Holotropic breathing is a technique for performing at home with video

Recently it has become fashionable to get involved in various breathing techniques that are used in modern psychology. Increasingly, it is possible to come across information about a particular psychotechnology, the method of its implementation, effectiveness, different responses. Holotropic breathing also applies here. Many people talk on this subject, attend seminars, trainings, express their impressions, share their experience. Let's see what this technique is like, how and for what it is used.

What is Holotropic Breathing?

If you look at the term "holotropic" for parts, its origin comes from the Greek words holos( translated: whole, holistic) and tropein( lead).When the meanings of the translated terms are combined, "breathing leading to integrity" is obtained. This is a kind of psychotherapy with work on a person's personal growth, is a special breathing technique, which people are engaged in for some time with music.

Holotropic breath triggers a chain of chemical reactions in the body of people, which leads to changes in the work of the nervous system: the structures responsible for unconscious processes, long-term memory, emotions are activated. This is the therapy with breathing at the deep level, which frees the personality from long-standing psychological traumas. After a certain time, the patient is transformed, cured of illnesses.

The breathing exercises with holotropic technique were developed by an American psychologist named Stanislav Grof in the fifties. Twenty years later, when many positive studies were made, the methodology was officially recognized and resolved around the world as an alternative method. It is used instead of using psychotropic drugs and is considered an effective therapy for patients.

The purpose of therapeutic exercises with breathing with the help of holotropic techniques is to heal a person so that he attains integrity while immersing himself on one of the deepest levels of consciousness. The basis on which such a technique is based is the totality of the spiritual and psychological practices of the whole world acquired by mankind for many millennia of existence.

In practice, classes involving this unique technique look like this: rapid, deep, coherent breathing is performed without pauses between inspiration and exhalation;The exercises are accompanied by stimulating rhythmic music. As a result, a person becomes immersed in an unusual state, during which he receives a stream of unconscious experience. Then, drawing, dancing, discussion of the process is connected to the technique.

Holotropic Breath: Harm or Benefit?

This breathing technique, like that of drugs, has a positive and negative impact on human health with side effects, so the opinions of psychotherapists are radically divided. Those who practice holotropic breathing in practice, argue that this is the safest way to treat psychological problems. The rest of the experts consider the technique very dangerous for the psyche and physical condition of the patient. This is the negative impact of this breathing technique on human health:

• It is compared to how a woman breathes during labor, an athlete in a sprint race, a tourist when she goes up into the mountains. As a result, the following occurs: the level of carbon dioxide in the tissues sharply increases, which causes hyperventilation of the lungs. These processes are the catalyst for such dangerous reactions as: reflex narrowing of blood vessels, a sharp increase in blood pressure, a decrease in hemoglobin in the blood, a violation of metabolism. A person experiences a temporary strangulation of the brain, the nerve endings gradually begin to die off.
• In the course of one lesson with breathing with the help of holotropic technology, the human body loses up to three liters of carbon dioxide, which can lead to dizziness, unconsciousness.
• If you perform such holotropic therapy yourself without knowing all the features of the correct breathing technique, there is a risk of brain edema and death.
• After doing one wrong manipulation while taking a breath with holotropic technique at home, it is possible to cause irreparable harm to the central nervous system, myocardium, liver, kidneys.

Psychotherapists, who are supporters of the holotropic method of therapeutic breathing, hold the opposite opinion. They argue that an absolutely healthy person who has no contraindications and has received professional training from followers of Stanislav Grof's students in certified centers will receive only a positive effect on health. Here's how this technique affects the human body:

• Holotropic breathing is considered the fastest technique among the rest of the psychotechnician. It leads to rapid personal changes. This happens because during the holotropic occupation, not every traumatic situation from the past is examined separately, but a whole generalizing block.
• Your internal system of the body chooses which psychological problem should be considered at the moment, due to which the specialist psychologist does not manipulate your consciousness( unlike other areas of psychotherapy).This is called a non-manipulative feature of holotropic technology.
• The breathing on which this technique is based helps to study the deepest particles of negative psychological experience during the session.
• Thanks to his studies using the holotropic technique, a person, during breathing, realizes the roots of his psychological stress and is freed from them.
• The technique of breathing by holotropic technique effectively treats psychosomatic illnesses( pathologies caused by the negative psychological state of a person), even in the most hopeless cases.
• The patient can easily overcome bad habits, dependence, attending classes based on rapid breathing.
• Carrying out exercises of their holotropic technique, a person almost immediately gets rid of the effects of chronic stress, fatigue, a sense of inner harmony returns to him.

