Topic: Rebirthing
Maybe this thread can be used to share experiences of "rebirthing" (in all its forms) and what insights were gained from them.
I personnally had a spontaneous rebirthing a few nights ago. I realized a single thing on a metaphysical level which put meaning into years of suffering, and suddenly I burst into tears and cried for 2 hours straight. After that I felt completely different, and I still do to a large extent. It's like if I got back an old vehicle of mine and don't quite remember how to use it yet.
I'm aware that it's a gradual process, that all of life is about finding again who we are, yet I never had such a strong feeling of starting to find myself again. Really, it was all about remembering. On a chakra level I felt it as the removing of major blocks on the 2nd chakra, which then fred much energy in the throat chakra. I've read that the two are strongly linked, in relation with creativity and self-expression, and I can really now testify for it.
I was in Holland last month and had an interesting discussion with someone who had went through several types of emotional therapies such as rebirthing and holotropic breathwork. He said that it somehow didn't really help him, that it was just a temporary release and then he was back to his old problems. We both understood that there was more to emotional release, that it needed to be linked with UNDERSTANDING, that is to say, LOVE. (Emotions cannot be separated from the intellectual process, they go together, they need each others. When these two worlds work together then you can have a link between the earth and the sky.)
These "weekend sessions for rebirthing" are in my opinion not so valuable, and even could be dangerous as the problem is again that people try to force something into birth, rather than allow the spontaneous process to unfold naturally. I understand this frustration, when there is so much suffering and you can't keep on, yet I feel there is no choice but to bear with the suffering. In the end it all comes at the right time, and as I wrote on another thread, for me this happened just at the right time. It's like if a part of me knew that this would happen at this space/time, after I had travelled in my understanding.
I also feel a strong connection with shamanic/toltec teachings. As I understand it, recapitulation frees, through UNDERSTANDING, the part of us which are trapped in lies, in illusion, in the timeloop, in the illusory "past". Then not-doing allows us to adjust our patterns / habits to these new energies which have come back to us.
Any thoughts on this?
(I need to admit, once and for all, that it's strange for me to write like this, I'm always afraid of coming across as arrogant, yet I know this is part of my old self I have to let go. I understood today that sometimes what is selfish/STS is to hold the things we know are true. I also know self-expression is one of the most healing thing, both for self and otherself)