解放的人生：愛元氣呼吸法

FOREWORD

I had spent close to 30 years sharing my own brand of breathwork and had already authored another book in 2012 but never once did I mention breathing or breathwork in that book.

I noticed a gap between what people could read about my work and what I was actively doing out in public. People were asking when I was going to write a book about breathwork. I decided it was time. I spent a week in Puerto Rico writing everything I could think of about Effiji Breathwork.

Later I felt there seemed to be something missing. I realized that to really fully explain the process of the breath work， I needed some way to talk more deeply about the nature of trauma and conditioning and its effect on our well being， especially our psychology.

I needed to fully explain the pervasive power that trauma can have on our lives as well as the negative conditioning that leads us away from peace and prosperity for ourselves and those around us.

I try to cover some very important topics that I felt were not covered enough， namely the importance of not just understanding trauma and healing trauma but working through resistance to change and the role that Effiji Breath plays in that process. This book isnt only about releasing trauma but providing an opportunity for the process of confronting resistance and healing to in-and-of itself be an empowering experience.

As I started to write about the process itself it became obvious that so much of how I arrived at my method didnt just come from working with people， it was working with my own history.

Thus， this book is a combination of telling some of my story， explaining the process of healing trauma and finally sharing what my technique， Effiji Breathwork is about.

What I didnt include in that book was my relationship， my deep and unabiding relationship to Chinese Internal Martial Arts， Taoism and my eventual love affair with China itself.

It therefore is really a fascinating synchronicity that this book is in your hands. Never could I have imagined that the place that brought so much healing to me would eventually publish my work. It was neither through the Effiji world nor through my work or my study of Internal Martial Arts that I met Luna Yue Ren who introduced my work in China. YuanFen.

I began to study internal martial arts， specifically Tai Chi， with my teacher in San Francisco， George Xu （Gu Ming）? in 1999. I spent a lot of time diligently studying with George， living in his home， and meeting many masters who came over from China. When he finally held a training camp in 2014 with many masters from all over China I went and had a life changing experience. It was a feeling of coming home. I went back to study every three months for five years immersing myself.

The last trip to China just before the pandemic culminated in me writing this book. This is not a coincidence how much my time in China influenced the way I look at my work and here we are， you， mandarin speakers in China reading this book.Yuanfen.

I hope you gain great insight and benefit and perhaps we will meet in person in the future.

Elijah Nisenboim

序

近30年來，我一直都在傳播愛元氣呼吸法（Effiji Breathwork），然而2012年撰寫的另一本書里并未涉及呼吸或呼吸法。

我發現自己雖然做了大量的個體以及團體臨床實踐工作，但人們卻對此知之甚少。經常有人問我什么時候寫一本關于呼吸的書，現在是時候了。我在波多黎各待了一個星期，寫下了能想到的關于愛元氣呼吸法的一切。

但是后來我感覺好像少了什么東西。我意識到，要想充分、透徹地解釋呼吸工作的過程，還需要一些內容來更深入地探討創傷和條件反射的本質，及其對我們的幸福，特別是心理層面的影響。

我需要充分解釋創傷可能對我們的生活所產生的普遍影響，以及不良的條件反射導致我們和身邊的人無法獲得平靜和幸福。

我試圖涵蓋一些非常重要但之前闡釋不足的話題，比如不僅要了解創傷和療愈創傷，而且要克服內在對于改變的阻力，以及解釋愛元氣呼吸法在這一過程中發揮的作用。這本書不僅僅是關于釋放創傷，還為直面阻力和進行療愈提供機會，讓這些內在歷程（process）本身成為強大的體驗。

當我開始著筆書寫內在歷程這部分的時候，愈發清晰地感覺到，如今這套呼吸法的形成，不僅源于我與他人互動的經驗，也來自于我自己的人生經歷。

因此這本書涵蓋了我自己的一些故事，解釋了療愈創傷的內在歷程，最后介紹我創立的愛元氣呼吸療法。

我在之前寫的書中未曾提及我與中國的內家武術（Chinese Internal Martial Arts）以及道家傳統之間20多年的關系，還有我與中國的情緣。

可以說，您現在手中的這本書是一種迷人的巧合。我此前從未想過，中國，這個給我帶來如此多治愈的國家最終會出版我的作品。因為與任月博士的相遇，她于2022年開始在中國宣傳我的呼吸法，不能不說是神奇的緣分啊！

1999年，我在舊金山跟隨喬治·徐（徐谷鳴）老師學習內家武術，特別是太極。我住在老師家里，拜見了許多來自中國的大師，勤學苦練功夫。2014年，喬治老師與來自中國各地的許多大師一起舉辦訓練營，我也參加了，獲得了回家般的歸屬感，這次經歷改變了我的人生。之后的五年里，每三個月我都會回中國來學習一段時間，并沉浸其中。

2019年，最后一次中國之行促使我寫下了這本書。在中國的經歷對我有著深遠的影響，而你們——中國讀者們正在讀這本書，這一定是上天注定的緣分。

希望你們讀完此書能有所收獲，期待我們在未來有機會見面。

伊利亞·尼森波姆

譯者簡介：孔令達，中南財經政法大學外國語學院講師，英語語言文學碩士，研究方向為英美文學。