HAKOMIPUNCTURE: a therapeutic method "The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And the habit of the character. So watch the thought and its ways with care And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings As the shadow follows the body, as we think we are. "
- The Buddha, from the Dhammapada A synapse fires in your body. Current jumps through the space between the nerve ends, and on the other side. Your body screams "DANGER DO NOT SAFE!" Immediately, a biochemical waterfall flooding your tissues. Adrenal pumping frantically on top of your kidneys, spanned the lower back. With dilated pupils, prepare your fists and forearms for the fight, while your leg muscles sink into Sprint readiness. This is the image of fear.
In the past, people risk experienced at the sight of a predator's jaws. Today, a letter from the IRS could activate the nervous system in similar high alert. After enough times, this nervous system activation is entrenched. In the minds of a basic belief is formed: "The world is uncertain." In the body, hyper-vigilance is the norm. Soon, this loop of synaptic burning and muscle tension is a lifestyle. Some obvious examples of fear based on repetitive nerve system stress are war and unprocessed physical or sexual abuse. However, the nervous system habit patterns happen to all of us. Sometimes there is a dramatic event that a "stick" nervous system is produced, sometimes it is a subtle accumulation of day-to-day stress. We all stuck in ruts.
There is a saying: "The fish are the last to discover water." We swim in the behavioral patterns of our unconscious, unaware of the water we move through, without suspecting it to be a cleaner, clearer pond just downstream. A child is a sponge to soak up the ways of the world it is exposed. The first 5-7 years of life set the course for our world view, the core beliefs that guide our attitude and engagement with the world.
Life problems fall into five main categories and on a certain day and at a certain time we can somewhere between the poles shown below. Each situation triggers a different response, but we occupy certain subspaces frequently. This is a core belief subspace guide your action and interactions. Life issues
SAFETY: <---> Isolated Connected (sense of belonging, familiarity, security) (alienation feel threatened, insecure)
Dependence: In Exchange (supported, cared for, in physical contact) <----> stripped (lack of care, alone, undernourished)
FREEDOM: Free (spontaneous, creative, basically good) <----> other-directed (caught, no spontaneity, stuck)
TRUTH: Real <---> Unreal (true, vulnerable, authentic, mistakes are OK) (no weakness, untrue, invulnerable, untouchable) Retail price: Being (good enough, centered, inner peace) <---> Doing (is not good enough, ready to act, restless, tense) [Chart of Halko Weiss, Hakomi Institute]
As mentioned above, thought and body are interconnected. Look around you. Some people slouch, while others stand upright. Some radiate peace and quiet while seething anger from the frown on the other. The body reflects where a person is subject to the polarity shown above life. "What we think, we become." Find yourself in the column on the left side of it, more fully reside in grounded happiness is becoming more common. Hakomi + Acupuncture is a very effective combination of therapies to bring the body, mind and soul into this kind of harmony.
Hakomi is a body-centered therapy, recognizing that the body is the gateway to the core beliefs of the unconscious is rooted. Once aware of these beliefs can be reassessed and, where appropriate, powerful turns. New dimensions of consciousness can be integrated, helps the individual to develop a satisfying and effective life. Hakomi integrated mindfulness and non-violence in eastern traditions with a unique western psychological methodology found.
Eastern traditions and modern physics to understand that everything is energy. Physicists call it photons. Indians call it prana. Chinese call it Qi. Energy and matter are interconnected phenomenon. The matter is only moving energy at different rates. Thoughts are qi. Emotions are qi. Qi flows through the muscles and organs to keep them alive and lithe. As already discussed, core beliefs are simply repetitive thoughts (Qi) is an individual "stuck" in and is reflected in the body (Qi in the form of matter).
Acupuncture is a therapy that fits the body's energy, or qi. One way to understand the acupuncture is by analogy to an electric grid. Imagine that the center line of the body and internal organs are power plants. Electricity is generated at power plants and distributed through power lines (meridians) throughout the city centers (head, neck, trunk, abdomen, and pelvis) and in the remote countryside (arms and legs). In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is called the Qi flow. There are 14 main pathways (called meridians) that along qi.
Some energy is blocked and sometimes insufficient. Both can be done in different parts of the body simultaneously. Energy blockages and lack of diagnostic tools such as the examination of the tongue found, scanning the pulse and meridians, face reading, and verbal examination signs, symptoms, emotions, and challenges the mind. Acupuncture points along the path where the flow of energy to the therapeutic effect can be changed. They are like light switches that the body "turn on" the natural healing methods.
