spiritual psychotherapy: Method promoted by Carol Weidberg, a psychoanalyst and intuitive. It includes dreamwork, and its theory affirms the Jungian theory of synchronicity.

(See also: Spiritual psychotherapy, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Combine Spirituality and Psychotherapy: Eclectic integrative system developed and practiced by author Bernard Green, Ph.D. It includes consciousness expansion, Eastern psychotherapy (see Eastern psychology), nutritional psychology, psychosynthesis, Simonton techniques (see Simonton method), and Sufi psychology (see Sufi healing).

(See also: Combine Spirituality and Psychotherapy, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

shamanic psychotherapy: Mode of spiritual healing based on shamanism and the doctrine of reincarnation. Its theory posits missing soul parts.

(See also: Shamanic psychotherapy, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Kundalini Yoga

Thus far our soul psychotherapy has drawn from universal spiritual principles of gratitude, forgiveness, poignant impermanence, and the like, while remaining largely within the precincts of conventional developmental theory. In this chapter I broaden our scope more toward the body by delving into the farther reaches of human development as is becoming known in the West under the heading of kundalini yoga.

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A Course In Miracles (ACIM) is a self-study book of "spiritual psychotherapy" that was "scribed" by Dr. Helen Schucman. The book, often referred to by its students and followers as simply The Course, is written in first person in the voice of Jesus Christ. It was first published in 1976 as a three volume set and has sold over 1.5 million copies worldwide in 14 different languages. The Course is written in Christian terminology and its subject aims to teach how to attain the direct personal experience of God ...

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Dr. Alexander Lowen, a student of Wilhelm Reich's in the 1940s and early 1950s in New York, developed the mind-body psychotherapy known as bioenergetic analysis with his then colleague John Pierrakos. He is the founder and former executive director of the International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis in New York City. Dr. Lowen received a bachelor's degree in science and business from City College of New York and continued on to receive an LLB from Brooklyn Law School. His interest in the link between the mind and the body ...

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The word psychedelic is a neologism coined from the Greek words for "mind," ψυχη (psyche), and "manifest," δηλειν (delein). A psychedelic experience is characterized by the perception of aspects of one's mind previously unknown, or by the creative exuberance of the mind liberated from its ordinary fetters. Psychedelic states are one of the stations on the spectrum of experiences elicited by psychedelic substances. On that same spectrum will be found hallucinations, distortions o ...

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Grand Master Choa Kok Sui presents a syncretistic system of belief, seeking to present paranormal concepts and esoteric or hidden spiritual teachings synthesizing and connecting major spiritual concepts that have generally remained separated by tradition and practice. He combines Christian, Kabbalah and ancient Hindu traditions. He is associated with Arhatic Yoga. Choa Kok Sui - Publications. He is the author of the book, Miracles Through Pranic Healing, now in the 3rd Edition (originally pub ...

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Life coaching is coaching to improve someone's personal or professional life. It involves a professional partnership between a coach and the client that supports the client's personal growth, through the use of requests and powerful questions from the coach and commitment and responsibility of the client. Through the process of coaching, clients focus on the skills and actions needed to successfully produce their personally relevant results. Life coaching may include physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual aspects of th ...

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Psychoanalysis is a family of psychological theories and methods within the field of psychotherapy that seeks to elucidate connections among unconscious components of patients' mental processes, and to do so in a systematic way through a process of tracing out associations. In classical psychoanalysis, the fundamental subject matter of psychoanalysis is the unconscious patterns of life as they become revealed through the analysand's (the patient's) free associations. The analyst's goal is to help liberate the analysand from unexamined ...

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Acceptance Anger Anticipation Boredom Disgust Envy Fear Guilt Hate Hope Joy Jealousy Love Remorse Sadness Sorrow Surprise Acceptance, in spirituality, mindfulness, and human psychology, usually refers to the experience of a situation without an intention to change that situation. Acceptance does not require that change is possible or even conceivable, nor does it require that the situation be desired or approve ...

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Body-Oriented Psychotherapy: This growing and wide-ranging field combines counseling with bodywork. Practitioners believe the most effective changes come when they involve all levels of being: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. Massage, movement techniques, breathing and body awareness are emphasized.

(See also: Body-Oriented Psychotherapy, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

organismic psychotherapy (humanistic body psychotherapy): Spinoff of Reichian Therapy developed by Malcolm Brown, Ph.D., and Katherine Ennis Brown, in Europe.

Its theory divides human anatomy into four dynamic Being Centers of the embodied soul:

(1)           The Agape-Eros Being Center consists of the upper frontal portion of the body and mediates feelings of openness toward others.

(2)           the Hara Being Center, the abdominal portion of the body, permits self-love.

(3)           The Logos Being Center, the upper dorsal portion of the body, has unfathomable intuitive faculties.

(4)           The Phallic-Spiritual Warrior Being Center, which consists of the lower back and the limbs, enables resoluteness (perseverance).

(See also: Organismic psychotherapy, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

process psychology (Dreambody approach, Dreambody Work, process oriented psychology, Process-Oriented Psychotherapy, Process Work): Spiritual form of psychotherapy developed by American psychotherapist and author Arnold Mindell, Ph.D., at the Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. Process psychology involves bodywork, dreamwork, and meditation. Its theory posits a dreambody, and its design is to heal the source of illness as it manifests in the unconscious.

(See also: Process psychology, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

BODY-ORIENTED PSYCHOTHERAPY

Body-oriented psychotherapy seeks to enhance the psychotherapeutic process by incorporating a range of massage, bodywork, and movement techniques. Acknowledging the mind-body link, practitioners may use light touch, soft- or deep-tissue manipulation, breathing techniques, movement, exercise, or body-awareness techniques to help address emotional issues. Proper training is critical in this work. (Adapted from Holistic Health Directory.)

(See also: BODY-ORIENTED PSYCHOTHERAPY, Alternative Health, Massage, Bodywork, Body Mind and Soul)

astrological counseling: Psycho-spiritual mode of psychotherapy practiced by author Laurie A. Baum, M.S.W., C.S.W. Its basis is astrology.

(See also: Astrological counseling, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

Ro-Hun Therapy

An energy-based, spiritually-oriented psychotherapy which aims to relieve negative thinking atterns and traumas stored in one's energy field and replace them with more effective means of living (see chi).

(See also: Ro-Hun Therapy, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

psychosynthesis (psychosynthesis therapy): Form of spiritual psychotherapy originated in 1910 by Italian psychiatrist Roberto Assagioli, M.D. (1888-1974), and developed by Johannes Schultz. Its design is to effect the integration and growth of the self and to release and direct psychic energies generated thereby. Its theory posits chakras (energy centers).

(See also: Psychosynthesis, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Psychoenergetic Healing: A metaphysical, advanced mode of psychotherapy. Its theory posits a spiritual, healing energy or Light that all humans can access. it also posits reincarnation.

(See also: Psychoenergetic Healing, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Psychotherapy

the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a psychological technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.

Psychotherapy does not include physiological interventions, such as drug therapy or electroconvulsive therapy, although it may be used in combination with such methods. Behavior therapy aims to help the patient eliminate undesirable habits or irrational fears through the use of principles of conditioning.

(See also: Psychotherapy, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)