Dear Hania, Anne and Dan,
I agree that the communication of family constellation information to the
general public is a challenging one. Basically I see that any communication
that arises out of ones own personal conscience, or ideas of right, wrong, good
or bad, has an automatic effect of being "malevoent and primitive." Such
communication always seeks to avoid, leave, or turn away from the essential in
preference of the non-essential. There is a tendency in conscience to justify,
explain, prove, argue or covince; and none of these things are necessary or
helpful when attempting to move this work forward, simply because they are
non-essential elements of growth. These non-essential elements stretch the
strength of the work by making it thin, stretched and expended. These elements
weaken our field, and I feel we all need to be very aware of communicating from
such spaces and refrain from doing so.
I have been playing with the idea of essential communication and language
within family constellation and have written up an "Introduction To The
Self-Organizing Spirit Mind Movements" that may be helpful to some in search of
mainstreaming the work and language of family constellations. I have just
uploaded it to the following link
http://www.scribd.com/doc/82542882/Family-Constellation-Self-Organizing-Spirit-Mind
It actually covers alot of what our discussions have been about recently.
Excerpt from this writing referring to SMMOTS (Spirit Mind Movements Of The
Soul.)
CHARACTERISTICS
Constellations set up with SMMOTS are a multidimensional self
organizing, self management tool supported by evidence based practice, for
specific target groups seeking solutions for problems affecting family and
organizations.
These constellations provide a complimentary spiritually
integrated care pathway for mental, physical and spiritual health that can be
easily
adapted to work with the unique problems of any system of people.
Outcomes are partially tied to specific interventions by the
professional facilitating a constellation; therefore they are able to be
predictable
as well as exploratory, for both facilitator and client.
The design of a constellation is able to identify important
systemic elements that help a client move beyond the mind into spiritual
intelligence.
The constellation field grounds itself in the science of the
inner (meditation) and connects the inner experience to the outer image of
circumstance, event or fact. This connection facilitates emergence of solutions
out of systemic entanglement.
The overall purpose of a constellation is to provide
continuous quality improvement principles for health care workers,
organizations,
families and all interdependent systems of people and life.
SMMOTS links science, self and systems organization, clinical
practice, transformative education, meditation and spiritual awareness, in a
“knowing field,” that bridges intelligence of spirit to mind.
Constellations can be used by health care workers and
business organizations to define the best practice processes and directions for
maximum performance outcomes and success in the workplace. Their outcomes
improve integration in all areas of a system helping members to understand
their roles and responsibilities better.
SMMOTS constellations set up both, an interpersonal and
inter-spiritual field, where emergent wisdom arises via inner exploration of
mental images of past and new incoming information from existential source.
Kind Regards
Sadhana Kay Needham.
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From: anne becker <annebbecker@xxxxxxxxx>
To: ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 7:52 AM
Subject: Re: [ConstellationTalk] Tinnitus or Breast Cancer--Dynanics?
Dear Dan,
Your thoughts, and in fact this entire thread, are helpful to me as I
prepare to facilitate a constellation workshop focusing on chronic illness
this Sunday. I am always reflecting on how best to communicate what we do
in constellation work in my very conservative city of Cincinnati, Ohio.
What stood out for me in your e-mail was the beautiful contrast between the
ancestors “sucking loved ones into the whirlpool of entropy” and the
“presence of loving, adoring ancestors creat[ing] a sweet breeze propelling
the client towards the horizon of a long, healthy life."
It is, I think, a very foreign thing for modern-day Americans of European
descent to imagine their ancestors as alive and present. Perhaps the
closest thing we have to this notion somewhere on the outskirts of our
mainstream culture is the Catholic tradition of the communion of saints. I
have been doing some reading about how this
notion compares to indigenous
tribal approaches to ancestors. One article by a Catholic priest working
in an African setting referred to the fact that Catholicism sees the saints
(of course a more global concept than ancestors) as a consistently
benevolent group, whereas in indigenous cultures, the ancestors often need
to be appeased – otherwise they can wreak havoc. As an American of Catholic
heritage (along with Calvinism), my identification with American
materialist culture has had the upper hand in some of my attitudes despite
my Christian mystical leanings--and despite the fact that I was drawn to
constellation work because its sacramental quality felt so deeply familiar.
