With our focus on health being holistic in nature, we would like to talk a bit more about our nervous system and how the body keeps memory of past traumas which can affect physical health.
William James asserted in his revolutionary 1884 theory of how our bodies affect our feelings that “A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity,”
Read MoreIn my practice working with people I often encounter the phenomenon of what I call uncontained energy. I call it uncontained because the person who is projecting that energy is not aware that she is doing it. Sometimes she might even be saying the opposite of the energy she is sending out.
Read MoreIn very simplified terms our brain can be divided into 3 levels that all have different functions: the cognitive brain responsible for analysing and rational thinking, the limbic system responsible for our emotions, and the reptilian brain responsible for our automatic and instinctive reactions to for example danger (e.g. fight or flight). Transformation comes from working with all 3 layers.
Read MoreIf we are feeling an emotion there is a reason we are feeling it. It wants to be felt. Often, however, we prefer not to feel. Instead we either rationalise the emotions away, deal with them in a patronising way, project them on others by not taking responsibility or develop behaviours to avoid feeling like drugs/alcohol or continuously keeping busy and under adrenaline.
Read MoreYou know that situation where a driver isn’t careful and the one put at risk by his behaviour almost starts a fight? Or when someone throws their anger at another person who then freezes for a moment? Both situations are examples of our instinctive reactions to threat.
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