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Body Psychotherapy Dublin: Whatever the mind cannot process, the body has to hold. The mind is like a child, the body is like the mother. The mother protects the child from what would be too overwhelming.
The Buddha said that ‘karma is never lost’. Nothing we do goes away. The mind would like to think we can ‘just forget about it and move on’ but no, our experience remains with us. The mind, the child, thinks he can just discard it and there is no impact. The body, the mother, holds the impact.
The mind can lie to itself, the body cannot. The mind can afford to lie because the body pays the price.
The less the mind can bear, the more the body has to hold. This creates an imbalance and the body has to bear it. It carries the emotional debt.
The body, the mother, holds all unprocessed experience in undigested form. Over time, this becomes heavier. It works in the same way as compound interest.
Psychosomatic illness
This can lead to psychosomatic illness like headaches, back pain and a difficulty in breathing, among other symptoms.
Body Psychotherapy is about helping the body to process what was not digested in their experience. The mind helps the body by looking at what has not been looked at. As the mind digests these experiences, the mind grows up to become an adult.
The mind relieves the body of this pressure and as experience is processed our whole system digests it. Experience can then pass out of our system into the past. With a clearer system we are more available to new experience in the present and future. We can be more hungry for it.
So, it is a process of moving from a mother to child dynamic to an adult to adult one, a restoring of balance.
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