Table of contents hide 1 Butterfly Touch 2 Soft Bioenergetics 3 Butterfly Massages for our Babies 4 Characteristics of the Butterfly Touch Massage: 5 Issues to consider when applying this massage 6 Some touches of the tea Technique include the following movements:

This article is dedicated to anyone who has a newborn baby in their family and wants to delight them with wonderful and healing massages for that age group.

It is a useful tool to reconnect with our baby or that baby we have in our care and remember what we have forgotten, the presence. This presence is not just being physically but emotionally and perceptually. Unfortunately, today, we are so busy running day to day that we forget the essentials, being present with all the letters.

Imagine if we as adults being mentally absent brings us thousands of consequences, think how this affects our babies, whatever role it is, the link with the latter, be like mom, dad, babysitter, grandmother, aunt, etc. . It has to develop with emotional, psychological and perceptual presence . This is the first step, building healthy and loving bonds with that beautiful being that came into our lives (whatever role we play)

Butterfly touch

This type of massage is introduced to the academic world by the pediatrician and orgonterapeuta, Eva Reich, daughter of the renowned Austrian doctor, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich who laid the foundations of Bioenergetics. The purpose of this practice is to take care, in the best way, that precious moment of life, as are the first months of life.

As Eva Reich preached, we need peace in the world, but for that level of harmony to take place, it is necessary for peace to begin in the mother's belly . This is why it is essential to take care of our human individuals from the belly, through this technique or whatever. Always remembering that the fundamental thing is our presence in all its fullness.

In this way, shredding the word bioenergetics, we find the term bio which refers to the biological and energy to energy, that is, biological energy, the body's own energy .

The bioenergetic clinic is a type of body psychotherapy that was created by Dr. Wilhelm Reich and then developed by Dr. Alexander Lowen under the name of Bioenergetic Analysis . Bioenergetics starts from an innovative theoretical framework from which the human personality can be understood through the history of the body, the story it tells and that words cannot express. This therapy is based on a work that integrates mind-body so that we can connect with our own pleasure and joy of living .

Soft Bioenergetics

Returning, Eva Reich, following the lines of her father's work, proposed a bioenergetics that she called and characterized as soft . This soft term arises from the application of this technique to adults, I observe and understood that the subtle work with the musculature allows to soften and reduce the tension blocks that occur in it, restoring the energy flow, the main objective of the therapy bionergetist

The soft term indicates the therapeutic methodology that the bioenergetic therapist will use. This technique consists of a very delicate touch for the dissolution of the muscular shell. The idea is to give back to the organism its natural and harmonious balance both emotionally and energetically through the loving and extremely delicate touch. This contact is based on the production of a minimum magnitude stimulus . Precisely the name of butterfly touch refers to the beating of the wings of a butterfly . It is always done by reading and dialogue with the body of the baby receiving the massage.

So gentle bioenergy is a technique that emerged from the observations Eva Reich made while working in a hospital, calling attention to the type of response babies gave to the soft and subtle contact . At that time, the idea that babies need human contact to survive is not yet widespread.

Objectives of soft bioenergy : healing, personal growth and psychoeducation.

Butterfly Massages for our Babies

The direction of the massage is always caudal caudal (principle of embryonic development), that is, from the head to the feet. Although the technique is very soft, because it always seeks to be a stimulus of the lowest possible intensity, it acts in the deepest layers of muscle tissue and of course in the superficial area.

This type of massage is very beneficial to create a face-to-face, energetic and physical bond between the baby and the parents.

Another advantage of performing this technique is that it prevents the process of armoring . Armored, from the bioenergetic perspective, is the constant tension that occurs mainly in the musculature but also occurs at deeper levels such as visceral.

Although initially this technique was developed for premature babies, it is necessary to clarify, that currently, this technique can be applied to anyone regardless of their age .

Features of Butterfly Touch Massage:

It is a non-invasive, gentle massage, like the movement of the wings of a butterfly where the air gives them a soft touch that they return through the movement of them.

It favors:

• Family integration, strengthening primary bonds.
• Body self-perception
• The awareness of the physical, bodily limit, the material edges of the body itself.
• Relaxation
• The functioning of the immune and digestive system
• Stress Relief
• Stress reduction
• The cycles of sleep, so that it becomes healing and harmonizing.

Issues to consider when applying this massage

It is important to remember that this touch is always with full awareness and respect towards the baby's body, its aura, its energy, its skin.

It is necessary that before we get ready to give a massage to our baby or, to anyone who is willing or needs to receive, we are in our center, that is, we are in contact with our heart and we start from the quietest place of our being. This is essential because when we play, we not only transmit (and obviously receive) energy, but also emotions . That is why it is extremely important that when giving the butterfly touch massage we are not going through a duel or are with similar anguish or feelings.

The environment where we will massage our baby should be calm, warm and warm, thus recreating the environment of the uterus, breast, intrauterine tranquility, of what is known to the baby. And we must be, yes or yes, in that same tune. Remember that, from the bioenergetic perspective, muscle battles are formed because as the baby he has not yet formed a psychic apparatus with which to address certain experiences, so that everything that afflicts him, frustrates him, makes him feel bad and distresses him It will probably be, in most cases, transformed into a shell, which we want to avoid . That is why, it is essential that through massage we only transmit to the baby messages of love and not of pain, anguish, grief etc. Since he does not have a psychic apparatus to process it .

So as the name of this technique indicates, the touch should be as soft as the rubbing of the wings of a butterfly on the skin of our baby. This touch must accompany your breathing, your imperceptible, sometimes movement. In the event that the baby cries or shows signs of discomfort, we need to stop.

Some touches of the technique include the following movements:

ACARICIAR Movement of rubbing binding, light, quite fast

SHAKE Fast and delicate movement. (This shake, shake in English, is very very slow. It takes for example the baby's thigh and moves from one side to the other, but with great care)

ROTATE circles are made on the contours of the eyelids.

SHAKE AND ROTATE (combination movement)

Remember that all movements go from top to bottom or from the center to the periphery

I share the following video where you can see how Eva Reich teaches to give the Butterfly Touch Massages, it is amazing !:

REDACTORA: Gisela S., editor of the great family of the White Brotherhood.
SOURCE: http://www.clinicabioenergetica.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/espa%C3%B1ol2.pdf