What else does holotropic breathing use for?

A holotropic technique with unique breathing can not be considered a panacea for all ills and diseases of people, however its application still has its positive effect in many cases. The use of such respiratory psychotherapy is so broad that it is compared with the infinite possibilities of human consciousness. Holotropic breathing has been successfully used not only to treat psychological pathologies. It is effective in the fight against excess weight;works well during therapy from drug or alcohol dependence. How does this breathing technique work to cure certain problems:

• For weight loss. During the application of respiration used in holotropic therapy, hyperventilation of the lungs occurs. The body receives a huge amount of oxygen, which contributes to the efficient burning of fat cells. As a result of this breathing, metabolic processes are accelerated, and this helps to cleanse the body of harmful substances and toxins.
• For the treatment of alcoholism. Holotropic respiratory equipment has a therapeutic effect for patients suffering from alcohol dependence. With its use, a person sinks into the depths of his consciousness and faces negative experiences that led him to this problem. The patient experiences this situation in his head in a new way, receives awareness and heals from the injury he received earlier. The need for alcohol doping disappears, which allows successfully overcome the dependence.

How does the group session go?

To perform breathing on holotropic technology in specialized centers, appropriate conditions are created that are aimed at relaxing the person and freeing oneself from negative experiences. This is achieved by fulfilling the simple requirements that are necessary for classes:

• A group session using holotropic breathing equipment is held in the form of seminars, the number of which depends on the individual problems of each visitor( from 8 to 15 sessions).
• The duration of one lesson can vary from three to eight hours.
• Participants split in pairs: one will act as a sitter( an assistant who provides security for the person who does the breathing), and the other is a holonaut( breathing).
• The lesson begins with relaxation and relaxation under specially selected rhythmic music( it helps to keep the heart and respiratory rhythms).
• When the main stage of the breathing session comes to an end, all participants begin to express their emotions creatively: they paint, freely dance, mold the fancy figures from the clay. If they want, they can discuss everything that they have experienced during these hours.
• The lesson is accompanied by specially selected music( read more about it).

Is it possible to master this technique independently?

If you unequivocally decided for yourself that you are able to engage in this method of self-knowledge, and have a great desire, at home, self-mastering holotropic techniques with a certain way of breathing is possible. Thanks to Internet resources, specialized literature, various video lessons, you have a unique opportunity to conduct classes effectively. Read more about the holotropic technique of quick breathing, which you can do at home on your own.

Holotropic breathing techniques at home

When doing homework with the use of holotropic technology, minus for the full session is the absence of a sitter. If a novice trainee has the opportunity to secure a pair - ideally. The impossibility of doing a session with a "nanny" can not be an obstacle to the application of this technique. Here are important recommendations for home classes, during which holotropic breathing is used:

• Before a session, choose a comfortable room for the session, before ventilating it.
• Stock up with suitable music( more specifically, see the separate paragraph below).
• Determine for yourself what specific problem you want to solve with the help of holotropic therapy with rapid breathing( personal or family, for example).You have to breathe to achieve a specific effect, not for the sake of the process itself.
• Perform maximum deep, frequent inhalation-exhalations, do not pause in breathing. Additional special recommendations are not needed here, this is a non-verbal technique, which consists in minimal intervention during the session. In some ways, it can be compared with meditation.
• Use different positions of the body that will prompt your consciousness. After experiencing emotional experience, take care of your favorite creative process, for example, drawing the seen images, dancing, modeling of clay or plasticine.
• You must understand the emotions experienced.

What kind of music is needed?

