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How does Body-Psychotherapy help?
Body-psychotherapy looks at very basic processes in life: how we reach out to others, how we take in what we need; how we make boundaries to define ourselves, how we see and are seen by others; how we organize our energies to move out into the world; and how we come back to ourselves to rest and restore our energies. These are basic processes--bodily, emotional, interpersonal, and spiritual processes--that may have been supported or injured in our lives. They are also the processes that we can further develop in ourselves now.
When we work with our bodies--when we engage, enliven, rest and nourish our bodies, we wake up parts of ourselves, parts of the psyche that may have been dormant or invisible. In this way the bodywork can begin to put us in touch with deep inner resources and larger elemental and archetypal forces that life provides.
The following are examples of resources that body-centered psychotherapy may help an individual call forth and embody:
“Through the therapy I realized what it has meant for me that I couldn’t really rest in my mother’s arms as a child. I dealt with this by staying busy and taking care of others--which is what I continued to do as an adult. The bodywork has helped me learn how to take in support--to get nourishment from touch and to receive other kinds of support from friends and family. Now I am beginning to have some alternatives to care-taking, worrying and overworking.”
“When I feel the energy moving through my back, I feel the strength to really be myself as a separate person. I’ve felt the therapist and others back me up. And now I’m starting to feel how I can back myself up.”
When we work with our bodies--when we engage, enliven, rest and nourish our bodies, we wake up parts of ourselves, parts of the psyche that may have been dormant or invisible. In this way the bodywork can begin to put us in touch with deep inner resources and larger elemental and archetypal forces that life provides.
The following are examples of resources that body-centered psychotherapy may help an individual call forth and embody:
“Through the therapy I realized what it has meant for me that I couldn’t really rest in my mother’s arms as a child. I dealt with this by staying busy and taking care of others--which is what I continued to do as an adult. The bodywork has helped me learn how to take in support--to get nourishment from touch and to receive other kinds of support from friends and family. Now I am beginning to have some alternatives to care-taking, worrying and overworking.”
“When I feel the energy moving through my back, I feel the strength to really be myself as a separate person. I’ve felt the therapist and others back me up. And now I’m starting to feel how I can back myself up.”
