Mind Body Therapies

Introduction:

Mind body therapy involves the combinations of mind’s response with bodywork such as sensation, body touch or posture. Our body may react in different way for all the bodywork as mentioned and it helps us to understand our body sensations as well as emotional behaviors. If we understand how we are capable to handle the physical stress, we can draw out a plan for the therapy allowing us to concentrate and achieve the better results, which would have not achieved by our mind alone.

Rubenfield synergy suggests that some of the feelings of your past experiences are stored by the body and these feelings can surface at the times and stuck you to enable to live the enjoyable life. The brain avoids these emotions, however body remembers all these emotions.

Therapies

Body mind therapy is a psychotherapeutic process, which works on your emotional processes resulted from body and is aimed to resolve all emotional concerns, whenever these emotional behaviors are not likely to be addressed from other therapies.

There are various therapies such as counseling, mental health training and the body mind practitioners uses the appropriate therapy keeping in mind the individual background.

Developing Somatic Experiencing

The theory is based on animals experience in the wild. Animals are able to discharge the residual energy after encountering a stressful situation and attain equilibrium even after being attacked in the wild. According to the theory, the residual energy trapped in our nervous system after a trauma is responsible for causing the body and mass havoc.

The therapy is useful for humans suffered from shock or developmental trauma, and humans can learn how to release the excess energy and heal the trauma.

Hakomi Method of Body Mind Therapy

Hakomi method is based on changing our core materials (memories, emotional imprints, beliefs, attitudes, habitual thoughts and body impression), which are originated after trauma or any other challenging situation. Hakomi method gives tress to the mindfulness or listening to you. The trainer establishes a good relationship with the person and notices the trigger experiences that lead to discovery of organizing core material and thus identifies the changes required to heal the core material.

Rubenfield Synergy method

This method is a talk and touch method in which a light touch and verbal communication is used to sense energy movement in body.

Some of the principles of the Rubenfield synergy method are summarized below.

• Individuality
• Dynamic relationship between body, mind and emotional spirit.
• Awareness for change.
• Change should occur in present.
• Accept the responsibility for change.
• Persons should have the capacity to self heal and self regulate.
• Touch should be a gateway for communication.
• Person should listen to the body.
• Body has energy field, which can be sensed.

Integrate Body Psychotherapy

IBP or integrative body psychotherapy is psychology-based therapy and is aimed at learning from the experience of one’s body or in other words the IBP can be summarized, as the body always knows.

The therapist is helpful in guiding the three types of mind body interruptions i.e. emotion developed in early childhood that affects present experience, protective defense and how the person abandons the core.

The basic tools used in integrative body psychotherapy includes movement, self release techniques, awareness and methods to distinguish between disruptive psychological patterns.

Focusing

Focusing is aimed at the direct access to body knows. In this technique the practice takes the person through conscious perception, which is far beyond just knowing on some conceptual levels. Thus the technique help you to sense your body through your thoughts and memories.