Celebration of Breath: Rebirthing, Book II; Or How to Survive Anything and Heal Your Body

208 Pages·2023·11.271 MB·English

by  Sondra Ray

Breath
By Sondra Ray
How
to survive anything and heal your body

Celebration of Breath

CELEBRATION
OF
BREATH
Book
(Rebirthing, II)
OR
HOW
TO SURVIVE ANYTHING
AND HEAL YOUR BODY
SONDRA RAY
Celestial Arts
Berkeley, California
Copyright © 1983 by Sondra Ray
CelestialArts
P.O. Box7327
Berkeley, California94707
An Introduction to Rebirthingfor Health Professionals is reprinted here by
permission of the author, EveJones, Ph.D.
PortionsofHeal YourBodyarereprintedherewithpermissionoftheauthor,
Louise L. Hay.
Cover design by Colleen Forbes aftera concept by Kaela
Typography by H.M.S. Typography, Inc.
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Manufactured in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Ray, Sondra.
Celebration of breath (rebirthing, book II), or,
How to survive anything and heal your body.
"Suggested recordings and tapes": p. 173
1. Self-actualization (Psychology) 2. Consciousness.
3. Health. I. Title.
BF637.S4R39 1983 131 83-1770
ISBN 0-89087-355-0 (pbk.)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 88 87 86 85 84 83
Dedication I
I dedicate this book to all of you Rebirthers in the world who
have committed yourselves to this work, who understand the
spiritual purification that this process brings and the purity of
consciousness required on your part to initiate someone into
thenext levels of theirspiritual path. To those ofyouwho have
dedicated your lives to thiswork for God andwho treat it with
therespect that it must have, I saluteyou ingratitude. May this
bookmakeyourwork easierby helping to prepareyourclients
and by aligning your own thoughts about Rebirthing with
those of us who have written here.
Dedication II
To my great friends and colleagues who helped me write this
book:
I have unending appreciation
love and respect for you!
You constantly enhance my
life and the lives of many
with the quality of your
love and the excellence of
your work. Working with you
has been, and continues to be,
ecstatic for me. I treasure
your very existence on this
planet every day of my life.
The health of a country is
determined by its Saints.
Acknowledgement
I acknowledge my friend and colleague, Vincent Newlin, for
the title of this book. He has also written some Rebirthing
poetry near the end of the book. The title is appropriate, since
most ofusand ourclientswho really stuckwith Rebirthing are
now really celebrating life! Rebirthers for several years have
been after me to write a new book about Rebirthing, since my
first book, whichwaswritten with Leonard, waswritten at the
beginning of the Rebirthing movement, and things have im-
proved a great deal. Rebirthing has become easier, lighter,
definitely less dramatic and a lot more fun than it was in the
beginning, becauseall ofuswho began it and teach it areeasier
tobewith, lighter, lessdramaticandalotmorefunasaresultof
getting rebirthed for years. Our thoughts about the process
have also changed.
Youwhoarebeginningnowhavetheadvantagethatyoucan
probably master it a lot faster than we did because we are now
clearenoughtoteachitbetter. Youmightsaythatwefinallygot
out of the struggle and into celebrating.
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My
Prayer For This Book
Oh, please let what I write be something beautiful for God!
Oh Babaji, fill me with the truth.
Don't let me be run by the ego
Let me be a perfect channel for you.
Guide my words.
Become my body.
Become my brain
and, especially,
become my breath.
O, be my rebirther
Be my very breath
Breathe life inside me
so that I can
Eliminate death!
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My
Love Letter to You,
the Reader
It is my extreme pleasure to introduce you to the world of
Rebirthing. I feel honored to have been present at the very
beginning of the Rebirthing movement, and it is one of the
thrills of my life to share it with you. Leonard Orr, the founder
of Rebirthing, now prefers to call it Conscious Breathing.
BobbyBirdsall, anotheroneofthoseat thebeginning, nowcalls
it Motivational Breathing. I am still slightly addicted to the
original name, Rebirthing. I like it. That is the truth for me. I
wrote an earlier book on Rebirthing called Rebirthing in the
New Age with Leonard. It was written at the beginning of
Rebirthingwhenwe"pioneers"wereexploringit, wereawedby
it, and were trying to understand it.
Nowit istime to writeabout it from anewperspective. After
seven years, I feel even more in awe of it, even more excited
about it, and even morecommitted to it. It nevergetsboring to
me. I feel that the deeper you go into the spirit of it, the more
interesting it gets. I can only say I want everyone to have the
experience. I want everyone to know how it can heal the body,
how it brings joy and happiness out, how it increases aliveness
and has a youthingeffect on the body, how it increases psychic
ability and develops intuitive power, how it releases old hurt,
pain and misery, and how it increasesloveandprosperity. Who
would not want to have the experience? Who would not want
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