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Rebirthing
supports your intention to heal
Rebirthing helps you create the space for a new possability
The word Rebirthing means
change.
Rebirthing
is a breathing process that
increases our ability to feel and resolve the effects of our past.
The
result is an increase in
the level of physical and spiritual energy
in our body, thus cleansing the many tensions held there. The result of
the physical cleansing is that the mental and emotional origins of
tension come back into consciousness and can then be healed. By
learning to breathe consciously and fully, we discover and release the
core issues now held in our mind and emotions.
It
was named Rebirthing
because through the use of the breath early
rebirthers discovered the tremendous impact birth had on their lives.
Rebirthing has since undergone many changes to become a more holistic
process, addressing our entire life experience.
The
root meaning of the words
“spirit,” “prana,” “ki,” “chi,” and
“geist”,
in each of the languages in which these words are found is either
“breath” or “wind.” Breath both spiritually and mythologically is
a very significant component to the force that enlivens the body.
Using
a deep connected breath for approximately one hour, the Rebirthing
process releases stress and tension from the body and accesses and
releases stored emotion. The rebirthing breath opens the body’s energy
channels and accelerates the flow of creativity and intuition.
Rebirthing
is learning a relationship with your breath and the power of the breath
as a function of the body. Circular or conscious connected
breathing is normal for the body but is often suppressed by the
emotions and events of the past.
Rebirthing
relieves the
negative charge in cell memory.
Rebirthing
sessions with a
practitioner aim to facilitate positive change through working with the
breath and taking responsibility for thoughts, feelings and actions.
The sessions will help to identify birth trauma, family patterns,
inherited attitudes and specific negative thoughts.
The
rebirther aims to support the rebirthee in using the breath to
ground themselves safely in their body during emotional, and physical
releases and spiritual insights.
An
added benefit of conscious connected breathing is that the increased
oxygenation contributes to the release of tension and to an
experience of more health and vitality.
The
main challenge to health and happiness facing humanity today seems
to be unmanaged stress caused by unacknowledged and unprocessed
feelings.
The
Rebirthing breathing technique greatly increases the ability to
experience joy and aliveness.
Benefits of BREATHWORK:
- Reduces stress and increases
energy, aliveness and
sense of well-being
- Releases toxins from the cells of
the body: 70% of
toxins are released through the breath itself, so when you breathe more
you release more!
- Allows old emotions, memories and
past traumas to
arise and release in a safe and gentle way
- Accesses and transforms the source
of dis-ease by
understanding the underlying thoughts and beliefs systems that
attracted the dis-ease
- Unravels relationship/intimacy
issues and supports
one to embrace and heal old wounds of abandonment, loss and rejection
- Helps one to attract new
relationships based on who
one is now
- Increases flow, ease, joy, and
pleasure in life and
relationships
- Accesses expanded states of
consciousness, including
higher guidance and clarity about one’s path and life purpose
- Supports the release of limiting
thoughts, patterns
and imprints from birth, childhood, and past lives
- Enhances creativity and expression
- Heals the wound of your imagined
separation
- Increases one’s experience of inner
peace &
surrender
- Allows a feeling of being connected
to, and caring
for yourself, the earth, and all beings
- Transcends the mind and emotions
and supports the
awakening to the truth of who you really are
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Info
and articles on
the
breathwork process:
On the
emotional level, notice how many times you hold or draw in your breath
in reaction to something. If you are feeling fear you hold your breath.
If you are faced with someone's anger or sometimes even someone's love
you may hold your breath. What actually happens when you draw in your
breath is you hold the energy of the emotion you are feeling in your
body. Your body maintains that energy as 'frozen emotion' in the cells.
This anesthetizes your emotional vitality. As you use the process of
Conscious Breathing you oxygenate (bring life to) your body and your
cells. This allows for the release of held in feelings and frees you to
be more emotionally vital and present in your responses to life.
On the
physical level, the oxygenating of your body speeds the release of
toxins and promotes physical relaxation and the release of stress.
Surprisingly, only 3% of total body waste is eliminated via defecation
and 7% by urination. The skin passes out another 20% leaving the
remaining 70% to be breathed out. For this reason alone it behooves us
to breathe fully and freely.
On the
spiritual level the breath has been used for centuries as a means of
connecting with a deeper experience of who you really are in essence.
