Karma Shrink http://www.karmashrink.com Integrative Psychiatry with Dr. Stephen Proskauer Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:22:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 en How will you awaken? http://www.karmashrink.com/2010/03/11/how-will-you-awaken/ http://www.karmashrink.com/2010/03/11/how-will-you-awaken/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:22:02 +0000 Stephen Proskauer MD http://www.karmashrink.com/2010/03/11/how-will-you-awaken/ So many gates to awakening: meditation, Big Mind, astrology, tarot, craniosacral or Rosen bodywork, and Karmic Therapy. Take your pick.

]]> http://www.karmashrink.com/2010/03/11/how-will-you-awaken/feed/ Soul Retrieval http://www.karmashrink.com/2010/03/10/soul-retrieval/ http://www.karmashrink.com/2010/03/10/soul-retrieval/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:10:26 +0000 Stephen Proskauer MD http://www.karmashrink.com/2010/03/10/soul-retrieval/ Shamanic healing in many tribal cultures includes a ceremony for retrieving parts of the soul that have been lost as a result of traumatic dissociation. Karmic Therapy offers another way to bring spiritual consciousness back into the body when parts of the soul have gone into exile.

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Karmic Therapy Healing the Split Psyche

Chapter 5 Soul Splitting: Dissociation for the Body


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]]> http://www.karmashrink.com/2010/03/09/awakening/feed/ Dissociation and Shamanic Initiation http://www.karmashrink.com/2010/03/08/dissociation-and-shamanic-initiation/ http://www.karmashrink.com/2010/03/08/dissociation-and-shamanic-initiation/#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:10:31 +0000 Stephen Proskauer MD http://www.karmashrink.com/2010/03/08/dissociation-and-shamanic-initiation/ Dissociating from the body may make it difficult to stay grounded and to feel at home in the physical world, but on the positive side, the dissociation that so often results from severe injury temporarily protects us from overwhelming fear and pain, loosens our attachment to the physical senses, and creates a spiritual opening into a larger realm of consciousness. The “wounded healer” in the shamanic tradition journeys to the spirit realm to make contact with spiritual allies and healing forces. Without the wound and the resulting dissociation from the body the journey could not begin. On the journey, the shaman experiences a rebirth and the wound is transformed into a vehicle for spiritual growth and for healing others.

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Karmic Therapy Healing the Split Psyche

Chapter 5 Soul Splitting: Dissociation for the Body


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]]> http://www.karmashrink.com/2010/03/04/painful-memories-2/feed/ Enlarging Our Awareness Beyond Constricted Views http://www.karmashrink.com/2010/03/04/enlarging-our-awareness-beyond-constricted-views/ http://www.karmashrink.com/2010/03/04/enlarging-our-awareness-beyond-constricted-views/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:10:27 +0000 Stephen Proskauer MD http://www.karmashrink.com/2010/03/04/enlarging-our-awareness-beyond-constricted-views/ Our misfortunes may be spiritual opportunities. Each episode of suffering gives us a chance to enlarge our awareness beyond a constricted view previously held. Out of excruciating pain can sprout the seed of expanded consciousness.

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Karmic Therapy Healing the Split Psyche

Chapter 5 Soul Splitting: Dissociation for the Body


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This post is from the book

Karmic Therapy Healing the Split Psyche

Chapter 5 Soul Splitting: Dissociation for the Body


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]]> http://www.karmashrink.com/2010/03/02/painful-memories/feed/ Awareness during Coma and Anesthesia http://www.karmashrink.com/2010/02/26/awareness-during-coma-and-anesthesia/ http://www.karmashrink.com/2010/02/26/awareness-during-coma-and-anesthesia/#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:10:32 +0000 Stephen Proskauer MD http://www.karmashrink.com/2010/02/26/awareness-during-coma-and-anesthesia/ The 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 our thoughts and feelings as well as everything else going on around them even when they appear to be unconscious.

This post is from the book

Karmic Therapy Healing the Split Psyche

Chapter 5 Soul Splitting: Dissociation for the Body


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Karmic Therapy Healing the Split Psyche

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