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Posted: Thu Jun 25th, 2009 02:06 pm |
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The Conscious Uncontrolled Breath, is an artistic form of somatic education, based on connecting with the natural breath, free from control of the human will. This approach supports the essence of the Self to unfold and develop to its true definition. The Conscious Uncontrolled Breath not only supports and creates individual balance it also has the potential to bring about family, community, and global balance.
Breathing affects our entire being. By focusing and sensing breath movement, we experience our breath, without interfering with its natural rhythm. Through this breath we gain direct access to a knowledge and power that is greater than a simple intellectual understanding: We call it a Somatic Intelligence encompassing the physical realm of posture, movement, and overall health and fitness, as well as the spiritual and mental spheres of thought, feeling, sensing, and intuition. Breath not only reaches our inner world and moves us, it also connects us to the world outside. Breath that comes and goes on its own creates movements both inward and outward, in an ever-continuing act of filling and emptying, receiving and giving, the masculine and the feminine in a dialogue, searching for balance and growth.
Breath Movement becomes meaningful. Through simple exercises we become aware of breath laws and principles, and use them as a tool to experience and understand breath movements as the source of our creative forces as well as an outlet for their expression. The Self becomes embodied through the movements and gestures that are initiated by breath. We enter a self-analytical process of growth and development. Body, soul, and spirit can be experienced as one.
Every single breath cycle actualizes past, present and perspective of our being. By learning to listen to our breath we connect with a source that can help to direct and lead us through an appropriate process of integration. Breath becomes our teacher and healer.
The Conscious Uncontrolled Breath is an experiential approach to understanding the healing and re balancing power of breath. Learning and understanding is based on the sensation of breath movement in its undisturbed state. In sensing this breath, we have a dialogue, which means the interaction between the manifestation of the natural breath and the process of becoming aware of its meaning. For this a whole path toward healing, called The Conscious Uncontrolled Breath, which can be learned. The result is a healing that comes directly from the breath, showing in a unique movement of breath which we sense. By participating with our full presence, we receive and integrate the meaning of this breath movement. Our ability to not interfere with the process of the unfolding of this "inner intelligence" initiates healing. This is a healing that happens from within. We can call this self healing power that comes not only out of ourselves, but also from a "greater power".
Psychology is a science developed and born in western culture, teaching the meaning and modality of psyche. It is traditionally based on a cognitive and scientific understanding including empirical research. The measure is recognition of process and development with the goal to analyze Self and personality. Healing involves therapeutic stimulation by an outer element such as another person, a therapist ("healer"), concepts that follow principles of causality, or simply medication (drugs). An outer intelligence actively contributes to selecting the step that can invite healing.
I see the main differences between Psychology and the Conscious Uncontrolled Breath in the source of the therapeutic stimulation and by the choice of the learning/understanding tool, which in traditional Psychology is the cognitive and with Conscious Uncontrolled Breath the experiential (sensory awareness of breath movement). By sensing the movement of breath we can gain access to every individual cell that becomes available as a source of intelligence. I like to call this Somatic Intelligence.
This is reason enough for me to consider the two as separate disciplines, with similar goals. They can eventually become partners and complements, but not from the same source, like Sun and Moon or Masculine and Feminine.
The question of how do Psychology and Conscious Uncontrolled Breath relate to each other now becomes more specific: How do they deal with Psyche?
For the Psychology part you have to refer to an expert in Psychology.
For the Breath part, here are some of my conclusions:
Every single breath cycle includes the whole. Inner and outer are not separated but included within the whole. So also are psyche and soul, which includes our emotional being. I mention psyche and soul together, because in my opinion they are inseparable. Psyche is defined as the nonphysical forces and soul as the immaterial essence/God. If we learn to trust and orient ourselves to the natural principles of breath, we may realize, that by that choice - and this choice is the key to it all - psyche and soul make themselves available in exactly the right amount to enable us to understand the next step toward balance. The consequence is a healing that lets emotions participate in a way that we can consciously experience them and integrate them with self-responsibility.
The Conscious Uncontrolled Breath in its Substance, "By letting your breath come on its own, go on its own, and waiting until it comes back on its own your wanting, needing and exaggerating disappear and you experience yourself being able to not be swept away by your emotions. As a result of this, the psychologically determined state of being judgmental is transformed into life-giving substance of soul. Whether conscious or unconscious, the supporting, enveloping layer of emotion nurtures us. It is present from the first to the last cycle of breath with its precious Trust. Yet it becomes dangerous in case of too much emotion, or lack of it. In both cases the connecting movement of breath is healing. If we give over to the movement of breath, it balances the pushed or restricted emotion as the other power and guides us toward a state of being that feels appropriate."
Going through all of this is typically only possible through a thorough and in-depth preparation and build up through the Conscious Uncontrolled Breath. This process can sometimes last even a few years, because we have to uncover what we have or what has been repressed throughout our lives. Once the Breath is understood and the decision is made to follow its development, life changes and we are on the path to healing and balance.
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