This month in Our Breath Mastery Training, we have been exploring the practice and process of Rebirthing Breathwork
developed by Leonard Orr.
One of the first seminars in the Rebirthing program was called the Spiritual Psychology Seminar.” A central idea in
Spiritual Psychology is the idea that “Thought is Creative.”
This means we create our experience of life and reality with our conscious and unconscious mind. And the principle
is simple: positive thoughts produce positive results and negative thoughts produce negative results.
We learned that as soon as we change our thoughts and beliefs, our experience of the world changes, our reality
changes. And so, in Rebirthing Breathwork we examine our thoughts and beliefs, especially those formed at birth and
early in life.
In Spiritual Psychology and creative thinking, there are three principles:
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The Analysis Principle
Since my thoughts create my
reality, if I look at my life, I can learn what thoughts I must be thinking (consciously or unconsciously) to
create or attract such a reality.
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The Goals Principle
What kind of reality do I want to
experience? What kind of life do I want to create? This tells me what kind of thoughts I need to think to create
such a reality.
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The Affirmations Principle
This is the art of creating
powerful thoughts—affirmations—which are like seeds that we plant in our unconscious mind to produce a desired
result.
The first step to uncovering our unconscious thoughts and beliefs is a process called “Five Minutes of Uncensored
Thinking.” I encourage you to take some time and do this work.
The idea is to observe your stream of consciousness for five minutes, and to write down every thought that passes
through your mind. Keep your pen moving and try to catch every single thought that arises.
After five minutes, review the thoughts you captured and mark each thought that seems negative or limiting. Then
create positive affirmations to reverse or neutralize any negative or limiting thoughts you hold.
Do this practice every day for a week or so to see how you can gradually process your unconscious mind. And develop
your ability to create powerful affirmations to neutralize or reverse the effect of the negative and limiting
thoughts that you uncover.
When we work with affirmations, we use a page with two columns: on the left is the affirmation column, and on the
right is the response column.
We write the affirmation at least 20 times in one sitting. And we use our mind’s response to adjust and refine our
affirmation.
When you work with affirmations, we make sure to use your name (or a nickname you had as a child) and write the
affirmation in all three persons.
For example: “I Dan, deserve love. Dan, you deserve love. Dan, he deserves love.” We do this because we took on
negative programming and limiting beliefs in these three ways.
And, if I begin with the affirmation “I Dan deserve love.” And after writing it, I have the thought: “That would be
nice if it was true.” I will use that response to tweak my affirmation: “It is true that I Dan deserve love.”
Or if my mind reacts to the affirmation: “I Dan deserve love, my mind’s response is: “only if I am good.” Then I
adjust my affirmation to: “I deserve love whether I am Good or not.” In this way we process our mind.
In Rebirthing, we talk about our “Personal Law.” This is the most negative or limiting thought we have. It is a deep
impression upon which all our other thoughts and feelings are built or depend.
This thought is often unconscious and formed around the time of our birth. Since this is usually a negative
impression or belief that goes against the truth of our being—our divine nature and our essence, we also called it
our “personal lie.”
If we can uncover or identify this thought and change it, then all the other negative thoughts that it feed and
support it will automatically collapse.
It's like the game we play with dominoes where we stand them all up in a row. When we knock the first one down,
we trigger a chain reaction, and they all get knocked over.
Every Rebirthing Session is an opportunity for us to re-parent ourselves. To recover from sins of commission and
sins of omission that we suffered.
Another powerful exercise is what we call our “Purpose in Life Process.” It was created by Phil Laut one of the
early Rebirthers. And this is another homework assignment for you!
It starts by making a list of all your favorite qualities, talents, traits, and abilities—all the positive aspects
of yourself and your personality. (for example: generosity, patience, compassion, intuition, ability to listen,
creativity, courage, etc.) Try to list at least 20 things.
The second list is a list of things you enjoy doing, things that you love to do. These are action words: teaching,
traveling, listening to music, cooking, reading, gardening, hiking, praying, speaking, writing, problem-solving,
dressing up, making love, etc. (Try to list at least 20 things)
The next step is to write down your idea of “heaven on earth” or your idea of “the perfect world.” It should be a
small paragraph—about three sentences.
Now you are ready to create a statement of your purpose in life.
“My purpose in life is to use my _______, my _______, and my _______ (pick three personal qualities from your first
list); by ________, and ________, and ________, (pick three action words from your second list); so that
____________ (connect it to your idea of the perfect world.”
For example, my statement might be:
“My purpose in life is to use my courage, my intuition, and my compassion; by learning and traveling, and teaching;
so that I help to create a world full of peace and harmony, free of pollution and violence, and where everyone is
free to do what they truly love and to become all they are meant to be.”
After doing this Spiritual Psychology work and writing out your "Purpose in Life" Do several rounds of 20
Connected Breaths.
For those of you who are not familiar with the 20 Connected Breaths Exercise, the way you do it is to count twenty
connected breaths and make every fifth breath a long inhale and a big sigh of relief.
Do the set of 20 Connected Breaths in a very fast, active, and powerful way. Then do another set in a very gentle,
subtle, conscious way. Go back and forth like this a few times and meditate on your energy before and after each
set. Make sure that you breathe with full body awareness. Make sure you are infusing every cell with breath-energy.
Then find a set of 20 Connected Breaths that bring together both active and powerful, yet gentle and subtle. Find
that sweet spot that incorporates both versions of 20 Connected Breaths. And feel each breath sending a pulse or a
wave through your whole body.
After some time, you will feel both energized and alert, and calm and relaxed. You should be buzzing and tingling…
Do an inquiry… What do you think might be a possible consciousness factor related to your birth, infancy, or
childhood? And then breathe about it… breathe into it.
Somewhere in the bible it says: “…be transformed by the renewing of your mind. These spiritual psychology exercises
in Rebirthing Breathwork are very practical ways to accomplish this.
Good luck in your practice, and enjoy the process!
Love to all,
