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Hypnosis: Bodywork & Massage Therapy
Alchemical Bodywork Article Pages
Listening to the Body's Wisdom
Alchemical Hypnotherapy for the body worker
Alchemical Bodywork: The Sacred Marriage
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Listening to the Body's Wisdom
by Surja Jessup
If the body could speak, what would it
say?
The body reflects our thoughts, emotions
and spirit -- my hands have intuitively felt this for as long as I have
practiced massage and acupressure. A stiff shoulder carries the weight
of the world, a locked jaw holds unspoken words, an injured disk reflects
a lack of support.
Could this body language be revealing
the subconscious mind, and could it possibly hold a key to the healing
process itself?
Several years ago when I began my private
practice as a holistic health educator and massage therapist, I attended
a workshop called Alchemical Bodywork.
Although I couldn't imagine how hypnotherapy
could relate to a bodywork practice, I was intrigued with alchemy, which
I understood (from reading Carl Jung) could be interpreted as a metaphor
for "transforming lead into gold" in a person's consciousness.
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Alchemical Hypnotherapy for the body worker
by Nick Ardagh
For the last ten years, I have been stretching, kneading, pressing,
squeezing, rocking and soothing other people's bodies. I've learned
countless techniques from Swedish to Japanese, from the ruthlessly deep
to the most subtle, to create powerful changes in bodies and energies.
This kind of work can be very fulfilling; tight muscles relax, pains
disappear, headaches dissolve, people feel better. However, some force
within the client often brings tensions and imbalances back again. The
important question for me is, what creates the problem in the body and
what recreates it again?
Over the years I have become increasingly convinced that our tension,
postural imbalances, aches and pains and weak joints, originate in our
subconscious fears, attitudes and feelings. If the subconscious is not
addressed and directly worked with, the discomfort in the body will
be recreated from within, in the same or similar form, as fast as we
can heal it.
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Alchemical Bodywork: The Sacred Marriage
by Nick Ardagh In previous articles, I've discussed
some of the benefits of alchemical hypnotherapy for the body worker.
Now, I would like to describe the steps and techniques which may be
useful to a potential practitioner, as well as to share a few of the
many case studies which support the effectiveness of this work.
To a large degree, we accumulate tension
in parts of the body in order to cut off feelings. At certain critical
moments in our lives, we've been faced with choices: whether to feel,
to contain uncomfortable, seemingly dangerous feelings; or, to numb
ourselves through tension. Hurt, hopelessness, and despair for example,
may be stored and obscured by contraction of the pectoralis muscles
in the front of the chest. A weakened sense of identity, being overpowered
by the will of another, could be reflected in a weakness in the ankle
joint. The fear of being dominated, the desperate need to maintain control
of ourselves, we find in the occipital ridge.
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