An Effective Way to Remove Stress & Trauma !
Netherton, Reichian, Structural Integration Combination
HOW TO CLEAR & REMOVE
THE RESULTS OF ABUSE
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Louis A. "Lou" Gross BSEE
School Certified Master Postural Integrator since 1983
Trained Netherton Style therapist since 1985
Director, The Institute for Enhanced Performance
President, Peak Performance BodyMind Technologies
an Expert, with a Regularly Reproducible Method
& a Successful Track Record since 1985.

A 24 yr Structural Integration Bodyworker,
  Netherton- Reichian Therapist, who also uses
  Nutritional & Energetic Auxiliary Approaches,
Explains how to Actually Remove Embedded Trauma,
  Emotions & Negative Belief Patterns fro m the Body,
  from childhood & other short & long term abuse.  
And explains what the conditions are inside the person's body
  that manifest as psychological & emotional conditions,
Also giving guidance on how we clear them and how to
  deal with the different stages that occur during the series
  of clearings.

I am very compassionate and understanding, & have worked with many people who have had significant and even violent trauma, including rapes.  

I know what causes what, where the material is located, how to non-traumatically get it out while also making people lighter, more open, and more confidently clearer and centered.  

I have even worked with a number of people on the phone, giving them long term, permanent improvement in each session, for each event we clear, people I have never met except by voice.

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People with both physical and psychological or emotional blockages, or issues, caused by abuse and other trauma, CAN get their conditions significantly improved again, and in a relatively short time.
Sexual Abuse - Physical Abuse - Emotional Abuse 
Removes the energies pushed into the body including the negative
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   in body & psychology in the mind - plus the emotional factor.
Rather non-traumatic method, and VERY thorough.

This is comfortable, fast & effective abuse & trauma clearing.  Even the body relaxes physically deeper and deeper, when more of the old traumatic energies are cleared.

Long lasting, permanent, and noticeable improvements start happening in the first session and accumulate in each additional session.

Over 200 big 8-1/2 x 11 pages.  Over 100 pages describing the patterns created by abuse & generally, how we get rid of them.  Then another 100 pages devoted to looking at the remedy methods and the remedy system combining the methods.
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Copyright 1997, 2001, 2002, 2005 Louis A. Gross, All rights reserved

This book is for information and education purposes only.
No part of this book should be taken as an attempt to diagnose
nor prescribe for any particular person.  I am not a psychotherapist;
I am a holistic Structural Bodyworker, and therein lies my strength.  I doubt a psychotherapist could write this book, but from my engineering Body perspective, I could.



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ENCOURAGING OVERVIEW

          This information is about what happens in the body when someone has abuse, and it puts psychological understanding and personal experience into a concrete, physical context, which is what it really is.  Then I explain how the methods I use remove those conditions.  They are distortions in what a healthy physical condition is, and healthy conditions can be restored.
        Combined with the How-To appendices, this information will indeed help people who have been abused understand what is still going on and, very importantly, know what they can do to totally, or very significantly, get rid of it, and fairly quickly, even without a lot of trauma.
        Other Body-Oriented therapists & Structural Integrators do help.  What’s written in this book, however is not usually explained anywhere else, especially not in a body-oriented way, and with the combinational approach I use.  It is an explanation of what I have learned in two decades of work.
         Abused people who have read this say it’s very accurate about their own lives, and people who have relationships with formerly abused people say this describes just what they run up against in trying to build the relationship with them.
         It CAN get a lot better.
    
       Testimonials - Trauma Release        Testimonials - Personal Growth


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INTRODUCTION
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            The purpose of this book is very specific.  It's to introduce a way of working on what we usually call a psychological problem in a more wholistic way.  And with this way, I and others have found that we can achieve significant and more effective results than verbal therapy alone, and in a much faster time.  It is Abuse & Trauma Clearing.

My targeted audience is also very specific.  It’s for already interested laypeople who want to understand their issues and those of loved one's in a clearer way than is usually presented, and it is for professional therapists who are interested in learning new and better additions to their own already developed capabilities.  It is also for other Body therapists, to help them add to their skills.

I have been formally and informally schooled in various body psychology methods, in energy application methods, in hands on bodywork, in special nutritional approaches and in meditation.  I have 22 years and 22,000 hours professional experience.  And the descriptions in this book explain how I use a combination of body-oriented and awareness methods in a systematic, integrated way.

I have also been trained as an electronic engineer.  I used to design, develop and debug electronic computer equipment.  Now I am a "people" engineer.  I use an “engineering” explanation to analyze the problems that stay with people after they’ve been repeatedly abused, or even abused just once.  And these are presented in non-technical jargon.  Most everyone can understand them and even get "mental pictures" about what I describing.  Then I use well proven, effective solutions to these problems.  And I explain in this book how they work.

I’m defining a problem in an objective sense, and then using well worked out methods to solve it.  And this approach works well, because I am describing, and addressing, what is "actually" going on, in the whole body as well as the mind.

I often point out in the text that psychotherapists know what's going on, too.  And a lot of what they do has helped people.  But many of them look at it as something going on in people's "minds."  There's actually a bigger view.  While we experience what is going on mentally, and maybe physically as far as tension or pain, the cause of that problem eludes many people, simply because it hasn't been explained to them in this Body-oriented way.  I think you have to be a bodyworker who's also trained in body-oriented psychology, to look at things in this way.

Even therapists who work to release bodily stored emotions could benefit from this information.  They'll see a bigger picture about the bodymind condition, and a much bigger picture of very effective treatment methods.

I'm an ordained clergyman and psychologically adept counselor, so I care greatly about the people who “have” these problems.  And this approach works.  I do not consider the person at fault.  Immature in spiritual development, yes, and needing improvement, as we all do.  So "bad karma" has created a spiritual problem.  And now that the person has done enough spiritual practice and helped enough other people, he or she is ready to remove the negative residues in his or her bodymind.  That's actually when people "find" me.

