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when they occur in later life, it can't be in touch with the stored emotions when the body is still blocked. In
addition, other people's well intentioned feelings in current life cannot be felt in the person's core. So there's
a certain lack of appreciation for other people's heart felt intentions and feelings
The wall blocks the deeper part of the person from receiving "nourishment." It keeps the
person from being satisfied, even when, and especially when, the person complains that other people
are not nourishing him. It blocks candid, open communication in everyday intimate relationships. The
person on the outside, which includes his conscious mind, just isn't aware of what's deep inside this
hardened tissue.
On top of the wall is an angry defense that blames, puts down, pushes away, distrusts, controls
and manipulates, and often creates chaos in the person's life. I call it the push-away behavior because
it pushes people away and rejects the good as well as the bad.
The withdrawal, the wall, the anger and blame, the control and manipulation, the distrust and
the chaos are all various kinds of self-sabotage. They aren't always very active, but they are repetitively
active. And they keep the person from seeing and taking advantage of a lot of the benefits the people in their
adult life are now giving them. Plus, they treat other people as if they are the enemy.
So there are three defenses. The outer defense has all these "skills." The wall below it just
shuts things off. And the withdrawal deep inside just pulls away and hides. And all three "activate"
at the same time.
While standard psychology interprets all of these characteristics as things the person is doing, I
want to emphasize that they are all parts of the past abusive episodes stored as "packets" in the
person's body. The behavior that happened during the abusive episodes is the same behavior that the
person now exhibits when he (or she) gets triggered into thinking he's being abused. This includes any
denial that anything is wrong.
Besides these behaviors being solid blockages in the body's tissue, they are also programs in
the person's unconscious mind. And when the body is "solidified" like this, these defenses, these
dysfunctional behaviors, are primary parts of the person's character. They are the person, but they are
also a program set up in past experiences, that resides in the person's body and energy fields. In fact, as I'll
explain in a lot of detail, the "functional" part of the person's normally conscious mind is often not aware he
or she is even doing these things
These programs, when they get activated, "interrupt" the person's "nice behavior" and
substitute their own beliefs and behaviors into the person's thoughts, speech and actions. Because the
person's current circumstance is the same kind of experience as the stored ones, the program's
behavior seems logical for the present time. But the problems of the situation are really getting blown
way out of proportion. And there is often a big misinterpretation of what's really going on
Sometimes, the person is so sure that his (or her) view is accurate, he'll fight and yell to protect and
stand behind his opinions. He may indeed be somewhat correct about what people are doing, but a large part
of what's going on is the emotional expression of a group of stored experiences that are simultaneously
"going through" a lot more threatening circumstances than the person's real world is doing
So the trigger is some sort of fear that something bad will happen, yet it is often an exaggerated
fear that may have a very low probability of really happening. But when the fear does get triggered, the
innermost layer contracts and the wall and outer layer protection devices automatically come into
play.
These internal experiences of exaggerated fear are inside the person's body. And because
they're adding their energies to what would be a reasonable response to the situation, it does look to an
outside observer that the person is strongly over-reacting to what's really going on around him. The
stored experiences and the similar current circumstance are the total experience the person has. And
for what's happening in the stored experiences, the person's reaction is indeed reasonable. It's just that the
person's consciousness is out of touch with reality, seeing what's really happening through very thick filters
of chaos and upset. The person's power of awareness, if any, is much weaker than the quantity of his or her
embedded episodes. So the embedded episodes "fool him" into thinking they're real and he goes along with
them.
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On top of these three layers is a well-developed and very capable outer personality. And in
many people, it's also very compassionate and takes care of family members and friends, but for some
people, it is to the detriment of the whole person's own needs. It often seems this person is very nice and
giving, and that is because this one section of the person is indeed very nice and giving, and usually
quite bright and capable. However, other parts of this person we'd rather not deal with in our
everyday life.
The next chapter describes many of these behaviors, and relates them to how they come about
because we are separated into these different layers.
One of the major benefits of Structural Integration Bodywork is that it dissolves the hardness
in all of these layers so that the energies flow through and between all of them. Thus, it breaks down
the barriers between the different parts of us. And at the same time, it diminishes a lot of the negativity in
those parts while it changes the bodymind into a form that manifests, automatically, in a much more positive
and successful manner.
The verbal and energy release processing, as I've said, increases these changes. Besides doing
what I've mentioned in my earlier description, they are uniquely helpful in removing the withdrawal
energy held deep in compression around the spine and in the organs, inner pelvis and legs.
So even if this is as far as you've read in this book, you can begin a method of wellness by starting with
the basic series of Structural Integration and/or some release processing, even by phone. And if you
are like other people I know, you'll find that your self awareness, perception of the world around you, and
way of relating begin changing for the better.
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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
· 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
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.
CHAPTER 6:
UNDERSTANDING DISSATISFACTION
With an analysis of the issue of battling
AND FURTHER EXPLANATION ABOUT
BEING STUCK TO OUR PROGRAMS.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
APPENDIX IV:
INTRODUCTION TO RELEASE PROCESSING
to Remove Past Experience Trauma, and Correct Negative Patterns,
Set Up in Prenatal, Birth, Childhood and Other Circumstances.
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
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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.
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.
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 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.
· HERE’S MORE ABOUT HOW I USE EARLIER EVENTS TO REMOVE THE ENERGIES
OF CURRENT UPSETS