Body-oriented psychotherapy. Theory and practice.

FOR WHOM?

Designed for practicing psychologists, psychological consultants, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, teachers, 4-5 year students of medical and psychological faculties, doctors, social workers and all those who are interested in body-oriented psychotherapy.
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE:

• Introduce participants to the basic principles, methods and strategies of working in TOP;
• Teach reading bodily information, building a therapeutic strategy and tactics;
• Learn how to translate a client’s request into body language;
• Study the basic structures of character, as well as the formation of muscle blocks (chronic muscle tension);
• Master the diagnosis and correction of unsuccessful stages (structures) of human psychomotor development;
• Teach how to use bodily therapy techniques in working with birth trauma;
• Master in-depth approaches to working with destructive generic programs through working with the body;
• Master working with resource techniques in bodily therapy;
• Teach how to access the client’s unconscious for effective therapeutic work through the body;
• Develop the ability to receive therapeutic information when working with the body, algorithms for working with the information received during the current session and after it;
• To teach how to work with bodily metaphors for psychosomatic disorders;
• Give the opportunity to experience the therapeutic effect of this method firsthand.

What it is?

In its present form, body psychotherapy arose on the basis of psychoanalysis. Freud's student, a certain Dr. Wilhelm Reich, noticed that all neurotics are very similar. They have similar movements, body structure, facial expressions and gestures. A hypothesis arose that emotions create a corset, a kind of muscular armor of a person. Reich began to heal people through the body, removing the clamps one by one and people began to feel happier. Destructive emotions went away, neurosis receded.

It turned out that any physical and psychological traumatic events are deposited in the body. On the one hand, muscle tension is a consequence of injury, and on the other hand, it is protection from negative emotions. The muscular shell helps a person not to feel or be aware of unpleasant emotions. They seem to pass by consciousness, settling in the muscles in the form of spasms. Over time, the muscle corset itself begins to generate emotion. Then we feel unconscious anxiety and fear, although there are no external reasons for them.

So what is body-oriented therapy? Who is it for? This is a non-verbal technique that is gentle on the client’s psyche, restoring his contact with the body, turning the person to face himself and his needs. The method will be useful primarily for those people who are not used to talking about themselves, are poorly aware of their emotions and feelings, often do not understand what exactly is happening to them, and characterize their condition in one word: “bad.”

AFTER COMPLETING THE COURSE, PARTICIPANTS WILL MASTER:

1. TOP techniques necessary for conducting psychotherapy and counseling in individual and group formats;
2. Ways to “read” the client’s character structure from the structure (map) of his body;
3. “Invisible” properties of the psyche through the human body;
4. A map of the formation of the structure of a person’s character and body with the possibility of restoring “healthy” patterns (bodynamics);
5. Diagnosis and correction of unsuccessful stages (structures) of human psychomotor development;
6. Techniques on how to access psychotrauma through the body, process it and form (recreate) a “healthy” psychophysiological structure, taking into account depth and speed;
7. Basic principles of working through various early childhood traumas;
8. Methods of diagnosis and treatment of psychosomatic disorders;
9. Therapeutic strategies for a specific client;
10. Possibilities for correcting inherited psychogenetic properties that underlie the development of the structure of personality, body and character, which affect all processes of its development and the further quality of human life;
11. In-depth approaches and skills for correcting destructive birth programs through the human body (access to the root causes of birth destruction and their elaboration);
12. New knowledge in using body-oriented psychotherapy to work through one’s own problems and expand opportunities.

How does a body-oriented psychotherapist work?

Although some exercises can be used independently, the benefits from them can be compared to a drop in the bucket compared to the work of a body-oriented therapist. The specialist uses deep methods of body-oriented therapy to remove the muscular armor forever. In addition, a therapist is needed in order to be with a person when the emotion imprisoned in a compressed muscle breaks free, because somehow it will need to be accepted and experienced. Professional therapeutic techniques of body-oriented therapy are very effective. They remove even the strongest tensions and restore normal energy flow in the body.