It has been utterly new for me to think of my ancestors as being present to
me as a daily resource– constellation work has slowly opened me up to this
reality. For most Americans I know, no matter what their ethnic
background,
it is quite a stretch.
So in dealing with chronic illnesses, or other entanglements, the idea that
the family system balances itself often on the backs of its youngest
members, rendering them ill if that serves the wider whole, is a hard one
to swallow. It feels malevolent, and primitive. I wonder, if this idea did
not feel so foreign, if constellation work would make more sense to the
American mindset. The idea of the ancestors actively blessing us is only a
tad less strange to us.
So while your comments on how healing happens in constellations through a
radical transformation of the ancestral energy make wonderful sense to me,
I do think I have had to grow into this perspective. I am interested in
other facilitators’ experiences of opening up the American mindset to this
essentially mystical reality as a foundation for healing.
All of this makes me remember how deeply I appreciated Jane
Petersen’s
story at the end of the recent conference in San Francisco about her big,
burly Scots ancestors protecting her on a dark, lonely road…
Thanks to all.
Anne B. Becker, M.A.
Cincinnati, Ohio
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Hania Moser <haniamoser@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Chris and Allsymptoms?... As it seems obvious
Chris, I've found your post very confusing - as you're throwing away - in
one shoot - psychosomatic scientific findings and then you're stating "What
was discovered however was that poor stress management and high levels of
stress both contributed to and exacerbate almost any physical or
psychiatric condition."
- could you please be specific what do you mean by a "high level of stress"
and how it's different from psychosomatic
that stress is a description of physiological pressure which leads tocondition and physical condition - as your post suggests:
changes in body functioning, forming an illness, if the pressure is too
heavy and too long for the body to cope with. (There are interesting
articles about some confusions with the word stress, so popular and
commonly used now; it was firstly used by non-English speaker and
scientist-endocrynologist Hans Selye in 50ties, who is the father of
physiology of stress; it's hard to believe that before him no one was using
that word in the meaning we know now).
What you call "stress" must be therefore the same what is a core of
psychosomatic relations between body and psyche!
I'd like to know more about your findings about researches you've mentioned
which would proof that there is no substantial evidence about links between
psychological
with withdrawing somatic
"Some very reputable medicos including university
professsors made very confident assertions almost none of which were ever
borne out by evidence. One notable exception was a relationship between
type A personality when combined with certain speech patterns having a
strong correlation with high blood pressure."
During my university studies in 80ties and following my interests in
psychosomatic psychology with practical application of this knowledge to my
practice in over 20 years, I've learnt that there have been conducted
researches with evidence about links between psyche and body, and there is
a lot of evidence (not just assertions) about it. And having clients in
psychotherapy with specifically psychosomatic issues I've experienced also
that there are links between psyche and body,
symptoms following psychotherapy (sorry if that sounds too obvious, butniceness
that's why I'm writing in response to your post).
Below - for those interested in the subject of brast cancer - I pasted an
excerpt from a naturopath article about so called personality C
(scientifically proved in 80ties as a correlation with breast cancer, and
later also linked to other types of a cancer); that text indicates similar
findings from others:
Dr. Jean-Jacques Dugoua:
Recently, behavioural oncologists have attempted to conceptualize a “Type
C” personality type, i.e. a personality type more at risk for cancer. Based
on their findings, the following characteristics describe a Type C
personality:
- denial and suppression of emotions, in particular anger
- pathological
- avoidance of conflictsinfluences.
