Body Psychotherapy
is where we rediscover the inner child’s relaxed domains and integrate our child self with our adult side in a relaxed and harmonious way.
Therapists that work with this method:
When we usually think about our bodies,
we tend to have the notion that we are separate, skin and bone encased egos that meet others in the world with the same attitude. But we all live with the basic feeling of wanting to find our way home in our inner universe and discover who we really are.
Body Psychotherapy
maps the core of the inner child through body memories. The body does not always distinguish between externals threats, such as a person feeling threatened, and a threat coming from within, an unpleasant thought. The body as subject already exists in that before we, as ‘I’, know about it, that’s how we carelessly, spontaneously orientate ourselves in the world. The body is like a child who has not yet learnt to tell the time, constantly living in the infinite now.
Wilhelm Reich was the one,
among several gifted psychoanalysts in the so-called Viennagroup around Sigmund Freud, who focused on the importance of the body in psychoanalysis. He developed Vegetotherapy, which uses breathing, movement and bodily positions to relieve tension that he described as body armour. A successor to Reich was Alexander Lowen who developed Bioenergetics. And George Downing’s psychodynamic body therapy is taught in Sweden.
Therapy forms in Asia
have been based on meditation and yoga for thousands of years. Yoga helps the body relax, thereby allowing meditation to take place with a more open body image. Yoga can be an excellent complement to Body Psychotherapy.
– Is it mind over matter or matter over mind?
– Never mind it doesn´t matter!
Cosmic dialogue
“All matter is Energy.”
“The Field is the sole govenor of the particle”.
Albert Einstein
Your naked body
should only belong to
those who fall in love
with your naked soul.
Charlie Chaplin
“if any thing is
sacred, the human
body is sacred”.
Walt Whitman
Tiger
Tiger! Tiger! burning bright
in the forest of the night
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In that distant deeps or skies
Burnet the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he spire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?
And what shoulder, and what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? and what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
Tiger! Tiger! burning bright
in the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
William Blake
“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat
match the beat of the universe.”
Joseph Campbell
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Barbara Brennan : Light Emerging
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