Rebirthing is a therapy used to treat patients who have experienced a traumatic event by simulating a second birth and revisiting the trauma. Rebirthing-Breathwork is a method that involves conscious connective circular breathing and is said to improve physical health, mental clarity, and emotional stability. Other methods of rebirthing therapy include compression therapy and cuddle time. Rebirthing has links to alternative medicinal techniques used in Asia and Southeast Asia.
Rebirthing is a therapeutic technique used in various types of alternative medicine and psychotherapy. Rebirthing generally refers to a technique used to treat a patient who has experienced a traumatic event. The idea is to simulate a second birth, thus creating a new beginning, a new awareness in the patient’s life and mind. While this second birth can be achieved in several ways, the basis of therapy holds that revisiting the trauma experienced during birth can have a therapeutic effect.
One method of rebirthing is known as Rebirthing-Breathwork, also known as conscious connective circular breathing. This specific therapy is said to have been developed by Leonard Orr in the 1960s and 1970s. Similar guided mindful breathing practices, such as yoga and pranayama, had already been practiced for hundreds of years. The essence of the practice lies in paying attention to your breathing, and breathing in a certain rhythm.
Rebirthing Breathwork includes inhaling and exhaling without pauses in between. The technique is said to produce memories of one’s traumatic birth and present this trauma for the practitioner to relive and heal. Other benefits claimed by Rebirthing Breathwork practitioners include improvements in physical health, mental clarity, and emotional stability.
Rebirthing is believed to be effective because it recalls the traumatic experience of human birth and allows the individual to come to terms with the specific trauma they experienced during birth. In the Rebirthing-breathwork technique, the recall of this traumatic memory is achieved consciously by the individual. By connecting the mind and body through the breath, the practitioner is said to connect the memory held in the brain and the memory held by the cells of the body. This concept is known as “cellular memory”.
There are also methods of rebirthing therapy which, unlike rebirthing breathwork, are not self-guided. These rebirth therapies are obtained by others inducing a “second birth” on the patient. This type of rebirth is also known as compression therapy, pamper time, or the hold-and-hold process. These techniques are most often used as a therapy for attachment disorder. In cuddle time and maintenance therapy, the patient is held close to another person’s body. This technique is thought to induce a feeling of connectedness in the patient by keeping the patient in physical contact with another person.
Compression therapy is a slightly more physically strenuous therapy and has gained a negative reputation due to the potential harm that can be suffered by the patient. Compression therapy includes the patient often wrapped in blankets and pressed by other people. This technique is said to simulate the darkness and compression of the birth canal, thus giving the patient a more physical “second birth” experience.
Rebirthing appears to have significant links to alternative medicinal techniques used in Asia and Southeast Asia. In addition to the similarity that the Rebirthing-breathing technique holds with pranayama and yoga breathing, rebirthing is also a therapeutic technique used in what is called basic process psychotherapy. This is a psychotherapy that uses the concepts of Buddhist mindfulness and healing. Like rebirthing, core process psychotherapy is used as a therapy for birth trauma.
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