- exaggerated social desirability
- harmonizing behaviour
- over-compliance
- over-patience
- high rationality
- rigid control of emotional expression (anti-emotionality)
According to behavioural oncologists, the façade of pleasantness with
a Type C personality will collapse over time due to the impact of
accumulated stressors, especially those evoking feelings of
depression and
reactions of helplessness and hopelessness. The coping style of Type C
personalities, i.e. excessive denial, avoidance, suppression and
repression
of emotions, appears to weaken natural resistance to carcinogenic
patients have a more favourable outcome when
Recent studies show that psycho-social stressors which are
characterized by inadequate and repressive coping mechanisms are
associated
with changes in immune competency, including both humoral and
cellmediated
immunity. Relationships between different immune parameters
(natural killer
cell activity, lymphocytes, serotonin uptake, mean platelet volume)
and
mood states, psychological coping styles and personality variables
have
been discovered.
In the case of breast cancer research, studies show that the clinical
course of the disease is influenced by psycho-social factors and
coping
styles. Breast cancer
theyFebruary 2012 22:01, Chris Walsh <constellationflow@xxxxxxxxxxxx
have a higher fighting spirit, a greater potential for aggression and
lesser suppressive tendencies.
Do not ignore the association between your mind and your physical
symptoms. As we see from research, a symptom that is diagnosed
as “only in
your mind”, can translate into a disease in your body! This
reminds me of a
cartoon I saw in a newspaper a few years back. A tombstone had the
following engraving: “I told you it wasn’t only in my head.”
With Love
--
Hania Moser, M.Psych., Melbourne
*
Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is learning of letting go
every day. Zen Proverb*
On 22
management and highwrote:
Hi Michael60s
Traditional western medicine went down the path of trying to relate
specific psychological characteristics to specific illnesses in the 50s
and 70s. This branch of medicine was even given the special name of
psychosomatics. Some very reputable medicos including university
professsors made very confident assertions almost none of which were ever
borne out by evidence. One notable exception was a relationship between
type A personality when combined with certain speech patterns having a
strong correlation with high blood pressure.
What was discovered however was that poor stress
constellation work is largely unknown.levels of stress both contributed to and exacerbate almost any physicalor
psychiatric condition. I think we can extrapolate from this finding thatto
entanglements that interfere with us receiving our life force from our
parents will do the same, as these entaglements decrease our resistance
stress. I don't know how rigorous the audience would be at a alternative
health conference but I for one would be certainly be impressed by a
presentation that takes into account the current state of the evidence.
Cheers
Chris Walsh
Melbourne, Australia
ph +61 (0)3 9487 4647
www.cwalsh.com.au
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 5:38 AM, Michael Reddy <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:
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Hi Martin, Maria,
Thanks for your posts.
Maria, perhaps I should have explained more. I have to sit at a table
in March at an exposition on "alternative methods for healing and
preventing breast cancer." I'm trying to augment my experience as
much as possible for the purpose of being able to talk to people at
the exposition. It's not for the purpose of facilitating actual
constellations.
I agree with your statement, in effect, that "any symptom can relate
to anything." On the other hand, it's not helpful to say that in a US
context where
and Coaching
What I would like to be able to say to people is something like "while
it may or may not relate to your own or your loved one's situation,
our community has seen cases where such and such was involved, or at
other times, this or that."
I hope that clarifies the query further.
Best,
Michael
Michael Reddy, PhD, CPC, ELI-MP
michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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On Feb 21, 2012, at 12:41 PM, Maria Goossens wrote:
Dear all,
It is very interesting to collect cases with a certain pathology,
tinitus, breastcancer, whatever, ... However, each human being is
unique, each symptom can catch every possible energy. The same
symptom can even catch the energy from something different with each
novel constellation. It is impossible to link symptoms with a
specific entanglement.
Best wishes,
Maria Goossens, MD
goossens.maria@xxxxxxxxxx
Op 21 feb 2012, om 16:52 heeft Michael Reddy het volgende geschreven:
Hello All,
Can anyone offer information based on their experiences with
cancerthey have seen behind tinnitus (ringing in the ears) or breast
(especially when it recurs after treatment)?
Thanks for your thoughts.
Best,
Michael
Michael Reddy, PhD, CPC, ELI-MP
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