Physical Body
« Previous EntriesDualistic Spiritual Beliefs and Ego Inflation
Thursday, March 18th, 2010Dualistic spiritual beliefs, such as the struggle between the forces of light and darkness, the modern version of heaven and hell, may function as ego projections, rooted in the private hell of the traumatized body and the personal heaven of dissociative escape. Ego inflation and glamor often accompany these beliefs, and a group of “true […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Importance of Facing Disowned Memories
Thursday, February 18th, 2010In 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 […]
Dissociation and Escapism
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010Dissociation reinforces the mind-body split that is already deeply embedded in our language and culture. Those of us who have leaned heavily on dissociation to manage trauma may be prone to use other forms of escapism, such as drugs and intoxicants, another preoccupation of our culture. Dissociative splitting also gives rise to a characteristic form […]
Our Bodies after Spirit Withdraws
Friday, February 12th, 2010Whatever happens to our bodies while spiritual awareness is withdrawn and remains separate, a foreign object, like a stone in our shoe that we do not perceive as part of us. Even after we mature and have the inner resources to integrate it, a dissociated experience continues to be disowned, walled off from awareness; but […]
Extreme 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 […]