A technique for the daring, the desperate and the curious.
Have you ever wondered how you can change the programming that makes you think, feel and act the way you do?
This breathing technique is self-governing and self-limiting but to begin with it is not DIY: you need support to face the changes and challenges until you are confident to go it alone. It is not for the faint-hearted, but it’s amazing how desperation can make you brave! The joy of becoming who you really would like to be is hard to describe. To be able to live and love freely is worth working for. Once you have mastered the circular breathing and the idea that we all create our own reality, you can reinvent your life keeping these new thoughts in mind.
The second part of the book describes the experiences during our upbringing that made us feel the way that we do. This helps us to understand how we got to be like this. Once this is understood, we can treat ourselves more humanely and treat our children in a more helpful way. One of the experiences many of us faced is inadequate emotional safety. We had parents who were not able for whatever reason to provide their children with suitable acceptance and kindness to develop into confident individuals.
The book describes how to confront the issues that defeated us the first time around so that we can choose a different way to live now as adults.
A Rebirthing Breathworker for 19 years, Catherine has used the technique personally and to guide others in their personal and spiritual growth. Her experience has been useful during critical times in her life, ensuring safe passage through times of accident and stress, as well as in raising her three children. She has been honoured to work with an equal number of men as women, which is unusual in the personal growth industry. This gives her a unique perspective, an understanding that the emotional needs of men and women are the same, though their personality and circumstances will vary. Recovery from a road traffic accident has given her confidence for treating the physical as well as the psychological. She works as a remedial injury specialist putting her experience of working with people to good use in all areas of her life. She is a proofreader and editor and has written numerous articles for magazines and websites - including her own, and several books. “The Reality of Breastfeeding” was written from her experience of being a National Childbirth Trust Breastfeeding Counsellor for 19 years and a wish to continue to support mothers once she went to work full-time and was no longer available on the telephone during the day. She became interested in Rebirthing Breathwork when challenged in her relationship and seeking the courage to make necessary changes in her life. It had several extraordinary effects apart from the intended one including the disappearance of asthma. She is now in a relationship with spiritual growth at its centre, having found a man who wishes to journey with her.
USES OF REBIRTHING BREATHWORK
Rebirthing breathwork encourages us to discover and challenge our limiting beliefs and thoughts. It reveals our inner wisdom to us and often during a breathwork session we have new ideas.
It reveals our inner capabilities which we may have been unaware of.
It gives us courage.
It helps us to tell the truth fast.
It allows physical symptoms to heal/be healed.
It enables us to be ourselves.
It enriches our relationships.
It improves our opinion of ourselves.
I believe one of the greatest services I have to offer is the improvement of the quality of someone's life while they are alone. It is a good measure of your happiness and self-worth if you are comfortable enjoying time on your own (especially if you have always needed company before).
Rebirthing frees us from the need for compulsive behaviours and addictions: these are used to cover needs that are unfulfilled by suppressing uncomfortable feelings. In this way we can become aware of our body's ability to let us know what it needs: natural foods, exercise, touch, fresh air. We can tune in to what our body needs because we can feel it at last - what a relaxed body always does. When we are no longer using tremendous amounts of energy to suppress our feelings, we have a natural liveliness and no need for the artificial boost from white sugar and chocolate (we can still eat for fun and enjoyment, we just don't have the compulsion/dependence). Relaxed muscles are sensitive because they are soft when not in use: permanently tensed muscles are hard, unyielding and tired. The release of the energy no longer needed to keep these muscles tense can be used to make us more aware of the predicament and needs of others. So we become nicer to know and more approachable when we rid ourselves of the mental burdens we carry. Other people notice this faster than we do, in common with others I have had a different reaction from those around me since I started Rebirthing.