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KARMIC THERAPY AND DISSOCIATIVE SOUL LOSS
By Stephen Proskauer MD | October 24, 2007
When we are unable to face and integrate a difficult experience, the memory of the event can be split off from awareness as tension or pain frozen in the body, causing physical symptoms and limiting beliefs in the mind, generating personality problems. Splitting off unintegrated fragments of traumatic experience serves a protective function but at the cost of blocking and distorting our mental and physical functioning, separating us from parts of our past, and reinforcing our isolation from everyone and everything around us.
An even more profound split can arise in response to extreme circumstances of pain and fear, when our spirits are shielded from enduring intolerable agony and terror by dissociation of soul energy from the body. Dissociative loss of soul parts brings with it a nagging feeling of incompleteness and a deep longing to have that vacancy filled.
In order to heal ourselves and embody our wholeness, it is important to undo dissociation and face disowned experiences. In Karmic Therapy, patients are repeatedly encouraged to bring conscious awareness back into the body at the moment just before dissociation occurred and allow what was unbearable at that time to be felt and expressed, now that developmental maturity and external supports are available to help with the integration process.
Topics: Dissociation, Karmic Therapy, Psychotherapy, Soul |