Karmic Therapy
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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 […]
Exploration of Karmic Scripts
Monday, July 5th, 2010Accessing prenatal and birth trauma is especially valuable for treating long-standing depression and anxiety states that have been resistant to other forms of intervention. Phobias, psychosomatic symptoms and early stages of some chronic medical illnesses may respond dramatically to exploration of karmic scripts. The Karmic Therapy approach can be very helpful […]
Applications of the Bodymind Process
Friday, July 2nd, 2010Translating the bodymind process into words and emotions is a powerful tool used in many clinical techniques, such as gestalt therapy, Arnold Mindell’s process-oriented psychology, and various forms of somatic therapy. Furthermore, Karmic Therapy offers a rich metaphorical perspective within which to view the significance of our lives. Because […]
Karmic Therapy Heightens Body Awareness
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010Karmic Therapy builds a bridge between body and mind, heightening body awareness by deciphering and releasing the thoughts and emotions linked with somatic sensations. In a culture that emphasizes a mental approach to life and in many ways discourages attunement to the body, there may be some general benefit to […]
Karmic Therapy in Clinical and Spiritual Practice
Friday, June 25th, 2010What role, then, might Karmic Therapy play in clinical work and spiritual training? Karmic Therapy reveals the vast tapestry of causes and effects in which our lives are embedded, and this perspective can serve to diminish identification with our little body and mind, our small self—humbling the ego, so to […]
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