Bringing up birth related pain and trauma?

[Federico del pueblo]

There's this theory of authors like Arthur Janov ("early imprints") but also the researchers who were involved in the early LSD studies in the 1950s to 70s - especially Stanislav Grof ("realms of the human unconscious") about how the emotional and sensory pain endured during your biological birth is stored in your nervous system and thus in your unconscious mind.

The theory is that these experiences of enduring things like high mechanical pressure on your head, temporary oxygen deficiency and the corresponding fear of dying, but also in general this entire fight for your life and the corresponding emotions - leave an imprint in your mind that acts as a type of archetypal pattern, sort of like a blueprint for your later problems in life.

Examples:

Someone gets strangulated by his/her own umbilical cord during birth and experiences the fetal version of extreme fear of dying, powerlessness and hopelessness.

Now 30 years later this person might suffer from "inexplicable" symptoms like asthmatic attacks, shortness of breath, apparently physical symptoms related to the throat, maybe even the thyroid problems, feeling impotent generally or sexually and maybe even developing weird sexual kinks about being strangulated during sex, maybe even close or beyond the point of losing consciousness.

The birth related trauma gets reexperienced and reprocessed (typically over various sessions) and all these symptoms disappear.

This reexperience of the birth related pain can but doesn't have to be accompanied by a spiritual process of death and rebirth.

I wanted to ask all of you here and especially @flowboy (because I know you've delved deep into this), what can be done to make this type of imprint conscious?

Is it something that (in a sober non-psychedelic state) can only be experienced when you actually go to one of these institutes where they guide you through the process or is there something you can start doing right now in the comfort of your home?