Reich's Vegetotherapy

Classical vegetative therapy by Reich, the founder of the method, uses several techniques:

1. Massage is a strong impact (twisting, pinching) on ​​an inadequately tightened muscle. It increases the voltage to the maximum and starts the process of extreme braking, which dissolves the shell.
2. Psychological support for the client at the time of release of emotion.
3. Abdominal breathing, saturating the body with energy, which itself, like water dam, demolishes all pressures.

The first experiments of Reich's body-oriented therapy showed the high effectiveness of the direction. But the followers of Reich’s exercises were not enough and, like mushrooms after rain, new interesting methods began to appear.

IN THE COURSE PROGRAM:

1 seminar

Basic principles of working in the TOP:

• The therapist’s working states and methods of entering them;
• Rapport, joining, leading, distancing;
• Ecology of work in the TOP;
• Cause-and-effect relationships and structure of psychosomatic problems in the holistic approach of DDT;
• Pros and cons of psychosomatic defense mechanisms. Workshop.

Diagnostics in the TOP.

Relaxation and diagnostic complex:

• techniques for working with the body according to A. Minchenkov
• workshop

2nd seminar

Work with supports, psychocorrection, therapy (support methods).

• support and the reason for its loss
• “baby supports”, “obstetric” support, “maternal”
• basic work with adult supports

Working with boundaries, defenses, resources and self-esteem. Diagnosis of injury. Psychocorrection:

• personal/energetic boundaries
• phases of boundary formation
• physical boundaries
• territorial boundaries
• social and role boundaries

Disclosure of “children and adults” internal resources:

• “children and adults” internal resources
• overcoming stressful situations

Diagnostics according to M. Feldenkrais.

The principle of diagnosing the unconscious body image.

3 seminar

Working with the consequences of parent-child relationships and developmental trauma.

• workshop
• masculine and feminine
• destructive generic programs in the individual’s body
• workshop

Formation of character structures (L. Marcher. Bodynamics).

Correction of psychomotor development. Workshop.

Working with trauma through the body.

4 seminar

Working with trauma;

• workshop

Peak experience and work with shock trauma;

• workshop

Body-oriented psychotherapy in working with dissociative disorders;

• workshop

Aggression management (activation, transformation and use in working with depression);

• workshop

PCB methods in TOP;

• workshop

Birth trauma and the method of its resolution according to L. Marcher, L. Ollars, P. Bernard;

• workshop

Analysis of client cases;

Supervision.

All students are provided with educational and methodological aids in the scope of the course program (methodological aids, books in printouts and in electronic form).

APPLICATION FOR TRAINING AND REQUIRED DOCUMENTS

While taking the course:

• copy of education diploma
• copy of general passport (first page + registration)

For participants of individual seminars:

• copy of general passport (first page + registration)

BODY PSYCHOTHERAPY. Methods

Since time immemorial, there have been certain forms of influence on the psyche through the body. Remember the proverb “A healthy mind in a healthy body.”

However, in the field of modern psychotherapy, we more often encounter unidirectional effects through the psyche on the somatics. The reverse route of influence is not used as widely and effectively. To some extent, we encounter this in various techniques of psychoregulation, psychophysical training, and auto-training.

The most active way of influencing the regulation of mental states through somatics can be traced in progressive muscle relaxation according to E. Jacobson (also translated from German as Jacobson). Jacobson identified a pattern of tension and relaxation of individual muscle groups and segments in strict accordance with certain mental states. Therefore, using a feedback mechanism, he decided to purposefully correct the client’s mental states by local tension and relaxation of specific muscles.

There are several more more or less successful modifications of this approach by adding elements of physical therapy, various types of massage, etc. However, Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) is rightfully considered the founder of this direction of psychotherapy, which was called body therapy. The key concepts of Reich's body therapy were “orgone energy” and the “muscular shell”, which interferes with the release of this energy.

Reich, who considered himself a student of Freud, came to the conclusion that treatment for neuroses and the solution of many psychological problems of clients could occur much faster and without such a deep penetration into the psyche, as is done in classical psychoanalysis.

