Vivation was developed by Jim Leonard in 1979. Vivation is called the skill of happiness and is more than Circular Breathing. When you learn Vivation you learn how to create the physical energy of unconditional love within yourself. It works at the feeling, not mental level, helping you to face every part of you squarely and accept it. As feelings and emotions arise during the process, you feel them in detail and give them your unconditional love. The unconditional love, even more than the breathing itself, creates the results. Your subjective sense of well-being does not depend on what is happening objectively in your body or your life. People often suffer when there is nothing wrong at all, simply because they imagine (consciously or subconsciously) that things should be better. When you Vive, surrendering and generating intense Love Energy, pouring it continuously into the sensation or emotion you wish to integrate, then the energy that has been suppressed and held back as a separate entity merges back into your overall aliveness. Integration of an emotion results in having a positive emotion about something you previously had a negative emotion about. When you integrate physical pain, even if the sensation is unchanged, the pain no longer limits your ability to enjoy the present moment exactly as it is.