzanine Suite 228 in Mt. Pleasant.** #### **When bliss connections & experiences nourish your soul, please consider making a donation at [givetobliss.com](http://givetobliss.com). Thank-you for your continued friendship & support.** When we turn our attention inward, withdrawing from the outer world, to focus on our breathing we enter the mind-body where heart and soul can be accessed without fear, favor, judgment or prejudice. So often we keep ‘hidden’ our true feelings and thoughts, wishes and fears, and consequently miss knowing our truer self or SoulSelf. This lack of experience keeps our identity of ourselves in the grips of the False Self (who I think/fear I am). Conscious breathing relaxes our fears’ grip on the unknown interior life and gently opens our hearts and minds to making contact with our truth/True Self, our unspoken thoughts and dreams. In this one-hour class you will never be asked to share your experiences, unless you want to, but bring pen and paper to take notes. The Authentic Self is where our autonomous agency, Free Will/Won’t can be found. And because there is no separation in truth/integrity (“Nothing real can be threatened; nothing unreal exists.” From ACIM) we can let the truth come into our hearts and minds without the False Self needing to maintain its defenses against our imagined fears. And remembering that we are the ‘meaning-makers’ in our lives, we retain our ‘authority’ on the meaning, significance, validity of our experiences. Pierre Teillhard de Chardin (1881- 1955), French Jesuit, Catholic priest, scientist, paleontologist, philosopher, mystic and teacher, postulated that we are entering an evolutionary stage in our development as a sentient species that is dominated by consciousness, the mind, and interpersonal authenticity and integration of all previous levels of geological, biological, human and technological activities into a new…