Consciousness
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Friday, August 6th, 2010INTRODUCTION FROM A SEVERELY ABUSED PATIENT’S PERSPECTIVE
By “Ken”
“I’ll chase you across all time, through hell itself, until you get it right.” Yup, that was my Karmic vow, my curse on my mother – and myself – before I was born. The story of my healing journey with Dr. Proskauer is told […]
INTRODUCTION FROM THE PSYCHIATRIC AND PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC PERSPECTIVES
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010INTRODUCTION FROM THE PSYCHIATRIC AND PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC PERSPECTIVES
By Paul Thielking, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dr. Stephen Proskauer is an intrepid explorer and student of life. He has traveled many paths in his life journey, applying himself fully to diverse areas of contemplation and […]
Big Heart Healing
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010Big Heart Healing
A Multidimensional Approach to Trauma and Abuse
Once we have committed to healing ourselves, out woundedness becomes our greatest gift to the world. We have every reason to celebrate our humanness, our vulnerability to pain and fear and joy, our spiritual dept, for without opening to the full range of […]
Freeing Ourselves From Narrow Confinement
Friday, July 23rd, 2010A story does not have to end happily to have healing value. Somehow the perspective offered by metaphor and story gives us space to see our reality differently. We are no longer at the mercy of inexorable and meaningless forces. By creating a story, we free ourselves from confinement in […]
Consciousness is the Storyteller
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010No part of our life story has intrinsically more essential reality than any other. Consciousness is the storyteller and the bodymind is the story. Karmic Therapy can be regarded as providing a context that frees us to let the karmic story be told as well as to let that story be […]
Bodymind as Metaphor, Storytelling as Healing
Monday, July 19th, 2010If we set aside all our concepts of what is real and unreal, the bodymind can be regarded as an assemblage of metaphors and life as a process of investigating and transforming these metaphors. From this perspective, dreams and fantasies, illnesses and accidents, aches and pains, lovers and friends and […]
Many Benefits of Karmic Therapy
Thursday, July 15th, 2010Karmic Therapy can help to release blocks that may be obstructing progress in psychological treatment, massage and bodywork, and meditation training. Expressive exploration of the bodymind process can bring both the meditator and the therapy patient into more intimate relationship with the body and can help to diminish the split […]
A Conflict-Ridden Home Situation Makes Karmic Therapy Difficult
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010In order for Karmic Therapy to be beneficial, the reality situation in a patient’s life must provide enough balance and support to permit an intense regression and reintegration process to occur without too much stress. For example, a mother of three young children was able to do some deep uncovering work […]
Other Transformational Approaches
Friday, July 9th, 2010Some psychologically healthier patients also have great difficulty verbalizing thoughts and emotions associated with their body sensations. They are experiencing subtle, deep and primordial body awarenesses that go beyond words. For them, a transformational approach that is not as dependent on verbalization, such as Rebirthing or Holotropic Breathwork, Rubenfeld […]
Selection of Patients for Karmic Therapy
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010In order for Karmic Therapy to be useful, the patient must have enough psychological maturity to endure a therapeutic regression without being sucked into the intensity of the emerging traumatic memory and losing contact with adult reality. Therefore the method doesn’t usually work well for psychotic and borderline patients who […]
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