Whether you call that essence God, all that is, or your higher self it
is often a depth of experience beyond words. In breathwork it is not
unusual to have this realm of experience through the use of your
breath. If you take the word INSPIRE its definition encompasses what
breathwork is - "to inhale; to breathe life into; to affect, guide or
arouse by divine influence; to fill with noble or reverent emotion; to
stimulate to creativity or action."
On the
mental level, just as breath is essential to life and vitality,
affirmative thought is essential to intelligence and creativity. By
upgrading the quality of our thoughts we upgrade the quality of our
lives, therefore producing greater health, self-esteem and prosperity.
Breathwork uses the tool of affirmations, a technique immersing new
thoughts into our consciousness to release negative thought patterns
affecting our behavior. Many of these patterns stem from our birth and
later life experiences. Most people who practice breathwork go through
major, positive changes in a short time and feel they have started
their lives anew. Immediately breathwork is a tremendous boost to
creative energy- within a short time & focused attention,
breathwork accelerates healing expansion into joy and changes your life
completely.. (See testimonials page for thoughts on the process
and personal experiences from folks who have worked with Dayna Mondello)
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What is Breathwork"
(as adapted from an article by Peter Kane)
Breathwork involves breathing in a full,
free manner (as guided by a trained breathworker); the result is an
increase in the level of physical and spiritual energy in our body,
thus cleansing the many tensions held there. The result of the physical
cleansing is that the mental and emotional origins of tension come back
into consciousness and can then be healed. By learning to breathe
consciously and fully, we discover and release the core issues now held
in our mind and emotions. The lineage that I practice from is called
Rebirthing Breathwork. It was named Rebirthing because when
Leonard Orr developed it in the early 70s both he and his first clients
relived their births, discovering the tremendous impact birth had had
on them. Rebirthing has since undergone many changes to become a more
holistic process, addressing our entire childhood and life experience;
some Rebirthers have not changed the name because understanding the
birth experience is one of the valuable results of Rebirthing.
Breathwork sessions are about two hours
in length and consist of counseling and the breathing process. The
breathing process usually takes between an hour and an hour-and-a-half.
The experience during the breathing portion varies from session to
session, and from client to client. The most basic experience is
usually described as tingling or vibrating. Breathworkers refer to this
as an energy release, a cellular cleansing of tension stored in the
body. This is a result of the breathing process increasing the level of
physical and spiritual energy in the body, which washes away old
tensions.
Most simply, rebirthing or breathwork
begins by working with the physical body and as a result it cleanses
the emotional and spiritual bodies. This almost always leaves the
client in a state somewhere between peace and ecstasy.
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BREATH
LANGUAGE by Joy Manne author
"Conscious Breathing"
As long as we are still
alive, the way we are breathing right now is the right way for us right now, and we can learn from it!
As the freedom of our
breath is restrained by the experiences we have repressed, our breath
is teaching us about our state of consciousness.
Breath
is a language that expresses
itself through the location of the breath in the body, breathing
sounds, and breath rhythms. For example, when the breath is rapid
and high in the chest, it is frequently communicating about grief and
fear; when in the middle of the chest, it is about anger, when pulled
into the belly in a ceratin way, it tells about feelings pushed away as
far as possible.
Our breath language
tells us when we are "activated". In life, and in breathwork sessions,
we are activated when our repressed experiences and their related
suffering are brought to consciousness and we think and react under
their influence rather than behaving autonomously.
A breathwork session
will activate past suffering and bring it to consciousness for
integration. The breather arrives at insight into the cause of
the problem at vision with regard to its solution. Breathwork
sessions may be individual, accompanied by a professional breathworker,
or take place in groups led by professional breathworkers.
The pattern of a
breathwork session is ACTIVATION, INTEGRATION, INSIGHT, VISION. This
pattern can be repeated several times during the same session.
At the end of a
breathwork session, once the breath has done its work, it is likely to
completely fill our physical body and our energy bodies. Then we
breathe in from below our feet, take our breath above our head, and let
it go like a wave, down to below our feet. This breath is about
transcendental harmony. |
THE
BREATH
from Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth
...Being aware of your breathing takes attention
away from thinking and creates space. It is one way of generating
consciousness. Although the fullness of consciousness is already
there as the unmanifested, we are here to bring consciousness into this
dimension.
Be aware of your breathing. Notice the sensation of the breath.
Feel the air moving in and out of your body. Notice how the chest and
abdomen expand and contract slightly with the in- and out breath.
