Rebirthing Breathwork

The Truth About Breathing & Tetany

By Leonard D. Orr

     Rebirthing Breathwork allows waves of Spirit Energy to move in the body, nourishing and cleansing and healing our bodies.

      Tetany is a constriction of the wind and body in an attempt to block these wonderful healing waves.

      After studying millions of cases of tetany, the conclusion is fear. Fear is the only common denominator in all cases., but it is not usually conscious fear. Sometimes people who are very fearful have very little tetany, and no fear during sessions. The people who have the most tetany are sometimes confident, successful people. These peple have all their fears neatly suppressed.

      Sometimes people who are totally controlled have very little tetany in their early sessions. Then, when they let go, have intense tetany for one or two or three sessions, and then they are free. Feeling free for the first time in one’s Life is a wonderful feeling. It is a body feeling as well as an emotional and mental freedom.

      The unconscious fear that causes tetany might better be called tension that is stored in the body – body memories. It can be from birth trauma or even prenatal fears and tension.

      It should be clear that breathing – even over-breathing, called hyperventilation, never causes tetany. Breathing – every inhale and every exhale – automatically causes relaxation.

      Relaxation caused by breathing enables us to notice our tension and if we keep breathing into this tension, the tension and tetany dissolves into relaxation.

      In fact, tetany enables the tension to really get our attention.

      Those suppressed body memories that inhibit physical expression our whole lives come to the surface and are released. It is amazing that this old tension can be released in one session. That is, it is amazing how much tension can be released in one session.

      Most of the millions of people who have done Rebirthing Breathwork sessions lasting one to two hours had tetany in only one to three sessions. However, some people who had lots of birth trauma or other kinds of trauma can have many sessions with tetany. The most I ever heard of is 44 sessions with tetany.

      And I have studied a few cases of tetany recurring in people for years, through dozens or in one case even over 100 sessions. In this case, the woman has had nondiagnosable pain throughout her body for her whole life. Her breathing sessions were her only vacation from pain. And her breathing sessions healed several long-standing symptoms.

      In the case of 44 sessions with tetany, the woman believed that she would get tetany and the fear of tetany caused it. When she broke this fear pattern and relaxed into the sensations of Divine Energy flowing in her body, the tetany symptom disappeared.

      At this point, the sensations are interpreted as pleasurable and are pleasurable.

       For most people making this transition is easy. It means just choosing to allow the Divine Energy to flow and enjoy the sensations.

      Paradoxically, the more we approve of and allow the sensations, the less they occur.

      Sensations seem to be causes by resistance and resistance is caused by fear in the mind.

      When the resistance is gone, all we experience is gentle Divine Energy flows. One thing is certain: each session, whether it is uncomfortable o pleasurable, frees our body and mind of stored tension, stress, and pain. Everyone benefits from every session.

      You would think that people would not be afraid of their natural Divine energy, but most people seem to be.

     People also can fear healing and being healed.

     And people fear Love and being Loved.

      Most people who go through ten Rebirthing Breathwork sessions transition through these paradoxes successfully without much fanfare or drama. Tetany may occur, but it is not a problem for most people.

      And these people are neither exceptionally bright nor unusual people.

      Working people as well as brilliant professionals of all kinds have learned conscious breathing and practice it daily or on a regular basis.

      Conscious breathing has even healed mentally retarded and autistic children and adults.

      Everyone seems to get a boost in I.Q. as a result of ten Conscious Breathing sessions.

      In fact the Rebirthing Breathwork Movement has cases of almost every mental and physical disease known to man being healed. This should be no surprise – breathing is basic – very basic to human health and existence.

      Just stop and think what will happen to you if you stop breathing.

      And yet, apart from the Conscious Breathing Movement, very little research is done about the benefits of improving our breathing ability. Conscious Connected Breathing is so simple and yet so powerful. Everyone can master it – even infants – and everyone should master it.

       We could say it is our Divine Birthright as the children of God.

Here is a partial list of things that have been healed by Breathwork:

Alcoholism

Drug addiction

Chronic anger

Chronic depression including Para phobia

Migraines

Asthma

Epilepsy

Schizophrenia

Allergies

Autism

Aids

Cancer

Heart Disease

Fibromyalgia

Colitis

Ulcers

Relationship problems

Hyperventilation

Various symptoms of senility

Obesity

Chronic fatigue

Arthritis

Kidney problems

Back pain

Menstruation pains and irregularities

Stress and tension of everyday life

Sleep disorders of all kinds

Spasms, twitches, etc.

Common cold

Anger

Paranoia

Tetany, paralysis

Comas

Throat – thyroid

Eyes – glasses sometimes become unnecessary

Nose problems disappear

Sexual problems decrease or disappear

Sadness and grief

Fear of water

Childbirth problems decrease

Low self esteem

Attention deficit disorder

Anxiety

Religious conflicts

Chronic confusion

Birth trauma

      But Breathworkers make no claims. They are not healers, only breathing teachers. The healing process may take weeks or years so the cause and effect relationships are not always obvious. However, often the results are immediate – miraculous.

      And sometimes the mind must be changed before a healing can occur. Breathing sessions usually make it easier to see into our mind and to change our mind.

      We are giving special attention to tetany because it is easy to notice and measure and observe.

      Some people have pain with tetany and some people only have a tingling and vibrating sensation, which is easy or even pleasurable.

Fear causes pain.

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