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KARMIC THERAPY AND THE PHYSICAL BODY
By Stephen Proskauer MD | October 22, 2007
It is a universal human response to tense up in fear when our experience becomes too painful or intense, as if we were trying to guard ourselves by warding off with our bodies what would otherwise overwhelm us. By doing this, we freeze the sensations, emotions and the associated karmic pattern into a block consisting of localized physical pain or tension that remains with us indefinitely until we are ready to relive the experience and release it.
One common situation in which such a block can form is when we urgently want to speak out or act in response to scary or hurtful circumstances but it feels unsafe to do so. A desired but inhibited action leaves a residue of tension in the very muscles that would have carried out the action. The greater the opposing forces – the urgency to speak or act vs. the fear of speaking or acting – the more muscle tension and pain get stored in the body.
Residues held in the body continue to affect us. By facing and reliving the old situation directly and seeing its consequences in our lives, we can melt frozen karma and change the associated karmic scripts. As muscle tension melts in Karmic Therapy, it is as if the process that created it were being reversed, allowing us to release our fearful reaction to the trauma, redirect the blocked energy and rewrite the old script that we have acted out over and over without awareness of its true source.
Topics: Karmic Therapy, Physical Body, Psychotherapy |