My experience has taught me that what happened to them was not all bad.  Besides, perhaps, giving them compassion and atoning for 'bad deeds," what has "really" happened is that parts of the person were shut down so other parts could develop.  Now that they're all developed, the person's life leads them to someone who can help them get the restrictive "side effects" out.  Then, much more of the person is "on line" in a positive way.

The client and I work as a team, and we treat the problems as “things” within them, that have been controlling and limiting them.  We can actually remove these “things.”  And when the person is freed enough from a particular issue, he or she can then make efforts to consciously behave differently.  In fact, people usually start thinking and behaving better automatically.  Our beings are actually designed that way.

This release approach also helps personal and professional development.  Most development methods are designed to teach better skills and imbed a new belief system and understanding of how the mind works.  Removing old restrictions, blockages and negative attitudes, physically solidified in people's bodies, can obviously help what I call the "behavior modification" developmental approaches to work faster and do even more.  Getting rid of the "bad" is just what happens with an approach that makes the whole person bigger and better.

Please see the appendix article on Performance Enhancement for a detailed analysis and explanation of this kind of approach.

This book has been written and edited with the help of my friends and clients who were abused themselves, and know others who were abused.  So we've made the language and explanations easily understandable even if some of the terms are unfamiliar when you first start reading.  By the end of the text, I believe most people will understand my explanations. 

I have had a few friends, victims of heavy childhood abuse, say that these explanations of the problem clearly describe the story of their lives.  And using the healing methods, they have gotten much better and even turned their lives around.  In the testimonials section of my website, one woman said I totally changed her life.  And I did.  To in lesser, but still very significant way, these methods have given other people more satisfying, more effective lives as well.

Some people swear by their church's spiritual approach.  I can see that they could get even better results, and be more effective people for others, if they'd also do this method as well.

This book is not "the whole story."  But it is a very effective introduction that clearly states what the basic problem is, how to really fix it, and what other problems will show themselves along the way as we proceed with the fix. I then offer solutions for those issues, too.

Now I will describe what each chapter explains, so you can get a clearer idea of what this book is about.

In general, to make a bridge between the body approach and standard psychological understanding, I have regularly connected simple presentations of psychological behavior we all can recognize with how it manifests as a body-energy condition.

Chapter 1 is a broad introduction to what a body-mind, or bodymind is.  It describes to you right from the beginning the "vehicle" we'll be talking about and working with.  It explains how the bodymind in not just mental and psychological, and it goes on to explain how our psychological problems manifest in this bodymind.  Then it describes methods that work with the bodymind and how they specifically help remove the problems.

In Chapter 1 I've been purposely brief about discussing the psychological aspects of abuse so you don't get lost in details and lose sight of the flow of working with the body-mind, using the specific methods I'm describing in this book.  This chapter also outlines a set of major principles I use to guide the overall process, and in this description, you'll see why I don't consider myself a psychological therapist but rather a human growth facilitator or human potential specialist.         

Chapter 2 explains specifics of the condition, in the bodymind, of what happens from being abused.  And Chapter 3 relates how these conditions make people act in the dysfunctional ways many of us are familiar with. (Even with ourselves and with people we know who didn't suffer long periods of abuse.)

Chapters 4, 5 and 6 then describe some of the layers in that bodymind condition that start to show themselves as the person gets better with this kind of treatment.  In fact, the same conditions happen with standard psychotherapy, so this explanation is also meant to serve as an aid for therapists, to help them better understand just what is going on with what could be called transference and body armor.  The chapters also offer specific solutions that have worked for clients in the past who were undergoing psychotherapy and/or my body-mind treatments.

The appendix describing the Psychological, Personal Growth and Stress Removal benefits of the Bodywork itself explains more of this.

Chapter 7 then introduces and explains how we humans operate, but from an energy system point of view, part of it.  This energy system, called the set of chakra (sha-kra) energy centers is real, and has been measured and analyzed for both physical and psychological treatment in both the U.S. and former Eastern Block countries.  Not only are these detectable by so called aura readers, professionally trained energy healers and spiritual practitioners, but even at the Movement Behavior Laboratory at the University of California at Los Angeles, they've been measured with electronic instruments. 

There are even simple ways anyone can see the effects of their energies on a small weight hanging by a light string.  And there are breathing methods, combined with specific visualizations that actually cleanse and strengthen these energy centers.  They're just a part of us we usually don't see or notice, like what the parathyroid and anterior pituitary glands look like and what vital functions they are playing in our bodies.

An analysis of these energy centers is most commonly used by medical professionals (who use it) as a diagnostic tool for healing specific organs and as a measurement of psychosocial distress. 

In Chapter 7, I present a different use of these centers, not totally my own invention, but a summary of how to understand our everyday psychological behavior, as well as a dysfunctional, constantly stuck behavior, in terms of an objective physical condition.  The presentation is simpler to understand than you might think.  (I tell people in restaurants and health clubs about it all the time.)  And I use it here to improve your understanding of what happens to us when we suffer abuse.  In fact, by objectifying how we humans are actually “put together,” it’s helped people have more hope that they, and their marriages, can get better.  Part of my own expertise is that I can de-mystify “how we work.”  Again, as an engineer, I’ve been trained to define a problem so we can use methods to achieve a solution.

And once you understand what the problem is and how the tools work, you’ll see why this system works so well.

So as appendices, I’ve added a number of articles I’ve written describing the methods .  Obviously, there’s a lot of repetition of basic concepts.  But in each appendix there’s a different slant and a lot of unique information as well.

Let me now share a table of contents, and starting in the first chapter, I then explain a foundation.



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ENCOURAGING OVERVIEW

          This information is about what happens in the body when someone has abuse, and it puts psychological understanding and personal experience into a concrete, physical context, which is what it really is.  Then I explain how the methods I use remove those conditions.  They are distortions in what a "healthy physical condition is, and healthy conditions can be restored.


