Dear Mike:
I would like to thank you very much. I am a changed person. I watched the video and did the first exercise; it was just what I needed. I sleep better, look better, and think better, all because of the video and #120 Better Breathing Exercise #1. I will try the others later. You are really doing some wonderful work. Is there an exercise for weight loss? I need to read more of the book, but I'm so busy right now. God bless you for the help; it's just wonderful. Thanks again,

-- Wanda Chafin

Long story short approximately 10 years ago described these symptoms to my doctor, adrenal surges, not being about to catch my breath, waking up at night many times gasping for air and feeling like I am suffocating. Was put on Zoloft or Paxil off and on for about 10 years. I would tell the doctors that I didn't feel depressed and really had no idea why these physical symptoms would happen to me and be so debilitating, but they just treat symptoms with meds. People would tell me, well just take a deep breath. OK, "I'll do that," I would say, but I could not seem to get a handle on being able to get a real breath when I'm suffering this panic and anxiety.

One fine day last October it finally dawned on me, I do not know really HOW to breathe! With all of the Yoga, meditation, bodywork, no one has been able to really teach me "HOW TO BREATHE." So I got on the WWW and said help!!! Punched in "breathing" and Wa La came "breathing.com" and Michael. Got Michael's tapes in his #210 Optimal Natural Breathing Kit.

#120 Better Breathing Exercise #1 was such a shock for me. What I mean is I had no idea there was a reflex action at the bottom of the exhale breath that actually "breathed your body." The shallow breathing that I was in the habit of doing had never allowed the development of that reflex action. So naturally, I'm waking up at night breath holding, panic stricken and clueless why this is happening. My body has been oxygen-starved and getting worse as I get older. EVEN THOUGH ALL OF THE CHILDHOOD ISSUES ARE WORKED OUT, GONE, DONE WITH, the old breathing habits had remained. I was not aware of something better.

#130 Better Breathing Exercise #2 was even more fantastic! The exercise uses what you have learned in tape #1 and gives you the tremendous tools and power over the physical disablement of being oxygen-starved and emotionally stressed.

Very soon after starting the tapes, I visited Michael for 6 days in North Carolina to get private instruction. I can only tell you all that it was the best thing I could have ever done for myself. I am now, of course, still practicing proper breathing (50 years of bad habits), off meds and have not awaked at night even once since starting the tapes and getting private instruction from Michael.

Again Michael, thank you a million times over for actually dedicating your life to helping people understand the importance of the breath and actually in detail showing how to really practice it.

-- Phyllis Ross

I have tried e-mailing this testimonial sometime in May, but somehow it never got through. Since then, my daughters have been urging me to send in my testimonial because of how much your breathing exercises have helped me "cure" my chest pains, shortness of breath and lower my blood pressure. So I am sending it in now hoping this does get through to you.

I need to thank God for leading me to your Web site back in March when I began experiencing mild to severe chest pains every night. I had gone through a full bottle of 30 nitroglycerine tablets within two weeks. My chest pains always occurred at night when I am going to bed, so much so, that I was afraid to go to bed. I need to explain something, Mike. Because of my past two open heart surgeries and heart problems, I am quite knowledgeable about the symptoms of a possible heart attack when you experience chest pains. In my case, I had just gone through an ultrasonic and a treadmill test in February. During the treadmill test, at the final stage, I complained to the attending nurse that she had to stop the treadmill because I was experiencing severe chest pains and was out of breath. She insisted I continue because the test is almost over, and I needed to go on just for another minute or so. Somehow I got through the run and nearly fainted, heaving and breathing rapidly.

Two weeks later when I returned to my cardiologist for the results of my test, the cardiologist stated that I had over 75% blockage on my right carotid artery and 50% blockage on my left carotid artery. He immediately recommended an angiogram to determine the actual extent of the blockage. After consulting with my wife, I decided to forego the angiogram and in fact vowed that I would not go through that invasive examination again. Right after that was when I started to experience my chest pains. However, as I mentioned to my wife, the chest pains that I was experiencing could not be heart-related but instead, I suspected it may be initiating from my lungs. After my treadmill test, I also started to cough out some mucous. Its color was pure white and not yellow or black so I felt that I may have a latent lung problem. After all, I am over 73 tears old. Besides during my chest pains, I did not experience any of the usual symptoms of a pending heart attack. I felt like I couldn't breathe, and the center of my chest hurt badly. The pain vanished after I slipped a nitro tablet under my tongue. My blood pressure was not low at the time, but it wasn't high either. Of course, I was frightened. I would get chest pains for two or three nights, then none on the next night, and then it started again. About that time, I read an article in our local newspaper about breathing. I went on the Internet, and I can't tell you how or why I selected your Web site. I spent all day reading the information on your site especially the testimonials. I ordered your Optimal Breathing package and received the tapes in early April.

Now, let me tell you what happened.

I started out on the middle of my living room floor, arranging some couch pillows on a towel on the floor. Didn't take me long to adjust myself on the floor and started with the Tibetan Caffeine tape. As God is my witness, by the time I was into the second half of the tape and into the exhale and inhale on a single bong strike, my right leg from my thigh to my feet felt like ice. I continued my breathing exercises and had my wife cover my legs with a blanket. I went through the entire exercise which took me nearly an hour that very first time. Mike, that night I did not have any chest pain. I did the same exercise twice the next day, once in the morning and then again before going to bed.

The second night, my chest pain returned, but this time instead of taking a nitro tablet, I went into the living room and sat on the edge of my couch and in the dark, started to breathe slowly. The chest pain slowly subsided, and after a few minutes it was gone, and I was able to go to bed. From that day on I have had no chest pains and have not taken a nitro tablet. This all happened in April after I started with your breathing exercises.

Today, I do breathing almost the entire day, mostly because subconsciously the breathing exercises are part of my daily routine. There is a lot more I can tell you about my health as a result of the breathing exercises I learned from you. My daughter who lives in Hawaii has just visited you in North Carolina, and I am grateful for the teaching and help you have given her. I have told my youngest daughter about the Tibetan Caffeine (#130 Better Breathing Exercise #2), and she too will be doing the healing breathing exercises herself. In closing, here is my email address, bobby7778@hotmail.com for anyone who is fortunate enough to find your Web site, they can contact me, and I would be happy to tell them how wonderful breathing the right way can be for them.

Aloha
-- Bruno Yim