Reich believed that to do this, it is enough to remove the muscular shell of inadequate tension from a person and thereby release the energy associated with it, which is still under the “shell” and has no direct outlet, carrying out destructive work in the form of the formation and aggravation of neuroses and other psychological problems.

Reich identified the following areas of muscle armor formation. These are (in descending order) the areas of the eyes, mouth, neck, chest, diaphragm, abdomen and pelvis. In accordance with the concept of body therapy, orgone energy fluctuates (moves) throughout the body parallel to the spine, now down and then up, and the rings of the muscle shell are formed perpendicular to this movement and interfere with their clamps. Removing these clamps helps a person gain comfort and satisfaction, including sexual satisfaction.

Reich suggests the following basic methods for relaxing the rings of the muscle shell:

- using deep breathing, which promotes the accumulation of orgone energy in the body; — relaxation of chronic “stresses” with the help of physical influence and various elements of massage; — joint analysis with the client, helping him to understand the main ideas of bodily therapy in relation to his specific case.

Here are some classic examples of the muscle carapace removal technique.

EYE AREA. You need to repeatedly engage the muscles of your forehead and eyelids by opening your eyes as wide as possible, as if you want to portray fear. Then more and more natural eye movements are practiced.

MOUTH AREA. It is believed that this area of ​​the muscular shell contains “coded” expressions of emotions, such as anger, screaming, crying. To relax, exercises such as imitation of crying, biting and even gagging movements, repeated utterance of sounds that force the lips to tense and relax are used.

NECK AREA. The shell in the neck area is formed by the same emotions as in the previous case. For removal, imitation of gagging movements, spontaneous cries, and groans are used.

CHEST AREA. This area includes the muscles of the chest, shoulders, shoulder blades, arms down to the hands. One of the external manifestations of the shell in this area is various types of breathing restraint. Work on removing the shell in this area begins with breathing exercises with an emphasis on relaxing the muscles as completely as possible at the moment of full exhalation. Then active movements of the arms and hands are activated, simulating small blows, as if you were hitting someone, strangling someone, or tearing something apart. The main thing is not to hold back your emotions.

DIAPHRAGM AREA. A characteristic sign of the presence of a shell in this area is a forward bend of the spine, which is clearly visible when the client lies on his back on the couch and there is a clearly defined gap between his back and the couch. Another sign is that inhalation is easier than exhalation. The muscular armor in this area holds back expressions of intense anger. To remove this shell, release from the previous four shells is used, and then painstaking and often long work on special breathing exercises and imitation of the gag reflex. Clients with strong muscle armor in this area cannot induce vomiting, even if necessary for poisoning.

ABDOMINAL AREA. This mainly includes the abdominal muscles and back muscles. This shell holds within itself the manifestation of fear, and not fear in general, but the fear of attack - both direct physical and indirect: encroachment on rights, personal freedom, property, etc. According to “body psychotherapists”, the armor is on the lateral muscles of the waist associated with the suppression of anger, hostility and ... “fear of tickling.” This work does not take much time if the previous areas have been worked through.

PELVIC AREA. The pelvic muscle area is the last of the main areas of formation of the muscular armor. It usually also affects the muscles of the lower extremities. An indicator of the strength of the shell in this area is considered to be a slight protrusion of the pelvis backwards, which is greater the stronger the muscle clamps. In these cases, as a rule, there is a certain soreness and tension in the gluteal muscles. In Reich’s words, such a pelvis is “rigid, “dead,” sexless.” Being essentially a Freudian psychoanalyst, Reich proceeded from the fact that the shell always arises from excitement or anxiety caused by the suppression of desires for sexual pleasure.

Physically, the procedure for getting rid of such a shell looks quite primitive, but according to practitioners of body therapy and the clients themselves, it often brings a quick and necessary effect. The exercise consists of the client, lying on the couch, repeatedly tensing the pelvic muscles to the utmost, and then sharply relaxing them, violently kicking his legs and hitting his pelvis on the couch.

SOME OTHER AREAS OF BODY THERAPY.