INTRODUCTION

The purpose of this book is very specific.  It's to introduce a way of working on what we usually call a psychological problem in a more wholistic way.  And with this way, I and others have found that we can achieve significant and more effective results than verbal therapy alone, and in a much faster time.

My targeted audience is also very specific.  It’s for already interested laypeople who want to understand their issues and those of loved ones in a clearer way than is usually presented, and for professional therapists who are interested in learning new and better additions to their own already developed capabilities.


CHAPTER 1:
INTRODUCTION TO THE CONCEPT OF BODYMIND
AND THE PRACTICE OF BODYMIND THERAPIES
and some general characteristics of the abused pattern
as understood from this point of view

·         The concept-description of a body-mind and how past experiences got stored in it.
·         The physical distortions put into the BodyMind created during abuse.
·         Developing an orientation toward healing the body-mind, and an
                understanding of how it works.
·         Techniques:  developing correct knowledge and a “power of awareness.”
·         Introduction to the bodywork and BodyMind release processing.
·         Explanation of the bodywork.
·         Explanation of the body-mind release processing.
·         Introduction to nutritional methods.
·         Notes on combining the methods.

CHAPTER 2:
THE SPLIT LAYERS OF PERSONALITY THAT DEVELOP PHYSICALLY, DURING ABUSE

·        The four-layer separation created in the body during abuse.
·        Help with this condition, with bodywork and release processing.
         See this chapter as an article in the Bodymind Section of the website.

CHAPTER 3:
PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS OF
A "BLOCKED" AND LAYERED PERSON
Versus a person who's open to the core

·         Describing the behaviors of a physically layered condition
·         The issue of neediness and demanding
·         Disconnectedness
·         What an open body-mind acts like
·         Other techniques we can use to make the transformation work better
·         An “alertness” about transferring fears in the old episodes into fears about
                doing the processing

CHAPTER 4:
THE PROBLEMS OF GETTING STUCK
IN THE MIDST OF THE PROCESS,
When a significant amount of outer "doing" capability has been improved,
But the core has not been sufficiently opened and the angry defenses are still active
AND A LOT OF TIPS ON HOW TO RELEASE THE TRIGGERED FEELINGS

·         Getting stuck at the place of battling and “pushing away”
·         The inner issue of needs, and the battle to get them
·         A more effective way than battling
·         Looking closer at the internal pattern, including mistrust and the need to be self-sufficient
·         Self-help techniques that increase awareness and help us release the charge that got triggered
·         More about getting our needs met, with explanations about anger and the cycle of regeneration and therapy
 

CHAPTER 5:
MORE DELUSIONS AND RESTRICTIONS,
Why people stay stuck even after Chapter 4’s info is explained to them.
AND HOW TO HELP IN THIS SITUATION TOO.

·         The trust issue
·         The reasoning issue
·         A first step in resolution, when the mental efforts fail to bring satisfaction
·         The second step in resolving the problem: remove the program
                that makes the problem
·         Two self-sabotaging behaviors, including transference of anger
·         Problems of repression and distraction


CHAPTER 6:
UNDERSTANDING DISSATISFACTION
With an analysis of the issue of battling
AND FURTHER EXPLANATION ABOUT
BEING STUCK TO OUR PROGRAMS.

·         Creating dissatisfaction mentally, manifesting it physically, And how to remove it.
·         Dissatisfaction as a manifestation of “core blockage,” and the big issue of
               not getting our needs met.
·         Battle, chaos, and inefficient “operation, and why it’s important to clear
               the deep layers.
·         Making connection to other people, in a positive way
·         How an opened person relates to getting triggered, and gets nourished,
               versus a still blocked person
·         The condition of abusive anger and resentful anger, and where they are
               created in the scenario of abuse
·         Changing depression into anger, and releasing both abuse and resentment
·         Battling, fear, power, defenses and Techniques that help release us when we’re stuck


CHAPTER 7:
A DESCRIPTION OF GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY
AND THE ISSUES OF ABUSE
By describing the chakra energy system of the BodyMind
This is a unique description of "Integrated" Chakras operation in our
    emotional & psychological behavior.

·        The importance of technically objectifying our “patterns”
·        The chakras –in general, what they are and where they are located
·        Input and output chakra functions
·        A comment about the importance of “objectifying” tools.
·        The individual chakra descriptions
             Chakras 1 & 2, wants and needs, Chakra 4, expression
             Chapter 6, mental activity & self awareness
             And the effects of abuse: causing tightness, embedded emotional energies,
                thoughts, and psychological blockages, all restrictions in the chakras.
·        Coffee & Cigarettes – Chakras they affect,
               Pancreas, Adrenals & The Endocrine Glandular System
·        Sexual abuse – genital, oral, anal
               Chakras they affect, and mixed messages
·        The individual chakra descriptions: chakras 1 & 2, wants and needs. 
         The individual chakra descriptions: chakra 3, the key diaphragm area, and a pivot
                point between #2 and #4
·        The Fourth Charka and the Seventh Chakra
                Pranic Healing, Joy’s Way, and Additional Chakras
                Chakra cleansing and spinning


APPENDIX I:
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL, PERSONAL GROWTH
 & STRESS REMOVAL BENEFITS
OF STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION BODYWORK
The Introduction & Section 1 are also in an article in the Bodymind Section of my Website.   The whole Article is most of Chapter 22 in my How to Make Your Body Work Better book.

I've put this appendix first because it's great for psychotherapists who'd like some help with their patients, while using their own psychological methods.  I've helped a few people do better in their psychotherapy doing just the Bodywork alone.
A shorter version of this article is in the Bodymind Section of this website.  Includes Section 1 & a few page summary of the rest of the article.

             INTRODUCTION:  WHAT STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION IS
                  AND THE NEED FOR ITS USE

             SECTION 1:  HOW PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPROVEMENTS
                  STEM FROM PHYSICAL IMPROVEMENTS
                     #1:  Better Body Organization.
                      #2:  Chronic and Acute Pain and Tension Removal.
                      #3:  Stress Relief:
                      #4:  Improved Expression and “Receptiveness.”
                      #5:  Improving Balance, Stance and Posture.
                      #6:  Relaxing Tight Heads and Faces.

