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Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Jim Leonard (June 2, 1955 – September 23, 2008) was an American teacher, author and an early pioneer of modern day Breathwork. He was the originator of Vivation and author of three books and numerous articles on human potential. Jim did not consider Vivation "Breathwork," although others have classified it as such. Jim considered Vivation a form of yoga. The focus of Vivation is on maintaining an attitude of curiosity and enjoyment of the sensations in the body, rather than a judgment of the sensations or suppression of the sensations in the body. Like with yoga, it is important in Vivation to not hold the breath as you monitor the sensations in the body. Like yoga, paying attention to the sensations in the body in an open, interested gentle way will lead your body to heal many physical and emotional wounds and connect you to peaceful, deep places inside yourself often referred to as spiritual. Yoga focuses on noticing the sensations that happen in the body when muscles are engaged and the body is put through its range of motion. In Vivation, the muscles of the body are totally relaxed. The focus in yoga is keeping the breath comfortable and relaxed and not forced or suppressed. It is the rate of the breath is flexible in Vivation, not the body. In both Vivation and yoga, it is important to not hold the breath. In yoga holding the breath makes the physical activity hard so that you can't focus on sensations in the body. In Vivation holding the breath makes it impossible to notice the sensations which is the goal for tapping into the healing properties of both yoga and Vivation. This is why deep slow breathing to relax in some circumstances has a paradoxical affect on some emotionally stressed people. It causes unpleasant emotional sensation (emotions) to become stronger and thus they become overwhelmed. The only requirement for the breath in Vivation is that you don't hold your breath and you focus on breathing in. This means the in breath and the out breath are continuous without pauses. Faster and deeper breathing increases the strength of sensations, and slower and deeper breathing increases the strength of sensations, and faster and shallower breathing decreases the strength of the sensations to make them more tolerable if they are uncomfortable. We all know that we intuitively breath deep and slow in order to take in beautiful scenery and feel the wonderful sensations in our body. People with anxiety hyperventilate in order to avoid feeling. Their rapid breathing and focus on the exhale, causes their carbon dioxide in their blood to fall below normal, their body gets numb and hurts, and eventually if they don't stop this breathing pattern, they just pass out and the body takes over the breath and they stop hyperventilating. Focusing on expiration in Vivation, and ordinary life, or while doing yoga, leads to suppression of sensations. In normal life, our left brain judges sensation and comes up with conclusions about whether they are safe or not to feel with the help of mirror neurons and other places and systems in the brain. If the sensation is suppressed and not felt completely, the left brain makes up the best reasons to not feel the sensations it can think of and those made up reasons come back to us as unwanted negative cognitions. The way that the most advanced mind keeps these unwanted negative cognitions in our unconscious is with the breath. When we want to suppress sensations that are felt in response to an unpleasant stimulus, either internal or external, we unconsciously shift into unconscious breath which is mostly expiration leading to a holding of the breath with minimal sips of breath in until we feel safe enough to begin breathing in feeling sensations again. In unconscious breathing the focus is on expiration, and not inspiration. Vivation uses conscious breathing focusing on inspiration. To test this hypothosis, all you have to do is to try to continuously focus on consciously breathing in at any rate and depth, except slow and shallow, and you will find yourself shifting into unconscious breathing in order to avoid the sensations that come up that your left brain does not want you to feel. If you force yourself to do it, you will start to feel more and more uncomfortable body sensations that will force you to go into unconscious breathing, unless you know how to shift out of the left brain and into the right brain and that is what Vivation does by teaching you to focus on inhale, relax, feel sensations, focus on some truth that brings a positive sensation in the body that the left brain will eventually recognize and then integration will occur. A neuro-pathway will occur with the integration from the suppressed sensation to the sensation that the left brain recognized as true and with that integration the suppressed sensation will be felt and endorphins somehow are released, a real truth is discovered by the mind, and the session ends with laughter, feelings of well being, and joy. The Viver will be unaware of the truth discovered by the mind, because Vivation is not about paying attention to the thoughts of the mind. Vivation is about paying attention and making peace with feelings in the body. When that happens there is a positive shift in the way the Viver feels about the sensations in their body. Integrations feels great. In Vivation, we don't need to know what it is about, but we change in positive ways as we relate to life in different ways with every integration that occurs.The purpose of the "breathwork" of Vivation is to help us feel sensations more completely.. }

