When I started with breathwork many years ago, I was mainly focused on healing wounds and traumas.
And I’ve to admit that, so far, it has been one of the best tools I ever met for this kind of healing.
Obviously, I integrate it with other techniques, first of all with what I would call “Self-inquiry”, to help the practitioner to integrate the experience he had on an energetic level with a more mental understanding, to prevent the mind from “possessing” the experience, to adjust it and distort it to its use and comfort.
I have to say that this “integration” is as much important as the breathwork session itself. That’s why I suggest to those who want to become breathwork facilitators, to study and practice some kind of self-inquiry, psychotherapy, or counseling, to be able to deal with all kinds of staff it may come out from the breathwork.
After a few years of teaching and facilitating breathwork sessions, groups and training, I realized that there is something more than wounds and trauma and I would say something that is the cause of most of our wounds: Programs.
I’ve often been talking about conditioning: from the family, the neighborhood, the country, the religion, what we could call the “Culture”, the Education.
The problem with certain Programs is that the more are widely accepted, the more is difficult to recognize them as Programs.
Then one day someone says: “Enough!” “It’s not right!” “Let’s stop it, let’s change it!”
And if there are enough people who share the same Vision, then that Program, will be changed, will be banned, perhaps starting in one country and slowly spreading all over the world.
It always starts with an act of courage from one person who believes in his Vision, willing to sacrifice his life, and inspires millions of people: Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Rosa Parks, Giordano Bruno, and thousands of others.
Some of these Programs are so rooted in our societies that we call them “Traditions” and we don’t even question them.
People have been fighting against slavery, for the civil rights of Black people, women, and certain minorities. Still, there is more to fight for. In the so-called “third world countries” as much as in what we call the Democratic world that if we look deep inside it’s not so democratic as we pretend.
One example?
Have you ever questioned if it’s right, just, fair that you need to work 5 or 6 days per week, 11 months per year, 35/40 years of your life just to pay the bills?
Did you ever question it?
Is it “normal”? Who makes you believe that is Right?
In the years I found out that many times during a breathwork session, after facing wounds and traumas, some powerful insight is coming up, showing us what could be the root of our unhappiness.
I’ve heard many women, especially those coming closer to their 40thies, becoming anxious, and tormented, because they feel the pressure from society telling: “you need to have a child”.
As in the movie “The Matrix,” even your best friends may turn into “Agent Smith” becoming the spokesman of the mainstream ideology, making you feel wrong and weird.
(It may seem a paradox, but the more someone is feeling insecure, the more he will try to convince the others of his doubts.)
You may find dozens of programs running in your mind if you start to look for them. Breathwork together with self-inquiry is definitely a good way to see them.
Love and Blessing Prem Luca Firewolf