Body-oriented therapy

Body-oriented therapy refers to treatments in which the body is an important entrance. It assumes that body and mind are one and thinking, feeling, behavior and body are interrelated.      

Usually our thinking is central and we start from what our mind tells us. However, there are mental, emotional and physical tensions that are efficiently accessible through the body and can be treated through the body.

The body carries all (unprocessed) experiences and emotions with it and some of them are pre-verbal. That is to say that they happened so early in your life that there were no words yet. A body-oriented method can be used for this.  

Furthermore, traumatic experiences can have caused permanent changes in your body, causing, for example, panic reactions in your body that keep recurring. Even if there is no longer a direct cause for an extreme stress reaction. For the treatment of these physiological reactions,body-oriented therapy is suitable.

When to deploy?

Body-oriented therapy can be used for personal development or increasing inner peace. It is helpful for emotional and mental tension, stress and burn-out and for not or insufficiently processed distressing events.

What does body-oriented work look like?

In addition to talking and asking focused, open-ended questions, body-oriented therapy utilizes massage techniques, meditation and mindfulness, body-oriented exercises, and breathing techniques. For body-oriented therapy in Leiden, you can visit the Meer Mijzelf practice, among others.

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