Psychologische Beratung Aneesha C. Mueller. Wir haben fast alle Kindheitwunden, Wunden aus Kindheit oder sogar Entwicklungstrauma durch eine unzureichende Bindung zur Mutter. Es kann auch Schocktrauma zu Problem im Erwachsenenalter führen. Die [ACE-Studie], auch [ACE Study] belegt dies. [TRE] - [Trauma Releasing Exercises] sind sehr einfache Entspannungsübungen, die auch Trauma lösen können. Für Entwicklungstrauma empfehle ich aber das somatische Coaching, angelehnt an [Somatic Experiencing]. Es erhöht Ihre Resilienz, d.h. ihre physische und psychische Widerstandskraft und es kann tiefe Kindheitswunden heilen und Trauma bzw. Traumata lösen. Die ACE-Studie oder ACE Study belegt, dass wir fast alle davon betroffen sind.

Trauma & Somatic Experiencing (SE)

Meditative Therapy: Product

What is Meditation actually?

Meditation has become part of the standard program of pretty much anyone who wants to be respected and successful in today's world, right? Mindfulness is hip. And it is now even considered a panacea that can help with everything, be it annoying colleagues, depression, stress, or as a rehab program after a traffic accident. More and more people want to solve their problems through mindfulness and meditation.

But does it work? Does mindfulness really help with everything? Or is it simply an acceptable reason to take a much-needed break in an increasingly hectic world and the rat race most of us are caught in? And is it the break that we might not otherwise allow ourselves to take? So is it meditation itself or is it the break that brings well-being?

And more than that. I wonder: Why is it that so many of us find it difficult to just sit still and watch the breath. A little more than 10 years ago I also tried desperately to sit in silence, but I could never do it for more than 10 minutes and even that was almost impossible at times. Can you relate? Well, good. You are certainly not alone.

My big breakthrough came in 2008 when I discovered methods called Active Meditation. I had never heard the term, but I had already been practicing it without even knowing it. It was in 1999 when I cycled over 4000 km through New Zealand. I swear that was active meditation, I just didn't know it yet. Today I know very well, that it WAS meditation. I was cycling around the country for more than 4 months, and I did it alone, just me and myself, exposed to wind and weather every day and sweating blood and water. This constant activity in solitude, I reckon it was bringing up some suppressed feelings in me that often found their outlet in angry swearing and a lot of f-words when I was struggling up another hill... If I had known... I might never have done it.

But today I'm very happy I did. Because that was the beginning of my inner journey and the beginning of meditation for me. Because meditation is just that: Being fully present with what is. Without resistance, without suppressing feelings or thoughts. It is the ability to be here completely and to let everything be here that shows up. Whether feelings, like anger, sadness or fear, or thoughts that go round in circles for the hundredth time. Meditation is the capacity to accept what is and let things be the way they are, without response. I learned it, eventually... :-)

Curious how you too can get there? Without cycling through New Zealand for 4 months? Then read on.

Somatic Experiencing

“To be in the mind is to be out of yourself.

To be out of the mind is to be in your own being.”

Dr. Peter Levine

Working with trauma

So we can free ourselves from trauma or transform it into life energy, and in order to be able to work effectively with it, we have, as we have heard, to involve the body

In this context, however, I do not work with severe shock trauma such as car accidents, war experiences, violence or sexual assault, but with chronic stress and relationship problems that are caused by developmental trauma . I use two different methods to do this; TRE® , the abbreviation for Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises, founded by Dr. David Berceli, and Somatix , the synthesis of the work of Irene Lyon and Dr. Peter A. Levine.

TRE® works directly with the muscle tissue in a non-invasive way and thereby accesses the nervous system and the brain stem. Somatix uses the holistic body sensations to gain access to the physiology, and at the same time the emotional and cognitive level of the client. I often use both methods alternately, as this helps the client to rebalance on the nervous system level as well as on the emotional and cognitive level.

The Solution? Osho Active Meditations!

What does that mean - active meditations?

Active meditation simply means that we involve the body, actively with mindful movement. This can be very dynamic, but also mindful.

The body thus becomes an instrument: 15 minutes of intensive activities like jogging, dancing, shaking, or jumping, and then 15 minutes of silence. The movement activates the body and the sympathetic nervous system, and as a result the nervous system swings back into the parasympathetic reaction, and deep relaxation occurs. So first everything is brought into a state of agitation, then it can relax.

This is possible because the inner restlessness, tension, and fidgeting, which has accumulated through our everyday life, can be relieved through dynamic but attentive movement.

Especially as a beginner you will probably find it difficult to sit still, right? It tingles here, it itches there - these are all tricks of our hyperactive mind, which tries to keep in control.

An Indian mystic named Osho said

"As for modern man, I insist on active meditation instead of silent meditation. Because your energy wants to be acted out, it needs catharsis. You have too much energy and no outlet for all your stuck and suppressed energy ... let the energy flow. Through action you merge with existence. And when the energy is gone and you relax, then be still." (Osho)

There are numerous active meditation techniques and they are indeed a very effective tool to achieve a meditative state. These methods work quickly and effectively.

Curious? Try it yourself. There is the opportunity to do so, for example, at our Nature Retreats. There are also regular meditation days in Bergisch Gladbach. Click on the button in order to be notified about these events.

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Who is OSHO?

Osho was a contemporary Indian mystic, born in 1931 in Kuchwada in Central India.

He advocated meditation for everyone, but his technique was revolutionary. The meditations he designed don't start with stillness and silence but with activity and movement to release suppressed energy and emotions, which can then lead to a state of calmness in which meditation will happen naturally.

He was a master unhampered by tradition, a guru who could quote Voltaire, and Sartre, Heraclitus and Marx, and who believed in capitalism, technology, and sex.

Numerous subjects of interest were taken up by Osho in this intriguing series of talks - from esoteric topics to more well-known subjects like politics, parenting, relationships, child-rearing, or religion.

He cites Jesus, Buddha, Mahavira, Lao Tzu, Sufi and old Zen masters with an astonishing memory, translating them with a freshness and directness as though they were talking today, as though they were wearing sneakers.

"Osho is a thoroughly modern man as much at home with Marx and Engels and humanistic psychology as with the mystical traditions of the East. Indeed, he uses Marx and Maslov, Plato and Heidegger, Freud and Beckett and Lenny Bruce, Playboy jokes as well as Zen and Sufi teaching stories, to make telling critiques of political and religious, psychological and sexual orthodoxies," writes James Gordon of Washington Post, USA.

Osho's commune in Pune still exists and is visited by 100,000 people every year. He died in 1990 aged 59.