What is Recapitulation?
Energetic Breathwork Practice passed down in the ancient Toltec tradition from Mexico. It is a process for releasing stored emotions, breaking old agreements, and breaking the emotional drama patterns of relationships. In this process, you will recover your personal power from old agreements and see yourself and the world in a new way.
The Course Structure
The first three audios give you a different part of the practice. Each aspect of the practice is broken out separately so you can get comfortable with that part of the process. This will simplify the learning and not overwhelm your attention.
When you have done the Baseline Breathing from the first audio and feel comfortable with that part, listen and practice Their Half from audio 2. You will be combining the practices.
When you are comfortable with those two elements listen and practice Your Half from audio 3. As you combine these elements you are able to do parts, 1,2,and 3 together. Audio 4 puts the three practices together.
The remaining 4 audios provide different ways to apply the process and show that you can vary the approach. This flexibility will remind you that there isn’t a one “right” way to do recapitulation. Often a session will take on a process of it’s own. Yet the fundamentals that you learn in the first 4 audios remain consistent. Within those fundamentals, you have an opportunity to be creative and follow the needs of your own healing.
Summary of practice
1. Listen to the Recapitulation lesson audio and practice the guided processes.
2. Write up a list of past emotional events. Begin the breath-work process with small recent ones and work through those first. Then begin working on the larger emotional memories on your list.
3. Do not start with issues or memories from your major relationships such as parents, children, or spouses. It is best to develop more control over your attention and personal power first. With some experience and confidence, you can be more effective in those larger pools of emotions.
Some Guidance
For best results, keep a journal close by and make notes as things come up. Particularly, make a list of places in the past, or relationships that your mind jumps to while in the process. This list of events and relationships is a signal that something there needs to be released. It is too easy to go on about your day and forget these signals from your unconscious about what will help you to address and recapitulate. A journal will help you pick up these messages and stay on the healing track.
You may also want to make a list of past relationships and recapitulate those. Particularly past boyfriends, girlfriends. The ages of middle school and high school usually have lots of emotions and agreements made with those emotions. We were in a stage of forming our own identity, trying to fit in, and stand out at the same time. These conflicting self-images and self-talk that we put faith in can still be stuck there. When you free that power up, you free your self.
You will find these exercises to be more effective if you have done work with the Self Mastery practices. They will help you focus your attention, work through emotions, and spot lies and false beliefs in old memories.
Daily Practice
One of the ways that is easy to start and benefit from the recapitulation process is to do it daily. In the evening before you go to sleep, take 15 minutes and process all the energy spent during your day. Recover all the energy you put out there, and cleanse yourself from all the ideas, emotions, and energy you absorbed from others. Some people do this as a process when they lie down in bed to sleep.
This daily cleansing and re-powering of yourself is simple and doable. Over time, you will have more personal power, and you can take on bigger emotional issues of the past, or just use that personal power to make changes in your daily life.
Resistance
The mind has thousands of ways to keep its current patterns of thought and its current neural pathway routine in place. Changing these patterns takes some motivation. That motivation in the beginning often comes from emotional pain. Without that motivation, you either feel good or have to rely on willpower.
To make the process more effective, make it simple for yourself. Do this by setting a regular time that fits your schedule. Do this process in the same place where you are comfortable and won’t be distracted. Turn off your phone, or put it to silent. These simple steps help focus your intent and tell your unconscious that you are serious about releasing what is stored in unconscious memories.
In a way, your soul is looking for healing. One of the reasons you are reminded of painful memories at times is because the soul is saying, “Hey, there is an emotional splinter here, and it needs to be taken out.”
See these painful reminders as guidance on what to do, rather than just pain. Your soul is asking you to take care of something that will allow you to feel better.
Your soul may have been reminding you of pains for a long time, through having emotional reactions, but you may not have had the tools to release them. Now you do.
If you have had trauma
The recapitulation process is not a full answer for your healing. It should serve you well but I suggest that you include other modalities such as EMDR, Somatic Releasing, Somatic work, and other methods. Some good understanding and resources can be found in these books.
One of the best books to understand trauma, its effects, and how to address it is The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk. A very effective approach to healing can be found in Waking the Tiger by Peter Levine. He developed an approach called Somatic Experiencing.
Trauma may be from physical abuse, sexual abuse, or repeated emotional or verbal abuse. It is a matter of not just how your mind and emotions respond, but how your nervous system and body respond. It is created in your nervous system more from how you respond. For instance, if you watched someone get bullied or be injured, you may have thought such a thing could happen to you. Your nervous system then built up a response as if it could or will happen to you. Your nervous system response of fear is there about something in your memory as if it happened to you even though you watched it happen to someone else. The mind is interesting that way.
Expectations
The breathwork approach of Recapitulation can be very powerful and healing. However, it is not an immediate quick fix. Its value will be seen and experienced over the weeks and months. Much like exercising. You don’t take up running and think one training session with a running coach will prepare you for a 10K. One yoga class does not give you the flexibility and strength to relax into a back bend. But consistent practice will make you very good over time. So set your goal on consistent practice, and the other results you want will come.
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