Breath is Life

Dear Friends,

This time we would like to ask your attention for the breath again, who clearly stands central in Sufism. Breath is life, is life itself. Being aware of the breath stimulates a good health.

“There are germs and impurities, but there are also elements to purify them. Those five elements, earth, water, fire, air, and either, as spoken of by the mystics, do not only compose germs, but can also destroy them, if one only knew how one could make use of those five elements to purify one's body with them and also one's mind. As there is need of sun and water for plants to grow, so there is need of the five elements for a person to keep in perfect health.

These five elements he breathes according to his capacity of breath. But by breath every person does not attract the same properties; for everyone attracts from the breath elements according to his particular constitution. One attracts more fire element in his breath, another more water element, and a third attracts more earth element. Sometimes one receives an element, which one does not require. Besides, the sun currents have a greater healing power than anything else.

A person who knows how to breathe perfectly, who is attracting sun currents into his body, can keep the body free from every kind of impurity. No microbes of destruction can exist if the sun currents can touch every part of the body, which is within, and that is done by the breath”. 


The Sufi Message, Volume IV, Healing and the Mind World, Part 1-Health

We wish you all a very healthy life.

With our Heartiest Greetings,
Sattva van Dorssen, Secretary of the Spiritual Healing Activity
Shamsher van Hees, Assistant Secretary, Spiritual Healing Activity