Birth Into Being - Day 1: The Soul's Purpose

Birth Into Being – Day 1.

Soul’s Purpose

I recently attended a Birth Into Being workshop with my boss, Elena Tonetti. In these workshops, which are often called birthshops, the emotional part of your brain is “rebirthed”. Sounds kooky heh? Well it's the most healing and therapeutic and by far, one of the greatest things I have ever done for myself.

Elena Tonetti’s Birth Into Being workshops help people to heal the emotionally damaged part of the brain. She does this with a process called Limbic Imprint ReCoding. This process creates a new point of reference that in turn will help one to live and function on a higher frequency. This new point of reference will serve as a starting point for all decision making.

How does this part get damaged in the first place? A traumatic birth, traumatic gestation, and/or pre-verbal phase of a person’s life. Judging by the number of people that pay thousands of dollars for this workshop, traumatic births are extremely common. I personally, didn’t have a traumatic birth, but being the first baby born after 2 miscarriages, my parents were honestly afraid to get their hopes up while I was in the womb. My mother developed a mild anxiety which has oozed into my cells. When I was four my parents got a divorce, and by the time I was nine, my Dad was out of our lives. During these elementary years I slowly closed down. I think I may have even stopped talking for a short time. I was definitely deeply afraid to communicate with anyone for fear of rejection. I only confided in my little sister and a few close friends. If I spoke, it was what I thought someone else wanted to hear.

Over the years I have improved, I can obviously speak easily and hold friendships and I am close with a few people. But I still have some anxiety that overwhelms me to where I find it difficult to enjoy certain aspects of my life. For example, remember that time you saw your favorite band and you had so much fun that the entire night was a swift amazing blur of smiles, fun and good feelings? That blur happens to me, but when I have a simple conversation with someone, especially in public. And it is more like a swift, awkward blur of sweaty palms, red cheeks, and unsure sentences. Can you imagine how I have felt when I host my radio show or when I’ve played live music? I love doing and sharing these things but I have so much anxiety it gets hard sometimes. At this point in my life I desperately wanted to share and enjoy all of my creative passions without fear and nervous regret. I needed a change. I needed it bad.

Elena, the Birth Into Being owner, facilitator, and all around female genius, lead the workshop. The first half of the day was strictly a “get to know each other” discussion. Our births, our spirituality, our simple life story. I already felt the anxiety and fear blanketing me as the time to share neared. I thought to myself. What am I here for? Why did I pay all this money? (Well, technically my mom helped out a lot).Why did I take time off work?

I needed to shit or get off the pot. I began telling my story. Normally as I look at people I purposefully blur my eyes. They see me, but I don't see them. I looked at Elena's face. She looked directly into my eyes. I blurred her out. Wait! What am I doing!? I am a part of this. I deserve to be here and share and heal. I am exactly like all of these amazing people. I have a story to tell. I have a right to heal myself. I focused my eyes. I focused my story. 30 people smiled back at me. A few people even laughed when I called my boyfriend "my gentleman friend". I was heard. I was acknowledged, and I was an equal.

By lunch, I felt an overwhelming since of safety. These people around me were loving, good-natured, and completely supportive. Elena had successfully created what she calls “The Birthing Field”. The vortex of compassionate energy that is meant to resemble the feelings and emotions that human beings should have been offered while they were still in the womb.

For once in my life I actually felt confident and safe in sharing my thoughts, and emotions with people I barely knew. It was the most honest and open experience I have ever had. I found myself not afraid of who to sit by, or who to talk to. All of the participants were willing and open to listen to and share their stories. I was astonished at the empowered feeling I had inside, because we hadn’t even started any processes.

Before we began the first process, we journaled about what we imagined our souls true desire and purpose is. We were to write what we thought our soul looked like before our story began. We choose 3 words that described our essence.

“I am compact and full of life and energy…I strive to create…Smiling reminds me that I am strong….I am full of water…I am flexible and adaptable like a creek.  Smile. Creative. Water.”

Still at this point, not one of us was aware of the amazing transformation that was about to happen to us.

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