Nina Lois Turtledove

On Techniques Releasing Negative Emotions

I been wanting to write about a very easy and accessible technique to release negative emotions. When I was getting colonics for the ulcerative colitis, my hydro-therapist told me about the “baby’s breath.” It is something that one of her babies did, like a pant with the belly moving in and out rapidly, followed by a deep inhalation and loud exhalation. Seen from the perspective of babies being wiser than we often give them credit for, the technique is worthy of considering how to apply to adult life.

Another healer I was working with recommended Dr. Berceli’s book, The Revolutionary Trauma Release Process. I didn’t get the book, as money is tight, but through browsing the web I found that the premise of his book is based on the idea that we shake after a trauma for a reason: it releases the trauma from our system. His book describes how to bring on a state of shaking muscles specifically to release trauma still being held by the body.

I feel that the baby’s breath works the same way- especially for me in my gut region. When I pant and my belly shakes, and then I deeply inhale and exhale, I feel “stuff” dislodging. I love it. It is the only technique that I actually feel working, and I am so grateful for it. I can use it any time, any place, rather discretely. It has also changed the way I cry. I no longer pack it in, but using the breath, crying is the release that it is meant to be.

Health | 6.12.2009 11:52 | No Comments