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What
is the Art of Hakomi?
What do you get when you combine Eastern traditions
of non-violence and mindfulness with a highly effective and
unique Western methodology? You get the wonderful art of Hakomi.
When your body’s habitual patterns and structures become a
powerful portal to your unconscious core material, what do
you have? You have the wonders of Hakomi. This experimental
somatic psychotherapy is used as a method to access the core
material of an individual to travel safely from the unconscious
to consciousness. Once conscious, the core material can be
re-evaluated and if needed, it can be effectively transformed
to integrate with new dimensions of awareness to help the individual
establish a more effective and satisfying lifestyle. The process
of Hakomi is to create a healing and loving relationship between
the client and therapist. In order to facilitate the effectiveness
of Hakomi therapy, a deep connection of safety must be established.
Hakomi
therapy between the client and therapist involves a
system of body centered psychotherapy that is based on the
principles of nonviolence, along with unity of mind and body,
developed by Ron Kurtz and associates at the Hakomi Institute
in Boulder, Colorado.
Hakomi
therapy is primarily based on only a few assumptions. We organize our life experiences by applying meaning to them
during every stage of our life, from infancy through childhood
and on into adulthood. These experiences have meanings to us
and to the world. The organizational decisions we make can
begin to operate as an unconscious core of beliefs about the
world we live in and our place in the world. They can even
regulate how we feel, what we think, how we create, respond,
develop and act. The core beliefs can limit our abilities to
function naturally and can affect the way we live through character
analytical and systematic habits that we had originally made
to refrain from feeling a lack of approval, safety, attention
and affection. The sole purpose of Hakomi therapy is to become
a spontaneous, caring, open hearted, and purely alive human
being and able to be an independent soul with the world.
Hakomi
therapy emphasizes human interaction with a number of principles, mainly through healing interaction or therapeutic.
Some of these principles include nonviolence, mindfulness,
and unity of body and mind. These principles are very important
to Hakomi therapy.
Nonviolence is accepting with a kind of compassion that your
self defense mechanisms originate out of the desire to avoid
physical, mental, and emotional pain. By moving slowly, without
judgment, and by supporting defenses, you can make space in
yourself for a natural enfoldment of a very powerful and personal
healing process.
Mindfulness is looking inward and becoming aware of the sensations
and feelings you have and the feeling of confidence in the
moments you have as a living example of how you organize your
body and mind. By meditatively tending to your current physical
and mental experience, you can illuminate the unconscious processes
in yourself with a new awareness. This new awareness can access
and change your deep unconscious beliefs that drive you.
Unity
of body and mind pertains to our painful experiences
as being somatic, or integrated into our bodies in the forms
of energy limitations, muscular tensions, and confined movements.
The process of physically arming yourself will also serve as
an anchor for the core beliefs that regulate your behavior,
feelings and thoughts. Special techniques may be used by Hakomi
therapists to gain access to the unconscious information in
order to help their clients to procession of improved self
understanding.
All Hakomi techniques are extremely
effective tools for allowing relief in all feeling and
bodily tensions, from unconscious
beliefs to the attitudes that drive your behavior or restrict
your responses. The human body is literally incarcerated in
the armor of unconscious defenses. Hakomi therapists teach
their clients powerful lessons so the client can find an enjoyable
way to recognize their body and mind and to be able to live
a life less armored and become more comfortable, spontaneous
and more effective in their actions and interactions.
Hakomi is a great art to learn for any individual, whether
you are looking to find yourself or improve yourself. Hakomi
offers nothing but the best treatment for your physical, emotional
and spiritual well being.
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