The Re-Constructive Use of Pain
What of pain as a factor in psychological and physiological evolution? How much is known about pain, and the larger syndrome of stress to which it belongs? How does it function in the learning process, in the development of the self concept, in inhibition, in consciousness? Can it be used constructively to facilitate deep-seated personality […]
A Personal Interpretation of Rolf Work
It is assumed that human perception of life and subsequent behavior can be changed by inner movement manifesting outward (decision to action) or by outward changes manifesting inward (action to feelings). Both are required, at appropriate times, in my opinion, to develop creative potential. My time spent with two analysts in 10 years was not […]
Mechanisms of Perception: Their Development & Function
The perceptual basis of all motor activity includes all known senses. However, this discussion will be restricted to those perceptual mechanisms which are universally concerned with performing motor activity, eliminating occasional sensory participants in motor activity such as taste, audition, and other senses not ordinarily concerned with motor activity. The physiological mechanisms which are universal […]
The Story of Fire
Once upon a time a man was contemplating the ways in which Nature operates, and he discovered, because of his concentration and application, how fire could be made. This man was called Nour. He decided to travel from one community to another, showing people his discovery. Nour passed the secret to many groups of people. […]
Rolfing
The first purpose of this article is to present a brief description of Rolfing, its purpose and the results that it achieves. The second, more fully developed purpose, is to uncover and explore some prevalent assumptions about human bodies which art not often brought fully to consciousness and so are not fully examined. These assumptions, […]
Fascia
Fascia is the name for any of a wide variety of connective tissues. It develops from the mesoderm and is distributed extensively throughout the body, providing a kind of “packing” for muscles, bones and vessels. The two kinds of fascia that most concern the Structural Integration practitioner are superficial fascia and deep fascia which are […]
Structural Integration and Gestalt Therapy
Gestalt therapy emphasizes “awareness” and “focusing on the obvious”. in working with people our existential message can be paraphrased: “come to your senses”, or “lose your mind and gain your senses” as Fritz Perls outs it. Coming to one’s senses” is synonymous with coming to one’s body. There are no senses in the cortex, or […]
Discharge Freeing Past Failures
The Rolf practitioner must become skilled at recognising all forms of discharge, both emotional and physical. Often the psychology of the discharge, the emotional outpouring (generally in a vocal form) is the most dramatic, and the most obvious. However, the physical expressions the soreness, pains, chemical changes that would be manifest either in sweating or […]
Sing the Body Electric My New Carnality
THERAPY IS DEFINED by the dominant cultural vision of wholeness or maturity. When Freud defined maturity – and thus the aims of therapy as the ability to work and to love, he articulated the ideals for the era we are rapidly leaving. In practice, the psycho therapeutic method that evolved from Freud’s vision has been […]
The Fascia
“Philosophy of Osteopathy” was written and published by Andrew Taylor Still in 1899. Especially Interesting is Its picture of therapeutic premises, manipulative and otherwise, at the turn of the present century. Andrew Taylor Still, founding pioneer of Osteopathy, lived and worked In Kirksville. Missouri, where he established a school, the American School of Osteopathy, still […]