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The Journey Home With
Therapeutic Massage and Body-work
On
the one hand, massage can be very supportive and affirming to someone
who is working through painful or traumatic experiences and on the
other , massage can produce many awarenesses that can then be taken
to therapy to be understood on a deeper level if necessary, though
much can change through awareness alone. For example, issues that
may arise are Why do I exhaust myself physically looking after others
... ?" "Why do I find it so scary to say when I am experiencing
pressure of the massage too much, or too little ... ?" Our
bodies never lie. My job is to help someone listen and to hear their
truth. However, the therapy arena is appearing to undergo changes
too, by combining the mind and body processes and recognizing that
they are not two separate identities and that one affects the other.
The
body speaks your mind. I am currently on a very exciting three year
body psychotherapy training where the body is used as the main resource
of awareness and self discovery. 'This work is based on Reich's
work of body armouring, developmental issues and character types.
The process is one of exploring and transforming physical, emotional
and psychological "blocks "or patterns of holding. To
me, this is not another new-age fandangled therapy coming out soon,
but and integrated approach to personal transformation. In my own
experience of this body focused work I have uncovered patterns of
behaviour and feelings that I had no idea about, and that was 'by
following and exploring some tiny movements I was making with my
body.
The
following is from one client about her experience of coming to receive
massage / body-work from me. I leave you with her words. "Massage
is time for me; time to get in touch with my body and how it feels,
time to grow in awareness as to what messages my body is telling
me; time to realize that I too am important and have needs. I thought
massage was an indulgence; it's now a necessity as I journey along
the road to self awareness and self understanding." Christine
Evans Read more: UK
Therapists
Ken
Dychtwald
A Field Guide to Body Work
I
learned that stress and emotional tension can become focused in
a specific part of the body, and that if this happens over a long
period of time it will permanently shape the person's posture so
that every movement will express that pattern. And the parts of
the body in which emotions are trapped will be the parts most likely
to develop malfunctions. For example, if a person needs to cry,
but won't let himself, he may stop the crying by clinching his jaw.
If the jaw is held tightly, over a long period, chronic tension
is likely to develop in the tempero-mandibular joint or grinding
of the teeth or headaches. Or unexpressed anger, trapped in the
abdomen, can lead to a wide variety of disorders.
We
are constantly in process. Our bodies are constantly being shaped
by the choices we do—or don't—make. We can passively
let things go on as they are, or we can choose to make changes.
I can notice that certain joints are tight and do yoga to loosen
them up. If I'm feeling tense and scattered, I can meditate and
actually change the kinds of brain waves I'm generating. If I'm
having difficulty in personal relationships, I can get feedback
from friends on my personal style of relating to people and try
some new alternatives. I create myself with the choices I make every
day.
People
are realizing that an authoritarian medical system in which patients
give over all their power to the doctors and function as though
they're deaf, dumb, and blind just isn't meeting their needs. People
are ready to take back a good deal of that power. People want to
take care of themselves. And I think that the various kinds of body
work are a big part of that.
Receiving
a massage is an excellent way to become comfortable being touched
by another person. This sounds pretty elementary, but for many of
us, being touched in a nonsexual, caring fashion is not a usual
part of our daily lives. Light massage can facilitate relaxation
and stimulate the sensory nervous system. Deeper massage can actually
release the tension in our muscles. All kinds of massage can increase
circulation and glandular functioning and promote a greater sense
of well-being and aliveness. Read more: Tom
Ferguson
Thomas Myers
Discovered Human Potential
In
the past, we have thought of our bodies as a stack of bones with
the muscles hanging off of it like the cables of a crane. And it's
not that way -- the bones float in the soft tissue. It's those tensegrity
structures that give us a geometric model to see how that works.
If you think of the bones floating in the soft tissue, then grabbing
the bones and manipulating them as many chiropractors and osteopaths
do, it's second best. First best would be to adjust the rubber bands
-- the fasciae of the muscles and the muscles themselves.
How
much stretch do you want to get out of this, how much sensation
are you willing to put up with, or is comfortable for you. And that
varies from client to client. There are some people who have really
high pain thresholds and want to get a lot out of it, and "I'm
paying you a lot of money, so do whatever you can to get it done."
