Healing the Exiled & Rejected Parts of Ourselves with Richard Schwartz and Soren Gordhamer

[@postanimaluseworldpauw8287]

I'm doing this kind of therapy. Really powerful. Thank you Soren for being willing to show the process.

[@oskarfassler4088]

Beautiful and touching exploration. Thank you 😍

[@asadifififaroo]

Amazing

[@rebeccacook7924]

💜🩵🩷

[@steveymoon]

The only thing that bothers me is his use of the word "energy", as in "feel the energy moving through your heart". Does anyone have a more accurate or more useful word to replace "energy" that I can use, that isn't new-agey and superstitious, please?

[@juliaoconnor5688]

Maybe the love

[@jeanettem8304]

The movement (of feeling) ?

[@thunderpooch]

Think of things in terms of barriers or blockages or hyper vigilance which keeps you guarded. When you're guarded you're not open to "energy flowing" lol. Also known as: you're not open and relaxed enough to experience love and adventure and peace and joy when they're available to be experienced. Love and joy and peace and contentment can more easily be experienced when you don't feel on edge to control others or protect yourself. The term "energy" in this context is a decent enough term, but it's confusing because verbage vs subject matter is being blended. "Energy" is a term that needs to be thought of as, "how guarded do you feel?" It's experienced as a vibe. This sensation or "vibe" you experience will point to how easily you'll be open to experience love and joy etc. Love, happiness, joy, peace, etc., can be seen as possible future energies that can more easily flow through you if you're not so guarded. The idea is: you're an adult now. Even a low status adult who might be mired in poverty and even medical issues etc, still has a lot of power. The ability an adult human possesses to be at ease and experience joy and love is quite remarkable, but all that good which can be experienced has to occur when the adult, who is currently struggling, realizes that they're still feeling scared and vulnerable like a neglected child would experience. A child can and does develop strategies to keep themselves alive. They do this by developing strategies to be accepted by their primary caregivers, but these strategies won't let them best be able to thrive as an adult. As adults we face challenges, some more than others, but feeling scared and hopeless like a child will destroy your ability to assess the situation at hand. You'll waste a lot of mental and emotional energy trying to protect yourself from a situation that feels like it could kill you or leave you abandoned, which as a child, might have led to your death. The good news now is that you made it. You're now an adult. Most situations aren't even close to needing to feel scared or unloved or hypervigilant all the time.

[@biancamichelle11]

Energy is the most accurate word. But there are many alternate words that can be used. Tingling sensation, circulation, movement are a few.