How to Heal Dissociation & Get Grounded in Reality I Bioenergetic Therapy for Self Healing [06/52]

Ever felt like the world isn't real - or like you don't actually exist?

These are signs of chronic dissociation, and it's time we learn how to heal this reversible traumatic defence mechanism.

In this sixth episode of Inner Work Essentials offers an expanded introduction to somatic therapy - sometimes called body-based therapy - which I believe to be one of the most powerful ways to heal the body from childhood trauma and get grounded in reality as we move towards wholeness and health.

This episode explores a bioenergetic approach to healing chronic dissociation and depersonalisation via embodiment and grounding. I'll show you how to get grounded in your body, in addition to learning how to ACTUALLY love being a human with a physical body rather than faking your way towards spiritual bypassing or pseudo-wholeness.

Book Recommendation: The Voice of the Body, Alexander Lowen

Questions?

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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS ⏱️
00:00 "I don't feel real anymore..."
00:47 How to Heal Dark Trauma with Somatic Release
01:21 Book Recommendation: The Voice of the Body, Alexander Lowen
02:35 Grounding: How to Feel Safe & Secure in your Body
03:48 Feet & Legs: Laying Roots into your Flesh
05:34 What I Learned from my Grounding Journey (five years)
06:54 Reversing Dissociation: How to Fully Incarnate (via honest love)
08:00 You Can't Fake Love for a Body you Despise.
08:57 Bioenergetics for Dissociation & Disconnect
10:08 Next Steps: The Levels of Consciousness

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Welcome to INNER WORK ESSENTIALS: the 52 episode series designed to provide you with an intense, diverse and holistic roadmap for full-spectrum self-healing and transformative self-education!

It's been a long time coming... with over 350 books researched in the last 27 months... but I'm overjoyed to FINALLY be sharing what I've learned about the Inner Working Landscape and how to do Inner Work at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels.

Want to know where this series is heading? Read my teaching intentions below!

INNER WORK ESSENTIALS: SERIES AIMS (STATEMENT OF DIRECTION)

1) Provide the student with an informed and representative overview of multiple complementary therapeutic modalities to support their self-healing process; with special encouragement placed upon the auto-therapeutic application of particular healing modalities for particular problems at particular stages in their journey.

2) Nourish the intellectual and spiritual maturation of the student by familiarising them with the most exciting, challenging and credible concepts in developmental psychology, consciousness studies and transpersonal metaphysics; with central emphasis being placed upon comparative analysis of multiple complex theories.

3) Encourage an empowered and more authentic sense of individual self-expression as a combined outcome of the two previous intentions, plus the application of holistic lifestyle principles, self-educational practises, and foundational healthy habits.

INNER WORK ESSENTIALS: EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES

On completion of this series, the student should expect to be:

1) Auto-therapeutic. The student will feel generally competent in their ability to select and self-administer the most suitable therapeutic modality on a full-spectrum basis: ranging from the somatic resolution of central childhood wounds to the everyday self-regulation of symptomatic stress responses such as anxiety and addiction.

2) Closer towards baseline integral consciousness (Wilber). Through their combined efforts of rigorous self-inquiry and critical engagement with recommended reading material, the student will have significantly developed their intellectual and spiritual maturity to a noticeable degree, in likely correlation with their depth of engagement.

3) Holistically Empowered. The student will enjoy a meaningful expansion of their physical, emotional, sexual, and creative expression as a result of their healing and expansion work. In short, they will be healthier, happier and feel more complete.

4) Self-educational. The student will have felt organically inspired to move beyond free video content and create a self-structured learning arc which takes maximum advantage of at least several dozen inner working books mentioned within the course. The student will consequently enjoy lifelong learning habits including: critical research skills, long-term focus, and the ability to know when to stop studying.

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