This young man, aware of his own dissatisfaction, experiments with various workshops including assertiveness training. But, as he sees it, being assertive is being tough, hard, nasty. He has become aware of his passivity, but not the underlying reason. Rebirthing, by getting him to breathe, puts him straight into his body and back into the angry, painful scenes of being impotent and unlovable. And then below that, to his feelings of being wrong.
Clients do sometimes reexperience their birth.
The main focus of Rebirthing is to put people in contact with their experience in the here and now, and with their potential. Rebirthing supports people in recreating their lives, taking control and responsibility, in a life-change that can feel as profound as birth itself. Clients may also experience a breathing release. This is a deeply satisfying experience where breathing, having perhaps been held for a moment, suddenly becomes completely free. The person effortlessly takes in huge breaths, and the sensation of the breath is uniquely pleasurable.