Therapy That Gives Real Results – Page 2

Our Emotional Nature

Dr. Frank Wilczek, the physicist and MIT professor, has written about the beauty of science as it relates to life. He reminds us that what we presently refer to as ‘science’, was at first called ‘natural philosophy’. There is a system to how our emotions function that is an example of natural philosophy at its best! Physics is a natural science that concerns itself with energy. Everything in the universe is comprised of energy, including us, and our emotions are an instrumental part of the energy that keeps our bodies functioning. The definition of energy in applied physics is, “that which does work”. Our emotions are energies that do work in our bodies, they keep our mental and physiological systems running well. It is a fact that a good cry triggers a chemical reaction within the body that is associated with stress reduction and that less stress means a stronger immune system. There are more obvious correlations, such as the emotion of love in the form of touch and care that keeps babies alive and growing. It’s been proven that food and shelter alone is not what keep babies alive but the emotion of love demonstrated in the way we care for them. It is the emotion of love that enables babies to develop into healthy, resilient children.

We now have scientific research in the field of neuroscience that validates the effectiveness of therapies that help us to feel our emotions. We now know that what we feel in our bodies greatly affects our minds.

In the following pages, I will explain how our emotions work to heal us by putting our bodies and mind at peace. I will provide clear examples from my life and my work, that give evidence to my belief; that all of our problems come from conflicts that exist between the mind and the body. Nothing that happens in life can destroy us. It is not being able to feel what happened to us, that threatens to destroy our mental and physical health. Conflicts between what the body feels and what the mind thinks, negatively affect our health and our relationships. By denying our emotions, we stay stuck in conflict and false, inner dialogues that prevent us from knowing ourselves and living out our true destiny. Our emotions are the only means we have for knowing our truth. As long as our emotions are not operating freely, we are remaining separate from our truth, and separate from our own true selves. Until our mind/body are in harmony, we will find ourselves in conflicts that need to be resolved. Our internal conflicts will continue to create problems not only in our bodies and our minds, but also in our relationships, our communities and our world. Over the years, I have often thought of the biblical quote, “..and you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free”. Nature intended us to keep feeling and processing our emotions so that we could know our truth and live and love better. We need to understand the meaning and purpose of our emotions, so that we can become less afraid of experiencing them. Living in our truth, ends all need for conflict. With a full awareness of our truth, our journey through life becomes unhindered by past unresolved problems. We become more at peace and one with nature. The worlds of science, health and spirituality are merging more and more. There are so many paths, but there is only one truth. Absence of truth will always interfere with science and nature. The truth aligns and harmonizes everything and everyone, and puts us in sync with the universe.

Good therapy should make it possible to understand why things go wrong in our lives and give us tools to set things right. Our emotions coupled with our imaginations are all the tools we will ever need. Nature gave us a way to not only survive, but to resolve everything, so that we might thrive and evolve individually and as a species.

Healing The Mind Through The Body

The goal of therapy is resolution. Facing the unresolved conflicts of the past is crucial to restoring peace between the mind and body. Somatic therapies allow us to return to the places in our past where internal conflicts were formed. We can reenact the past in our minds, coax the emotions into reemergence, and then most importantly, resolve the past by allowing the body to experience the proper response to our past dilemmas. Through the use of our imagination, our mind has the ability to relive and re-orchestrate the stressful moments in our history. What the mind imagines, the body feels, and by experiencing someone who could have validated the pain, and provided the caring, comfort and love that we all deserved, we can experience the emotional relief that simultaneously creates the physical relief. Unresolved traumas in our childhood, neurologically wire us and in doing so, determine the probability of future harmony or conflict. Without resolve, the remaining internal conflict, between what the body knows to be the truth, and what the mind told itself had happened, will continue to attract situations that mirror the conflictual emotions that were left disturbing the nervous system.

Everything Old Is New Again

The Key To Healing The Past

What could possibly be better than having an answer to why things go wrong in our lives?

More importantly, what could be better than having a way to set things right?

Heal The Body, Heal The Mind

This is the post excerpt.

RESOLUTION THERAPY is a psychotherapeutic technique that heals the past, and allows us to truly take control of the present; with its use of somatic, emotional processing techniques, it has the potential to restore to us, our birthright of psychological health, physical health, and spiritual awakening, because it is a therapy that simultaneously fosters all three. We really, truly can not have peace on the outside, until we restore the peace within.

The effectiveness of any therapy lies in its ability to reconnect us to the suppressed emotions from our past; allowing our minds true communion with our bodies, and restoring our ability to face all of life’s challenges.

We all suffer to some degree from developmental childhood trauma. Developmental traumas leave us with internal conflicts; these are conflicts between what the body knows to have been our emotional truth, and what our mind was forced to believe in order to survive the hurtful or painful moment. Internal conflicts attract situations in our adulthood which are designed to reveal to us the emotional truth of the past but with the potential to not bury the pay again but to instead find resolution, restoring the peace between our feeling body and our thinking brain. Our nervous system is basically an electrical system and because our bodies are designed to heal, it will do the work of attraction by drawing to itself the necessary crisis to correct the existing disturbances.

It’s not about blaming our parents, or the generations past; it’s about feeling the truth of what happened, and the truth really does, set us free.

Good therapy, on its most fundamental level, is good teaching and good parenting. One is only able to be, truly present in these roles, if one has done, and continues to do, the transformational, somatic work, to resolve their own childhood. We can only be present for others and help them to move forward and fulfill their purpose, if we somewhere, at sometime, in our own lives, had the same.

Effective therapy is a facilitation of the processing of unresolved emotions that the therapist can easily connect to, resulting in a shared experience. Emotions are universal and they are what connects us as human beings on the most profound level.