Reich's ideas and methods, despite all their controversy, and largely due to his difficult scandalous and demonstrative nature, gave rise to a number of quite interesting trends. This development continues to this day.

Among the most famous modern, “post-Reichian” areas of bodily psychotherapy are the following:

— bodily bioenergetic therapy by Alexander Lowen; - Feldenkrais method; - Alexander's method; - Rolfing (or structural integration); — primary therapy by Arthur Yanov; - therapy focused on “sensory awareness”; — Eastern methods of body therapy.

In a certain sense, many elements of hatha yoga, tai chi tsuan, aikido and other eastern practically oriented teachings and schools can also be classified as methods of bodily psychotherapy.

BIOENERGY THERAPY BY ALEXANDER LOWEN.

The main elements of this type of therapy:

- various types of breathing, mostly deep; - special static poses with general and local tension of various muscle groups of the body to determine and understand the places where energy flows are clamped, as well as for the subsequent weakening and removal of the muscular armor; - specially selected verbal formulas, which, after conditioned reflex consolidation, can significantly enhance the effect of physical impact when relaxing specific muscle groups.

FENDELKREIS METHOD.

The essence of this method lies in the consistent awareness of ineffective physical habits, identification of inadequately tense muscle groups and excessive static or dynamic efforts when standing, everyday or professional movements. This is followed by exercises to relax muscle groups and minimize dynamic efforts, to the level necessary for the effective implementation of the desired movements. This method allows you to modify or form better “bodily habits” (postures and skills), restore natural freedom, coordination and beauty of movements.

ALEXANDER'S METHOD.

This method is also aimed at identifying habitual postures that are not effective enough and improving them. As a result of appropriate exercises, the client develops a feeling of so-called “kinesthetic lightness” and freedom. Through exercises and positive consolidation of each success, this extends to all other household and professional motor actions.

ROLFING.

The method was named after its author, Ida Rolf. She characterizes it as structural integration. The basis of this method is a deep massage, which is carried out with the help of fingers, knuckles, elbows, with the aim of maximizing the deepest possible work on the muscles and joints that, according to the therapist, need correction and release of muscle tension. Through the formation of the “correct” body and the client’s awareness of this correctness, he also develops a “correct” psychological image of himself. This helps to free oneself from complexes, realize and reveal one’s own Self.

PRIMARY THERAPY BY ARTHUR YANOV.

The method consists of “organizing” the client’s experience of the so-called primary pain, which, according to Yanov, is inherent in every person. Mainly due to psychological trauma in early childhood. This pain is so deeply carried into the subconscious that it is not recognized “in its pure form”, but manifests itself in the form of various neuroses, frustrations and inappropriate behavioral reactions.

Experts believe that Yanov’s main achievements are the techniques developed and improved by him and his followers, which make it possible to concentrate the client’s attention and efforts on restoring, and then imitating the reproduction of, early childhood traumatic memories. In order to release the blocked energy of hidden emotional tension, the client is helped to overcome embarrassment and, with maximum intensity, carry out spontaneous discharge of emotions in the form of screams, curses, and impulsive aggressive (safe for the client and others) movements.

SENSUAL AWARENESS-FOCUSED THERAPY.

The goal of therapy is to help the client become aware of their bodily sensations and feelings. It is believed that this will help restore not only in memory, but also in feelings, one’s true self, one’s innate inclinations and abilities, which turned out to be unrealized because they were suppressed by the formalized system of education and training. It is necessary to help the client distinguish his own feelings and sensations from the templates and cliches imposed on him along the path of life.

The exercises widely use elements of meditation, which allow you to free your mind from vanity and obsession. This interferes with the awareness of your true Self. With correct, systematic repetition of exercises, a feeling of inner peace arises and stabilizes, a feeling of unity and harmony with the world around you arises, and your true sensations, feelings and desires are better realized.

EASTERN METHODS AND ELEMENTS OF BODY THERAPY.

