In order to acquaint you with my qualifications I
could tell
you that this is my 19th year in the field, and that I learned Rebirthing
from Leonard Orr, the creator of Rebirthing, and that during this time
the profession has grown, as have I. I could tell you that to further
my work I have become a Master
Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming, a Reiki Master,
a certified Therapeutic
Touch Practitioner, and I am currently engaged in Craniosacral,
Healing
Touch, and Alternative
to Violence courses. I could mention that I have also
taken many other natural healing courses, including Jin Shin Do,
Touch
for Health, Colour Therapy,
Craniosacral,
and Gem
and Flower Essences. You might want to know I have also
undergone multi healings of myself, that I belong to the Canadian
Board of Natural Health Care Practitioners, and that I
take an active interest in associated activities in my city.
While all of these may increase your comfort level, none of them would
tell you why I should be the person you should choose.
If you tell someone about the Grand Canyon they'll probably agree that
it's majestic, even if they haven't been there. If they have
experienced it, they'll also be in touch with a whole class of
knowledge that can't be obtained from second-hand sources.
What I teach and use, I know works, because I have experienced numerous
sessions myself. If you want the whole story, read on.
We all have our wounds and our stories to tell and I am no different.
If I am to believe that we pick our race, culture, family, and life
lessons, then my life is right on track. I can blame no one for the
past, it was all an experience that my soul needed in order to develop
and elevate itself.
I was a War
baby, raised to be
good and obedient. This meant that all emotions, except for 'nice' ones
were forbidden and I learnt very early to stuff everything away inside.
Eventually the feelings came out in an outburst, or more often than
not, in sickness. By the time I was in my teens I was considered to be
too high strung and by my twenties I was often out of control. There
was alcoholism in my family, and my moods also went up and down with
the tensions and binges associated with the family member's illness. I
was fat, needed glasses, had a crippling lack of self-esteem and was
very unhappy.
My search for healing
and wholeness
began in my early twenties when I joined a new family, one which it
took me years to realize was a religious cult. Years of mind control,
visits to the hospital where I was labelled Manic Depressive, countless
drugs, programs, therapy, and diets made some difference, but had me
terrified not only of life, but of myself also.
Somewhere within me I knew that there must a better way to exist than
being controlled or drugged. The drugs had made my weight balloon up,
scarred my face, and damaged my vision. This was no way to live. I read
every book on self-improvement or psychology that I could find, took
every seminar or course I could afford, joined a gym, did yoga, learned
to ski, performed volunteer work, fasted, wrote countless affirmations,
listened to subliminals, spent year after year in Jungian, Freudien and
Adlerian therapy, or support groups, was hypnotized, put on a time
line, discovered my inner child, my wild woman, and the Goddess within,
learned to meditate, chanted, drummed, had my numerology and
astrological charts done, used color therapy, went into my past lives,
and more. So much more.
I still did
not feel much
better inside, because no one had ever let me get the blocked energy
out, all those emotions and traumas I had stuffed inside so long ago.
One day while I was sitting at my computer at work , I was handed
another meaningless report to do. Was this all there was? That thought
made me think about my life - I hated my job, had no husband, no
university education, no house, no car, no fun, no money. My life had
become survival, not living, and I knew I had to either get better or
end my life. There are just so many times I could get up and get going
again. I could not survive one more event, buck myself up one more
time, or get over one more thing. My father had died, I'd recuperated
from being accidentally sprayed with DDT while on vacation which had
left me paralyzed for a year, I had just come back from major surgery,
was weakened by Epstein Barr Syndrome, and I had totally had it. The
past was understandable, and forgiveable, but the pain inside was still
unbearable. It was then that I discovered Rebirthing.
Rebirthing gave me back my life. It gave me back me, and it was all so
simple.
All it required was to to learn a serious of conscious connected
breaths which made me take energy, prana, or chi, into my body.
Frightened people, and people who hold their feelings in are usually
poor breathers. Within a few months I had changed my eyeglass
prescription three times for lesser prescriptions because so much
tension had left my body. Without trying to decipher the past, the
emotional traumas and blocks within me were released sometimes quickly,
sometimes easily, and sometimes they rushed out. I could not control
the sessions, nor was my facilitator pushing me into anything or giving
me an interpretation of what was going on inside of me. From session
one I began to feel calmer, more settled inside, less afraid of myself,
and more grounded. I finally knew what it felt like to be alive.
I became much more confident and centered, and knew that this would be
my life's work. By the summer of that year I found myself in California
studying Rebirthing.vv Within a year I quit my position with the
Canadian government, and began building my practice from my home by
working on whomever I could. Everyone close to me thought that I was
going through menopause, or having a nervous breakdown because no one
quits a government job with a cushy pension to do something few people
have heard of.
The way this work
has benefitted me
most is that my life is much more in balance. I am happier. I am what I
consider to be a recovering Manic Depressive as I have been drug free
for over fifteen years. My life is working.
Because
what we don't heal we pass on, I realized that I could have been in
other therapies for the rest of my life, and never gotten to the roots
of my problems. Certainly some of the issues were mine, but what had
come down the tubes to me in the cells when I was in the womb?
So many of our patterns began in the womb, as that is where we first
began to experience and react to stress and pressure. We are much like
a computer and womb experience is the hard programming which is not
easy to change, except by doing energy work.
Rebirthing is not addictive. It can become a lifestyle, or choice.
Usually I work with people for no more than 10 two-hour sessions. Not
everything will be sorted out during this time, and we usually
recommend another therapist, or type of therapy, as each healing
modality or facilitator will trigger a different set of responses or
bring up new material for you. Generally after ten sessions your most
intense material has surfaced and you are encouraged to rebirth
yourself often. Because rebirthing involves an energy exchange, self
rebirthing is not usually as intense as when you have a sitter.
Rebirthers are committed to clearing their own issues, and I believe
that a client will only go into their own inner self to the extent that
their therapist has gone into their self. If the therapist has not done
any work on themselves, the client will not feel safe or free to go
inside themself.
Rebirthing is
fast, easy, fun, and
very natural. I encourage everyone to try it at least once. It just may
change your life, as it has mine.