One conscious breath is enough to make some space where before there
was the uninterrupted succession of one thought after another.
One conscious breath (two or three would be even better), taken many
times a day, is an excellent way of bringing space into your
life. Even if you meditated on your breathing for two hours or
more, which some people do, one breath is all you ever need to be aware
of. The rest is memory or anticipation, which is to say,
thought. Breathing isnt really something you do but something
that you witness as it happens. Breathing happens by
itself. The intelligence within the body is doing it. All
you have to do is watch it happening. There is no strain or
effort involved...
...Many people's breath is unnaturally shallow. The more you are
aware of the breath, the more its natural depth will reestablish itself.
Because breath has no form as such, it has since ancient times been
equated with spirit- the formless one Life. "God formed man out
of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of
life and the man became a living creature" The German word for
breathing-atmen-is derived
from the ancient Indian (Sanskrit) word Atman meaning the indwelling divine
spirit or God within.
The fact that breath has no form is one of the reasons why breath
awareness is an extremely effective way of bringing space into your
life, of generating consciousness....
...Being aware of your breath forces you into the present moment-the
key to all inner transformation. Whenever you are conscious of the
breat, you are absolutely present. You may also notice that you
cannot think and be aware of your breathing. Conscious breathing
stops your mind. But far from being in a trance or half asleep,
you are fully awake and highly alert. You are not falling below
thinking, but rising above it. And if you look more closely, you
will find that those two things- coming fully into the present moment
and ceasing thinking without loss of consciousness- are actually one
and the same: the arising of space consciousness.
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OSHO: ON
INTELLIGENCE
Intelligence
is a natural phenomenon -- just as breathing is, just as
seeing is. Intelligence is the inner seeing; it is intuitive. It has
nothing to do with intellect. Never confuse intellect with
intelligence, they are polar opposites. Intellect is of the head;it is
taught by others, it is imposed on you. You have to cultivate it. It is
borrowed,
it is
something foreign, it is not inborn. But intelligence is
inborn. It is your very being, your very nature. Drop the fear. Fear
was taken up by you in your childhood, unconsciously. Now consciously
drop it and be mature. Then the life can be a light which goes on
deepening as you go on growing.
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From Thich Nhat Hanh's
BREATHE! YOU ARE ALIVE
sutra on
the Full Awareness of Breathing
Breathe and you know you are alive.
Breathe and you know that all is helping you.
Breathe and you know that you are the world.
Breathe and you know that the flower is breathing too.
Breathe for yourself and you breathe for the world.
Breathe in compassion and breathe out joy.
Breathe and be one with the air that you breathe.
Breathe and be one with the river that flows.
Breathe and be one with the earth that you tread.
Breathe and be one with the fire that glows.
Breathe and you break the thought of birth and death.
Breathe and you see that impermanence is life.
Breathe for your joy to be steady and calm.
Breathe for your sorrow to flow away.
Breathe to renew every cell in your blood.
Breathe to renew the depths of consciousness.
Breathe and you dwell in the here and now.
Breathe and all you touch is new and real. |
A possible
explanation about life, God and everything?
PRANA:MYSTERY BUILDING STONE OF THE UNIVERSE
by GERD LANGE
Many volumes have been written on this subject since ancient times.
What the Indian sages thousands of years ago called prana, the ancient
Chinese named CHI or KI and the Druids refer to as OD. What is commonly
agreed though, that it is the life force, the miniature building stone
of the universe, too small or etheric to be perceived by any kind of
instrument or measuring device to date.
Even modern science has now found out that prana exists and that our
seemingly so solid world vibrates in an eternal dance of swirling
atoms. These in turn consist of even smaller and smaller particles,
which finally turn out to be pure energy densified in various wavelets
and aggregates - higher dimensional energy, manifesting on this plane
as prana.
Prana is not just in the air, it is everywhere. There is nowhere that
it is not; it even exists in a vacuum or a void. Nothing exists without
prana, neither animate nor inanimate. Prana is the smallest, most
refined building block of life, inseparably connected to spirit, god or
the creative energy, and creates and sustains simply everything
(physical matter, thoughts, feelings, energy... etc.).
In general, there are two things which we take in when we breathe. One
is air and the other is prana, pure life-force energy itself, more
vital than air for our existence. If you take away air, you have a
couple of minutes before you die; if you take away water, you have even
more time; and if you take away food you have much more time still, but
if you break prana from spirit, death is instantaneous. So taking in
prana with breath is absolutely crucial in sustaining our life.
