Consciousness
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010We live in a time when many people are awakening to the spiritual significance of patterns in their lives. Are you among them?
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Dissociation and Shamanic Initiation
Monday, March 8th, 2010Dissociating from the body may make it difficult to stay grounded and to feel at home in the physical world, but on the positive side, the dissociation that so often results from severe injury temporarily protects us from overwhelming fear and pain, loosens our attachment to the physical senses, and creates a spiritual opening into […]
Painful Memories
Thursday, March 4th, 2010Painful memories and related karmic scripts may be held in the body indefinitely as chronic guarding or armoring in the musculature.
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Fear and Pain Can Bring Positive Spiritual Growth
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010Often Karmic Therapy sessions that deal with the trauma of accident, illness or surgery suggest that encountering these intense experiences of pain and fear has had positive consequences for spiritual growth. Dissociation challenges our identification with the physical body and offers a taste of the peaceful, loving, expansive out-of-body state that is ordinarily lost in […]
Painful Memories
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010Painful memories and related karmic scripts may be held in the body indefinitely as chronic guarding or armoring in the musculature.
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Awareness during Coma and Anesthesia
Friday, February 26th, 2010The rich recollections of a young child’s experience recovering from an automobile accident contradict the naive assumptions about coma and anesthesia that prevail in technologically sophisticated medicine. We might provide more compassionate support for our fellow beings as they pass through illnesses, accidents, surgical operations and other crises if we assumed that they were absorbing […]
Traumatic Memories
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Traumatic memories have been excluded from conscious awareness because the pain associated with the situation was overwhelming.
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Paying Attention to Details of Traumatic Experiences
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Accidental injury and hospitalization can cause deep psychological scarring, especially in young children. Karmic Therapy reveals unique specificity in each instance. Often it is the child’s reactions to certain key details of the experience, which may seem peripheral to us at first glance, that leave a lasting wound. These details cannot be predicted from a […]
Frozen Karma
Monday, February 22nd, 2010“Frozen karma” refers to a repeating pattern of pain and tension locked into the body that gets activated by a traumatic situation.
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Healing Dissociative Splits
Monday, February 22nd, 2010A conscious act of the will is required to undo the original choice to escape into dissociation. The mind must re-engage with the body, finally allowing the pain and fear held there to be experienced, expressed and released. This is not so easy to accomplish after many years living in fear of the unknown hurts […]
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