Today I’m going to talk a little more about Bioflow® and the breathing technique we use. On top of the resignifications of contents that I’ve spoken about, we practice a tailored and novel breathing technique. This technique helps to gain access to feelings and patterns that we are not usually conscious of.
It is important to note that our breathing technique was developed specifically to achieve certain results, and also to avoid risks or pitfalls, and differs significantly from different breathing techniques practiced in other schools.
In a very simplified description, during the breathing sessions the client lies down and the Bioflow® professional positions to the side. The client is asked to breathe following certain guidelines, and the professional follows up and provides guidance. Because of the nature of the technique and its many nuances, this breathing will allow, through a process that is personal and unique to each person, to enter into contact with emotions stored in the body. This process, carefully managed, enables the conscious mind access to content that had previously been unconscious.
This might sound simple and of little impact, but although simple in nature, doing this has the capacity to transform whole perspectives and ultimately lives themselves. I will go into more detail about the breathing later on.
But at this point the question I want you to ask is why did we push emotions away in the first place?
As human beings, we are always feeling emotions. Nevertheless, most people only recognize they are feeling an emotion when it’s very strong, and they miss the plethora of subtler emotions that happen throughout the day. There are many reasons for this; some are cultural, and they have to do with which gender we are, for example.
But the main reason we bury emotions is in fact very simple, and that is to escape emotional pain. We learn to do this as children or even earlier, as babies. The younger we were, the more fragile as well, and more unable to process and deal with emotional pain.
So way back then, we learned to hide emotional pain and to escape from it. Our brain made the decision to disconnect us from the pain, to “forget” about it. In this process, other emotions we felt at the same time, like anger, vulnerability, sadness, and many others were buried within as well.
Trying to escape suffering, we trained ourselves to feel less, and our capacity to experience and recognize our emotions diminished considerably.
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