Mental Health Treatment – Psychotherapy in Complementary MedicinePosted on January 3rd, 2009 by Tony Brown
One of the most interesting and effective ways of treating mental health problems is the process by which we get in contact with ‘the components’ of our existence using diagnostic methods and appropriate treatment. The sources of the problem are then discovered by conversing with these ‘’components’ allowing the problem to be treated. The therapist ought to be experienced and should make sure that the patient feels safe and secure in the treatment environment and can contend with his own feelings, Holistic complementary medicine views the soul as a part of the body that is impossible to examine or measure separately from the whole. A complete human being is the sum total of his parts that are connected together from the time of his creation until his death. When I examine a person, I have to remember that there is no such different thing as ’soul’. Rather there is bodily energy or a certain bodily power connected with the body itself that influences or is influenced by every event in the person’s life. From this, I have learned that every event in life has a strong impact on the body and mind, which constitute a person’s whole that is in a continual state of flux. One of the ways to find the source’s of a problem is to look at a person as a totality of emotions, feelings, energy, and a body then to try and examine how certain feelings and emotions are expressed within this totality, for example, if I feel sadness, what is this sadness? Where is it expressed in the body, and can I get in touch with it in order to examine its source? How can I assist it? What is it trying to tell me? As another example we can use stomach ache. We would try and talk with the stomach area to find out what it is trying to tell us. Listening to the area that hurts can provide answers to the source of the pain: What caused the pain? How can we treat it etc.? In actual fact, listening prepares the gateway for healing. We are the body; we do not distinguish between the body parts. On the contrary, we create a therapeutic conversation which can reveal a great deal about ourselves and how we can treat ourselves. We discover that there is no single soul in any one place, rather there is a complex of feelings through all our sensory organs creating one perfect totality which is constantly changing, every moment of our lives. It is therefore this that provides the possibility for change and recovery. My experience as a therapist, the diagnostic tools and treatment that I use such as communication, bio-energy, and healing can help me tremendously in locating the source of the problem (where it is expressed in the body), and ‘conversing’ with the body. Sometimes, the conversation itself provides immense relief, and the patient’s overall energy increases. Sometimes, this is the beginning of a lengthier process in which the sources of the problem are investigated: past cycles or dimensions, childhood, adolescence, family etc. At each stage, we can check which genetic effects or event ‘created’ the ‘energy block’ (pain, distress, or fear) making it easier to find the true source of the problem and to treat it using appropriate methods including the giving of suitable medicines. It should be remembered that this treatment requires plenty of self-awareness and the ability to cope with the weight of emotions or feelings that surface during therapy. It does not suit all people at all stages of life since there are times when it is hard for us to cope with certain feelings and emotions. Consequently, the therapist must make a diagnosis and only use this method when he is certain the patient can be helped without coming to any harm.
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