Tag: unconscious

Trauma release – why a mind-body approach is essential

According to psychotherapist and author Eugene Gendlin PhD, traumatic experiences are stored in the body. In fact, all your accumulated life experiences, including traumatic events whether large or small, are held in various parts of your physical body and re-accessed through what he calls the ‘felt sense’. Unconscious factors affecting the body keep the traumatized […]

EFT heals trauma – case study explains how

EFT heals trauma – case study explains how A young woman, Julia, came to see me in January 2013. She was suffering from debilitating on-going anxiety and panic attacks following an armed robbery in her home in the middle of the night… Read more

Further Reflections on Pain and Suffering

Here’s more on the role of consciousness in the experience of pain and suffering. Dr Elisha Goldstein, in this illuminating extract from an interview on Psychotherapy Networker, describes Jon Kabat-Zinn’s groundbreaking discovery of using Mindfulness to relieve chronic pain. Click her to listen (duration: 1:42)

Discovering my authentic self

I’ve learned that underneath my neurotic behaviors lie unconscious purposes – usually to avoid some fear that I’m also unconscious of having. And it’s all the product of my unchecked mind. My healing starts with focusing first on the discomfort I feel in my body and expressing that to myself. When I choose not to […]