We Live in Stressful Times
(by Gerd Lange)
We live in stressful times! Science tells us that over the last 50 years we have shifted life
mode and now live most of the time locked in our sympathetic nervous system
(fight/flight) instead of resting in our parasympathetic nervous system (relaxation, peace).
This is due to external stresses like high work demands, hectic times in general and
wrong lifestyle choices like not enough sleep, food abuse as well as surrounding pollution
and electrosmog.
How to cope
One way to cope with stressful impacts (mental, emotional) is a subconscious reaction we
all use. When things get tough, we instinctively hold our breath. This allows us to sail
through the intensity of the experience relatively unscathed, as we don’t really feel the
full impact of the event, but equally prevents us from releasing the accumulated feeling or
adrenaline.
Whatever happens to us during our life, the brain is storing every detail in our memory
(including colour, sounds and smells). Every thought carries an emotion, a physical
sensation and vice versa. Especially traumatic fear experiences or long term stresses are
leading to limited breath volume and eventually establish themselves as lifelong breath
holding patterns with diminished energy, power and wellbeing.
Anything emotionally unfelt or energetically uncompleted stays in our bio-system
awaiting final release and dissolving. Unfortunately in our “action” packed life style we
often don’t have room or time to consciously de-stress. This leads to layers and layers of
stress energy being built up in our system, which results in all sorts of psychosomatic
symptoms which densify over time into organ damage, cancer and general ill-health.
Bridge to the unconscious
Breathing is the only body function that is voluntary as well as involuntary, thus building
a bridge between the conscious and the unconscious. Using a technique called
“Conscious Connected Breathing” or “Circular Breathing” it becomes possible to access
these subconsciously stored memories, unexpressed emotions or any other material that is
held in the body’s psychophysical system. Relaxing and deepening the breath in this way
dissolves the tension in the body and helps to reveal and release the emotional holding
patterns and trauma held in body/mind. Re-experienced, expressed and integrated these
experiences and memories cease to have an emotional grip on your life expression,
allowing you to live more conscious and empowered.
Your body/mind has a natural desire to heal itself. Giving the right circumstances (safety,
relaxation, increased transformative energy through deep connected breathing, love etc.)
allows and supports this innate desire to flourish and accelerate. And there is no better
way to do this than with conscious Breathwork
What’s on offer
Each type of Breathwork has its own intention and benefit. We discern between breathing
for health and optimum performance (Pranayama , Chi-Gong, Loves Body), breathing to
centre yourself or to aid meditation (Breath of Light) as well as consciousness expansion
(TranceBreath ) or for de-stressing and to facilitate emotional release (Integrative Breath
Therapy). Depending on the desired outcome or intention you can choose between
specific breath techniques with different emphasis.
What all these techniques have in common is that through the deep rhythmic, connected
breathing you enter a non-ordinary state of mind (pre-requisite to all healing), a
meditative relaxed state of mind while at the same time your hole vegetative system
enters a deep relaxation and openness. Your body thus creates an inner healing
environment which is supported and enhanced by the facilitator of your session from the
outside. Affirmations and Visualisations become more potent and effective, energy and
stress release happens more or less by themselves and practising these techniques over a
period of time results in great improvements in breath volume and capacity as well as in
general health.
InBreath is offering a wide-ranging program of training, workshops, day and evening
classes in all these different breathing techniques. Over a period of time you can
familiarise yourself with each individual practise – all of them resulting in de-stressing,
increased health, personal transformation and empowerment as well as generally feeling
better about yourself. Take a deep breath and give us a call!
For more information on Breathwork or any of these techniques please contact:
Gerd Lange
(Director)
InBreath - Institute for Breath Therapy & Transformational Healing
8 Charles Road
St Leonards-on-Sea
TN38 0QA
East Sussex, UK
44 1424 443 742 home
44 7980 890 530 mob
0845 12 94 958 local rate (UK)
e-mail: office@inbreath.info
or check out any of these web pages
www.inbreath.info
www.breathoflight.co.uk
www.trancebreath.co.uk
www.lovesbody.co.uk
What is "Integrative Breath Therapy"?
Integrative Breath Therapy is a unique holistic body oriented therapy using the healing
power of the breath - one of the most effective tools for personal transformation
available. Conscious Connected Breathing facilitates deep cellular release and integration
of previously suppressed energies held in the body and mind to reveal the unique,
powerful and creative individual that is inside all of us. As result you access more
personal freedom, develop genuine relationships and gain more vitality.
The InBreath Institute
The Institute for Integrative Breath Therapy and Transformational Healing (InBreath ) is a
heart-centred organisation that is committed to consciousness development, excellence in
training and individual support. We believe that all healing and transformation happens in
an atmosphere of unconditional love, acceptance and non-attachment. InBreath is
committed to creating an environment where people can experience an expansion in
consciousness and provides a space where participants blossom and grow to their own
full potential through deep transformational processes, safety and play.
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