I guess I have always been interested in Prana. Being a Rebirther for
many years, I have discovered, that the amazing effects which I
continuously witness in a ''''breathe'''', can''''t be produced just by
the oxygen content accumulated in the session or my contribution alone.
There always seems to be an inner intelligence at work that undeniably
suggests to me a connection with the Divine.
So what actually happens
during a breathing session?
We
humans are an inticrately layered four body energy system consisting of
a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual body - made of prana in
various states of densification (i.e. wavelengths or vibrational
harmonies). Each of these bodies is an electromagnetic energy field in
form of a grid system, which resonates, in a specific frequency, not
unlike an electronic computer memory bank. Each of these bodies
functions on a different level and performs vital life interactions,
e.g. processes information, holds memory and performs a multitude of
other functions. The four bodies are linked through the chakrasystem.
If unaligned (through shock, trauma, emotions) the mesh of these grids
collects densified energies (unreleased feelings, dysfunctional thought
patterns... etc) instead of letting them float through. These
unprocessed energies get trapped in the system. Moving through the
layers, thoughts densify into emotions, emotions densify into physical
sensations and finally solidify in physical symptoms - dis-ease and
illness.
Breathing intentionally in a conscious connected manner increases the
prana content in the four layers of the gridsystems. Accumulating prana
in the bodies helps to realign the grids by energising them, which
raises their vibrational frequencies. This in turn entices all four
grid systems simultaneously to resonate in a higher frequency and they
automatically attempt to achieve a state of unity, a place of balance.
Through the re-alignment the trapped densified energies loosen up, and
get ''''washed out'''' by the free floating prana, to be transported to
the electromagnetic surface (consciousness). There it can be processed
by re-experiencing and released as thought, emotion or sensation. This
leaves your system more cleansed, realigned and connected.
As we established a few paragraphs before prana is in everything and
everything consist of it. God (Source, the creative principle) per
definition also is everything and everything consist of and through
him/her/it as well. Therefore it seems clear to me that prana must be
of divine nature and has a direct connection to Source.
As prana is pure spirit the ''''breather'''' usually also directly
connects to Source via the spiritual body in a breathing session.
Besides feeling warm and internally glowing, cared for and loved,
experiences include mystical revelations and unity consciousness
experience in the integration phase. Another fascinating by-product of
this breathing technique is that it actually induces permanent Higher
Self-connection. In the beginning you just get in touch with your
Higher Self but over time you will be able to firmly establish a
permanent connection to your inner knowing, the Divine One Within (DOW)
and your true nature as soul having a human consciousness....
....It is possible to charge and program prana with your intentional
thought energy and to use it for conscious creation, for yourself, for
the highest good of this planet and its people. Creating your reality
and radiating out your personal and hopefully positive charge.
With love and light
Gerd Lange
www.breathoflight.co.uk
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Every person is a God in embryo. Its
only
desire is to be born.- Deepak
Chopra
What is
Rebirthing by Judy Gabriel
Take
a breathe, and another, and another-connect the inhale with the
exhale-- feel your body, feel your feelings, let all the tension and
negativity in your body go; then experience the flow of peace and
relaxation within your body. If you have experienced all this and more,
you have just completed a Rebirthing session.
Sounds
too good to be true? Not so,
Rebirthing is a simple breathing technique which can transform your
body, mind, spirit, as well as your perception of who you were, who you
are, and who you will be. How does this work? First, let's look at the
word "spirit" or "prana" or "ki" or "chi", or "geist" or "genie," or
whatever you call the force that enlivens the body. In every one of the
languages, the traditions in which you find these terms, the meaning of
the root word is either "breath' of 'wind." In fact, in Genesis, God
breathes into the dust he has just molded to spiritualize it, making it
in his own image. So breath, religiously and mythologically, is a very
significant component. Spirit or breath exists everywhere in our daily
lives. Besides having spirit itself, you perspire, respire ,inspire,
conspire, aspire, suspire, transpire.
You
point at the spire of a church, you
receive inspiration from the preacher, you observe spiracle objects,
and finally, when death approaches, you expire--you know that one last,
long breath, when spirit leaves the body. On the more mundane level,
try holding your breath and see how significant it is. A lot of people
play around with how much they eat and drink. Do you notice that no one
is doing a breath fast. Breath is the force that moves every single
system of the body.
