Physical Body
« Previous Entries Next Entries »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Friday, February 12th, 2010Whatever happens to our bodies while spiritual awareness is withdrawn and remains separate, a foreign object, like a stone in our shoe that we do not perceive as part of us.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 […]
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 […]
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 Clearing Process in Karmic Therapy
Friday, January 29th, 2010Looking back on the course of Sheila’s work, a pattern is discernible in the clearing process that is characteristic of this method. Her first block emerged as a localized sensation of pain or tension. After Sheila vented the thoughts and emotions that had been frozen into that particular block, the physical sensation diminished and eventually […]
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 […]