BreakThrough Articles

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Articles

  • Discover Your Inner Detective by Esther Veltheim

    In BreakThrough, BodyTalk and MindScape we rely on two key elements: Curiosity and our Inner Detective. This is because our work is all about searching for clues; about exploring. But how do we make the most of this detective work?
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    Feb 13, 2024

  • IBA Classes Support Harmony by IBA Office

    For many of us, the mind is often experienced as a messy, obsessive cluster of contradicting desires, thoughts, needs and impulses. What are we to do? The IBA offers multiple tools that support harmony of mind.
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    Sep 12, 2023

  • Our Self-Imposed Prison by Esther Veltheim

    If you have taken a BreakThrough class you might have experienced the power of exercises that shed light on the habit of assuming. For those of you unfamiliar with BreakThrough, here is a simple exercise to try for yourself: Keeping a note pad on hand, for half an hour make a note, maybe with numbers or ticks, each time you realize you have made an assumption. The first time I did this exercise and tallied my number of assumptions, the result was horrifying. At the same time, I was struck by the extraordinary potential of such a simple act of observing.
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    Jul 15, 2016

  • Are We Really Different? by Terryann Nikides

    Culture creates the illusion of being special. We say that we want to experience oneness and join groups, cultures, and religions that we feel understand us, unify us, and support us. We make mass cultural assumptions that we think are fundamental truths that separate and divide us. These divisive attitudes stem from our insecurities and the need to assuage them. What do we truly need as humans?
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    Jan 06, 2016

  • PaRama Campus - free access until year's end by IBA

    Don't Miss the Opportunity to Receive Free Unlimited Access to Parama Campus Through the End of 2015!
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    Oct 10, 2015

  • IBA web site change by IBA

    Today, June 5th, we have made a change to the web site that we hope you like.
    As I am sure you know, our web site contains a lot of useful information but it is sometimes "hard to see the forest for the trees". This change centralizes all your pertinent membership activity on one page e.g. membership overview, course and order summary, with links to the other pertinent pages should you desire the details.
    We hope you find this change useful.
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    Jun 05, 2015

  • My BreakThrough Experience by Katherine Sellery

    I didn't really know what I was getting into when I went to my first Breakthrough course. Now that I have attended the class 12 times I can still say each and every time I never know what I am getting into! I LOVE BreakThrough, it's like getting a deep tissue massage from the inside out.
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    Mar 02, 2012

  • The Theory of Unhappiness by Brenda Miller, Senior BreakThrough Instructor

    During a Truth and Reconciliation Commission held in South Africa set up to bring understanding to the actions that arose out of apartheid, a mother came face to face with the man who had killed her son during the conflict.
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    Mar 02, 2012

  • Integrity by Isabel Welch

    I want to share my experience of Integrity during BreakThrough Step 3, my understanding of the Integration, the you in me, the me in myself, and both in Self. During the process of Step 3, I breathe and breathe, like during the contractions in labor, only me can push! First I am like the barking dog-defending my precious belief- the blame is out, then I realized that the behaviors are in me, and I start blaming myself. The instructor requesting to st.....
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    Mar 02, 2012

  • The BreakThrough Forum: An Invitation by Ben Manalo

    Being conscious requires a shift in perspective. And a shift in perspective requires breaking through mental conditioning. As an IBA Member, the BreakThrough Forum provides you with the opportunity to shift your perspective by engaging in the art of self-enquiry.
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    Feb 03, 2012

  • Candles by Tim Halll

    The other day I was in the dark. The room was pitch black and I was tripping over everything and quite miserable. I eventually figured out that if I sat still and did nothing with myself that I would incur no further injury nor traumas. It didn't take long to realize that that was no way to get by. At about the time I resolved to find a better way, I came across a candle and was fortunate to have a technique to light the candle. I now sat in a dimly lit room
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    Feb 03, 2012

  • Comparison: Not Being Good Enough by Terryann Nikides

    We all have a tendency to compare ourselves to others. We think that by using people we admire in some way as a standard, we will improve who we are, make ourselves better people. We think we can be better by morphing ourselves into something we can see in the mirror, someone stronger, better looking, smarter, more interesting, more focused, someone who has more money and a better job.
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    Feb 03, 2012

  • Ending The War- BreakThrough for Couples. by Blake Miller & Brenda Miller, Senior BreakThrough Instructor

    One day, many years ago, I was walking along a street when I passed a young man. As I looked into his eyes I had the strongest feeling that this was the man I was going to marry. This was a bit odd because, on that very day, within hours, I was to be wed to my high school....
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    Jan 06, 2012

  • BreakThrough is Beautifully Nurturing by Brenda Miller

    In a difficult-to-see way, BreakThrough is the most nurturing thing I've done for myself in my life. You may find other ways that suit you better, or maybe BreakThrough isn't for you right now, or ever.
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    Feb 01, 2009

  • The Essence of BreakThrough 2 by Esther Veltheim

    In this short article, I want to give you less of an intellectual synopsis of the BreakThrough 2 class and more of a feel for what we will be doing together...
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    Jan 26, 2009

  • Practically Perfect by Brenda Miller

    "If there was a day we wouldn't want to end, it would be the BreakThrough 1 Practical."...
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    May 02, 2008

  • Taking Responsibility by Esther Veltheim

    The work we do in BreakThrough is focused on taking responsibility for reactionary behavior as a means of living a more healthy, conscious life.
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    May 16, 2006

  • Over-Reactions and OCD by Esther Veltheim

    The nature of the ego is to defend itself at every turn. Most of us have learned during our lives to accept over-reactions as a natural part of life.
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    May 16, 2006

  • Ego Boundaries by Esther Veltheim

    It appears that our way of exploring how to set boundaries has to begin with self-honesty, which translates into expressing ourselves towards others in a more honest way.
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    May 16, 2006

  • Conflict by Esther Veltheim

    In every conflict we experience, elements of defensiveness and betrayal are always present. Regardless of what the conflict might seem to be about, the minute we over-react it is always because a deep-seated, unconscious belief is being betrayed.
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    May 16, 2006

 
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