Body-oriented psychotherapy

As we live today in these realities of war, we must understand that the human body can suffer under the constant influence of psychological factors: stress, tension, and unexpressed emotions.

The “trapped” psycho-emotional state leaves its mark on the onset and further dynamics of physical diseases.

The human body reacts to any stress in two phases:

1. Reaction phase – depending on the degree of danger, “Fight or flight!” or freezing reaction;
2. Recovery phase – rest and accumulation of resources.

Thanks to the second signaling system, a person gets stuck in the first phase of the reaction, even when the stressful situation has already passed, because he or she can use language and imagination to repeat and live through the situation an unlimited number of times.

If the recovery phase has not occurred, then the following happens:

1. Manifestation of negative wall emotions – anger, irritation, aggression
2. They are replaced by asthenic negative emotions – despair, sadness, grief;
3. Adaptation failure, the formation of a stable brain state in which the reaction preceding the failure becomes habitual.

At this stage, the tension from the nervous system moves to the body in the form of muscle tension in a certain area, impaired blood circulation and innervation in this area, and as a result, impaired tissue nutrition.

In the exercises of body-oriented psychotherapy, we start from the opposite! We take the body through different phases of relaxation. By qualitatively relaxing the body, we relieve the nervous system and psyche.

Body-oriented psychotherapy is a simple and effective way to relieve your body of stress!