And other people are saying "Ease up a bit. I don't care if
it takes a couple of extra sessions, I don't want to have all that
sensation." And the pain level goes up and down with trust.
There is one exception to this. The whole design is not to impose
pain upon the body, but to expose and eliminate pain from the body.
And though we only have one word for pain, there are gradations
and different colours to this type of sensation. There's the pain
of telling the truth if you've been lying.
But
if you tell the truth you feel better afterward. There's a parallel
here. There's areas where it's not being imposed pain from the outside.
The pain that's already there on the inside is being exposed and
released. The physical parallel to that is if someone's had a ski
accident or a car accident and they've suffered a fracture to their
tibia and that whole area was frozen and severely traumatized, when
you go into that tissue, it's hard to avoid. There's pain stored
in there that never got out. When you go in there, it's hard to
avoid the client feeling some pain. But the feeling afterward is,
"Oh my god, I can trust my leg again. I've got my leg back."
It's worth it if it's a momentary thing. If that pain has been released
from the body, then what's left is energy, joy and feeling. Read
more: Darren
Buford
Myofascial Continuities
As
a student of physical therapy in the mid 1970's, I spent hours learning
the anatomy of the many muscles, nerves and joints of the body.
The fascia merely got in the way of the interesting stuff that lay
beneath and was removed long before we were allowed to study the
body donated for our learning. We were taught that muscles had origins
and insertions and that their action was limited to the joints they
crossed. This paradigm led to treatments that simply stretched or
strengthened one muscle at a time. This limited view of muscle function
and dysfunction was not very effective clinically, and I was soon
searching for another model for how the muscle system really worked.
Tom
Myer's, "Anatomy Trains Concept” has helped me understand
the multiple ways muscles link and connect to transfer forces and
support the body. This concept of myofascial continuities has been
a framework for understanding not only static postural support but
dynamic and optimal movement. It facilitates clinical practice in
that a local impairment in a line (either a restriction or inappropriate
neuromuscular recruitment) far distant from the source of symptoms
is easily observed. Subsequent treatment can then be directed at
the source of the problem (the criminal) and not merely the painful
tissue (the victim). Read more: Diane
Lee See Also: T.E.
Flemons
Connective Tissue
A Body-Wide Signaling Network
Understanding
the temporal and spatial dynamics of connective tissue bio electrical,
cellular and tissue plasticity responses, as well as their interactions
with other tissues, may be key to understanding how pathological
changes in one part of the body may cause a cascade of ‘‘remote’’
effects in seemingly unrelated areas and organ systems. For example,
a patient presenting with a flare up of ulcerative colitis preceded
by a two week exacerbation of knee osteoarthritis would probably
be thought to have two distinct problems, one in the gut and one
in the knee. Establishing the presence of a connective tissue ‘‘bridge’’
between these two medical problems would potentially have important
repercussions on both diagnosis and treatment of these conditions.
One of the greatest problems of modern medicine is its fragmentation.
Connective tissue may be a key missing link needed to improve cross-system
integration in both biomedical science and medicine. Read more:
Helene
M. Langevin, 12 December 2005
Postural Integration
Transformation Of The Whole Self
It
seems that most of us want to change, that we want to be more relaxed,
healthier, more alive. But here lies the basic problem of human
transformation. Although we say we want a different kind of life
-- and may even be involved in many projects for improving ourselves
-- there is a part of us which stubbornly resists any fundamental
redirecting of our lives.
This
part of us, which refuses to let go, is our armor. We call it armor
because it is that aspect of us which being afraid of possible pain
and confusion, hardens and desensitizes our bodies and keeps our
feelings and thought in careful control.’
Postural
Integration is a bodywork in which the practitioner uses fingers,
fists, and elbows to grip, twist, and shift layers of tissue and
to reorganize the muscular system.
Whether
armor takes the form of a hard defense or soft cushion, it is initially
developed as a way of avoiding pain and dissatisfaction, but becomes
the habitual means by which we unconsciously hold on to pain. For
us to experience this armor is for us to liberate ourselves from
past attitudes and postures, but this in no sense is an avoidance
or destruction of our unique personal histories.