Choose a relaxed music: sounds of nature, tambourine, drumbeat. It will be better if for each stage you choose different musical selections. In the beginning there should be a stimulating and stimulating melody, then a dramatic mixed with a dynamic melody. In the end, there must be a musical breakthrough with the transition to a more calm, meditative music. See a step-by-step description of the musical accompaniment of the whole lesson in Holotropic Technique:

1. The first 8 seconds of the session should sound light music, stimulating, stimulating breathing.
2. Up to 20 seconds of class, record an even more breath-stimulating melody.
3. The next 20 seconds of the holotropic occupation should sound an ethnic record using a drumbeat.
4. After - the intensity of the breathing exercises with the holotropic technique is replaced by the trance state, so the next 35 seconds should sound a dramatic melody.
5. Then there is a decline in drama, and the style of musical accompaniment gives way to warm, warm music. This lasts for the next 15 seconds of practicing breathing in the holotropic technique.
6. After - the melody should smoothly go into a calm, but keep the intensity. Such a rhythm should be observed until the very end of the breathing exercise in holotropic technique.

Medical contraindications for use

Before performing breathing exercises, you need to find out if you have any medical contraindications to the use of this technique. There are many contraindications to doing this kind of breathing. Read the detailed list of diseases / indications that prevent the use of holotropic therapy:

• In the course of conducting a session on rapid breathing, a person can experience emotional outbursts, stresses, and physically experience their experiences( through fever, for example).For those who suffer from angina, hypertension, heart failure, asthma - all this is very dangerous and can lead to death.
• Pregnancy. This can lead to fetal death in the womb.
• Classes using holotropic therapy are not indicated if a person suffers from epilepsy. The use of such a technique increases the risk of a seizure from the received emotions.
• Do not use holotropic equipment if you have recently undergone surgery or any kind of injury. Exercises with intense breathing can lead to rupture of the joints.
• Contraindications are lessons based on the holotropic technique during the acute stage of infectious diseases.
• Children under the age of 14 are not admitted to such sessions.

Video lesson: How to learn to breathe properly

If you want to effectively apply holotropic techniques, it is important to learn how to breathe properly. Otherwise, it will not only have no effect in the therapy process, but can even lead to huge health problems and irreversible processes in the body with a fatal outcome. Read below with an exhaustive video tutorial that teaches the proper breathing technique during a holotropic session. So you will learn many useful recommendations, instructions that will help you get the healing effect of using this method.

Reviews

Maria, 45 years old

When I happened to attend the first session of the holotropic occupation, at first I was skeptical. However, being immediately in the role of holotropa, I felt the tremendous energy of my psychological potential, got such experience that I can not even describe in words. I really realized how deeply hidden my psychological problems are, how they bind me and what needs to be done to eliminate them. During the breathing session on the holotropic technique, I received a huge charge, which prompted me to start a new successful life.

Elena, 30 years old

Five years ago I suffered a serious spinal injury as a result of a car accident. Physically I was able to recover, but at night I slept very badly: I had nightmares about how I was going through it again. Recently I began attending classes on holotropic methods. Every time for me this breathing technique is like a new ray of light, which opens up more and more possibilities. I have ceased to dream bad dreams, I sleep like a baby. I am very pleased with these studies, I advise everyone!

Hope, 28 years old

If you visit at least one lesson of Holotropes, immediately change your worldview, you will receive a huge revaluation of values, as happened with me. However, this breathing technique works for half a year, then it must be repeated. Recently I started to study at home. This, however, is not as interesting as during group sessions with rapid breathing, but there is also a positive effect.

Andrew, 48 years old

A couple of years ago I happened to attend a lesson where holotropic breathing is practiced( a friend recommended).Everything was delirious, and I did not like it terribly: some incomprehensible periodic dizziness, silly rules of inspiration-exhalation. What can be a healer in when people simply communicate, engage in a particular quickened breathing, drawing? Personally, I did not get any effect. Perhaps this requires a certain attitude and faith, like my friend. He praises these exercises on breathing, he helped them solve some health issues, unlike doctors.