             SECTION 2:  HOW NEGATIVE EMOTIONAL &
                  PSYCHOLOGICAL ENERGIES GET STUCK IN THE BODY

             SECTION 3:  HOW TO REMOVE THE EMBEDDED ENERGIES
                  WITH BODYWORK AND BODY-ORIENTED "RELEASE"
                   TECHNIQUES

             SECTION 4:  UNDERSTANDING & IMPROVING OUR BODY-MIND:
                  HOW TO USE STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION AND
                  PSYCHOTHERAPY TOGETHER.  AND WHY
                  PSYCHOTHERAPISTS SHOULD !


APPENDIX II:
TRAUMA RELEASE BODYMIND PROCESSING
This article appears in the Bodymind Section of my Website.  I include it here for your convenience, and to make it easier for you to read it in the context of clearing the results of Abuse.


INTRODUCTION
            Trauma Release Bodymind Processing is a set of very well established, school trained methods, connected together in a way that facilitates the removal of upsetting emotional energy that gets stuck in our bodies during traumatic events such as childhood or adult abuse, loss of a loved one, auto and other serious accidents, natural disasters, financial debacles, upsetting divorces, muggings, rapes, shootings and times of war.

WHAT ARE THE METHODS AND WHAT DO THEY DO?
            My system of Trauma Release Bodymind Processing combines three of the most well established and successful methods to remove material out of the body.  By combining them, I have found we get a much better resolution, in much faster time, than by using any one or two methods alone.  These are physiologist Ida P. Rolf's Structural Integration Method of Connective Tissue Manipulation, psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich's body oriented psychological therapy, and psychotherapist Morris Netherton's method of past traumatic event release and alignment therapy.

STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION BODYWORK
            Surrounding and going through all our muscles, and underneath all our skin is a fibrous, putty-like tissue called fascia (fah-sha).  Fascia is the soft connective tissue of the body that fills in spaces and holds things together.  It has two significant features pertinent to Trauma Release Processing.  The fibers bunch-up if they're pushed together, and then they hold the muscles in a shortened form.  And the fibers store the energies of traumatic events, even for years and decades after the actual events themselves, just the way magnetic tapes and CD's do.

REICHIAN BODY-ORIENTED PSYCHOLOGICAL METHODS
            Wilhelm Reich MD was an Austrian psychiatrist who eventually came to the United States to practice and teach.  He was a student of Sigmund Freud MD, called the Father of Psychoanalysis.  And he found that the location of the subconscious mind that Freud talked about was located in the body, as chronically tight muscles combined with held in emotional energies.

NETHERTON'S TRAUMA RELEASE METHOD
            Morris Netherton PhD developed a system to access and release the unconscious energies in the body, very precisely, with pictures and all, without hypnosis, and more completely than hypnosis.
            What we do is focus on the emotional feelings, body sensations, mental thoughts and verbal words that are going on while we're upset about a current situation.  When we do this, the content of those energies, or stored videotapes, comes to our conscious minds.  This energy can then be expressed out of our bodies by saying the words that define the things people in those episodes were saying, feeling and doing.  We can do this when we focus on the sensations in our bodies or pictures in our mind's eye.  We express those things as if they were the person speaking right now, and that procedure actually pulls the energy out of the tissues.


APPENDIX III:
PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT
Structural Integration Bodywork Combined with
Body-Mind “Blockage-Release” Processing,
for Personal & Professional Development as well as Trauma Removal


WHO WE ARE AND HOW WE CAN HAVE MORE OF OURSELVES “ON LINE”
I Map it Out for You, and Explain the Map.
I even tell you how to make a map that's initially separated into blocked,
mutually restricting parts into a Unified System, where all parts work better
and they all work together in a supportive and "integrated" way.
I Make Who You Are Better, So Everything You Do is Better !
This is a unique "map" of spiritual, psychological & interpersonal-professional
   aspects of our being, & relating it to our physical "State of Being."

This article appears in the Bodymind Section of my Website.  I include it here for your convenience, and to make it easier for you to read it in the context of clearing the results of Abuse.

INTRODUCTORY, BENEFITS DESCRIPTION "FLYER"

BLOCKAGES IN THE LAYERS OF THE BODY
        HOW THEY KEEP US UNCONSCIOUS
        AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT.

THE “FOUR LAYERED GLOBES”
        THAT DESCRIBE WHO WE ARE,
        HOW WE FUNCTION FROM EACH ONE,
        AND HOW WE CAN SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVE OUR PERFORMANCE.

 
APPENDIX IV:
INTRODUCTION TO RELEASE PROCESSING
to Remove Past Experience Trauma, and Correct Negative Patterns,
Set Up in Prenatal, Birth, Childhood and Other Circumstances.

THE NETHERTON METHOD FOR TRAUMA
AND NEGATIVE PATTERN REMOVAL
An Advanced Method for Accessing the Unconscious Mind & Body,
and Removing both Old Trauma and Blockages to Personal Growth

This article is not on my website.  And a woman who'd had a lot of issues from old abuse told me these descriptions fit her life situation very accurately.

Did you ever wish you had a method for unblocking the unconscious reac­tions in your mind; the ones that keep coming up from your gut, even when you 'know' better?  Past Life (or Past Experience) and Pre/Peri-Natal Release Therapy is such a method.  It recognizes that our automatic reactions are rooted in events of the past, especially in the first few years of life after concep­tion. 

