Is Your Dream Moving Towards You Or Away?

Ever get the feeling that your hearts desires are not being fulfilled?

It’s a little game of self pity that people play with themselves. If you can’t get what you want you might become collapsed and devastated or go on anti-depressant medication. This is where our culture is headed. 20% of the western culture is now on anti-depressant medication. The World Bank’s research concluded that by the year 2030, 50% (or half) of us will be on anti-depressants. Then the drug companies can come up with more drugs to treat the side effects of anti- depressants, anti-anxiety pills and sleeping tablets.  It’s like a runaway train that’s becoming more and more difficult to stop.

If you find yourself in an ungrounded state of powerlessness, feeling inadequate, discouraged or depressed, then perhaps it’s time to look at making massive changes.

Firstly, if you feel powerless, who have you given your power to?   Take it back. Leo Durocher, a famous professional baseball player and coach once uttered these famous words “Nice Guys Finish Last”. He was the most passionate man. He meant that you have the right to stand up for yourself. To challenge the status quo. To find a new pathway, to blaze a new trail.

Some of the most common roadblocks are:

• negative beliefs
• lack of faith
• lack of self-trust
• lack of humility
• lack of energy flow
• defensive behaviour (reactive personality)
• and more…

To deal with all of these issues simultaneously is no easy task.

The main causes of a lack of inner life are blocks to the flow of your body to the heart. Chronic muscular contractions hold the experiences of pain caused by trauma, abuse, neglect, rejection and criticism. These unresolved experiences have tumultuous consequences. It blocks you from living in the present moment, distorts your reality (beliefs) and reactions; stimulates negative thinking and self destructive behaviour. 

Master healers believe these energy blocks or defences are in place to protect the heart from more pain. Although the intention is noble, the actual result is that the heart does not get to heal, transform old beliefs or inspire the courage needed to love and create from your passionate will. The holding of pain at the cellular (body) level also generates rage that emerges from the unconscious.

This dynamic described by John A Sarno MD, is known as T.M.S. and generates chronic pain or physical illnesses that generally do not respond to normal medical treatment. It’s your fear of the unconscious rage and its subsequent suppression that causes a withdrawal of blood from a specific area of the body and therefore resulting in illness.

Accordingly, in order to heal psychosomatic illness and psychological and spiritual crisis, the transformation of the character structure is truly a worthy undertaking. Old beliefs begin to drop away and your positive intention (or will) creates new beliefs and values that are congruent with the truth of your soul’s journey.

What is Character Structure?

Character structure theory was developed by Wilhelm Reich, MD in response to his own clinical research and that of his teacher, Sigmund Freud, MD.  Its composition was originally based on childhood mind-body dynamics needed in order to survive in the world.  Later, Reich observed a bioelectric energy field that appeared to flow or stream effortlessly in healthy people.  In neurotic or sick people this flow is impeded by chronic muscular tensions described earlier and sexual dysfunction.

Reich’s theory has been corroborated by modern scientists Candice Pert and Valerie Hunt. Neuropeptides communicate between the body-mind and energy system. When your body-wide psychosomatic network is out of balance, pathology is fuelled and illness prevails. The unhealthy symptoms of the character structure can be transformed into healthy ones. The character structure is therefore never eliminated but instead purified and integrated.

Character Structure Composition

We have access to our beautiful and dynamic qualities at all times.  When our energy is streaming our spiritual evolution accelerates.  When your unhealthy structure is dominant, the energy blocks contract our capacity to love and create. Most people recognise themselves in specific unhealthy categories and also beautiful qualities category.  Your character structure, according to Reich, is in place by the 4th birthday and tends to be reinforced thereafter.  The good news is that they are neither permanent nor represent
your heartfelt divine expression.

Reich’s theories have been further developed by psychiatrists Alexandra Lowen, MD (Language of the Body) and John Pierrakos, MD (Core Energetics) who brought characterology into group process.  Most people have at least two categories of character structure that dominate their personality. They typically feel relieved when the diagnosis of their early family life helps them to understand lifelong painful behaviour patterns.  It also gives them hope that there is a way out of suffering (contraction) moving and flowing towards a passionate life (expansion).

Moving On

Many people get caught in a rut where they feel they have tried everything and still feel stuck. Life does not flow so they feel thwarted. There are very specific things that you can do for yourself to facilitate moving on.

In my programs I use modalities like:

• core-energetics
• bioenergetics
• character analysis
• core-connections transformation
• heart-energetics
• body-psychotherapy
• constellations
• voice dialogue
• mysticism
• quantum physics
• body-mind science

Individual and Group Support

If you choose to work with a therapist or do workshops to support you, choose wisely.  More than 50% of your healing and spiritual development is based on this subjective relationship. It should be a dynamic, fluid and loving exchange. The rest is the objective skills employed by your facilitator and your own determination to become whole. This is exciting because you have lots to do with the outcome. Trust yourself, keep your intention clear and have faith in the process.

The following elements could be included:

Discuss the amount of trauma you have sustained in-utero, birth, childhood, adolescence and adulthood. 
What would be your healer’s plan to release this material from your body-mind and energy system?
What areas of overcharged and undercharged energy does your mind-body hold? 
Will you be guided through a process to release your energy bocks to facilitate the streaming of your life force?
If you have chronic illness or exhaustion, will the psychosomatic (mind-body) component be addressed in your healing?
If you have chronic depression or anxiety will your unresolved anger (rage) be discharged in a healthy manner?
Will a psychodynamic assessment be employed to analyse how your childhood pain inhibits your present time fulfilment?
Will you be given an opportunity to embrace your own darkness (shadow material) and claim your life and creativity?
Character Analysis:  Will your character structure be assessed along with an energetic body reading?

It takes a skilled practitioner to address these issues.

How to solve the riddle?

John E. Sarno, MD, a New York physician and famous author of Healing  Back Pain and the Mindbody Prescription, has cured thousands of people by simply exposing the unconscious rage of his patients. For the past 30 years, Dr. Sarno has explored how most neck and back pain, migraine, repetitive stress injuries (RSI), whiplash, tendonitis and many other illness such as hypertension, chronic fatigue, skin disorders, heart disease, cancer, allergies, gastrointestinal disorders, circulation and immune disorders, to name a few, may be treated successfully and permanently without drugs, physiotherapy or surgery.

Dr. Sarno believes that our widespread western illnesses are psychogenic; that is, they originate in the mind. Defence mechanisms cause the brain to divert people’s attention to the body with severe pain or illness so they can avoid dealing with unconscious and repressed feelings. Dr Sarno has found that the cure takes place when his clients learn about and accept what’s going on. This exposes the brain’s strategy. The mystery is solved.

Most patients can be cured of the pain and illness within a short time. Others need some psychotherapy to come to terms with the repressed emotions.
Painful experiences in infancy and childhood that are not dealt with frequently get stuck as residual rage in the unconscious. The resulting adult behaviours – perfectionism, people-pleasing, dependency, low self-esteem and guilt – all contribute to this rage. Also self-imposed pressures and the stresses of everyday life push the brain into a state of confrontation. To avoid the emotional pain it perceives as too painful, the brain avoids the issue by creating physical pain or illness as a distraction.