As Louise L. Hay and many other professionals from various fields say, I am convinced that we ourselves create everything we call “illness”.
The body as everything in life, is a reflection of our ideas and beliefs. Our body is always talking to us; we just need to bother to listen. Every cell in our body responds to everything we think and to every word we say.
When a way of speaking and thinking becomes continuous, it ends up expressing itself in behavior and body postures, in ways of “being” and “unwellness”. There are mental patterns that make the body “sick” and mental patterns that “create health”.
With Body Therapy, and through sensorimotor techniques, I combine working with the body, the mind in order to encourage the expression of emotions, relief of muscle tension, expansion of consciousness and, through this, provide the disappearance of psychosomatic symptoms, personal growth, and overall well-being.
How Can I Help You?
Any problem you present has a bodily expression, so this is a complementary intervention to cognitive behavioral treatment, to be able to reach and work with all the areas that make us up as human beings.
- Emotional expression through active listening of the body.
- Expansion of consciousness and knowledge and personal growth.
- Relief of muscle tension.
- Psychosomatic symptoms.
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is a modality of verbal therapy, body-oriented. It is a combination of cognitive and emotional approaches, verbal dialogue, and physical interventions.
By working simultaneously with the body and mind, the person becomes aware of information that often remains unconscious in conventional verbal therapy and promotes more lasting physical, emotional, and cognitive changes.
The result is that people feel emotionally liberated and feel better because their symptoms have been reduced or disappeared, they perceive having closed pending matters in their lives, the body feels free to move and act without feeling invaded, tied, or blocked, and limiting beliefs have been transformed into adaptive beliefs that allow living from health and freedom.
In the sensorimotor approach, it is crucial to help clients understand how the body is affected by trauma (abuse, accidents, catastrophes, surgery, or war) generating symptoms that can hinder emotional and cognitive processing.
The form, structure, and movement of the body reflect the limiting beliefs we internalize throughout development, due to unmet needs. Clients learn the usefulness of working with the body and how to do it.
The body is the most explicit thing we have that reveals all the implicit that we carry inside and are not aware of. The body is a window to see our traumas and learned limitations that make us live suffering, without realizing that there are healthier alternatives or, at least, being unable to access them.
In Sensorimotor Psychotherapy sessions, mindfulness experiments are used to try to access from the body the implicit memories and the neurobiological effects of trauma, which we are not aware of but suffer equally. It is a more experiential process than cognitive, where the client is guided to become aware of the internal experience of the present moment (such as memories, images, emotions, thoughts, and bodily patterns), which are related to their life issues and symptoms, so they can feel new physical and psychological options, to reorganize towards health.
Clients are informed that no intervention is mandatory, that they choose whether to work with the body and how to work with it.
Children, adolescents, adults, and older people with sufficient internal attention to practice mindfulness can benefit from this approach