1)      TRIGGERS TO THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND
2)      SOURCES FROM THE PAST
3)      PAST LIFE REGRESSIONS AND PAST LIFE THERAPY
4)      UNDERLYING FEARS OF DEATH
5)      GOING THROUGH THE STAGES OF DYING AND LOSS
6)      SURVIVAL, HOPELESSNESS AND PAIN
7)      THE BASIC TECHNIQUE
8)      GETTING RID OF UNCONSCIOUS, NEGATIVE BELIEFS AND
         COMMANDS AND THE ROLES WE PLAY OF VICTIM AND VICTIMIZER
9)      PROCESSING OUT STACKS OF EPISODES THAT MAKE UP
         OUR PATTERNS
10)  LEARNING LIFE’S LESSONS AND BEING READY TO RELEASE THE
         NEGATIVES


APPENDIX V:
ADDING TO ESTABLISHED METHODS:
THE NETHERTON METHOD ADDED TO THE BODYWORK
AND REICHIAN THERAPY

Almost all therapies will try to teach us how to behave differently from the way our “tapes” keep making us react.  Some meditation practices will train us to watch our tapes with awareness, and maybe we’ll even be able to let go of our milder reactions.  Yet in both cases, many reactions we don't want remain.  Some bodywork methods release old emotions, but they don’t also change the reasons we get stuck in self-defeating patterns.  This will!    Parts of this article are in the Bodymind Section of the website.
 

This State of the Art System
Will Actually Erase the Tapes that Keep Bugging You

A lot of this long booklet appears on my website as different articles.  But a lot of it is not on site.  And I think it helps to read the whole article as it flows from beginning to end.

·         WHAT RELEASE PROCESSING IS, & MY OWN BACKGROUND THAT MAKES IT SO EFFECTIVE.  (YOU CAN BYPASS THIS & GO DIRECTLY TO THE NATURE OF THE METHOD, IN THE SECTION AFTER NEXT, IF YOU WISH.)

·         TO UNDERSTAND WHY WE DO BODY ORIENTED RELEASING, HERE IS A BRIEF SUMMARY ABOUT THE “BODY” ASPECT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING AND PERSONAL GROWTH.

·         HOW STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION BODYWORK IMPROVES BOTH OUR PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING.  A BRIEF BACKGROUND -- ESPECIALLY FOR NON-PRACTITIONERS: 

·         WHAT THIS SYSTEM IS AND HOW IT WORKS  -  IT’S A SIMPLE TO DO, BUT EXCEPTIONALLY POWERFUL METHOD TO REMOVE ENERGIES OUT OF THE BODY FROM BOTH LIFE-LONG PATTERNS AND SPECIFIC ADULT TRAUMATIC INCIDENTS.

·         THIS SYSTEM BUILDS ON STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION AND REICHIAN-TYPE BODY-MIND THERAPIES.

·         THE VERBAL RELEASING TECHNIQUE USED IN THIS METHOD IS QUITE COMFORTABLE AND FAIRLY EASY TO DO.

·        HOW WE ACTUALLY DO THE VERBAL RELEASING TECHNIQUE

·         THIS TECHNIQUE CAN CLEAR A LOT OF THE EFFECTS OF SPECIFIC TRAUMATIC INCIDENTS, OFTEN VERY QUICKLY, AND RELATIVELY NON-TRAUMATICALLY.  THEY COULD BE RECENT, OR HAVE HAPPENED MANY YEARS AGO.

·         HERE’S HOW I USE MY TALENTS TO HELP PEOPLE DO THE PROCESS.

·        HERE’S MORE ABOUT HOW I USE EARLIER EVENTS TO REMOVE THE ENERGIES OF CURRENT UPSETS

·         HOW CLEARING THE ENERGIES OF BOTH SIDES OF OUR SCENARIOS MAKES “WHAT HAPPENS TO US” BETTER.   HOW TO STOP NEGATIVE, AUTOMATIC AFFIRMATIONS FROM BROADCASTING.

·         HERE IS A SUMMARY OF A NUMBER OF TESTIMONIALS

·        HERE ARE SOME DETAILS ABOUT CLEARING THE ENERGIES OF A SERIES OF OUR PREVIOUS EXPERIENCES, SO THAT WE CAN CLEAR UP OUR CURRENT RESTRICTING PATTERNS

·         MORE ABOUT HOW IT WORKS, AND WHY IT’S SO EFFECTIVE 


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CHAPTER EXCERPTS

CHAPTER 1:
INTRODUCTION TO THE CONCEPT OF BODYMIND
AND THE PRACTICE OF BODYMIND THERAPIES
and some general characteristics of the abused pattern
as understood from this point of view


THE CONCEPT OF A BODY-MIND
AND HOW PAST EXPERIENCES GET STORED IN IT

Bodymind is a term first made well known by Dr. Ken Dychtwald, in his book of the same name published in 1970.  Bodymind refers to the fact that the body and mind, particularly as we think of them psychologically, are one in the same thing.

A lot has been written in the last 15 years about how the mind affects the body, how what we do with our intentions and attitudes affects our immune system and the ability to perform well athletically.  What is not so well known is that experiences in the long forgotten past stay with us in the body.   And those experiences affect our mental and emotional attitudes.  Even less widely known is that the shape of the body and its "tissue consistency" also determines a large part of our psychological makeup and our ability to express emotion.  This book describes some of those effects, especially with regard to the experiences of an abused childhood.

The Bodymind is a biological unit.  It is not purely mental.  It consists of physical tissue in a particular form, and that tissue is also "impregnated" with, and surrounded by, the energies we "picked up" in our past traumatic experiences.  This energy includes the impressions of both physical and emotional experience.

The energy gets imbedded in little packets much like photographs are impregnated with light and magnetic tape is imbedded with sound.  Only, in people, the sights and sounds we've absorbed also determine many of our attitudes and behaviors, things we usually label as psychological and emotional.   That is to say, long-term psychological patterns are actually physical restrictions and physical energy packets in the tissue of our bodies, as well as neurological patterns in our brains.  It isn't that we just think like this. It's that we are like this.  Now, some of the energy we pick up "along the way" is positive and healthy, just as some of our genetic make up is.  Some is problematical. Everyone absorbs both kinds.  The positive kind helps us develop our innate or "God given" talents.  The negative kind creates psychological hang-ups and phobias.


