The goal of emotional and spiritual healing is to become fully comfortable in your own skin, to feel empowered in your self-expression, and to find fulfillment through bringing your unique gifts to the service of others. As you approach this goal you feel increasingly peaceful yet dynamic and alive, vibrant, purposeful, courageous, generous, and loving. This is something all of us want and all of us deserve. In fact, it is the only thing that is really worth striving for, since everything else pales by comparison. Then why is it so hard to reach this goal? Why do we so often settle for being less than we might be? Why is it so hard to change? This page tells you why and shows how body-centered healing can help.
Part of the answer to why it is so hard to engage positive and often life-transforming change has to do with the fact that we are deeply controlled by our habits, and they seem to be beyond our reach. We’d like not to feel nervous, or excitable, or anxious, or angry, but we do. We’d like to feel peaceful, but find that we are irritable, and so on. Our reactive habits are in turn locked into our nervous system, and into our tissues. For this reason, they have become unconscious or mostly beyond conscious control. In order to rid yourself of habits that can often be destructive to personal growth even though they may have originated with some survival need, you have to tap into the body itself, access what is unconscious, and release it right there, from the tissues themselves. Then you can have greater control over choosing who you want to be.
Another part of the answer to why we find it so hard to grow into who we might be has to do with the fact that most of us learn to suppress large parts of ourselves while we are pursuing survival. From an early age we learn to shut up rather than speak up, or to achieve according to our perceptions of others’ demands rather than according to our own authentic self. To a large extent many of us lose touch with our real nature as we develop. Who you are in your core, or how you really feel about something, gets suppressed and becomes unconscious. Often this suppression manifests not only emotionally, in depression or anxiety or anger, but also as some kind of dis-ease: stomach pain, back pain, neurological problems, headaches, and so on. But if you can tap into your deeper more authentic feelings where they lie at the unconscious level, you can begin to rediscover who you need to be in order to be true to yourself, and move on with your life.
The body-centered therapies that Ingrid practices in combination with her medical intuitive skills gently engage you in tapping into the unconscious feelings and experiences that are stored in your tissues. As you bring the unconscious into consciousness — whether that is a simple tension pattern, an old disturbing or traumatic memory, or a repressed feeling — you gain greater access to your real feelings, and to your freedom to choose rather than to react. You empower yourself. The more you empower yourself, the more you spontaneously help those around you to empower themselves as well. Your personal emotional and spiritual healing, which brings you into deeper alignment with your natural gifts and interests, is healing to everyone whose life you touch.