In our busy contemporary world many people are beginning to realise that to find relief from steadily increasing anxiety and tension they need to pay more attention to their bodies." Jack W. Painter, PhD. Founder of Bodymind Integration
Energetic Integration® supports you in dealing with the challenges and experiences of limitation, frustration or trauma in your life, in a more creative manner. Energetic Integration® helps you to change in every part of yourself -- in your body feelings and thoughts as well as in your capacity to live fully in your social environment. While Postural Integration® (for more details website on Postural Integration®) - in the process of release and integration of the protective mechanisms laid down in your muscular and myofascial chronic tension patterns - is more focussed on the reorganization of the myofascial planes, Energetic Integration® is more focused on the reorganization of breath and life energy as it moves through a self-regenerating energetic wave. Energetic Integration® helps you to explore, claim and be creative in the energetic expressions of your existence, whatever life scenario happened to you. Energetic Integration® encompasses powerful methods of Body Psychotherapy and Holistic Bodywork.
Energetic Integration® is a form of working psychocorporally with the body to re-establish the free flow of energy. Energetic Integration® works with the freeing of the armouring present in the bodies tissues, as well as of the mental and emotional processes related to it. Working with the breath and how it reveals the mechanisms of protection and defense enables the person to become conscious of their energy flow and its blockages, interruptions and imbalances. These tend to be directly linked to old anger, pain, sadness, traumatic events held in out-dated reaction patterns and hidden memories put out of conscious awareness. When these early or traumatic experiences are integrated, the client can develop healthier and more appropriate ways of being and doing. An important aspect of Energetic Integration® is working with the breathwork cycle known as the Energetic Cycle, a concept developed by Jack Painter. Helping to complete it facilitates the regulation of the energy flow, and a wave of freed energy creates new consciousness and possibilities in the bodymind and the interaction with others and the world.
Practitioners of Energetic Integration® (EI) are trained to work in a respectful and interactive manner with their clients. They use a variety of somatic (bodywork) methods – breath and deep tissue work, focusing on the body and self-awareness techniques, as well as emotional expression integrated in a psychotherapeutic understanding of the situation. The practitioners of Energetic Integration® need to be able to bring professional knowledge and experience tempered by their ability to bring themselves with personal feelings and attitudes held (in a self-aware manner) into the exchange with the clients. Energetic Integration® practitioners went through a long training process, including many hours of personal therapy and adequate psychotherapy supervision.
Energetic Integration® is a way of helping individuals become aware of themselves in their body and to empower them to change themselves – their bodies, feelings and thoughts. It is a powerful tool for enabling clients to increase their sense of well-being, their capacity to feel, their ability to express, their self-awareness and consciousness. The knowledge and clinical experience around this work is shared and updated within The International Community of Bodymind Integration Practitioners, under auspices of ICPIT.
Many people are aware that they are limiting themselves in some way—perhaps a nagging feeling that they could be appreciating the precious gift of life more fully—yet they also find that, try as they might, they fall back to what is familiar or safe for them. With the necessary understanding of the developmental aspects of the energy cycle in the human organism, practitioners in Energetic Integration® can begin to be able to help people who are stuck in this way. If our goal is, say, life fulfilment, then the feelings we have along the way are just that: the experience of how it is to be moving toward a goal we are committed to. But if we have been taught not to follow our instinctive and healthy longings, we often settle for a quasi-goal, that of feeling comfortable, perhaps happy. Energetic Integration helps us find ways towards the best possible life fulfilment, regardless of what we encountered or lost along the way.
A very particular addition to the Reichian discovery is the common functioning principle in all living matter: an underlying similarity among differences.
The use a wide range of integrated mind and body- oriented approaches including body-sensing, breath work and cycles of charge and discharge, expressive movement, gestalt enactment, bodymind typologies and character analytic processes.
Energetic Integration® helps individuals become aware of themselves in their body and to empower them to change themselves.