Uncontrolled stress ignites a take-off into the empty breath. It syncs the discomfort from the low-frequency world of the outward-facing senses with the easiness in the high-frequency world of the inward-facing senses. Hence, you feel relaxed when stressed.

From Duality Hack #9.1 in Alexius’ Duality Hacks.

This Duality Hack introduces the outward and inward-facing senses. You perceive the latter as within and abstract, the former as without and material. However, their sensory systems are the same. These senses are not similar to the physical and psychological areas (see Duality Hack #7.3), which are the brain’s differentiation of physical and non-physical matters in the world of the outward-facing senses. Read more about the outward and inward-facing senses in Duality Hack #9.8.

To ignite a take-off into the empty breath

Success or failure in the world of the outward-facing senses tends to speed up thoughts and feelings. You can settle the unrest by joining the duality flow described in Duality Hack #8.9. Being in that flow makes it comfortable to appear as someone in a world of duality while hacking it. However, if you prefer to resolve the stress by taking a break from duality, this Duality Hack (#9,1) is for you. If so, you go with the raw energy of unsuppressed stress until its unbound energy ignites a take-off into the empty breath.

The ignition takes just a second. Then, the empty breath syncs the substantial world of the outward-facing senses with the abstractness of the inward-facing senses. Thus, the speediness of stress in the low-frequency world of the outward-facing is viewed in the high-frequency world of the inward-facing senses, where it does not seem disturbing but soothing. Accepting this synchronisation, hectic thoughts or feelings in the world of the outward-facing senses always feel relaxing. 

Where is the empty breath 

It has taken the brain one second to produce your current experience of reading this in a world outside you. Therefore, if you go back one second, you get the unprocessed version of reading this now – at least theoretically speaking.

However, none of our experiences rendered by the brain rest on information from the sensory system. According to science, the brain receives nothing because the world consists of empty space, including the brain. But it hides that by twisting empty space into an experience of something tangible that someone substantial has now.

Since that takes the brain one second, and the empty breath is in the unprocessed nothingness, you join it by going back one second to the nothingness of your present experience. A split second before you reach nothing, you see the abstract world of the inward-facing senses. It is the brain’s first attempt to turn nothing into something. Then, it uses a second more to twist the abstractness into your current experience of being someone substantial in the tangible world of the outward-facing senses reading this.

The less you know, the easier it is to ignite a take-off into the empty breath

When you connect with the empty breath in the nothingness unprocessed by the brain, with eyes wide open, you experience a distanced version of the world of the outward-facing via the inward-facing senses.

You do not need to understand the explanations about the inward and outward-facing senses to connect with the empty breath. After all, they are not real but conceptual constructions that explain the impossible, namely that the brain creates something from nothing. Nor do you have to recognise that you are brought back one second in linear time to connect with the empty breath. On the contrary, the less you know, the easier it is.

You simply connect with the empty breath by not doing anything about how you feel. Since its unedited energy ignites a take-off into the empty breath, you are in the bliss of nothing in one second.

In other words, you must be willing to go with the rapid flow of chaos to ignite the empty breath. If you are not ready for that, you acknowledge it. Not denying your fear of the unknown does not seem to have the power to hold you back. So off you go into the unknown.

Unedited issues ignite a take-off into the empty breath

Any unedited tension in the body or psyche ignites a take-off into the empty breath – like the flow of erotic energy builds up and explodes in ecstasy. And unedited depression explodes in anger, igniting a take-off into the empty breath. You can also use music to set the explosive mood. For example, All Will Surely Burn from the album Burn by Sons Of Kemet’s.

However, tensions and emotions in the low-frequency world of the outward-fencing senses do not magically disappear when you connect with the empty breath. Nevertheless, they do not seem disturbing because the empty breath syncs them with the high-frequency work of the inward-facing senses, which does not worry about something.

That does not mean you should stop taking medicine for a headache. The pills may help you relax, so you do not try to escape the fear of bodily pain but use it to ignite a take-off into the empty breath.

The experience of the empty breath 

The take-off into the empty breath may be experienced as a pleasant explosion of accumulated thoughts and feelings at the top of the head, expanding them with nothing, thus igniting the empty breath.

That could result in experiencing the operator of the empty breath. Or perhaps the swing of the empty breath – or one of the other ways described in Duality Hack #9.4. However, since the connectedness with the empty breath is a state of not-knowing, one is hardly aware of one’s experiences. That is why the descriptions of the empty breath in Duality Hack #9.4 mostly rest on the memories popping up when Alexius returns from a state of not-knowing to the conscious experience of being someone.

There is no right way to feel the empty breath. You may not feel it at all because its main attribute is indifference, which is not a feeling (see Duality Hack #9.5). However, not feeling hunted by stress is a big relief.

After reading the above, you may feel confused about how to connect with the empty breath. If so, please do not try to fix the disorientation. Instead, remain in the complex energy of confusion until it ignites a take-off into the empty breath, and you cannot help but smile.

If you still need clarification and feel disconnected from the empty breath, check the following hacks in Duality Hack #9.1-10.