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Bioenergetic Model
There are some osteopathic healers that consider a sixth model of health which can be referred to as the bioenergetic model. This brought categorization is still in a largely theoretical state as far as clinical science is concerned. However, without a doubt, several healing traditions for thousands of years have acknowledged some type of energeticsContinue reading “Bioenergetic Model”
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Metabolic Nutritional Model
Consider the patient devoid of adequate self esteem due to unstable family relations, bullying at school, and the unrealistic media expectations of beauty. Such patients often find themselves in poor nutritional states such as self-starvation states, binging-purging, excess exercise, etc. which often lead to secondary vitamin deficiency disorders, alteration of the menstrual cycle, osteoporosis ofContinue reading “Metabolic Nutritional Model”
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Holding Space
For both psychedelic therapy and body work, an important concept to understand is set-and-setting. Set being the physical and mental state of the person, and setting being the environmental surrounding of a person. For psychedelic work to be therapeutic, it seems that a focus on having a patient in an ideal state (set) and anContinue reading “Holding Space”