The Power of Words
Words are our means of
communication; People are using their
language as the main vehicle to convey their
expressions to others. Words can be
confusing at times, when they do not reflect
what the person is really trying to convey.
Each message carries content on the one hand and
energy on the other hand. Some words come
from the conscious mind and some
from the unconscious mind.
The unconscious mind is trying constantly to
avoid pain and to seek pleasure. Sometimes
pleasure is sensed as pain termination. This
is a congenital trait imprinted in the DNA
of any living creature. From the
moment of conception, via pregnancy and
birth, throughout all childhood stages,
along all life events, every human being is
inwardly, unconsciously, trying to avoid
pain and seek pleasure.
Life experiences condition the person to
either like a specific experience because
it brought about pleasure or, to dislike a
specific experience because it brought about
pain. The experience is remembered with all
aspects associated to it and it is coded
with similar experiences, to form a larger
perception of similar experiences. It is
coded as an image and it holds words as
means of description.
Experiences from periods prior to language
acquisition are coded as images, but when
later on in life the person tries to
retrieve such an experience, mainly
unconsciously, the words of his current
language will try to convey the right
description.
The liking or not liking of experiences is
completely subjective. For example, a
toddler that regularly gets little
qualitative attention from his parents
notices that when he is mad they really get tuned
in to his needs. This toddler might
develop a liking to conditions of being mad
and angry and might develop a liking to the
words themselves. When later on in life, as
an adult in psychotherapy, he uses these
words in a session, on the content level it
might sound like a negative message. The
therapist might work with him to realize and
resolve the issues of anger when actually
these words create inner warmth and positive
associations in his mind.
Therefore, it is crucial to pay extra
attention to the words a person chooses to
describe his symptoms. The words are
important; these are the representations of
inner processes, which can be far more
complicated inwardly. The words can describe
directly the pain; they can describe
associations to similar scenarios from
previous years when similar pain was inflicted.
The words can describe in details the
symptoms as a defense mechanism against a
deeper realization of the symptom’s
underlying issue.
For example: A person complaining about having
intense nausea for the last few days,
describes his symptom: “I am feeling that my
inside is like screaming to get out.” This
is not a customary way by which every nausea
sufferer would describe his condition. An
IPEC therapist would try to get an energy
reading via Biofeedback of the Muscular
System of what the person
refers to by using these words. People with
pain are in a lessened state of
consciousness at the time of being afflicted
with pain and thus, their words may sound
like a “word salad”. A trained practitioner
might dismiss the words as nonsense. But,
because of the lessened consciousness
condition, the client might use words that
are sent directly from the unconscious mind,
as a cry for help. Biofeedback of the
Muscular System will help to
verify this and will help to form a firm
assessment to lead to the underlying issue. A
trained practitioner might suspect
indigestion or any irregularity in the
digestion system. An IPEC therapist does not
suspect or assume anything prior to initial
assessment. He might find a completely
different reason through the use of
Biofeedback of the Muscular System and the following scenario might take
place: the person has suffered a recent
psychological loss that weakened
significantly the lungs: those became
devastated by the sudden grief. The large
intestine might have tried to compensate for
this weakness. If this was found to be the
case via Biofeedback of the Muscular System, then, the initial
words of the client (“feeling that my inside
is like screaming to get out”) may make a
lot of sense, energetically and not
necessarily intellectually.
It is impossible in day-to-day life
interactions to pause and think of one’s
words. However, when it comes to diseased
conditions, before the different doctors are
jumping on the client, to flood him by
medication, supplementation, suggestions and
interpretations, it is possible for a
trained practitioner to start the process by
meticulous listening to the description of
the client and how he feels, when it all
started, what are the sensations, when, in
what ways and how severely did he ever experience
similar symptoms and so on and so forth. If
this practitioner were an expert in
Biofeedback of the Muscular System,
he would be able to sense the
client’s energy rather than having to guess
and understand his condition. Maybe it is not
surprising in the medical culture of today,
to hear that clients often feel they are only numbers in the eyes of the
doctors and not human beings.
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