Personality Patterns
« Previous EntriesExtreme Circumstances and Profound Splits
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010A profound split can arise in response to extreme circumstances of pain and fear, when we protect our spirits from enduring intolerable agony and terror by partial dissociation of soul energy from our bodies. This form of dissociation amounts to an abandonment of the body and there is a high karmic price to pay, including […]
Limiting Beliefs Held in the Body and Mind
Monday, February 8th, 2010When we are unwilling or unable to face and integrate a difficult experience, the
memory of the event can be split off from awareness in the form of tension or pain frozen in the body, causing physical symptoms, and associated limiting beliefs held in the mind that can generate personality problems. The process of splitting off […]
Karmic Influences Can Dominate a Person’s Entire Life
Thursday, February 4th, 2010Frozen, locked in karmic patterns can generate limiting beliefs and disabling life scripts. Sometimes karmic influences completely dominate every aspect of a person’s life. The process of recalling episodes from childhood, the prenatal period and other lifetimes can help patients to change negative beliefs about themselves and the world and cut the roots of dysfunctional […]
Limiting Beliefs and Personality Problems
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010Trauma stored in the body as localized pain or tension can give rise to the limiting beliefs that underlie personality problems. The mental equivalent of tension in the body is a fixed idea about the self and the world, a false conclusion in reaction to pain and fear, a belief upon which a habitual pattern […]
The Natural Progression of Release in Karmic Therapy
Sunday, January 31st, 2010The clearing process seems to be internally guided. All we need to do is provide a safe space and some encouragement for the blocks to melt in a natural sequence. As one bodymind block dissolves, along with the full expression of buried thoughts and emotions, the next one appears, until a spontaneous endpoint is reached […]
The Flux between Past and Present in Karmic Therapy
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010An aspect of Sheila’s session that is typical of the Karmic Therapy process was the free flow back and forth between present-day issues and past feelings. In this instance, Sheila began with feelings of anger and betrayal toward her lover, then focused on similar feelings about her father. From time to time during the session […]
Sheila’s Seventh Block: Fear of Being Happy
Monday, January 25th, 2010The seventh block arose as a pain in her crotch: “I’m scared to be happy and healthy. People won’t be there for me if I am okay. If I am strong and healthy, people will just use me up to meet their needs.”
Sheila took a deep breath and her whole body relaxed. She said: “It’s […]
Sheila’s Fifth Block: Leg Tension
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010Then Sheila noticed her legs had become tense: “I’m afraid to move forward. I’m so scared! I’m afraid to be alone and go out on my own. I’m afraid to let you go. You never loved me, but I’m afraid to let go of the illusion, the dream, the potential of what it could be.” […]
A Key Moment of Decision
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010At this point, I asked Sheila to go back to the specific incident when
she made the decision not to count on her father. Sheila recalled having been molested at the age of seven by some high school boys who were her father’s tenants: “I told you about those boys, but you were too afraid to […]
Sheila’s First Block: Solar Plexus Tension
Saturday, January 9th, 2010First, Sheila said she felt a burning in her “power center,” putting her
hand on her solar plexus area. When asked to let this burning sensation speak, Sheila shouted out angrily what she had needed to say to her lover: “I hate how you use and abuse people. You don’t care about anybody but yourself. You […]