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Discovering the Self behind the Symptom
Examining the Effectiveness of the Conscious Body Process, Based on an Analysis of Client Records Over Ten Years
by Judith Hendin, PhD
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This article is based on an analysis of the process and effectiveness of healing physical symptoms using a method called Conscious Body. Developed by the author in the early 1990s, the Conscious Body process provides access to buried inner selves in order to allow their specific pent-up energy to flow through the body. Once this energy circulates, symptoms often abate. Data on client symptoms over a ten-year period show that, of 144 symptoms, 85% disappeared or improved. In addition to physical improvements, the Conscious Body process helped 91% of the clients uncover a buried “self behind the symptom”—a discovery that revealed important inner issues in their lives. These results indicate that Conscious Body has the potential to help address the burgeoning “epidemic of mindbody disorders” (Sarno, 2000).
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Posted in 2012, Issue 1, February 2013
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Tagged Body Mind, Body Psychotherapy, Conscious Body, Energy, Healing, Illness, Psychosomatic, symptoms
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Group Voice Dialogue Facilitation Process
by J’aime ona Pangaia,
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In this article, J’aime ona Pangaia describes a variation on the traditional way of presenting Voice Dialogue: the author has developed an approach that invites active participation from a group of up to 12 people . Until now the traditional way of introducing Voice Dialogue in a group setting has limited the activity to only two persons – the facilitator and the facilitated – with the entire group observing. Using the author’s interactive approach to group work, each of the participants can become active by expressing and experiencing one or more of the energies of the sub-personalies (selves) as first embodied by the person being facilitated
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Posted in 2012, Issue 1, February 2013
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Archeselves – The Psychology of Collective Voices
By Ora Gavriely
This paper will deal with some of our basic findings regarding archeselves: What they are, how we work with them, what the results are and the significance of this work is
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What’s in a name
By Celie Fox-Cabane
This paper attempts to show the significance of the names we give to the different parts of our personality: the “visible” parts called ‘Primary Selves’ and the unexpressed, repressed or “shadow” parts, called ‘Disowned’ Selves’.  In this paper the author discusses the effect a Self’s name has on two clients.
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