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CAN YOU BE TRULY HAPPY? - Printed from http://www.bodytalksystem.com//learn/news/article.cfm?id=652 on Jun 11, 2011.

BY SØREN VENTEGODT, MD, EU-MSC-CAM

Can you be truly happy? Of course you can. All it takes is a fair amount of insight into yourself. You need to understand your ego and your own divine nature in your human core. You need to use all you are wisely and in loving service of others. When you are happy... you can love and when you can love others... you can help them to heal their life.

Consciousness is the key to personal freedom, a healthy body and mind, emotional intelligence, the gift of unconditional love and an unbound, happy one-to-one relationship. Understanding your life includes a deep look into the identification with body and mind, and this will free all aspects of you, from mind to sexuality.

Profound self-insight allows you to understand your role in the world and to engage all your personal resources and talents of body, mind, spirit and heart in your daily living. Your life will spontaneously self-organize, as you become an integral part of the universe and tap into the many resources of the healthy, awakened human being.

What can we learn from our human experience?
We as human beings are really meant to suffer. Only if we suffer can we wake up and learn. So we should not complain about suffering, but simply ask: How can this suffering be of value to me? What does it mean? How do I reach freedom and understanding? We suffer, because we do not understand ourselves. In this situation we make wrong choices and act from negative attitudes and fear. Little by little we destroy our own happiness and our health declines. Physical and mental diseases, sexual problems and social difficulties follow.

It is surprisingly easy to improve quality of life and health. All it takes is deep and dedicated introspection. A self-inquiry that brings you down to the basics in life, to your innermost Self, your existential core. This process of existential healing is often called salutogenesis with a concept coined by the Israeli researcher Aaron Antonovsky (1923-1994). Salutogenesis means literally "creation of the solution" and is the exact opposite of pathogenesis, the process that makes you ill. So getting to know yourself makes you healthy and happy. It is that easy.

Why is it so difficult to get to know one self? The answer is simple: Strong negative emotions surround the existential core, causing a strong resistance, a strong unconscious repulsion, from the core. Therefore you need somebody to help you go where you least of all want to go. To take your hand and guide you back to your core. Someone who can take you to that place, where you had lots of pains and failures at the beginning of your life...... that is the job of the holistic therapist.

Feelings and healing
Let us admit that it is about feelings and emotions. Some of these feelings are connected to the mind and spirit, but most of them seem to be related to the body – and its functions, energies and organs. Sexuality is one of the aspects of the body that gives raise to some of the strongest and problematic negative feelings, like guilt and shame. Feelings, we will do anything in the world to avoid to feel. We need help and support to feel that, to explore these old and painful areas in our existence. So this is why we have holistic therapy.


Efficacy of holistic therapy
Sometimes spontaneous remissions of cancer and other severe disorders have been observed in holistic therapy. We also know that chronic pain in inner organs and the locomotor system is highly responsive to holistic medicine. We also know that there are only rare side effects with alternative medicine. So holistic medicine – mind body medicine that primarily works through consciousness (Body Talk is one example of this of course) – is extremely effective and causes very little harm.

The principle of supported self-exploration
The principle of supported self-exploration and self-inquiry are simple and easy to understand. It is a little more complicated to make it work in practice. But if you know where to look, if you understand in which direction you need to go to find the Self, it is not difficult and it does not have to take long time.

WHAT IS 'SUCCESS' IN TERMS OF A BT SESSION?" - DR. DON KA'IMI PILIPOVICH
I think it is a success if something changed - even if it gets 'worse.' Of course everyone wants to have their symptoms go away immediately, but sometimes they need to go through a different process. Many people have been in overdrive for so long that their immune system is shut down. A good session may activate their immune system, which is a good thing. But if there is a backlog of old viruses and other pathogens, they may well get sick for a while.

This is essential to their healing process, but still uncomfortable and inconvenient for the client. Similarly, many people have a huge backlog of unprocessed emotions that they haven't dealt with and expressed. A good session may well 'stir the pot' and bring up very difficult issues from the past that need to be faced before they can be released - sometimes people will even go through a 'dark night of the soul' experience after a session.

So when a client calls me to tell me they got really sick or really angry or really depressed after a session, I cheer just as loudly as if they told me that all of their pain miraculously disappeared. We are doing transformational work, not symptom management, and accepting that there may be difficult steps along the journey to being a new person is part of the job. Finally, we also have to accept that some symptoms will never go away - if the client feels supported during their difficult time that is a success in and of itself even if nothing has changed on the surface.