Breathing and emotions
We
explore breathing as a tool that serves not only to supply the oxygen that
cells need to assimilate nutrients and evacuate combustion gases. In addition,
breathing can be used to get to know ourselves, to explore the forms of the
body and the emotional and mental contents that take place in it or are
retained in it. We can use them to improve our ability to respond to the
challenges that life throws at us and to regulate the flow of emotional
processes.
It is
about facilitating the natural movements of breathing, without imposing any
external rhythm, nor being restricted by the limitations of the usual tension
pattern. When we observe the movements of breathing, we find the places where
they are restricted by tension. These usually remain below the threshold of
consciousness. But when we focus our attention on giving ourselves time for the
movement of breathing out and allow the inhale to begin in the deep place we
reach, when we observe how the movement of breathing out orients us towards the
depth of our body and towards the ground, our base of support in the world we
are a part of, the it becomes possible to get aware and familiar with the
sensations the appear. Like this the unconscious emotional and mental contents
that remained fixed in the body during childhood and adolescence emerge as the
tensions that usually restrict respiratory movements begin to let go.
We
discover how we can open the inner spaces of the body from the inside and,
breath by breath, recover a margin of freedom from the restrictive pattern on
the physical plane. When the emotional and mental contents that the tension
maintained below the threshold of consciousness emerge and the belief systems
that derive from them become recognizable, we can evaluate them from an adult
perspective, with more knowledge and, above all, with the support of the entire
planet. That is, we contemplate the notions of how we believe the world is, how
we believe we are and what we believe we can achieve in life, in the form they
have in the body, we review them and bring them up to date. In this way we can appreciate and refine what
serves us and let go of what is no longer appropriate.




