Transformation Process And Therapeutic Recommendations
At the beginning of any therapeutic channel, it is necessary to establish a bond that acts as an engine of trust. A space—physical, emotional, and psychic—where one can dive into their own internal world, which is often the most threatening. To discover that, beyond the horror of the void and self-censoring voices, there are deeply human and creative experiences. It’s about gradually building intimacy and contact, beyond the metallic and cold disconnection.
Other essential elements include:
• The difficult reunion with the emotional world, overcoming resistance and fears. Taking the leap into the abyss of emotions, abandoning the pseudo-secure comfort of the mental "watchtower." Ultimately, discovering that monsters originate precisely from reason.
• Beyond compulsions and indifference towards one’s own, rescuing presence—becoming a more connected "being"—without overexertion. Moving beyond mechanicalness, automatism, and self-forgetfulness, towards intimacy guided by intuition.
• Venturing into the internal labyrinth to face the feared "monster" locked away and gagged, only to discover it as an essential ally, a fundamental part of our being. That "monster" turns into the wise animal, the wise Eros, the instinctive organism. After turning towards this excluded core, one can receive greater support in sensory, energetic, and intuitive realms, rather than clinging to rigid references, dogmas, and forced theories.
• The connection with the body, with sensory experience—those chaotic, undifferentiated sensations—becoming true indicators, "lighthouses" that guide us to deeper connections. A sensory background that can give rise to roots and anchors, offering a joyous sense of real security and groundedness: in oneself, in life, and in connection with the mysterious laws of nature.
• This grounding implies a bodily awakening, an awakening of the "emotional memory" imprinted in contracted musculature.
• Creating a space of reliability that leads to a state of "lack of control," supporting the spontaneous and natural way, beyond the dictates of norms.
• The therapeutic encounter is often tainted by the tyranny of what should be: being a good patient or complying with what one imagines the therapist expects. Therefore, it’s important to generate a space of honesty and permission, where the "incorrect" and "inappropriate" (whether cognitive, mental, emotional, or physical), especially the irrational, are welcome.
• Capturing the self-observation model: The self-observer’s gaze is not benevolent but accusatory, born from codes of conduct and ideals. This must be transmuted.
• Understanding the mechanisms of the destructive inner judge, capturing their accusatory voices and internalized toxic messages. That internal judge requires an "exorcism" to embrace the body-mind connection and the celebratory, joyous, and spontaneous aspects of existence.
• Developing empathic, compassionate love—first towards oneself, and from that seed, towards others in all their dimensions. Inner enmity demands a loving vision of oneself: a tender "good look" and an embrace of the fragile, helpless child.
• Developing an "error pedagogy" that dissolves, layer by layer, the torturous self-demand.
• Respecting your feelings: pain, anger, joy, and pleasure. Through intimate self-encounter, open the channel for expressive release, granting permission for repressed emotions. Displaying emotions like anger or sadness (together with transgressing rigid, embedded rules) helps to break free from neurotic guilt and conquer greater freedom.
• Transmuting compulsion, with its wear and tear, into a pedagogy of slowness, lightness, and contemplation.
• A pedagogy of intuition, letting go of control and trusting more “irrational” channels from which to choose freely. Letting go of obsessive longings for patterns and references, trusting the wise voices within. Something as basic as self-respect, derived etymologically
from respectus (consideration, look), respicere (look back), and spectare ('look'). Plain and simple, look with consideration.
An essential aspect is immersing oneself in the spiritual aspect of existence, transmuting substitute dogmas (internalized ideals) and redirecting them towards understanding the "dark night of the soul." By crossing it, one moves from dark faith to luminous faith, arriving at a genuine creed where the divine is found within oneself.
Moving from the omnipotence of reason and dogmas of faith to surrendering and leaping into the river of life. From the Latin reddere ('to deliver'). From an intimate experience of honor and gratitude towards the sacred, rescuing the phrase “Thy Will Be Done.” After all, we were neither masters of our birth nor will we be masters of our death; not even of the vicissitudes of existence, which this character tries to control through programming.
Letting go of control from an existential perspective means understanding the absurdity and delusion of the illusion of mind control, fostering more authentic encounters. Delivering your power of destiny to divine providence requires practicing “psycho-emotional gymnastics”: leaving certain ideas in brackets and simply letting yourself be carried away by the flow of events, surrendering to oneself, to others, to life, and to the world. Divine Architect.
The "bare-chested" dive into the river of pleasure, jouissance, ecstasy, eroticism, and sexuality becomes a necessary, abysmal immersion that ignites interior bonfires, restoring the body to its sacredness. Instinct culminates directly in the loving flame, in Being.
Moving from uprooting to encountering oneself, with the soul. This "animation" involves rescuing the heart and intimately listening to one's own feelings—the fire of pure instinct and, above all, one's own "voice." In the most intimate silence, connect with and love yourself to overcome inner enmity and find the "lost soul" that promotes the secret to alchemy, creating trust and faith. It is this faith that leads to genuine power.