Very interesting topic here today -

Your therapist friend – I don’t even know her, but like her already -
‘a healthy process that blunts painful feelilngs temporarily…….slow process of healing…..

She sounds like a good therapist – seeing the trauma and pain as the issue – a healthy person inside of it……

This is such a key element – ie, vs and ill ‘person’ – more than semantics here – gets to the crux of what recovery is – a process – the person inside whole – helping that person see themselves as whole, and the pain as a process of the whole person coming into actualization of self – the trauma from the outside – the healing – slowly from within……

This is so diametrically opposed to our convetional model – ‘acceptance’ of a disease state – insistance on ‘fixing’ the person – compliance with meds to make the brain ‘work right’……

You’re on to some good learning here – very exciting stuff….

I think that a good therapist can be very helpful – as long as they see the whole person inside – broken, but whole nontheless – not shattered – beyond repair – but, a body-mind in search of healing……..don’t mean to ramble…..

The other parts – to sensory ones you list – I believe that these connections to the primary ways we communicate with our world in the physical sense are so closely bonded to the ways we connect in the ‘pscyhe’ that they come into contact……….

In other words, the mind-body is one unit in many ways……personally, I am beginning to become a believer in the more ancient chinese (traditional view) here – our hair stands on end when we are frightened, we get lumps in our throats when we are frightened, throats dry when we stand up in front of a group to give a speech……

Connections with past events – traumas – these things can not only get trapped in our psyche, but in the physical body as well – using the meridians, these things can be released – ie, allowed to move out of the body – released – as we do when we let go in a spiritual sense, as we experience when we deeply forgive and release the person who has harmed us…..

Now, I’m really rambling – this topic got me very motivated to say some of what has been on my mind lately – appreciate the forum here…..

Lastly, can you imagine if the psych hospitals of today (maybe not the same brick and mortar, but the same structures of decades ago) were replaced with some of this information – people encouraged to research – encouarged to believe in the body-mind’s ability to heal – a spiritual journey of recovery incorporated into the model…….with nobody needing any ‘fixing’ – only the opportunity to learn – to discover, and to heal – to truly recover…..

I’m ready to see such a place – really -
Good piece for discussion today Gianna – as always -

Duane

This is such an interesting topic; I think I’ll post something about it on my own blog and link back to yours.