{"id":1054,"date":"2025-11-23T13:28:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T10:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedivinelight.org.gr\/?post_type=publication&#038;p=1054"},"modified":"2026-03-21T20:18:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T18:18:06","slug":"magazine-issue-8-winter-2017","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/thedivinelight.org.gr\/en\/publication\/magazine-issue-8-winter-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue 8 &#8211; Winter 2017 &#8220;Breathing Exercises&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This magazine contains texts from our Publications, translated into English.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The current issue is devoted to breathing exercises, as described in the book \u201cCONCENTRATION &amp; SPIRITUALISM, Spiritualistic teachings by Gandhi\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Divine Light Texts are spiritual communications received by the Channel George Pisanis during the years 1961 &#8211; 1979. They are Teachings transmitted by the Highest Authority of the Spiritual World.<\/p>\n<p>The sketches at the front cover come from a collection of a visionary, late member of our Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exercise for the absorption of prana<br \/>\nGandhi<\/p>\n<p>My brethren, the exercises prescribed by the great teachers of the yogis are welcomed. However, these are difficult exercises for you to perform.  You will take the simplest of them. I give you now a simple breathing exercise. Its purpose is to gather the prana from the ether.<br \/>\nLie on your bed. Stay totally still and in a straight line. With your eyes closed, breathe in deeply and then exhale little by little in intervals. Each time you do that, you should have in mind the place of your body where you want prana to be deposited. You should start from your weakest parts.<br \/>\nThis exercise should be repeated often. After some time you will notice the difference in your organism. You should continue with this exercise accordingly until your bodily organs are strengthened.<br \/>\nThe yogis give such advices, which you are able to follow. I speak concisely because I don\u2019t want to make yogis out of you. I only wish to lead you to the upper levels of your development in the material world, facilitating at the same time your ascent to the Spiritual World. Only a few men were able to perform all these exercises. Were these people able, though, to exercise their spirit, as well? Therefore, the exercise is twofold: spirit and body for cultivation of the soul.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1051,"template":"","class_list":["post-1054","publication","type-publication","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","publication-category-magazines"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Issue 8 - Winter 2017 &quot;Breathing Exercises&quot; - Spiritualist Society of Athens &quot;The Divine Light&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thedivinelight.org.gr\/en\/publication\/magazine-issue-8-winter-2017\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Issue 8 - Winter 2017 &quot;Breathing Exercises&quot; - Spiritualist Society of Athens &quot;The Divine Light&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Exercise for the absorption of prana Gandhi  My brethren, the exercises prescribed by the great teachers of the yogis are welcomed. 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