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principles (Mind/Body)
converting a symptom to a signal
psychospiritual approaches

definition

Symptoms are often signals of the need for personal development. Tuning into a symptom with an attitude of respectful inquiry rather than the usual patient stance of avoidance, resistance, and rejection is the first step to accessing the state-dependent memories and associations that may be signals from those parts of the personality that are in need of expressive development (individuation).

The basic premise is that "every access is a reframe." Every time we access the state-dependent memory, learning, and behavior processes that encode a problem, we have an opportunity to 'reassociate and reorganize', or reframe that problem in a manner that resolves it. As with all mind-body connections, psychosomatic problems are highly individualized expressions of the learnings and life experiences of each person that have been encoded as state-bound information and behavior.

The problem or symptom is actually the most direct path to accessing its psychobiological sources encoded within the state-dependent memory, learning, and behavior systems of the brain. Accessing and recall are always a synthetic process or reconstruction. When we ask a person to experience a symptom voluntarily, we are drastically altering the internal dynamics and state-dependent memory and learning systems and we are undoing its state-bound character.
(Rossi, 1986, p. 68, 82, 135, 173)

see:
bodymind psychobiology
body reveals: the spirit
exploratory or mechanistic?
holographic consciousness
hypnotherapy: introduction
process paradigm
reframing
state-dependent learning
the shadow and physical symptoms


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