Spiritual Importance of Breathing
According to various priests, monks, masters, teachers, pursuers, researchers, etc. of Japanese Buddhism, shintoism, spiritualism, etc. breathing is the key to keeping and promoting health.
Some of them say that men can get energy in the universe into their bodies through deep and repeated breathing to fill their lungs and abdomen. Indeed, they have proposed various ways of deep breathing based on their own theories. Some historical Buddhist monks who launched their own schools of Japanese Buddhism are said to have practiced special breathing to get enlightenment. Even today, some health specialists recommend an abdominal type of respiration where air is slowly taken through the nose and led to the lower part below the navel and then spewed out more slowly from the nose or mouth.
It is said the most important nutrition to human cells is oxygen. Especially it is said that the human brain consumes about 25% of all the oxygen taken in through breathing. Indeed, oxygen from breathing and glucose sugar from the liver are needed for our brains to work and function normally.
A Japanese medical doctor, called Nobuo Shioya who had practiced special breathing for decades, did not show mountain sickness when he climbed up the Himalayas at his age of 74 in 1990s while other climbers, younger than he, in his group all suffered altitude sickness. So, he confirmed the effect and advantage of his method of breathing. Cells in his body must have been filled with oxygen due to his breathing method.
Anyway, importance of oxygen to the human body has been confirmed in this period of the corona-pandemic. Oxygen inhalers have played the key role in medical treatment of corona-virus infected patients.
But, what should be noted is Shioya's theory for recommending deep breathing: Energy in universe, which should be regarded as spiritual energy, can be taken into one's body through deep breathing. He thinks that some mysterious energy surely fills the universe, although he had been educated in the University of Tokyo. Some yoga masters often study and practice traditional breathing by which they believe that they can take in universal energy into their bodies to enhance their super-natural ability. Even the Buddha is said to have practiced a special way of breathing, so that he could live up to 80 years 2,500 years ago. Shioya lived up to 105 years old and died in 2008, while writing about 10 books about his method of breathing and thoughts. Shioya thought that his health had been realized by his specific breathing; he became an age shooter in playing golf a few times at his 90s of his age.
Shioya did not have specific spiritual ability but he encountered some super-natural phenomena in his life such as falling of gold powders from the air in his clinic or spiritual communications with a great priest of Japanese shintoism who had been living more than 1,000 years ago. So, he found that breathing is a way of connecting oneself to spiritual energy. If Shioya lived today, he should be free from the corona-pandemic. Indeed, if Queen Elizabeth II had practiced Shioya's method of breathing, she should have continued to live over 2022. In addition, he came to believe that he had been Lao-tze, a great Chinese thinker about 2,500 years ago, in one of his previous lives (In Japan, there were founders of new religions after WWII who claimed that they had been, each, once the Buddha in their former incarnation, although without concrete evidence). Although he had been a prestigious physician in Tokyo till the middle of 1980s since days before WWII, he was a great researcher of spiritualism.
Shioya believed the existence of spirits and the spirit world. So, he practiced a kind of hand healing and is said to have cured privately the Empress Kojun (a grandmother of the incumbent Emperor) of Showa Emperor decades ago. And, what occupied Shioya's mind was the coming crises of the earth such as WWIII. So, he recommended to practice his method of breathing with a notion and prayer that peace would prevail in the world. Indeed, while he was living, peace prevailed in Japan and WWIII did not happen.
According to Shioya, one's prayer to the God, etc. can be heard through its breading, although he was not Christian but a kind of followers of Japanese Buddhism and shintoism. Shioya thought that the human civilization had corrupted and gone rotten enough to make WWIII happen. Our civilization has contaminated the air of the earth so much that abnormal weather should come. Even pole shift would occur, he is afraid.
After death in this world, one's spirit needs not to breath in the spirit world. But, breathing might be a way of connecting oneself to the spirit world. Psychics might be unconsciously performing a special method of breathing when they are showing effects of their spiritual power.
So, the corona pandemic might have occurred to remind us of importance of breathing and oxygen to the human bodies and cells. We must be able to live longer and healthier through practicing specific breathing or especially Shioya's method of breathing (https://www.naturalscience.org/news/2020/03/the-healing-power-of-breath/).
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Matthew 9, King James Version
15 And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.
16 No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse.
17 Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
18 While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.
19 And Jesus arose, and followed him, and so did his disciples.