Rebirthing - the Feeling of the Experience

Rebirthing - the Feeling of the Experience - from a June 20, 1981 journal entry

Rebirthing -- a lilttle death - a little birth. The fear of losing something, the fear of the unknown. The breathing intensifies in fear. Old pains and old fears re-surface — escape but where, the only avenue of escape is breathing — but this is not avoidance — it is breathing through the experience, the experience of no-exit, fear, pain, avoidance, escape — into a new space — a feeling space of oneness of energy and being — a new peace, a deep peace that is not separate from flows of energy and life. The breath changes from the intensity of fear and panic to barely moving — yet finely connectd to all — inner and outer experience. Breathing is feft as a refining, purifying process. The old breath and limiting habit patterns are transformed in the new life — rebirth.