D -RXUQDO7KH+HDOLQJ%UHDWK RI %UHDWKZRUN 3UDFWLFH 3V\FKRORJ\ DQG 6SLULWXDOLW\ *HQHUDO (GLWRU -R\ 0DQQp 3K' (PDLO -R\0DQQH#VZLVVRQOLQHFK VOLUME I, NO. 3, SEPTEMBER 1999 CONTENTS Articles Breath Is A Language by Joy Manné, Ph.D. ....................................................................... 3 Sharing The Breath by Wilfried Ehrmann, Ph.D ............................................................... 35 Rebirthing And Domestic Abuse by Cathering Dowling.................................................... 47 Hot Water Breathwork by Tilke Platteel-Deur ................................................................... 59 Book Reviews ................................................................................................................... 71 Jon Klimo, Channeling: Investigations On Receiving Information From Paranormal Sources. 71 Judee Gee, Intuition: Awakening Your Inner Guide: A Beginners’ Book; Complete Instructions. ................................................................................................................................................. 74 Deike Begg, Rebirthing: Freedom From Your Past. .................................................................. 75 Nancy Zi. The Art Of Breathing: Six Simple Lessons To Improve Performance, Health And Well- Being, . ..................................................................................................................................... 78 Nancy Zi, Video: The Art Of Breathing: Six Simple Lessons To Improve Performance, Health And Well-Being......................................................................................................................... 78 Adverts The Healing Breath is open to receive appropriate advertisements. Queries to be addressed to the editor. Submissions These should be sent by email, as an attachment to an email, or on diskette in rtf format. For information about submissions see Statement of Purpose and Call for Papers on The Healing Breath website, www.i- The Healing Breath, Volume 1, No. 3 – page 1 breathe.com. Peer Review Articles will be peer reviewed. Copyright All rights reserved to The Healing Breath under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. You may freely download articles for your own use. However, no part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including printing, photocopying and displaying for any other than personal purposes without the written permission of the publisher. Enquiries to [email protected] The Healing Breath may from time to time, with the publisher and author’s permission, publish papers that have already been published elsewhere in order to bring quality information about Breathwork to the widest possible audience. These papers will be acknowledged as already published. Editorial Board David Brazier, Ph.D., Meditation teacher, Buddhist psychotherapist. Wilfried Ehrmann, Ph.D., Breathworker, Teacher of Breathwork and related techniques Prof. dr. Ria Kloppenborg, Head, Department History of Religions, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Jim Morningstar, Ph.D., Breathworker, Teacher of Breathwork and related techniques Tilke Platteel-Deur, Breathworker, Teacher of Breathwork and related techniques Hilde Rapp, psychotherapist Kylea Taylor, M.S., M.F.C.C. (Marriage, Family, and Child Counselor), Holotropic Breathwork™ Practitioner, psychotherapist Bo Wahlström, Breathworker, Teacher of Breathwork and related techniques The Healing Breath is published three times per year, at the end of January, May and September. Each number will remain on the internet for 4 months, until replaced by the following number. The Healing Breath plans to publish a volume of papers every year. The Healing Breath, Volume 1, No. 3 – page 2 BREATH IS A LANGUAGE1 by Joy Manné, PhD. TABLE OF CONTENTS I BREATH IS A LANGUAGE .............................................................................................. 2 II BREATH IS A LANGUAGE OF ILLNESS ...................................................................... 4 Hyperventilation ..........................................................................................................................................................4 Is hyperventilation a myth? .................................................................................................................6 III BREATH IS A LANGUAGE OF HEALTH ....................................................................... 8 Breath in different systems of Medicine.....................................................................................................................10 IV BREATH IS A LANGUAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY................................................... 12 Breath is a language of emotion .................................................................................................................................13 Body language is a dialect of breath language............................................................................................................13 Relationships are a dialect of breath language............................................................................................................14 Nose-breathing and Mouth-breathing are different dialects of breath language..........................................................16 Psychotherapists understanding breath language .......................................................................................................17 1. Breathwork influenced by Psychoanalysis ...................................................................................17 2. Reichian Therapy.........................................................................................................................18 3. Breathwork influenced by Analytical Psychology........................................................................19 4. Rebirthing....................................................................................................................................19 5. Conscious Breathing Techniques.................................................................................................20 V BREATH IS THE LANGUAGE OF SEX....................................................................... 23 VI BREATH IS THE LANGUAGE OF SPIRIT .................................................................. 23 Breath is the language of Energy ...............................................................................................................................26 Breath is the language of love....................................................................................................................................26 Breath is the language of prayer.................................................................................................................................27 Breath and Spirit: the task of the therapist/accompanist ....................................................27 VII. DIALECTS OF BREATH LANGUAGE ........................................................................ 27 Laughter is a Dialect of Breath Language ..................................................................................................................28 Singing is a dialect of Breath Language.....................................................................................................................28 1 Paper presented at the Fourth Global Inspiration Conference of the International Breathwork Foundation, “Breathwork and Psychotherapy,” Kirchberg/Pielach, Austria, June 1997, and published in the Lectures and Transcripts. The Healing Breath, Volume 1, No. 3 – page 3 Speaking is a Dialect of Breath Language..................................................................................................................28 Smoking Is a Dialect of Breath Language ..................................................................................................................30 And Farting?..............................................................................................................................................................31 BIBLIOGRAPHY................................................................................................................ 31 GLOSSARY ...................................................................................................................... 35 The Healing Breath, Volume 1, No. 3 – page 4 I. BREATH IS A LANGUAGE1 When we take our first breath we inform the world that we are alive, and when we finally stop drawing breath, we inform the world of our departure. Breath is a language. Breath is a language with its own vocabulary. Among its words are long breaths and short breaths, and more or less noisy breaths: puffing, panting, yawning, gasps, snorts and sighs. Some gestures combine movement with sound effects. The bull snorts when he is angry. People who are furious usually take short breaths and expel the air through their nostrils in spurts similar to snorting. In a sorrowful situation, highly emotional people take deep breaths and expel the air slowly, making long, sighing sounds. Breathing also plays a prominent part in the communication of frustration and disgust. (Nierenberg & Calero, p. 78f) Coughing, choking and suffocating, too, are part of the vocabulary of breath language. This is what Georg Groddeck says about coughs: A cough, any sort of cough, expresses the wish either to blow off something which is regarded as unpleasant, or to get rid