Breathe Away Your Tension

by Bruno Hans Geba

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039473470X
• ISBN13: 9780394734705
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Random House (NY)
• Length: 183 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Body Gestalt Workbook for two persons

From "Introduction": "I am Bruno. In this book I will talk to you about your awareness (where your head is) and your body (where you are). Your body can only be in the present. It is at every moment of your life a part of that very moment. Every breath you take, you take here and now. Your body IS. The place is here; the time is now. It is different with your awareness. During most of your life, your awareness is not in the present. Either you anticipate what might happen or you reminisce about what should have happened. Your head is in the future or in the past. You worry today about tomorrow. Your body and awareness are split. When you live this way you not only miss out on the present, you create tension, anxiety and dis-EASE. I call this lifestyle attitude Body Awareness Split (BAS). GEBA Therapy is a method to help you bring your body and your awareness back together. GEBA stands for GEstalt Body-Awareness. When you have GEBA, you live your life in the present. You allow YourSELF to experience your life as it happens from moment to moment. You have your body and your awareness together. They form a whole - a Gestalt, as they say in German. Through this book you can learn HOW to have Gestalt Body-Awareness and HOW to integrate this new lifestyle attitude into everyday living. Throughout the book, 'attitude' refers to the relationship of your awareness to your body." Structure of the book: "The book is divided into 5 weeks. During each weekly section, you will be introduced to a new routine. Although the book presents the routines over a 5-week time period, your individual progress may vary. You might progress at a faster or a slower rate or in spurts and jumps, depending on your personal nature. Time is not important. It is only important that you can successfully experience each routine before going on to the next one. You will soon know when to continue practicing a routine or when to move on to the next. The only true criterion throughout the book is your own experience. I have written this book primarily for 2 people working together on different routines which I call 'explorations.' The book is addressed directly to the person who will play a supportive role in these explorations. The person will read the book and relay the necessary instructions to his friend, who will actually be doing the different explorations. ... In each weekly routine, GEBA Therapy presents various supportive practices, energy explorations, and sonance explorations. Supportive Practices bring you into direct body contact with your friend. Through touch and body manipulation, you become more aware of your body. Energy Explorations help you surrender yourself and reach the energy state. The energy state is experienced somewhere between being awake and being asleep. You have probably been in this state before for brief periods of time without ever stopping to explore it or feel what it is like. It is a state which op