• Jim_Leonard_(Vivation) abstract "Jim Leonard (June 2, 1955 – September 23, 2008) was an American teacher, author and an early pioneer of modern day Breathwork. He was the originator of Vivation and author of three books and numerous articles on human potential. Jim did not consider Vivation "Breathwork," although others have classified it as such. Jim considered Vivation a form of yoga. The focus of Vivation is on maintaining an attitude of curiosity and enjoyment of the sensations in the body, rather than a judgment of the sensations or suppression of the sensations in the body. Like with yoga, it is important in Vivation to not hold the breath as you monitor the sensations in the body. Like yoga, paying attention to the sensations in the body in an open, interested gentle way will lead your body to heal many physical and emotional wounds and connect you to peaceful, deep places inside yourself often referred to as spiritual. Yoga focuses on noticing the sensations that happen in the body when muscles are engaged and the body is put through its range of motion. In Vivation, the muscles of the body are totally relaxed. The focus in yoga is keeping the breath comfortable and relaxed and not forced or suppressed. It is the rate of the breath is flexible in Vivation, not the body. In both Vivation and yoga, it is important to not hold the breath. In yoga holding the breath makes the physical activity hard so that you can't focus on sensations in the body. In Vivation holding the breath makes it impossible to notice the sensations which is the goal for tapping into the healing properties of both yoga and Vivation. This is why deep slow breathing to relax in some circumstances has a paradoxical affect on some emotionally stressed people. It causes unpleasant emotional sensation (emotions) to become stronger and thus they become overwhelmed. The only requirement for the breath in Vivation is that you don't hold your breath and you focus on breathing in. This means the in breath and the out breath are continuous without pauses. Faster and deeper breathing increases the strength of sensations, and slower and deeper breathing increases the strength of sensations, and faster and shallower breathing decreases the strength of the sensations to make them more tolerable if they are uncomfortable. We all know that we intuitively breath deep and slow in order to take in beautiful scenery and feel the wonderful sensations in our body. People with anxiety hyperventilate in order to avoid feeling. Their rapid breathing and focus on the exhale, causes their carbon dioxide in their blood to fall below normal, their body gets numb and hurts, and eventually if they don't stop this breathing pattern, they just pass out and the body takes over the breath and they stop hyperventilating. Focusing on expiration in Vivation, and ordinary life, or while doing yoga, leads to suppression of sensations. In normal life, our left brain judges sensation and comes up with conclusions about whether they are safe or not to feel with the help of mirror neurons and other places and systems in the brain. If the sensation is suppressed and not felt completely, the left brain makes up the best reasons to not feel the sensations it can think of and those made up reasons come back to us as unwanted negative cognitions. The way that the most advanced mind keeps these unwanted negative cognitions in our unconscious is with the breath. When we want to suppress sensations that are felt in response to an unpleasant stimulus, either internal or external, we unconsciously shift into unconscious breath which is mostly expiration leading to a holding of the breath with minimal sips of breath in until we feel safe enough to begin breathing in feeling sensations again. In unconscious breathing the focus is on expiration, and not inspiration. Vivation uses conscious breathing focusing on inspiration. To test this hypothosis, all you have to do is to try to continuously focus on consciously breathing in at any rate and depth, except slow and shallow, and you will find yourself shifting into unconscious breathing in order to avoid the sensations that come up that your left brain does not want you to feel. If you force yourself to do it, you will start to feel more and more uncomfortable body sensations that will force you to go into unconscious breathing, unless you know how to shift out of the left brain and into the right brain and that is what Vivation does by teaching you to focus on inhale, relax, feel sensations, focus on some truth that brings a positive sensation in the body that the left brain will eventually recognize and then integration will occur. A neuro-pathway will occur with the integration from the suppressed sensation to the sensation that the left brain recognized as true and with that integration the suppressed sensation will be felt and endorphins somehow are released, a real truth is discovered by the mind, and the session ends with laughter, feelings of well being, and joy. The Viver will be unaware of the truth discovered by the mind, because Vivation is not about paying attention to the thoughts of the mind. Vivation is about paying attention and making peace with feelings in the body. When that happens there is a positive shift in the way the Viver feels about the sensations in their body. Integrations feels great. In Vivation, we don't need to know what it is about, but we change in positive ways as we relate to life in different ways with every integration that occurs.The purpose of the "breathwork" of Vivation is to help us feel sensations more completely.".