Encountering
our armor is a distinct process in which we are freed from the past,
and yet at the same time, make it a part of us. In order to be free
from our armor we not only have to contact it and acknowledge its
role in our lives, we also have to claim it as a part of us.
Equally,
if it is "that backache," or "those aching feet,"
which controls us, we have not yet acknowledged or recognized our
armor for what it is, namely our defense against ourselves. Read
more: Jack
Painter PH. D., 1985
Gravity And Grace
Bodywork's Basic Principles
Learning
to work with the light system, learning to make it my ally has been
an immense gift to my practice. Acknowledging this system, working
with it, has made many things possible that were simply not possible
before. The light body carries enormous healing potentials, as you
will learn. Further, when we contact the light system in people,
we also contact the deepest layers of intelligence. We awaken forces
in people which have been unrecognized, or like sleeping beauty,
asleep.
I
discovered that in any area of the body, pain depends on contraction.
Tightness. These contracted area are additional gravity centers
within the body. They pull everything down and in. Read more: Nishant
Matthews click: “Artikelen” See also: The
European Institute For Light Therapy Dutch: Europees
Instituut Voor Lichttherapie
Wilhelm Reich's Orgone
A Specific Life Energy
Where
psychiatry and psychoanalysis have failed to resolve the dilemma
of destructive human aggression, Reich's sex-economy succeeded.
Where mechanistic biochemistry failed to elucidate the riddle of
the origins of life, or of the cancer cell, Reich's bion experiments,
and discovery of a specific life energy, has brought forth their
solutions. While neither mechanistic science nor mystical philosophies
have shed any light on the longstanding problems of sadism and warfare,
or on the world-wide human fear and hatred of nature, Reich's work
pinpoints their origins in specific traumatic, sex-negative social
institutions which damage the young, and from which sadistic urges
develop. Indeed, his sex-economic work has withstood the most rigorous
cross-cultural testing, and explains the genesis of destructive
human aggression and violence better and more completely than any
other theory. Moreover, his work demonstrates the preventable nature
of such violence, exposing its roots in our awful treatments of
babies, children, and adolescents.
My
own geographical research extended his findings to show exactly
when and where violent, patristic human societies first appeared
on Earth, the exact conditions under which they arose, the means
by which they spread, and from which their modern-day political
expressions developed. Reich's complementary discovery of a specific
life energy, the orgone, is likewise founded upon sound, verifiable
experiments. Even his orgone accumulator, dismissed by know-nothings
as a 'quack' appliance, turns out to be a potent therapeutic device,
capable of beneficially stimulating the physiology of plants, animals,
and people. The orgone, as a directly observable and measurable
atmospheric energy, also plays a fundamental role in our weather,
as proven by many experiments with the cloudbusting instrument,
a device which has already been used to break many droughts, and
bring rains to deserts. For many years I have researched and tested
Reich's various discoveries, and found them to be sound, and worthy
of our most serious considerations. He has laid the foundations
for an entirely new functional science and world view, which has
already borne significant and badly-needed fruits. Read more: James
DeMeo, PH.D., April, 1987.
The Energy Of Bioenergetics
I
think what we in bioenergetics analysis have to offer are two things:
One, a sane and sensible understanding of what human nature and
life are about - pleasure, and the enjoyment of living. Not money,
not power, not success, not making it - there's nothing to make
in the world. We have that to offer. And strangely, we also even
have a way to help people achieve that. Read more: Alexander
Lowen See also: About
Alexander Lowen
Gestalt Therapy: An Introduction
The
goal of Gestalt phenomenological exploration is awareness, or insight.
"Insight is a patterning of the perceptual field in such a
way that the significant realities are apparent; it is the formation
of a gestalt in which the relevant factors fall into place with
respect to the whole" (Heidbreder, 1933, p. 355). In Gestalt
therapy insight is clear understanding of the structure of the situation
being studied.
The
Gestalt therapist works by engaging in dialogue rather than by manipulating
the patient toward some therapeutic goal. Such contact is marked
by straightforward caring, warmth, acceptance and self-responsibility.
When therapists move patients toward some goal, the patients cannot
be in charge of their own growth and self-support. Dialogue is based
on experiencing the other person as he or she really is and showing
the true self, sharing phenomenological awareness. The Gestalt therapist
says what he or she means and encourages the patient to do the same.
