So whatever it is you are looking to achieve, let’s take a look at some of the ways in which you can incorporate bioenergetic therapy into your life in as little as 5 minutes a day (thanks to Elliot Hulse, you can find a video to accompany all the exercises mentioned here). According to Alexander Lowen-founder of bioenergetics therapy-some of those benefits include reducing stress, insomnia, depression, anxiety, and chronic muscular tension, and enhancing sexuality, emotional expression, and feelings of happiness. The emotional and physical benefits are endless. These expressions consist of certain breathing, moving, and body-centering techniques which loosen hidden muscular tension, disrupt repetitive movement patterns, and relieve accumulated stress in the body. In bioenergetics, neurotic holding patterns, such as anxieties, fears, and repressed feelings are explored and released through active expression in the body. So if psychotherapy treats problems in the mind through exploration of the mind, and physiotherapy treats problems in the muscles through manipulation of the body, psychosomatic therapies such as Alexander Lowens’ ‘bioenergetics’ treats the mind through exploration and manipulation of the body.
Heart rate, blood pressure, muscular tension, body position, facial expressions the physical state and actions of the body are being shown to have a direct impact on how we think, feel, and even behave. Today’s scientists are realizing the ‘mind-body correlation’ is a much closer relationship than previously thought. The reality is though, the body influences the mind just as much as the mind influences the body. When looking to uncover and overcome problems of the mind, we’ve naturally always turned to the mind for the solution-just look at psychotherapy. Yes my housemates think I’m crazy, but they haven’t heard of bioenergetics. This morning I leapt out of bed and started stomping up and down with my hands in the air shouting HUH HUH HUH HUH…
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