Of course, we are talking about individual elements of technology from Eastern body therapy. An in-depth study of Eastern methods of psychotherapy requires special consideration in continuous unity with Eastern philosophy. Some Eastern methods and techniques have a dual connection with body psychotherapy. On the one hand, they themselves or many of their elements can be considered as types of bodily therapy. On the other hand, various Western directions of body therapy use various elements of Eastern teachings and martial arts. Let us note several such areas.

HATHA YOGA. One of the most widespread areas (or rather, parts) of the yoga system in the West. Attention is focused on taking and holding special poses and asanas. This leads to the release of various types of vital energy. The main goal is to cleanse and strengthen the body as a carrier of various vital energies.

TAI – CHI – QUAN. If hatha yoga is aimed at releasing energy, then tai chi chuan helps to increase energy potential (qi). If static poses predominate in hatha yoga, then traditional slow movements are used here, reminiscent of swimming in the air.

AIKIDO. This ancient teaching is popular not only in the East, but also in the West. Unfortunately, this truly ancient art is simplified to a set of simple physical exercises and techniques, whereas in true Aikido these exercises solve the auxiliary task of spiritual improvement, harmonizing relationships with oneself, with others and with the entire Universe. Less commonly, elements of aikido are used as health-improving or therapeutic physical education.

To effectively use the capabilities of aikido, you need to realize that it is, first of all, a spiritual direction. AI - translated as unity, harmony. KI – vital energy. DO is the way to achieve this unity with the entire Universe, to open and increase vital energy.

Exercises are carried out both individually and with partners. This style is characterized not by resistance, but by the use of the inertia of the opponent’s own movement against him. But this is not for victory over the enemy, but for harmonization, merging the efforts of partners, which increases the energy potential of each.

GESTALT THERAPY. The word gestalt can be translated from German both as a holistic image and as a construction. It is understood in this broad sense. Gestalt psychology, like Gestalt therapy, proceeds from the assertion that psychology (and especially psychotherapy) should not deal with individual elements of personality, isolated mental processes, factors of psychological influence, but consider them in a single complex and interconnection.

Gestalt therapy reflects many theoretical approaches and practical techniques from psychoanalysis, bodily therapy, and existential therapy (we will talk about it later). This is not just a mechanical combination of various ideas and tactics, but a rather harmonious and well-founded system, which is rightfully considered an independent branch of psychotherapy.

Frederick (Fritz) Purls (1893-1970) is rightfully considered the author of Gestalt therapy. At first he became interested in psychoanalysis, but while working in a hospital with patients who had suffered traumatic brain injuries and shock, he felt the need for more effective help for them. Purls rejected classical psychoanalysis (although he retained many of its elements), considering Freud's “digging” in early childhood memories erroneous and ineffective.

He believed that a person and his psychological problems are not so much influenced by the past (and especially by early childhood memories), but primarily by today’s and, to a certain extent, expected events. Purls called this principle of working with the present, and not with the past, “here and now.”

HERE AND NOW. This principle reminds the psychotherapist of the need to return the client’s attention to the situation he is currently experiencing, tuning in to solving this problem, and not avoiding it by thinking about the past and future. Along with this principle, Gestalt is distinguished by a number of fundamental provisions.

FIGURE AND BACKGROUND. This is the already mentioned principle of integrity and figurativeness. Purls distinguished figure and background in this holistic picture. Such an integrated approach helps to more objectively evaluate each of the elements of gestalt. What individually looks like a disadvantage, in combination can turn out to be an important factor in the adaptation and interaction of other elements. It is necessary to destroy the client’s vicious gestalt (incorrect, traumatic perception of himself and the situation), and then help him construct a new positive gestalt himself.

Only the client himself can build a new gestalt of his life. As a clear example of a different gestalt of perception of the same situation, various pictures are given, by turning them over we get a completely opposite expression of emotions. These techniques emphasize that our perception is very subjective and often depends not on the object, but on how we look at it. The next important principle of Gestalt therapy is the principle of expansion of consciousness.

