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- Title
Using Ecstatic Body Postures with Hypnotic Imagery Therapy.
- Authors
Brink, Nicholas
- Abstract
From examining the art of the hunter and gatherer cultures of the world, both ancient and contemporary, the anthropologist Felicitas Goodman found what she believed were postures used by their shamans. In experimenting with these postures while in an altered state of ecstatic trance, she found that the postures gave direction to the trance experience. Some postures provided strengthening and healing energy to the body, while other postures were for divination to find answers to questions. Some postures were for metamorphosis or shape-shifting to become one with a spirit guide. Others were for spirit journeying, or entering the underworld or unconscious mind. Others were used for journeying in the middle or upper worlds. Finally, there were postures for initiation, or for providing a death-rebirth experience - the death of some problematic behavior and the rebirth of greater health. These postures are useful and effective for physical, emotional, behavioral, and spiritual healing. A sequence of postures is also useful for soul retrieval, or for resolving the traumas and emotional problems learned in childhood, which analytic hypnotherapy has also been effective in resolving.
- Subjects
POSTURE; SPIRITUAL healing; EMOTIONAL trauma; ENERGY medicine; HUNTER-gatherer societies
- Publication
International Body Psychotherapy Journal, 2021, Vol 20, Issue 2, p70
- ISSN
2169-4745
- Publication type
Article