THE PHYSICAL “DISTORTIONS” PUT INTO THE BODYMIND,
CREATED DURING ABUSE

Abuse is always a persistent and repetitive put down by another person or persons.  It happens at particular times and places.  These specific experiences affect the abused person from that time onward, because they change the person's way of "being" in the world, in a physical way.  They change how the person looks, and how he (or she) moves, feels, thinks and emotes.  Technically speaking, they do not "replace" the person.  Rather, they distort the person's function.

This distortion changes the way the person perceives the world around him (or her), changes the way the person acts in response to those perceptions, and even changes the kind of people who will "magnetically" be drawn into that person's life.  So it is not just the person's "fault" that bad things happen and they have to struggle with them.  It's really true that other abusive people get drawn into the person's life, because the energies of the past abuse the body has absorbed attracts the same kind of energies.  This is one part of the problem.

There is also a self-sabotaging or self-destructive aspect to people who were abused.  It makes a good situation turn bad and a bad situation become worse.  But the self-sabotaging tendency is not a deliberate act by the person's "better thinking" self even if it seems that way.  It is actually a set of impressed "commands" and a formation of energy patterns that were forced into the person's sub-conscious mind and body by those other people, the ones who did the abusing.  The commands are the restrictive attitudes spoken, felt or implied by the abusers during the actual abusive experiences.  They're the "trips" laid on the people who were abused.  Yet they have now become part of the abused person's own personality, so he (or she) identifies with them as his own   thoughts and ideas.

The energy patterns are the movements and feelings that got embedded at the same time.  And these combine with those commands to make the people continue to often live life the way it was when they were being abused.


DEVELOPING AN ORIENTATION TOWARD
HEALING THE “BODY-MIND,”
AND UNDERSTANDING HOW THIS BODY-MIND WORKS

Before I get into a nice description of the ways the Bodywork and release processing help us, I first want to explain some orientations, or points of view, that will help all of us increase the abilities of our good parts, and decrease the power of our bad parts.  The good parts, of course, are those that do want to get well and will put in the actual effort to do so.  The Bodywork and release processing do this to some degree, very powerfully and very quickly.  It even helps a when a person already has a meditation and yoga practice.

But I have found that just doing these Bodywork and bodymind releasing techniques, without understanding some “foundational” concepts, will often leave a person only in the middle levels of the clearing. And he, or she, won’t be able to help himself because he doesn’t know how the whole body and mind actually work as a system, and how we can make them work better in the most effective way.

So I want to start by defining two terms that will put everything I say in this book into perspective. One is what I call the "power of self awareness," and the other is what I term "correct" knowledge.  Developing both of these qualities is a very big help in being able to improve quickly with the release and transforming treatments I describe in this book.



CHAPTER 2:
THE SPLIT LAYERS OF PERSONALITY
THAT DEVELOP PHYSICALLY, DURING ABUSE
            In the last chapter I explained that we can actually improve a person's condition as we release layers of restricted muscular movement that have been embedded with very negative emotional energies.  In this chapter I'll begin talking about another concept of layers.


THE FOUR-LAYER SEPARATION CREATED
IN THE BODY DURING ABUSE

When a person undergoes repeated, full-fledged abusive episodes, a four-layer personality develops.  This layering is physically formed in the body's musculature and energy fields.  And because it's a physical entity, and not an ethereal thought form, it remains with the person until it is removed.

The more episodes and the greater the severity of the episodes, the more processing it takes to remove the pattern from the body and the more resistive the person might become with their transference.  But the basic procedures to do the Bodywork and the verbal/energy processing are still the same.  There's just more volume and, in general, the negative energies and physical restrictions are much tighter.

This physical layering perpetuates the same kinds of experiences in the person's life, long after the original circumstances are gone.  And the per­sonality is "un-integrated," just like the physical structure.  In psycho­therapy the term disconnected is used, and it conveys a lot of the meaning of what's going on physically



CHAPTER 3:
PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS OF
A "BLOCKED" AND LAYERED PERSON
Versus a person who's open to the core
            Now I’ll describe a number of dysfunctional characteristics and why they occur, as defined by the physical blockages separating the bodymind into layers,  And I’ll often compare these behaviors to what an unblocked, open bodymind does.


DESCRIBING THE BEHAVIORS OF A PHYSICALLY
LAYERED CONDITION

A person with a well-developed outer personality can seem like an open person, because he (or she) is open, to some depth, in many kinds of situa­tions.  These are the situations in which the person has become safe, and in which he is capable and confident.  And there is no hassle.  But underneath this niceness, or in addition to the niceness, the person has a lot of hang-ups that display themselves on a regular basis.

One criteria that differentiates a "blocked" individual with this very well developed outer capability, from someone who has actually become open down to the core, is that the blocked person cannot receive particular kinds of nourishment very well, if at all.  Some people refuse to accept actual materi­al things or favors from others.  This is one condition.  Others refuse to accept that they don't always have to put themselves out; that they don't always have to be the capable, or the responsible one.  And a third type refuses to accept information and suggestions, even when they’re good ones.  (There are still others.

In each case, the way to find out whether it's a "normal" or "transient" behavior for just the immediate situation, versus a deeply set pattern of defense, is to notice if it's a "regular" part of the person's behavior in many situations. And then we want to find out what the person does when the "issue" is pressed.  With someone who is "blocked," and solidly layered, if we explore the issue with them, many kinds of sophisticated defenses will pop up to push the giver or nourishing situation away, or to avoid it altogether.

Some people who have done psychological work on themselves are aware of these and other behaviors inside them.  But they're still not able to stop them from popping up suddenly nor get out of them when they occur.  And a lot of the time they don't notice that they're doing it.  That's because their power of awareness is not strong enough to see what another layer is doing.  In fact, as I described, the layers take over the person and an objective overall observer is not present.