EXPANSION OF CONSCIOUSNESS. This term, just like “here and now,” has become widespread in other types of psychotherapy and even in philosophy and pedagogy. Its essence is to allow the client to see a seemingly insoluble situation from the other side (or from different sides), and thereby find a way out of it. The expansion of consciousness allows a person to take a different look at his whole life and at himself in this life, to see not only ways to overcome obstacles, but also opportunities for more complete self-realization. Often, consciousness expansion techniques are purposefully used to reverse figure and ground. Make the background a figure, bring it to the fore, the center of attention, and transfer the figure (which occupied a central place in the consciousness and interfered with the correct vision of the situation) to the background.

WORKING WITH OPPOSITES. Our perception is “slagged” with cliches. We, voluntarily or unwittingly, attribute people and their actions to various evaluative categories such as “good - evil”, “good - bad”, “useful - harmful”, “us - them”, etc. Gestalt therapy includes exercises that allow us to be convinced of the bias of our assessments, and often of their duality. Such duality of emotional perception of the same person, action, event in psychology is called ambivalence of feelings.

AMBIVALENCE OF FEELINGS. Ambivalence (duality) of feelings is not necessarily a sign of some kind of mental abnormality. This is a completely normal property of any healthy person: for example, with jealousy, we can love and hate at the same time. The same thing can periodically occur in relationships between children and parents, or the person who received help can simultaneously experience both a feeling of gratitude and a feeling of humiliation.

This duality of feelings, as a rule, does not create problems for us, at least those that we cannot cope with ourselves. The work of a psychotherapist begins where this duality of feelings becomes persistent; they enter into a contradiction that torments a person, which he cannot resolve on his own. Perls believes that the main thing at this stage is to help the client find something third that lies between these contradictions and somehow tries them on.

In an ideal case, a “third relationship” can be formed, which is generally from “another dimension” and eliminates both previous feelings from consciousness. Freudians will see in such a technique only aggravation of neurosis, but Purls does not think so. He gives plenty of examples of this from his psychotherapeutic practice. Purls agrees with Freud that the individual's consciousness has certain types of defense against stress and other psychological problems.

These are various forms of avoiding them (biased perception, dulling of sensitivity, etc.). Purls emphasizes not only the negative, but also the active adaptive role of such withdrawals, even during delusions and hallucinations. The individual unconsciously stops contact with the real, traumatic reality. The psychotherapist must distinguish between normal defenses (even in the form of self-deception) and negative ones that aggravate neurosis, and help the client free himself only from negative defenses.

In Gestalt therapy, the state of mental health is characterized by so-called maturity. We are talking about social maturity, which does not always correlate with biological maturity or even with what is commonly called adulthood. Social maturity is characterized primarily by a realistic attitude towards oneself, towards others, towards the surrounding reality, and the ability to bear responsibility for one’s actions.

This is precisely what is lacking in many neurotic individuals, who, regardless of age, are characterized by a “childish” avoidance of problems, shifting responsibility for them and the way out of them onto other people and circumstances. This only makes the problem worse. One of the signs of awakening maturity can be considered the willingness to take responsibility for one’s actions (albeit with the advisory guidance of a psychotherapist).

The psychotherapist must bring to the client's consciousness that his frustration impasse is not real, but far-fetched. The therapist gradually reduces his support to a minimum, increasingly transferring responsibility for his life and his actions to the client.

Vegetotherapy: How long does it take to dissolve the muscle shell?

Basic techniques to help achieve recovery:

• massage;
• respiratory;
• psychoanalytic.

The skill of massage lies in squeezing, twisting and squeezing tight muscles. To influence the internal muscles that are inaccessible to deep massage, the patient must scream, cry, and pretend to vomit.

When a muscle spasm passes, it is possible to release a large amount of orgone energy. Patients remember long-forgotten episodes that led to muscle tightness.

Breathing equipment is an alternative to massage. Using deep breathing, the patient saturates the earth's shell with orgone energy, and it breaks through muscle tension.

The technique of psychoanalysis involves discussing negative and traumatic memories with a therapist. In their work, psychotherapists, as always, combine all techniques. But besides them, the patient’s independent performance and his desire to be cured play a huge role.