Gestalt dialogue embodies authenticity and responsibility.
Commitment
to dialogue. Contact is more than something two people do to each
other. Contact is something that happens between people, something
that arises from the interaction between them. The Gestalt therapist
surrenders herself to this interpersonal process. This is allowing
contact to happen rather than manipulating, making contact, and
controlling the outcome.
Even
though Gestalt therapy discourages interrupting the organismic assimilating
process by focusing on cognitive explanatory intellectualizations,
Gestalt therapists do work with belief systems. Clarifying thinking,
explicating beliefs, and mutually deciding what fits for the patient
are all part of Gestalt therapy. Gestalt therapy deemphasizes thinking
that avoids experience (obsessing) and encourages thinking that
supports experience. Gestalt therapy excludes the therapist's narcissistically
teaching the patient rather than being contactful and expediting
the patient's self-discovery. Read more: Gary
Yontef PH.D. See also: Fritz
Perls
Fritz Perls
What is Gestalt Therapy?
You
don't need to stay twenty years on the couch or have year in, year
out therapy. We can do the whole thing in about three month. From
neurosis to authenticity. And the solution is the therapeutic community:
where we come together, work together, and do the therapy together.
The core of the therapy is learning to confront your opposites.
Once you know this way of confronting yourself with opposites, next
time you might be able to do it easier. If I give you, for instance,
an example of what is the most frequent opposite inside people,
then you'll see what will happen from this. The most frequent opposite
example is the top dog and the underdog. Read
more: Adelaide
Bry
Lisbeth Marcher
Individuation, Mutual Connection
and the Body's Resources
Our
basic drive is toward being connected to other people, what I have
called the drive toward mutual connection. This means that people
who come to me are ultimately struggling to be in relationship.
Opening relationships is the essence of therapy, and of life, so
I can't abandon that goal. And I can’t separate my understanding
of relationship from the body and body awareness. It is through
body awareness that we sense ourselves in relation to the other.
The more body awareness we can attain-— which includes an
awareness of sensation, energy and emotion — the more we are
able to establish deep connections to others. So these two things,
mutual connection and body awareness, are inextricably linked for
me. Therapy that doesn't deal with body awareness will always lack
something. Body awareness work that leaves out relationship will
always lack something. I see some people make the same mistake Reich
made when he focused so strongly on sexuality. They forget what
it is to be a person.
For
me the goal of therapy is not the orgasm, not nirvana, but the experience
of having choice. I believe that we have the greatest choices, the
deepest choices when we are in touch with our bodies and our emotions
and our thoughts and our spirituality, and when we don' t confuse
them. If I were to be a junkie about anything, it would be for body
awareness and body experience, because for me, that is how I know
myself the best.
PB
So we might call it your quest for "body reality."
LM:
Yes, body reality. Reality is very deep for me. I really want people
to be in their reality because it is the only place from which you
can make a clear choice. It is our defense system that creates illusions.
Then these illusions create new illusions and so on. Read more:
Peter
Bernhardt
Subtle Energy Work
Basics
Energy
is Infinite. Living in a scarcity culture, the basic rule says there
isn't enough to go round. This is only true of cultural artifacts
like money which have scarcity built in. It's not even true of food,
only of its distribution; and it's not remotely true of love, breath
or energy. Working with energy we are working with ABUNDANCE, with
PLENTY- which is itself a powerful healing message. To 'give energy'
to someone is not to impoverish ourselves; if we can overcome our
fear, we are an open channel, letting energy flow through us from
the six directions, absorbing what we need as it flows. 02 Oct 95
Read more: Nick
Totto
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For
instance, he [Fulford] regularly cured young children of recurring
ear infections by simply, in his words, 'freeing up their breathing
and getting their tailbone [sacrum] unstuck' so that it could get
back into normal respiratory [craniosacral rhythm] motion. When
this motion is restricted, fluid backs up in the ear, providing
a perfect breeding ground for bacteria. -Andrew Weil, M.D., writes
about Bob Fulford, a retired osteopathic physician and instructor
of craniosacral therapy. Read
more: ThinkQuest
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