Prenatal Memory
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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 […]
Subjective Time
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010Experiences in Karmic Therapy transcend linear time. Thematically interrelated episodes emerge with no apparent regard for temporal sequence. For example, in a therapy session a childhood event may be followed by a connected past life episode, then a fragment of related birth trauma, followed by a return to the prenatal period. […]
Conception, Prenatal Experience and Adult Relationships
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010The emotional climate of interaction between parents at the time of conception seems to set the pattern for intimacy in later life, especially intimacy between lovers and marriage partners. Mother’s issues while we are in the womb can also have a profound influence on our ways of experiencing intimate relationship, […]
Prenatal Period
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009When unwanted pregnancy causes maternal depression during the prenatal period, the child can perpetuate the mother’s feelings as chronic depression later on.
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Suicidal Self Rejection from Feeling Unwanted at Birth
Thursday, October 1st, 2009Clea, a young woman who was the second-born of twins, recalled her father’s disappointment because she wasn’t a boy like the first twin. Clea had also taken on her mother’s anxiety about displeasing her father. Clea’s adult feelings of worthlessness and self-rejection associated with being female as well as her compulsive need to please men […]
The Impact of Mother’s Feelings while Giving Birth
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009If the mother is emotionally upset during birth, the infant can be deeply affected even if the physical process of birth is natural and uncomplicated. Jack, a young man who volunteered for a demonstration session during a workshop, held his face and body habitually rigid and tense. In the first part of the session, Jack […]
How Birth Experiences Mold Personality Traits
Friday, September 25th, 2009The passage down the birth canal can sometimes be smooth and easy, but all too frequently it is a life and death struggle for survival. The details of this ordeal affect future personality and relationship patterns in specific ways. For instance, forceps extraction activates control issues and resentment at being dominated by others, while Caesarean […]
Feelings of Rejection from the Prenatal Period
Thursday, September 17th, 2009Melissa had been feeling rejected, resentful and guilty all her life in relation to her mother. She also complained of chronic pain in her lower back. When we focused on the prenatal period, she recalled her mother having the same back pain in the fourth month of the pregnancy. At that time her mother was […]
Prenatal Memory
Friday, September 11th, 2009From conception onward, the embryo/fetus seems to absorb detailed information from its mother, including thoughts, spoken words, physical sensations, and emotions. Attitudes and feelings of others close to the mother may also be picked up and may make a negative impact, for instance, during verbal or physical conflicts or sexual intercourse. Intoxication with alcohol, marijuana […]
Impact of Parental Attitudes at Conception on Our Feelings about Sex
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009Karmic Therapy focused on conception is often the quickest and easiest way to deal with sexual dysfunction and other difficulties with intimacy. Among the many hundreds of patients I have seen over three decades, I can’t recall a single instance where the patient could not recall anything about conception.
Rhonda, a woman in her late twenties, […]