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Today many people are seeking more fulfillment in life. Today's chaotic technological world is often too much for human psyches to contend with, without possessing more inner strength. Many therefore are yearning to go internal, to find an inner peace, seeking more spiritual meaning and connection; to align more with their true purpose in life. The crying need is to gain a more universal understanding of reality and of human nature, which automatically grounds us in our truth, and needn't conflict with anyone's religion.This means we need methods that can take us inward to learn about our rich subjective life. Turning inward to become conscious of what ails us, and further, to access the beauty of our inner core Self, is the healer of all human dysfunction and self-defeating lifestyles. This was the quest of the Holy Grail. In the Spring of 1991, I discovered a method which is a powerful psychic opener. I've named it "Integrative Breathwork". It's a adaptation of Holotropic Breathwork I co-taught with Stanislav Grof, M.D. during the '80's. Breathwork is an ancient spiritual practice in both the Eastern and Western traditions. It has the power to heal our personal past and to carry us into the expansive collective mind of humanity where all the great minds, universal spiritual teachings, our ancestral heritage, and our future unformed blueprints can be accessed. The fact that people have high moments of great revelation and "peak experiences" is proof that wisdom lives within us.Through the use of music, the breath, meditative autohypnosis, and symbolic artwork, the deeper strata of the unconscious mind opens and pours out its gifts. It is in this rich subjective life that all new creations first begin to stir, and to which we must continually return to be made afresh for every age. The two-hour musical journey (a carefully designed variety of evocative music with no words) serves as a projection screen – a way to free associate so participants can recall whatever it is they need to make conscious and clear. Everyone has a different experience. For example, one person might go back in time and recall a serious automobile accident and release the pent-up terror. This method accesses "cellular memory" where any suffering that still exists in our body/mind resides. Yet another person might travel out-of-body to a sacred temple and recall a powerful spiritual initiation. This method transcends time and space, producing a mild, non-ordinary state of consciousness that brings the abstract spritual world down into our concrete brains so we can experience these higher worlds directly. Practiced within a safe therapeutic setting and with proper guidance, the breathwork carries us into whatever dimension of consciousness we need to visit in order to heal or broaden.When we can experience that we are "bigger than we look like", a spontaneous healing just naturally occurs. This is the beginning of a stronger spiritual life, where a still-needed daily practice will bring us fully into our newfound greater Self. Most people know intuitively that they have a Higher Self. To gain true knowlege of something is to enter into complete union with that which is to be known. Integrative Breathwork affords us this opportunity. Therefore, I see this process as an evolutionary psychospiritual therapy that goes well with any other method of therapy people are utilizing. | |
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