CHAPTER 4:
THE PROBLEMS OF GETTING STUCK
IN THE MIDST OF THE PROCESS,
When a significant amount of outer "doing" capability has been improved,
But the core has not been sufficiently opened and the angry defenses are still active
AND A LOT OF TIPS ON HOW TO RELEASE THE TRIGGERED FEELINGS
            The next three chapters are about giving agreement to what you're feeling.  And helping you become more intelligent about what to do with it.


GETTING STUCK AT THE PLACE OF
BATTLING AND “PUSHING AWAY”

A number of people get stuck at a level of deep anger and push away, and stop doing the process.  They are stuck at the place of “pushing away“ and transfer this onto people in their current life.  What they do not yet see is that they are being acted out by the energies of chaotic situations still inside them.  And being blinded by these chaotic behaviors, at the same time they are being run by them, actually keeps them from getting the underlying satisfaction they want.  These next three chapters discuss this situation.

With the Bodywork and psychological release therapies, the body opens from the outside toward the inside.  This is biological.  The first things that come off are the restrictions to be able to do the things you already do without psychological blocks, and we remove the stresses and strains you've accumulated in doing them in the recent past.  The Bodywork actually "cleans up" the outer muscles from physical shortnesses and compressions, and from negative emotional energies and toxins from old experiences, especially those from adult life.  With this cleansing comes a re-organizing of the muscle and bone structure that actually makes our capabilities "do" much better.  We can do what we want to do mentally, emotionally and physically, easier and with greater power.  As well as I can remember, everyone I’ve ever treated got these benefits.

Simply from an expressive point of view, actors and actresses say their work is better and athletes can perform higher, stronger and faster right away.  Older people get around a lot easier.  Business people find they can do more, even in stressful circumstances, without accumulating as much tension.  And there's also more enjoyment and relaxation when at play and rest.

When this level of clearing occurs for many people with abused back­grounds, a certain kind of impatience and frustration can occur.  They feel more powerful in doing what they want to do in the business and athletic world but a lot of their close personal relationships still don't work the way they want them to, and their big buttons still haven't been fixed.  Some often feel others are controlling or threatening them.

Because they actually do have much greater powers in the outer parts of their Bodyminds, some people will try to use it to accomplish what they want to do in the areas of their lives that aren't yet "fixed."  Many of them are there­fore disappointed when they run into a restricted situation.



CHAPTER 5:
MORE DELUSIONS AND RESTRICTIONS,
Why people stay stuck even after Chapter 4’s info is explained to them.
AND HOW TO HELP IN THIS SITUATION TOO.
            So that's the encouragement to do it.  What happens if you can't do it, even after you've read what to do and at least one part of you thinks they’re good ideas?  To find that answer we should take a step back to get a broader perspective on the issue.

TWO SELF-SABOTAGING BEHAVIORS,
INCLUDING TRANSFERENCE OF ANGER

Now I’ll explain what the two specific difficulties are, that keep us from getting on with this release.  The first difficulty is with the anger and avoidance that comes up.  As I acknowledged, it's originally a frustrating situation.  But the problem occurs when we keep the anger aimed at the current situation and the people in it.  And I keep mentioning this because it isn't just a bad habit.  It's an inherent part of the pattern we want to get rid of.  I’d like you to please remember this; the holding on to anger and the avoidance to clearing out our “stuff” are both parts of the embedded patterns.  They are not simply our behavior patterns.

One of the reasons people who were repeatedly abused keep transferring their anger is that the anger is one of the things that's part of the original episodes.  So are the commands, put into him or her by others, that he will be hurt worse if he expresses his anger, at the victimizer.  The anger gets generated.  But it could never come out at the person he’s really angry at, the victimizer in the past.   And it couldn’t get released to someone else the abused person tried to get help from, because either there was no one there, or because the other parent was also an abuser, or just was in fear as well.

So it comes out at others in today’s circumstances.

It’ll even come out at the therapist and even as a rejection of the techniques.  And that’s what is called transference.  It’s like having a pressure cooker with the release valve being blocked.  A lot of tightness and hardness has to hold in all that stored anger that keeps being generated.  And it eventually starts seeping out through cracks in the seal.

This behavior is what the person believes he's had to do much of his life.  These old embedded controlling experiences were all battling episodes.  So it's programmed for the person to act this way.  The person is programmed to think that the only way he can be safe is to battle, even to go covertly hostile.  And if a person doesn't have another way to relate that's more satisfying, he or she will keep battling.

It really goes bad when the person starts battling the idea of doing the process itself.  Now, even the super-limbic observer mind has been lost.  The programming in the limbic system and body energy packets has totally taken over.  The alien has won.

A second reason for the anger staying focused on only the current life situation is physiological. The anger can keep a person in a state where the blood is most active in the outer musculature. (It's like what happens when a bodybuilder pumps up in a show to look as big as he or she can.)

Energy and awareness tends to follow blood flow as well as direct blood flow.  So this emotional "pumping up" keeps the consciousness in the large doing muscles.  And they're the ones we use to directly interface with the outside world.  Naturally, then, this will want to keep the attention on the current life problems.  Unfortunately, that keeps your attention on the transference and not on the cause of your problem.

Focusing on the outer musculature was a good thing to do when we were working with the material that was stored in the outer muscles.  We could relate with the way those outer muscles were used to strike out and also to protect us when we were abused.  But once those muscles have been cleared of their material and hard­ness, the attention needs to be focused deeper inside the body, into deeper and deeper sets of organs and structures.  Otherwise, we spend a lot of time in the therapy first working to release the "symptoms."  Only after the symptoms have been released can we do the" real" work, to eliminate additional original stuff that's still causing these symptoms.



CHAPTER 6:
UNDERSTANDING DISSATISFACTION
With an analysis of the issue of battling
AND FURTHER EXPLANATION ABOUT
BEING STUCK TO OUR PROGRAMS.
            The series of explanations in this long chapter will help you further understand a person’s condition and issues, after being subjected to abuse.  It also indicates how we can fix it, and I recommend my other books and articles that detail the methods.


