Tag: body-mind
What Gets In the Way? Awareness, and Obstacles to Living What You Already Are
April 6, 2020
Awareness
Why do I keep seeing a fight when there isn’t one? Why do I keep getting twisted up worrying about my partner leaving me? Why ...
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Being Grounded Is Being in Contact with Your Experience – Not Resisting It
November 1, 2019
Somatic Psychology
Being fully present depends on your capacity to be grounded directly in your actual experience – in what is happening now. Grounding consists of contact. Contact with the ...
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Just Relax! (Why Telling Yourself to Relax Doesn’t Work)
May 30, 2019
Practices
Many of us would agree that we need to relax more. But we also know that telling ourselves to “just relax” doesn’t work very well. ...
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Bioenergetic Exercises, Self-Expression – and Emotional Release
September 21, 2018
Somatic Psychology
“Does all that sound and movement in bioenergetics really help me heal? Doesn’t that kind of dramatic self-expression just teach people it’s OK to blow ...
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A Focus on Life, Living, and the Free Flow of Energy and Impulse
January 21, 2018
Somatic Psychology
Bioenergetic body-mind psychotherapy has a very clear focus on supporting the free flow of life in a person. That is, bioenergetics focuses on enlivening, rather than simply ...
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The Body Knows – Even If “We” Don’t
August 24, 2017
Somatic Psychology
Body, feeling, thought, the unconscious, and what is essential in us are all connected. If you’ve ever had a massage, you may have had the ...
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The Role of the Body in Bioenergetic Psychotherapy
April 21, 2017
Somatic Psychology
Body-mind psychotherapy stands in contrast to purely verbal psychotherapies by including your bodily self in the therapy session. This can take many different forms. At ...
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Embodiment, Energy, and Spirituality
March 11, 2017
Transpersonal-Psychospiritual Psychology
It’s common in our language to talk about body and/or mind, matter and/or spirit. A natural extension of this way of thinking is to imagine ...
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Dis-ease, Grace, Body, and Spirit
October 17, 2016
Transpersonal-Psychospiritual Psychology
We’ve seen how someone can be technically perfect in a performance (say on a musical instrument, in a dance, or in sports) but not only ...
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It’s All Part of It – We Are Not Separate Pieces
May 1, 2016
Somatic Psychology
This great alchemical work – this journey of personal development – is one of transformation and wholeness. Our bodies, minds, and spirits, our relationships and ...
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