"Have you ever wondered what your life would be like with a quiet mind and a calm body. Recently, attention has been given to an interest in ""returning to the basics.""
Questions such as ""Who am I?"" and ""What do I want?"" have been asked and heard in the boardroom and the bedroom. These questions have been asked through out the ages. A return to basics is currently being explored in every aspect of life.
The search for self and purpose is as paramount to stress management, effective living and learning as is the integration of the mind and the body.
How often have you being faced with making a decision and your mind sent you one message, and your body sent you another? A lack of mind-body integration may be a cause of this often-encountered experience.
As we all know, the mind and the body interact and influence each other. What you think and do affects how you feel, and how you feel affects what you think and do. This interaction, though, is limited to the conscious aspect of your life. On a deeper level, on the unconscious level, both your thinking and feeling are affected by energy factors in your body. Every unresolved issue produces stress, a body response and possibly tension. Every tension is an energy block in your body. Every energy block is an unconscious attitude that suppresses your sense of yourself.
Bioenergetic analysis is a way of regaining your sense of yourself (who you are) and your purpose (what you want) by opening your energy blocks, and using your energy to live your life fully and spontaneously, with joy, pride and grace. According to Alexander Lowen, M.D., the founder of Bioenergetic Analysis and other Bioenergetic Analysts, every energy block decreases your sense of self.
Dr. Lowen and others maintain that your body and your mind are functionally identical; that is, what goes on in your mind affects what is happening in your body; and what goes on in your body reflects what is happening in your mind.
To know yourself and your purpose comes from opening your energy blocks and releasing the feelings that are there. Breath, movement and voice are elements of this process, and these elements are used to open your energy blocks. Once these energy blocks are opened and you decide to let go and, surrender to life as you release the feelings and perceptions that are found in your energy blocks, your life becomes yours, and you begin to experience a new feeling of well-being.
A return to basics, then, begins and ends with you being in your body. The process is one of you getting in touch with, and staying in touch with your body moment to moment without any expectations or judgment. One way to stay in the here-and-now is to look at yourself in the mirror, again, without any expectation or judgment.
The process continues as you focus on the love energy that is in the universe, and bringing this love energy to you.
Forgive yourself and others; and love yourself and others, for whatever is in your life you have created. You can create anything you want by being in your body, focusing on what you want, and returning to the basics -- forgiveness and love
Dr. Rae has been changing the world with care by helping businesses, families and individuals since 1972.
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