Breathwork is based on the idea that emotional energy from traumatic events can get stuck in our bodies, central nervous system, and/or brain; and that conscious breathing techniques can be used to liberate it. Even the trauma we experience during birth may be stuck in our subconscious affecting us on a routine daily basis despite us not consciously remembering it. Using breathwork to resolve unhealed birth trauma is sometimes referred to as rebirthing.
A facilitator takes you through a series of intense breathing exercises that bring repressed emotions to the surface, liberating them from your mind and body. Often done to background music or primal drumbeats, similar to those used in Primal Therapy.
Advantages:
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You don’t have to go over the story
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You don’t need to know what caused the emotional pain to heal it
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Can be very powerful
Disadvantages:
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Hard to know when you’ve had enough of it
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Not a mainstream therapy
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Practitioners may have minimal qualifications
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Association with rebirthing can sound dubious
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2 Comments
Matt · March 12, 2012 at 5:37 pm
I’ve honestly never heard of this before, Graham!
I like to think I’ve read up on a fair few techniques on how to make yourself a better man but this have never come to my attention! I’m off to do a little more research. Cheers, buddy!
Michael Ngare · September 9, 2011 at 2:58 am
I agree that rebirth could be a tool to be used to rebuild and reawaken the sub conscious the reality hitherto not discovered within the conscious realm of day to day living.