THE EMBEDDED ENERGIES OF
BATTLE, CHAOS, AND INEFFICIENT “OPERATION,”
AND WHY IT’S IMPORTANT TO CLEAR THE DEEP LAYERS IN THE BODY

If a person is aware that the behaviors of creating battle and chaos are indeed something he or she doesn’t want anymore, then behavior modification training might help.  This is where the person’s nice-person, capable outside layers learn and practice new, better ways of achieving his or her goals.  Since the inner soul path and primary personality are “on board” with this attempted change, they can provide some amount of power of awareness to keep the person going on the “right” track, even if there are some distracting blockages that pop up.

Here we are trying to make the parts of life that are already working “well,” (because of the first round of release) work even better.  And we can use psychotherapy, career guidance, and even specialized kinesiology treatments or neuro-linguistic programming.  These methods empower the person to take “better” action.  In the last chapter I described some of the kinds of blocks people run into on their way to taking that ac­tion.  The point here is that with the restrictive abuse cleared in the outer muscles, a person can indeed make use of these ”doing” muscles and their energies in more effective ways than he's been able to do before.

But there's still something wrong in the body.  The deeper parts of the actual structure and energy field are still tight, just the way they have been, and that tightness “flavors” the person's efforts to get what he wants.  These energies and tightness make the person act in subtle, yet self-sabotaging ways, even if those efforts are somewhat successful.  They can me much more successful if we remove the “negative side effects” of the loss and defeat that are in the past experiences when he took the same action.

The action is training in how to succeed. But the training episodes were unsuccessful because of some other things the person did that were not in line with his soul path.  The logic is, that if we remove the unsuccessful parts and the propensity to do the wrong things, then the training for current, real life, will pay off.

The self-sabotaging was created in the past experiences, by the abusers, or “trainers,” and we find that the script of those episodes shows just how those other people stopped, and then blocked our own creative expression that was coming out of our core.  The battling and loss that’s outlined in this script became the tightness and negative programming inside the person’s layers that have been blocking the core.

This “flavoring” in the block are feelings like bitterness, anger, frustration and confrontation, including “overpowering” and ignoring or invalidating.  And they are embedded in chaotic experiences. While the outside layers are now free enough to do certain things to satisfy the whole person, the tightened and malfunctioning inside layers still cannot.

This observation tells us how to solve the problem.  Whatever areas of the body get their tightnesses and negative energies cleared can be used by the nice person, capable outer personality to make it even more capable, in part, because there is now more of the person’s cleared energy system to use for its own, positive actions.  So the more layers of muscle and energy field that get cleared, the more capable the person gets.



CHAPTER 7:
AN ENERGETIC UNDERSTANDING OF THE SAME
PATTERNS:  A DESCRIPTION OF
GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY AND THE ISSUES OF ABUSE
By describing the chakra (sha-kra) energy system of the bodymind

THE CHAKRAS –IN GENERAL
WHAT THEY ARE, WHERE THEY ARE LOCATED
AND WHAT HAPPENS TO THEM WHEN PEOPLE ARE ABUSED

There are a series of rotating energy centers in a line along the front of the spinal column. This line extends up through the crown of the head to a place about one and a half feet above it, and down though the bottom of the torso to about knee level.  While often thought to be in the realm of psychic phenomena and clairvoyance, these energy centers are actually measurable with scientific instruments and even with a simple hand held pendulum, like a small weight hanging on a thread.  If you hold your pendulum over a chakra, a few inches above your skin, it should start to spin.  A healthy spin on the front of the body is large and clockwise.  And an emotional or physical dysfunction shows up as a smaller spin, sometimes going in the reverse direction.

There are a number of centers in the physical body, from the base of the torso to the top of the head, plus one above the head and one between the knees.   But for the purposes of this chapter, only the major seven need to be looked at.  Each of the seven centers in the physical body corresponds to the physical and emotional components located in those same areas, like organs, glands, nerves, blood flow, immunological function, muscular activity and feelings.

We need these chakras to function in the world.  More accurately, they are parts of us just the same as our organs, nerves and muscles are parts of us.  And we use them all, every day, to do everything from just getting out of bed to creating or solving the most sophisticated of projects.

In fact, since each chakra embodies both physical and psychological elements, understanding the workings of the chakras gives us a common ground, a link, for understanding how our mental and physiological functions intercon­nect.

The chakras work together.  Each has a specific function.  And when a person is abused, these rotating energy systems in the part of the body that were harmed, or that were tensed up, get filled with the negative energies of that circumstance.  When it’s a very significant episode, those energies get stuck right there in the energy field, both in the collagen fibers of the fascia and in other tissues, and energy flows as well.


INPUT AND OUTPUT CHAKRA FUNCTIONS

Besides physical body functions and emotional energies, these chakras correspond to a series of well known psychological development stages that we go through as we're growing up, from birth to age seven. These stages are delineated in Reichian and Bioenergetic therapy.  Difficulties in any of these stages of devel­opment create the actual physical and energetic blockages and dysfunctions we accumulate.

So each chakra corresponds to a particular area of the body, with it organs, emotions, muscles and bones.  And we are built by nature in an orderly arrangement that corresponds to a natural sequence of energies, as common as the colors of the rainbow.  What we see in the chakras are par­ticular frequencies of nature, and each corresponds to certain kinds of physical functions and certain types of emotional feelings, If we understand some details of this orderliness, it allows us to understand the different parts of ourselves with greater aware­ness than just a physical or psychological analysis would do.

The chakras also have an "input" or "output" function.  The odd ones, Chakras 1, 3, 5 and 7 are output chakras.  The primary direction of their activities is to "transmit," so our physical and psychological functions in these areas activate outwardly, to express ourselves.  The even ones, Chakras 2, 4 and 6 are input chakras.  The primary direction of their activities is to "receive."  So in these areas, we perceive, or bring in information.  They’re the places we feel and sense.

Very simply stated, in the abdomen (#2), we feel our own needs, in the heart