Holotropic Breathwork: A New Approach to Self-Exploration and Therapy (SUNY series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology)
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Holotropic Breathwork: A New Approach to Self-Exploration and Therapy (SUNY series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology)
Since time immemorial, breathing has been seen not only as a vital body function, but also as an activity that connects the physical world (air) with the human body, psyche, and spirit. Its extraordinary potential as an important tool in the ritual and spiritual life of humanity, as well as various healing practices, has been repeatedly tested in a
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It is probably not an accident that the word healing is related to the Old English and Anglo-Saxon haelan, meaning to make whole, sound, and well. Healing means to make whole, to bring something that is fragmented and impaired back to a state of wholeness.
Stanislav Grof • Holotropic Breathwork: A New Approach to Self-Exploration and Therapy (SUNY series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology)
“The desire for perfection is that desire which always makes every pleasure appear incomplete, for there is no joy or pleasure so great in this life that it can quench the thirst in our soul”
Stanislav Grof • Holotropic Breathwork: A New Approach to Self-Exploration and Therapy (SUNY series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology)
Responsible and focused deep self-exploration can help us come to terms with the trauma of birth and make a deep spiritual connection. This moves us in the direction of what Taoist spiritual teachers call wu wei, or “creative quietude,” which is not action involving ambitious determined effort, but “doing by being.” This is also sometimes referred
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It has shown that symptoms are more than just a major inconvenience in the patient's life. They represent the manifestation of a self-healing impulse of the organism that is trying to free itself from traumatic memories and other disturbing material from the biographical, perinatal, and transpersonal domains of the unconscious.
Stanislav Grof • Holotropic Breathwork: A New Approach to Self-Exploration and Therapy (SUNY series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology)
Deliberate increase of the pace of breathing typically loosens psychological defenses and leads to a release and emergence of unconscious (and superconscious) material.
Stanislav Grof • Holotropic Breathwork: A New Approach to Self-Exploration and Therapy (SUNY series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology)
We came to the conclusion that it is sufficient to breathe faster and more effectively than usual and with full concentration on the inner process.
Stanislav Grof • Holotropic Breathwork: A New Approach to Self-Exploration and Therapy (SUNY series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology)
Profound changes in consciousness can be induced by both extremes of the breathing rate, hyperventilation and prolonged withholding of breath, as well as by using them in an alternating fashion.
Stanislav Grof • Holotropic Breathwork: A New Approach to Self-Exploration and Therapy (SUNY series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology)
In holotropic states, our consciousness can reach far beyond the boundaries of the body/ego and obtain accurate information about various aspects of the material world that we have not obtained in this lifetime through the mediation of our sensory organs.