Therapeutic Channels

Regarding more specific techniques and proposals, it is essential:

• Faced with internal division, the intimate fracture of this character, generate bridges in the divided self with therapeutic work on polarities. The tension between the inner judges, all-encompassing reason, and the critical eye on one hand, and the body, sensations, various feelings, and "irrational" experiences on the other, can be addressed through

integrative exercises. This can be done traditionally, with dialogues using chairs or cushions, or through drawings, written dialogues, stories with a protagonist and antagonist...

• The rescue of the body: Recover it in a process that includes sensory exploration. Capturing the world of sensations, of basic sensory background, involves reconnecting and rooting into what we are: the body. Feel that I am my body.

• Perceiving the map of bodily contraction—capturing the metallic and icy disconnection, blockages, and energetic retentions—is a preliminary step. Later, with bodily techniques, rediscover that rich magma of sensations. An immersion where you feel powerful foundations.

• This anchoring generates a bodily awakening, with energetic currents and traces of our somatic memory. Feelings sprout here that, beyond initial fears, can be understood, embraced, and expressed.

• Breathing: That minimized, retained, forgotten breath. Respiratory techniques to perceive its flow (bioenergetics, biorespiration, hyperventilation, energy centers, yoga, holotropic breathing...) are authentic "keys" to accessing awareness, recovery, and opening somatic channels. In short, we are breath. We were born with that primal cry, the first breath of life.

• Feeling the oxygen entering our bodies, taking in air, feeling the energy expanding inside through retentions and liberating exhalations, implies learning the art of vital flow.

• Awareness and perception: In this cognitive style, the eye of awareness, the focal point, is corseted, with sharp but fixed and narrow attention. The “notice,” the awareness, becomes interpretive and tends to “fit into patterns that lack flexibility." A development of "free thought" is essential, with the spontaneous flow of consciousness