(I use this photo because it reminds me of having lunch at my neighbours when I was a little girl)
From a young age, before I knew I was born as a spiritual healer, I've always been very interested in feelings. Either my own or other's, physical or emotional. As you can read in my book, I had a lot of emotions rushing through my being as a young person. If I verbalised them as 'interesting' and 'worth following' most of my family and friends in those days, said 'I was to busy with 'strange things' that did not concern me!
One of the first words that ever really intrigued me many, many years ago was the word, PERISTALTIC. (I don't remember where I found it or what brought me to it), but I looked up the word in a dictionary, ( yes that's how long ago it was, before there was internet :) )!
When I read the explanation and found out that it had to do with INNER MOVEMENT, it intrigued me even more.
I then read up about the gut. I read the word GUT FEELING and about how to follow this feeling. Our gut is our compass, inner wisdom and when our tummy gurgles, it talk to us. ( Do we listen)? This whole concept of the integration of the psychical body and its emotions fascinated me enormously.
As you can read it still does today. So here I go! Without knowing it when I was younger this intriguing gut-feeling thing became later in my work as a spiritual healer an integral part of my healing work! ( I think it is for most healers) I love movement, inner ( processing, feelings) or outer (letting go, positive actions). Movement represents moving forward which can bring about change which hopefully brings insight, that hopefully results in growth!
FINALLY at one of my birthday breakfasts I met the sister of a friend. This woman is a bio-dynamic healer and she started to talk about PSYCHO PERISTALTIC. She told me about the clinical Psychologist Gerda Boyesen who described "psycho-peristalsis" as an "actual healing mechanism" in the body that is situated in the viscera, and specifically in the gastro-intestinal tract.
You can imagine my enthusiasm when I found out that my life long gut fascination is actually an real existing healing mechanism!? Thank You C and N for this amazing double B-day present!( I don't feel I have to now become a bio dynamic healer, but I'm just interested in it.)
Here is more of how Gerda Boyesen http://www.biodynamic-bodypsychotherapy.co.uk/Gerda_Boyesen explains it!
'This mechanism is the link 'between psyche and soma' and is the basis for healing in the human body and mind. Sounds from the gut can often be heard naturally, during a talking or vegetotherapy session at times of insight, after expression and resolution or when there is an "aha" moment in the process. More usually, in a biodynamic session we listen to these sounds via the stethoscope and the sounds are used as a form of biofeedback'.
'By working to get the maximum psycho-peristaltic sounds and using these as a guide, the biodynamic practitioner is enabled to follow the "Ariadne's Thread" which brings the client out of the "maze" of the unconscious and into consciousness. This is the metabolic "key" in the client that effectively and safely "unlocks" deep inner tensions, unravels old patterns and completes uncompleted emotional or nervous cycles that can cause symptoms and/or physical pain'.
'Further, by actually monitoring the parasympathetic function of the autonomic nervous system (via the loudspeaker stethoscope) the biodynamic practitioner can assist the client's body to progressively clear their cells and tissues of the residual hormonal (bio-chemical) by-products of stress. This process of physical cleansing and detoxification simultaneously assists the client to clarify negative attitudes and harmful beliefs that have led to mental disturbance and dysfunction and be open to fresh ideas. Psycho-peristalsis is the means whereby the interruption to the flow of life energy in the body and mind is organically re-connected'. Gerda Boyesen
'First brain is in the gut'; Michael Gershon
"I then had the satisfaction of seeing his doubt dwindled away, as in the course of the work his bowel began, like a hysterically affected organ, to "join in the conversation". ;Sigmund Freud (1918)
My gut feeling tells me that I will write some more about this subject another day. :) Pina
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