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)
About Rebirthing Breathwork
by Sinead Clancy
You cannot change the past but you can change your reaction to it.
Most of us are constantly reacting to the past and projecting it into our present and future. The result is that our relationships, our bodies, our work, and entire life are affected by our past experiences, often in the negative. Since the body is the tool of the emotions, it demonstrates to us on a moment by moment basis how we feel in response to our life experience. Most of us ignore those feelings, react to them unconsciously, or try to figure them out from the level of the mind. Since the mind is for thinking and the body is for feeling mind control is an ineffective way to resolve emotional conflict.
Often the root cause of unhappiness, or dis-ease is suppressed in the subconscious mind and can be accessed and released by using the Rebirthing Breathwork technique. By breathing in the Rebirthing breath you breathe prana or life force energy into your body. Pranic energy flows throughout the body causing anything unlike it to be removed. It cleanses the body, mind and spirit, allowing blockages to surface and release, and the harmony and bliss which is our natural state to be restored. The breath is the body's own natural in-built healing system operating with the body's intelligence, so the breather can relax and be open to receiving insights, clarity, and healing.
It was named Rebirthing because through the use of the breath early Rebirther's discovered the deep impact birth had on their lives.
Rebirthing has since undergone many changes to become a more
holistic process, addressing our entire life experience.
What does a Rebirthing session consist of?
Individual sessions are two hours long and are conducted in
comfortable private settings. Approximately half the time is devoted to
assessing, and discussing possible resolution of the issues that are
important to you. The rest of the time is for breathing.
Rebirthing sessions with a practitioner aim to facilitate positive change
through working with the breath and taking responsibility for thoughts,
feelings and actions.
The Rebirther supports the rebirthee in using the breath to ground
themselves safely in their body during emotional, and physical releases
and spiritual insights.
Who can benefit from Rebirthing?
Anyone who feels that they are not living at 100% of their true capacity
Those who notice that they keep hitting the same stumbling blocks in
life but aren't sure why
Couples, or individuals interested in finding and healing the root causes
of discord in relationships
People feeling stress, anxiety, or overwhelm
Anyone feeling stuck or trapped
Breathwork,
or conscious breathing, is a physical, mental and spiritual experience.
The physical part consists of connecting your inhale and exhale in a
relaxed rhythym (with no holding at the top or bottom).
The
spiritual dimension of conscious breathing is the heart of the matter.
One purpose of breathwork is not only the movement of air but also the
moveent of ENERGY.
The dynamic energy flows that are
experienced during breathwork are the merging of spirit and matter. The
energy flows are the process of filling your body with pure life-energy
and cleaning your mind and body of tension and impurities. You can also
remember and release your birth trauma in breathwork, which makes a
huge difference in your life. It should always be conducted by a
well-trained breathwork practitioner.
Breathwork creates a
safe environment in the mind and body that enables clients to become
free of all negativity;however processing negativity can be
overwhelming at times. That is why we recommend you take it gently,
starting out with only one session a week. We also recommend that you
make the whole process of spiritual growth easier by participating in a
spiritual community that assists you effectively and suports you in
whatever changes you may go through.
-From Sondra Ray's Healing and Holiness
A possible explanation about life, God and everything?
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
Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born. - Deepak Chopra