The greatest scientist of them all was Dr Wilhelm Reich who discovered and researched the Orgone energy (Chi, Ki, Prana and the Ether are other names for the same energy) and who made many other great discoveries about human insanity and how to fix it.
- Practical Psychotherapy.
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You can actually learn ways of dealing with character structure problems, including serious situations. The picture above of the greatest psychologist of them all Dr Wilhelm Reich leads me onto various considerations as to how to do it.
Of course one should not underestimate the problems created by the armoured (blocked) class based society we live in, so I am not pretending that everything is no problem at all. On the contrary human problems have to be treated with respect, and not underestimated as they often are.
Even with the bio-energetic therapy of character structure developed by Dr.Wilhelm Reich it usually takes two years or so to reach full health, although of course huge improvements are seen long before that. - It also depends upon the person being able and willing to continue through the whole process, not so easy to do no matter how committed one is on the surface to the task!!
Although I am going to go into my ideas on psychotherapy more deeply (and after all my ideas are anyway just from Wilhelm Reich and to some extent from Gestalt Therapy), at present in this article I will start off with looking at more physically oriented adjuncts to therapy, pre-eminently the Sujok system developed by the Korean scientist Dr Park Jae-Woo.- In the meantime my Gestalt articles and the one on Gestalt techniques on this site make a good start already to help with profound psychotherapy knowledge.
- Keep in mind though that any physical therapy will release emotion that then has to be understood therapeutically and reintegrated into the present day personality. Trying to do it all just with physical therapy does not fix the root problem of a blocked character structure, but both Oriental Medicine and many Western modalities cannot it seems come to grips with that fundamental and unsettling fact.
- You get silly ideas in the West such as that everything is caused by wrong diet, thus sidestepping the whole tangled web of emotional blocks on which our armoured society is built.
- Or the equally silly idea that you can just massage away the problem or that all you have to do is relax! Of course such nostrums are just wishful thinking and not based in reality and science. Read anything by Dr Wilhelm Reich or “Man in the Trap” or the Gestalt Therapy Book and you will soon see what I mean.
- The Korean Sujok system is very practical and very advanced and possible to learn without too much time, money and sweat (which is not really the case with the higher levels of Indian and Chinese medicine).
- As the famous saying goes "Chinese Medicine may be natural but it is certainly not simple".
- This Sujok system has been designed for everyone to be able to use it simply enough though. It can be used I think to assist psychotherapy, although it cannot totally replace it.
Buy or read online the best summary of Dr Wilhelm Reich's work which is the book "Man in the Trap" by Dr Elsworth Baker. Books by Alexander Lowen are also useful.
Now until I write the other more psychotherapy oriented part of the article, here are some thoughts on using physical alternative health- methods to help treat mental illness (character structure therapy).
Many alternative health modalities can be adapted to some extent to these methods for mental illness but I am going to talk mainly about Sujok as it is comparatively easy to learn and very effective.
Regarding more physical methods which might be adapted to try and work in a more character structure oriented manner, Sujok comes to mind to treat emotional blocks, for example the ocular, oral, anal, genital areas to see if treating them can tie in and help with the character structure treatment. - For example Sujok Triorigin Four Points Treatment is very simple to use but very effective. It is explained simply in a littlebook of that name (Sujok Triorigin Four Points Therapy) by Dr Park Jae Woo. Available on ebay for example.
- By simply using a Sujok / Reflexology tool or even a pencil etc you can theoretically affect any disease in the body. Just check which of the four points is more painful around any finger or toe joint as diagrammed in the the book, gently massage it and directly affect any disease.
- Of course more targeted methods may well help even more but do not underestimate the simple Four Points Method either.
- With Sujok 4 Points Treatment you do not even have to diagnose, simply massaging the more painful points on all the fingers and toes can work wonders often, and that includes for mental illness. It is a very safe method, and incredibly simple to apply.
- The four fundamental forces involved in the Sujok Triorigin theory are explained in the book but even without much knowledge of all that you can use the Four Points Treatment very easily to affect any disease.
- Another method in Sujok is Nail Therapy which can target any organ, gland etc and in many different ways. It is a sort of medical system on it's own, the Sujok book Nail t