Bioenergetics is the study of energy transfer and relationships between all living systems.  As the body is exposed to toxins, viruses, emotional stress, etc… the tissue’s normal electromagnetic frequency becomes abnormal.   When the energetic imbalance is left undetected, undesirable chemical changes begin in the tissues.  As the imbalance continues, chronic and degenerative dis-eases such as arthritis and cancer can occur.

When considering the electrical nature of the heart and brain, it is obvious that the body is electrically controlled, rather then chemically controlled. True preventative medicine is possible as the electrical energy field and the electromagnetic energy pathways of the body can now be tapped for information with energy medicine testing modalities.

Gestalt therapy is a phenomenological-existential therapy founded by Frederick (Fritz) and Laura Perls in the 1940s. It teaches therapists and patients the phenomenological method of awareness, in which perceiving, feeling, and acting are distinguished from interpreting and reshuffling preexisting attitudes. Explanations and interpretations are considered less reliable than what is directly perceived and felt. Patients and therapists in Gestalt therapy dialogue, that is, communicate their phenomenological perspectives. Differences in perspectives become the focus of experimentation and continued dialogue. The goal is for clients to become aware of what they are doing, how they are doing it, and how they can change themselves, and at the same time, to learn to accept and value themselves.

Gestalt therapy focuses more on process (what is happening) than content (what is being discussed). The emphasis is on what is being done, thought and felt at the moment rather than on what was, might be, could be, or should be.

Excerpt taken from Gary Yontef, Ph.D. Introduction to Gestalt Therapy. For additional information, please read his full examination of Gestalt Therapy and its Principals.

Pulsation is a body oriented approach to personal growth which works with the body and life energy system, to support individuals to their nt

Pulsation is a body oriented approach to personal growth which works with the body and life energy system, to support individuals to their potential for awareness, pleasure and joy in living.

Pulsation is rooted in the work of Wilhelm Reich, and Osho, a contemporary mystic whose life and teaching have influenced millions of people of every age and way of life.

Pulsation is breathing and bodywork that is rooted in the deep emotional release process of the pioneering work of Wilhelm Reich, M.D. Reich discovered relations between emotional functioning and the body’s energetic processes. These discoveries anticipated the holistic movements understanding of the mind/body relationship. They also helped to source many of today’s contemporary body-oriented psychotherapies and personal growth disciplines including Pulsation.

This therapy, not frequently known, a  psychotherapy method, was developed by a social worker, Mary McClure Goulding, and her deceased psychiatrist husband, Robert Goulding, in the 1970s.

Redecision therapy (Goulding & Goulding, 1979, 1989) is an integration of Eric Berne’s transactional analysis and Fritz Perl’s gestalt therapy. Transactional analysis views early emotional learning (childhood decisions) within the context of a child’s response to parental injunctions.

Parental injunctions are subtle parental verbal and nonverbal messages (e.g. don’t be you, do, don’t think, don’t feel, don’t belong, don’t be competent, don’t be smart, etc). Children respond in emotion and then form decisions (holistic assessments of self in interaction) (e.g. I am powerless, I am not good enough, I don’t deserve to live, I am not lovable, I can’t trust, etc.), which they carry with them well into adulthood.

 These same decisions and assessments of life often evolve in response to later adult traumas as the following assessments of self in interaction: I am unsafe. I am in pain. I am not in control. Assessments of self become the adult’s later working model and shape the adult’s later responses to their environment without awareness (manifested in ongoing adult scripts).

The redecision method helps the therapist to identify these assessments of self in interaction in the present and to look for present symbols that represent these decisions and the emotion underlying them. After the therapist can identify specific assessments of self in interaction, the therapist then asks the patient to reflect back in time when that specific assessment of self in interaction was experienced before. The therapist asks this over and over again to bring the patient back in time. After sufficient conscious age regression, the therapist then asks the patient to reflect on the many different feelings (of fear, sadness, anger, guilt, etc.) relating to the relationship or painful event.

The patient is encouraged to talk to the source (person or event) in the empty chair (gestalt therapy of Fritz Perl) or any venue that would encourage the patient to talk to the source as if he/she were in the room in the present tense. This helps the patient to process material that had not been completely processed previously. After this material is reexperienced and processed, therapist guides the patient to make a new assessment of self in interaction (a redecision)…(i.e. I have control, I am good enough, I am fine, I am safe).