Of the Chinese holistic perspective on how we think and feel, not just a brain thing. Styles of thinking and emotions are not limited to the head, but comes from the harmonious flow of Qi through the internal organs and their meridians (the corresponding paths through the body). Chinese medicine sees the human as a being in health, virtue personified. Qualities of wisdom, integrity, benevolence, integrity and self-worth are the natural state when the energy of water, fire, wood, metal and earth are in balance. Since these elemental energies fall out of balance, erode virtues, habitual behavior is created and suffering. It is the role of Chinese medicine doctor to help balance the elements through acupuncture, herbs, food and lifestyle counseling.
Both Hakomi and Acupuncture offer unique insights into the relationships between patterns of body and mind. Together, they provide physical and emotional relief, more awareness and freedom, something new in the face of the ordinary to do. Habit patterns can be about relationships, sex, work, spiritual practice, addiction, body image and sense of life. My specialty is depression, anxiety, sexual abuse trauma and addiction.
Consider the use of Hakomipuncture, the combination of Acupuncture and Hakomi, through a case study. Sean is a man in his mid-thirties who complain to the clinic irritable bowel syndrome and is a tendency to depression. His handshake is tense, tendony and urgent. He is gaunt, fidgety, angular with fast movements. Frustrated and with little hope that this treatment will be useful, he calls his symptoms. Bowels tend to be more frequent (4-5x day especially in the morning), loose and burning. Sensitive to spicy foods, coffee and alcohol, he may still douse his meals with chili paste. His every second sentence breaks off and starts with "... I do not know ..." While he is a good student, to Sean feels with his chosen field of study engineering, dissatisfied. He feels a lot of pressure from his family in engineering, provide a secure economically sound choice in this economy.
He often wakes up before the alarm with a racing mind, spinning through "to-do" lists he creates for himself. He feels "under the gun" all the time. His pulse is wiry, like a guitar string what. Onto an overactive nervous system His stomach pulse and heart pulse is suppressed, only able to be found at the deepest level. His breath is restricted to his chest. His stomach moves only slightly with inhalation. When scanning its membrane is tight. His tongue is light purple with cracks in the middle of the tongue. He wants the treatment to stop the bowel frequency and decrease the voltage.
A quick look at Sean's family history shows performance oriented, overbearing parenting. In return Sean learned to suppress his actualizing natural, unique calls itself during childhood, to please and attract love from his parents. In the graphic above, Hakomi, Sean's topics revolve around freedom and Worth. In Chinese medicine, Sean graphic above is a wood constitutional type, exhibiting both excess and deficiency habitual behavior. Wood energy is increasing. It plays a major role in enforcing individuality, overcoming adversity and life goals. The timber is connected to the liver and gall bladder, the regulator of digestion, strategic planning life and the emotion of anger. Sean's creative energy was buried in fallen below a habit of conformity and others. As a high volume of gas in a confined space, created Sean narrowed hepatic energy pressure, disturbed digestion to assimilate with his ability to eat and the experiences of life. Instead, food and life experience was quickly swallowed and excreted with equal haste. The resulting symptoms were hidden resentment, timidity, indecision and poor dietary choices.
An atmosphere of generosity and respect was the lack of experience that Sean needed. Sean was encouraged to relax in the table, his attention inward and become aware of something happening in the mind and body. Hakomi a verbal experiment was repeated three times slowly and offered, "You do not need to do, to be loved." First, the words induced a heart fluttery panic within Sean. He felt as if he hold his breath and had to support. After the second and third time, he felt a mixture of sadness and confusion and a knotted up feeling in his solar plexus. Every thing was taken in turn. He found the sadness manifested in a tight chest. I asked Sean to stay with this feeling in the chest. In came a deep knowledge of years spent running for "doing" rather than enjoy the process of what he did.
The confusion was looked at next. It manifests itself as a "fuzzy" dizziness, cloudy thinking, and that knot in his solar plexus. I asked Sean to stay with that feeling in the pit of my stomach. The two acupuncture points, gall bladder and stomach 34-36 were used. Both issues affect the digestive system and the nervous system. Gall Bladder 34 was chosen to relax the nervous system and the urgency to strengthen the confidence and decision-making. Stomach-36 strengthens the digestive system capacity. The solar plexus responded with relaxation and also deleted the "fuzzy" prudence. In this room, another verbal probe was offered, "You can do it your way." Sean's entire nervous system relaxed. He took a big breath and
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