THE HEART IN PSYCHOTHERAPY

According to an article written by Dr. N. Arrizza, (AHP Perspective , Dec 2005) the power that lives in the Heart is the energy of LOVE. Some call it Spirit or life force. It is basically the essence of what we call a human being. The mainstream psychotherapies have neglected this aspect of energy for some time focusing manly on the cognitive/intellectual 'analysis' of what is not going well with us. The most recent publicity given to "Emotional Intelligence" is, at last, recognising an aspect of a human being that has been lost in an attempt to create a 'science' out of human relations and human growth.

The Chinese Tao masters have studied three 'minds': The Intellectual mind, the Feeling mind and the Intuitive mind. All three have to be in harmony for a human being to stay healthy and happy. The energy of the heart and the energy of our intuition along with the energy of our intellect, enables us to reawaken the joy of living and then the healing just seems to 'happen' as a spontaneous event. Some call it a 'miracle' - it no such thing, it is the way of being fully in contact with our three aspects of vital energy.

Psychological, psycho-somatic and all sort of 'disorders' are the direct result of re-pressing the vital energy centres in favour of the cognitive one. This means that the person is not fully in charge of his or her body and is dependent or co-dependent on the environment for its well being. Witness the enormous sales of anti-depressants.

Our life history is stored in our individual energy centres. Body, Mind & Spirit. The disruption of any one of these will cause an imbalance and eventually a dis-ease. Some of that imbalance may appear as a body-oriented problem, such as headaches and even cancer; others may appear as a disturbance of the mental processes like 'mental breakdown' and some appear as a Spiritual emergency where an individual may be at a loss about who he is and feels no desire to continue living.

Dr. Arrizza has spent 25 years developing a method of working that he calls DHEF or "Divine Holographic Energy Field". It is a state that identifies the individual as completely balanced, healthy, completely in the body and in charge of it. When that field is disrupted, then the individual becomes ill. The negative energies that are stored over time disrupt the natural balance and take over the functioning of the body and thereby the Divine balance is cut of and the individual is fast on the way to illness and death.

By bringing back the divine or spiritual life energy back to the body and completely eliminating the traumatic negative life history from the body, is the only way to enable the person to re-cover spontaneously and heal him or herself.

As long as our scientific methods ignore the 'Divine' or Heart energy in our body, it will never achieve true healing or gain true knowledge as to who we really are.

The 2007 conference on Alternative healing processes will examine this aspect of healing in a gathering of Indigenous and modern Humanistic therapists. It will be held in Mexico, near the sacred Lake Chapala. See the web: www.montecoxala.com