Yet,
although you do not "breathe fast"
you certainly do hold your breath--when you are frightened, angry,
resentful, or any time you don't want people to see your feelings. By
not breathing you suppress feelings. Many times your body tries to get
around you by yawning or sighing. Watch someone on the verge of tears
who does not want to cry publicly and see how much they sigh. Your body
is always trying to look out for you, but your ego thinks it knows
better, so you repress the desire to express, creating an ever more
dense and diseased body. After all if you don't "ex" "press", which
simply means to "push out" you "sup" "press", which means "to push
down." Where do you think you push all of that emotional material? When
you can't digest food properly because of some bodily dysfunction, you
get heartburn, indigestion, colitis, diverticulitis, etc.; yet, you
fail to understand that all of your half-digested emotions help create
the physical havoc in your body.
Breathing
in a circular fashion for a
length of time in the presence of another first relaxes the body, then
the mind and spirit, and before you know it, the emotions of a lifetime
begin to surface. Not all at once, of course, or you would explode. The
body again has its own wisdom. What comes up first is usually what
needs to be addressed in the present. If a traumatic past emotion comes
up, it probably is the cause of something unresolved in the present
that needs addressing. So little by little you get clear of all the
excess baggage you subconscious mind, your spirit, and your body have
been carrying around for a long time. Finally, having fully digested or
integrated those emotions, you can use them consciously to respond to
the world instead of reacting to it. The word, "de" "pression" also
means "to press down," and what is pressed down is your life force that
is burdened with so much subconscious debris you cannot consciously
understand. Then you wonder why you are unhappy, unfulfilled,
spiritually barren, and lonely. You have no idea what you hauling
around. The fifty pounds of extra flesh is not your only uncomfortable
baggage. The multitudinous sorrows, fears, and other unexpressed,
unfelt emotions you have held on to for years weigh you down
interminably.
Looks
easy! Why do I need a rebirther.
Believe me, when thirty years of anger begin bubbling to the surface,
your first reaction may be fear. It is nice to know someone who has
gone through this process is by your side to let you know that there is
nothing to fear and to support you in getting rid of that which you may
dread. Maybe nothing comes up for you except a deep relaxing feeling.
You may want to doze off. Your Rebirther won't let you, nor will he/she
let you leave your body because you really don't want to experience
those old feelings even if it means experiencing them for the last
time. Your Rebirther is a breath coach and a support team, someone who
has been trained not to let his ego interfere with your process,
someone who helps you through whatever emotion, thought, pain,
numbness, or bliss you are experiencing.
Ahh,
bliss. Yes, that is the goal of
Rebirthing. For example, not knowing how to relax your body, you go for
a massage. If the therapist is good and you respond, you may feel
totally relaxed for the first time. You now know that it means when
someone says, "relax."
The
same holds true if you meditate. You
don't know what a meditative state feels like until you've been there.
How many of you have truthfully felt blissful in your life? If someone
told you to feel bliss, would you know what to feel? Probably not.
Society does not promote blissful feelings. You should feel duty,
obligation, responsibility, guilt, commitment, lone, friendship, etc.,
and those are not defined too well for you either, but Bliss? What is
it? Until you feel it, it cannot be described. A successful series of
rebirths, usually seven to ten, can help you shed enough suppressed
material to feel true aliveness, your bliss, for the first time in your
life. You may begin to connect the inhales and the exhales so
effortlessly that what at first seemed like hard work becomes easy and
joyful as though someone else were breathing for you.
That
experience, that feeling, is amazing,
and although Rebirthing is not an immediate panacea for your or the
world's ills, it reminds you of the way the Universe intended you to
feel from the beginning before you felt separate from it and other
people, getting bogged down in the much and mire of society and daily
living. That feeling reminds you, when you think you are drowning, that
there is a rescue team--inside yourself--for renewal and compassion so
that you can face whatever the world puts before you with true
unconditional love and a desire to act in a unified and purposeful
manner to solve all those important dilemmas. They are no longer
dilemmas when you can face them with bliss; they simply "are," and you
can laugh at the foolishness of thinking they were something so big.
You can laugh and act, making you a true child of god, peacefully
tending your life and your earthly garden.
Many times you look
at a Mother Theresa and
say "I could never be like that, so calm in the face of all that
poverty and death." The fact is you can because you already are; you
just don't know it. Rebirthing will help you find bliss, the still
small voice, the rest and relaxation that is your human birthright.
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