Category: Somatic Psychology
Being Grounded Is Being in Contact with Your Experience – Not Resisting It
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)
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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Depression, Low Energy, and the Hazards of Living by Will Alone
When we’re depressed, we lack energy. One reason we get depressed is because we run out of the will to push ourselves, and we discover ...
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Bioenergetic Exercises, Self-Expression – and Emotional Release
“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
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
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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Feeling Ourselves from the Inside Out – Versus Viewing Ourselves from the Outside In
What is the difference between self-awareness and self-consciousness? In short, it is the difference between feeling ourselves from the inside out versus from viewing ourselves ...
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The Role of the Body in Bioenergetic Psychotherapy
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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It’s All Part of It – We Are Not Separate Pieces
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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A Brief Introduction to Body-Mind Psychology
Everything is connected to everything else. How we are in this world, how we relate to ourselves and others, is not simply about the mind, our ...
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