Blood On Cervix Before Period

author: Alexander Lowen

title: Joy. Learn how to liberate the energy of repressed feelings

Translation: Kamila Jakimowicz

First Edition Publisher

Black Sheep (formerly Jacek Santorski & Co)

Warsaw 2010

finally published translations of books read Alexander Lowen.

going to present the contents of the Preface to this publication.

Preface

It's been forty years since I came to my office first patient. I just finished my treatment with Wilhelm Reich. His method became increasingly well known and was still new followers. Because there were few trained therapists, then to apply it, I had many takers, even though I did not get medical education. As a beginner therapist took two U.S. dollars per hour of therapy, which at that time was a modest salary. However, when in retrospect I look at the quality of my work, I ask myself whether it was worth even that. I had no idea about the depth and seriousness of the problems faced by many people of the western world. I mean depression, anxiety, insecurity, love and joy.

working with patients for nearly half a century, I have written eleven books and I believe that to fathom the nature of human problems, I defined the the principle of bio-energy analysis. This book describes the treatment in practice and illustrates its use with numerous examples from the sessions with patients. I should note that the analysis of bioenergy is fast and simple method of treatment is very effective, although its effectiveness depends on the experience of the therapist. It is difficult to expect an immediate recovery, if the problems they face over the years, patients eventually become part of their personality. The true miracles are rare. The greatest miracle that I know, is an act of creation of new life, to whom I dedicate this book.

body and mind work as one to sustain life in the body, are also acting as one of deep-level energy processes. The mind can affect the body and the body, of course, affects the thinking and mental processes.

bioenergy analysis based on the premise that man is a unified whole. This is what happens in the mind, affects the processes in the body. So if someone is suffering from depression and is desperately sad thoughts, he feels hopeless and loser, in his body this attitude will be visible in the slow movement of pulses, at a reduced mobility and restricted breathing. All vital functions are experiencing depression, including metabolism. Impaired metabolism, lowers the life energy

In some cases, you can improve the functioning of the body through a change of attitude in the mind, but any such change will be short-lived, until it has been a fundamental change in the level of the body. On the other hand, directly improving the functioning of the body through breathing, movement, feeling, and free expression brings immediate and long-lasting effect and changes the mental attitude. In the final part of the energy therapies seek to strengthen the patient. This is important if our aim is to liberate the patient from the constraints of the past and present inhibitions.

[...] The purpose of therapy is to help a person regain its full potential. All the people who come to therapy, are a result of injuries from childhood deprived of their ability to experience the fullness of life. This is their main disorder that underlies the symptoms. Signs indicate how much Man has been compromised by the educational process. The most serious condition is the loss of self. All patients suffer from various limitations of personality: a limited self-awareness and mindfulness, limited self-expression, impaired self-control. These basic features are the pillars of the temple of the self. Their frailty and weakness are responsible for the lack of security, which dramatically undercuts any attempt to seek peace and joy and satisfaction, and the deepest meaning of existence.

Highly ambitious goal is exceeded these restrictions and, as previously mentioned, it is not easy. Without understanding this goal can get lost in the maze of conflicts and contradictions of feelings that were messed up or frustrate the efforts made in the course of therapy. It is, however, make an effort, which is helping many people to modern civilization, for whom life is a constant struggle for survival, and joy - a foreign state.