Energy Work & Body Psychotherapy
Your energy field holds the sum of your entire being, your history, genealogical and hereditary patterns, your past, present and even future experiences.
Your Energy field is in constant interaction with your surrounding environment. At times, this can cause your field to become unbalanced, overloaded or weakened, resulting in a range of problems on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels.
A Light Symphony Energy healing involves the clearing, activation and flow of your unique personal energy enabling you to move forward in the direction YOU CHOOSE.
Body psychotherapy gives me the basis of traditional psychology with the deeper understanding of somatics - "pertaining to the body" proof that how we live our lives not only affects our physical wellbeing but also our emotional and psychological health as well.
With the growing incidence of mental illnesses such as depression, anxiety, addictions and their correlation to physical diseases and psychosomatics, more and more people are turning to alternative therapies in addition, or as an alternative, to traditional medicine. There is much written in the media about increased awareness around mental health issues and physical/emotional wellbeing. Nowadays people are seeking a holistic approach to their well being and overall health.
Demand for quality and expectations of professionalism are therefore higher and Therapists need to be on the ball for keeping up with new developments in the field, seeking new and more successful ways to constantly update traditional methods of health and healing.
This work can benefit everyone, regardless of age, gender or personal history. Light Symphony Energy Healing can help clients get to the bottom of the root causes of depression, anxiety, addictions, chronic fatigue, insomnia, relationship crisis, business and financial challenges as well as a complexity of physical illnesses.
Taken from the Journal of Body Oriented Psychotherapy- USA Assoc for Body Psychotherapy.
"Body Psychotherapy involves a developmental model, theory of personality, hypotheses about the origins of psychological disturbances and alterations, as well as a rich variety of diagnostic and therapeutic techniques used within the framework of the therapeutic relationship. Many different and sometimes quite separate approaches are found within Body Psychotherapy, as there are in the other main branches of psychotherapy. Body Psychotherapy is also a science, as well as an art, having developed over the last seventy-five years from the results of research in biology, anthropology, proxemics, ethology, neurophysiology, developmental psychology, neonatology, perinatal studies, and many more disciplines.
A wide variety of techniques are used within Body-Psychotherapy, including those involving touch, movement and breathing. There is, therefore, a link with some body oriented therapies, somatic practices, and complementary medical disciplines, but although these may also involve touch and movement, they are very distinct from Body Psychotherapy. Body Psychotherapy recognizes the continuity and the deep connections that all psycho-corporal processes contribute, in equal fashion, to the organization of the whole person. There is no hierarchical relationship between mind and body, between psyche and soma. They are both functioning and interactive aspects of the whole". -Adapted from the EABP definition of Body Psychotherapy
Family Constellation per Wikipedia
Procedure of Systemic Constellations A group of participants (10-30), led by a trained facilitator, sit in a circle. One participant (client or seeker) is selected to work on a personal issue. The others either serve as “representatives” or actively contribute by observing with concentration.
The facilitator asks, “What is your issue?” The issue may be extreme: “Two years ago my husband and child were killed in an accident. I’m trying to learn how to live with that.” It may appear to be more commonplace, such as a college student who reports, “I’m 21 years old and have been diagnosed with clinical depression.”
The facilitator asks for information about the family of origin looking for traumatic events from the past that may have systemic resonance. Such events include premature deaths, including aborted children, murders, suicide, and casualties of war, members of the family system who were denied their right to belong, such as a disabled child who was institutionalized, a baby given up for adoption, a disappeared father, or a homosexual or apostate who was banished from the family. The client does not present narrative or commentary.
Next, the facilitator asks the client to select group members to represent members of the family system. Typically, these will be the client’s immediate family or the issue itself. In the first case cited above, the facilitator began with the client and her deceased husband and child; in the second case, the client and a representative for depression.
The client stands behind each representative, placing her hands on the representative’s shoulders and moves them into place. Once the representatives are in position, the client sits and observes. The representatives stand with their arms at their sides without moving or talking. They are not role playing. For several minutes the scene is one of stillness and silence. The facilitator observes and waits.
The representatives tune into the resonance of the family field. The facilitator may inquire of each representative, “How are you feeling?” Sometimes the representatives are placid and without emotion. Other times they report strong emotions or physical effects. The reports are subjective and contain some aspect of personal projection. However, the intermixing of subjective personal projections with field resonance does not contaminate the process as a whole.
Often, what emerges is that someone in the current family is unconsciously identified with a deceased family member from a previous generation. If this connection is to an excluded person, or one who had a difficult fate, the living family member can be drawn to repeat this fate or compensate for what occurred in the past.
The facilitator slowly works with this three-dimensional portrait of the family. First, the hidden systemic dynamic comes into clear view. In the case of the young woman with depression, the hidden dynamic was the client’s invisible loyalty to the grief of her deceased grandmother.
Next, the facilitator seeks a healing resolution. In the case above, the representatives for the client and grandmother faced a third representative who symbolized the object of the grandmother’s undying grief. When the client perceived the effect her loyalty to grief had on her beloved grandmother she felt a profound release. The representatives feel relieved when the excluded person is acknowledged, restored to their rightful place in the system, and respected for the fate they endured.
Once a resolution comes to light, the client stands in her place in the constellation. The final step is for the facilitator to suggest one or two healing sentences to be spoken aloud or inwardly. In this case, the healing sentence was for the representative of the grandmother to say to the client, “Go live!”.
Afterwards, there is no processing by the facilitator. Clients who are in an ongoing course of psychotherapy can integrate these insights with their therapists.
There is a wealth of anecdotal and case study reports that over time the new image of the family system - with belonging, balance and order restored - gradually melts the archaic image that supported the entanglement (Cohen 2005; Franke 2003; Lynch & Tucker 2005;Payne 2005) .