Exercises

In addition to the orgone accumulator, Reich created a combination of exercises that will help anyone who wants to learn how to control the orgone current in the body. Before you start, you need to relax.

Reich's set of exercises:

1. Starting place: squat down.
2. Get up and open your eyes.
3. Move your eyes to the sides, rotate, and then squint.
4. Pretend to sob.
5. Pull your lips out with tension.
6. Mumble your mouth and recite a poem.
7. Smile, then act surprised and disgusted.
8. Depict vomiting.
9. Scream or hiss for a long time.
10. Squat down and stick your tongue out far forward.
11. Get up. Move your head, imagining that your neck is replaced by a thin spring.
12. Return to the starting position and take deep breaths.
13. Protect with air with your hands.
14. Inhale deeply, imagining that your chest is touching the ceiling.
15. Waltz, moving your arms a lot.
16. Exhale sharply with your diaphragm, opening your mouth wide.
17. Breathe deeply.
18. Lie on your back and with each exhalation try to touch your feet with your hands.
19. Lie on your stomach. Inhale - raise your head, exhale - lower your head.
20. Beat the air with your stomach.
21. Continuing to beat the air with your stomach, place your tiptoes behind your head.
22. Place your hands on your belt and lean back strongly to retreat.
23. Get down on all fours, imagining yourself as a cat.
24. How much does it cost to kick a horse?
25. Lie on your back. Raise and lower your pelvis sharply.
26. To arise. Place one hand on the crown of the head, the other on the reproductive parts. Move your hips.
27. Get up. Shift your body weight either to one or, in this case, to the other leg.
28. Free to dance.

Reich's "Sponge"

This is an exercise that the authority recommended to do at least once a week. It cleverly relieves tension from the centers of sexual pleasure.

Five stages of "Sponge":

1. Lasts from 5 to 10 minutes. Lie on your back, bend your knees. Rationalize the pelvis, stretch your pubis upward. Raise your heels and touch them with your fists.
2. Takes 5–10 minutes. Release your heels, continuing to stretch your pubis upward.
3. Duration from 10 to 20 minutes. Raise and lower your pelvis without touching the floor.
4. Lasts 5–10 minutes. Visualize in your mind that a white light flares up at the point below the navel. Lower the neck and begin to bring your knees in and out.
5. Rest lying down for 5 minutes.

This video shows the correct high qualification of performing the “Sponge” exercise:

Orgone courage

This is life force. Reich believed that the whole world was saturated with it. Its basis is what Freud called libido and sexuality. It circulates freely in the human body, but only if there are no muscle tension in the body. In this case, the natural flow is disrupted, which leads to illness and loss of sensitivity.

The scientist argued that a sure sign that the orgone flow in the body is disturbed is the inability to experience an orgasm with the whole body.

The character of a person, according to Reich, is unfreedom. Character is a set of stereotypes and patterns imposed from outside. A free man has in his bins:

• anxiety;
• fears;
• aggression;
• sexual perversions;
• explosive anger.

Reich was prompted to create an orgone accumulator by the discovery that the world around him was full of orgone energy. She eats even in a vacuum. The scientist was able to find it due to the fact that pure orgone creates an electromagnetic glow, visible in the blue color spectrum.

Orgone discovered by W. Reich in a vacuum

Orgone energy accumulates in structures made in the form of pyramids, hemispheres and onions. Cult religious buildings are either made in a similar form or have similar design details.

V. Reich planned to accumulate useful energy from the outside through a battery and direct it into the patient’s body. The scientist was lucky enough to cure many people. He believed that the device was capable of extending a person’s life.

Unfortunately, Reich died long before that, when man first went into space and was able to take pictures of the earth, where the glow of orgone energy in the Earth’s atmosphere is clearly visible. Wilhelm believed that the universe was created by orgone. At the end of his life, in addition to treating people, Alcohol was involved in the development of miniature aircraft that would run on free and endless fuel: orgone.

W. Reich proved more than once in the course of his life that he was ahead of his time. Perhaps humanity will only have to deal with the legacy of the great scientist in the future.