The Psychosomatic Way

…… The Feldenkrais Method can be seamlessly integrated into psychosomatic therapeutic approaches. These approaches are consistent with the findings of neurological research …..

Better self-awareness, the ability to make distinctions, and the development of choices bring about change.

This puts you in a better position to have new experiences and to develop an inner alternative plan. It might start with different thoughts and lead to a willingness to embrace something new or to a willingness to make sacrifices you hadn’t allowed yourself to make before. Over time, this changes the course of one’s life.

There are many interesting psychosomatic approaches: Feldenkrais, family constellations or systemic constellations, Somatic Experiencing, myofascial release, meditation, shamanism, psychotherapy, sex therapy, astrological counseling, and more. See also: Links to Colleagues and Books

Why should bodywork change my thinking and my life?

Two short experiments:

1. calculate 5x18 in your head and feel whether a slight tension builds up in your head and neck and perhaps in the rest of your body.

2.Think of a person you would like to see again soon and feel whether you feel a slight sensation in your chest or elsewhere in your body.

When the balance of muscle tension in your body changes, the inner tension—or the energy—with which you approach these experiments may also change slightly.

Sometimes, just by looking at the way a person walks, you can immediately tell what their attitude toward life is. Do they walk hunched over, do they walk hurriedly, or do they stand tall and confident, projecting conviction and joy? Acting works with these means of expression.

Cognition and emotion also create movement in the body.

If you can change a person's movements through bodywork, so that they walk differently without simulating it, they will also find solutions to change their attitude towards lifes. Then they will think differently. 

Everyone’s personal interpretation of what change should bring varies from person to person. And then I find myself wondering—even about myself, for example—whether I actually know what I want, or whether my idea of it will ever match how life ultimately turns out for me when something changes again, even if it’s in the direction I want—; and whether that might not actually be better than what I had imagined for myself.

(see also: Body Control or Performance)