Mind and movement

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE. . . COEX - WHAT IT IS - The creative and healing human potential -What it is and how it works - Co-operation with the self-regulatory process - Its connection with muscular tension and the dream process - Extending awareness.

CHAPTER TWO. . . HONOURING YOURSELF - THE PRACTICE OF COEX - Examples from everyday life -Sex emotion and holding back -Hunches and the Feeling Sense -Creative Imagination and the Seed meditation -Working with the unconscious -The power of a partner -Creative listening -The Seed Group.

CHAPTER THREE.. . OPENING THE DOORS OF MIND AND BODY -

Touching life in us - Danced from within - Movements to free life process - Movement and meditation - Loosening oneself through sounds - Levels of awareness - The urge to health - Fear as a block to health - Is it a cure-all?

CHAPTER FOUR. . . CREATIVE AND HEALING FACETS OF COEX - Dealing with specific questions and problems -How to focus on inner resources -Signals from within -Healing the body -Traumas of childbirth -Working through old hurts.

CHAPTER FIVE . . . THE DREAM AND COEX - The blind spot in regard to dreams -Dreams and self-regulation -Entering a dream while awake -Knowing your dream through posture and body movement -Do you like eating people? -Dina Glouberman's Creative Visualisation -Learning to trust oneself.

CHAPTER SIX . . . TEACHING COEX - Teaching body skills - Detailed relaxation techniques - Instructions for group leaders - Finding unconscious tensions - Posture work - Relaxed movement - Daring to be free - The fear of being oneself-Postures and feelings - How to enter the 'mind' through the body - Coming out of withdrawal - Feeling Low! Feeling High - The Earth the Seed and the Sun - Awareness transforms - Standing and walking anew.

CHAPTER SEVEN. . .INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS - New views of death and life - The temptation to 'go Eastern' in the unconscious - Transcendence or war - The voice of ones own experience - Sam and fear on the streets - Sex and manipulation - Life before birth - Life is a love affair -Who are you? - Escalation of responsibility.

CHAPTER EIGHT. . . SELF REGULATION - Homeostasis - The Wisdom of the Body - Self-regulation growth and the mind - Hypnosis and false neurosis - Reich and The Emotional Plague - Self-regulation and its place in our life.

CHAPTER NINE . . . THE HISTORY OF COEX - How humans in different cultures have used their inner resources of self-regulation - Coex in New Guinea - Shaktipat, the Indian way to enlightenment - Hallucination or inner knowledge? - Trances, Spirit healing and possession - Buddhism and the way of liberation - Zen, Tibetan Secret teachings and Vipassana - Christianity's unwanted secret - Saint Paul, killer of the inner life - Mesmer, father of modern psychotherapy - Carl Jung linking East and West - Aurobindo and integral yoga - Reich and the cosmic energy - From Guru to self responsibility - Subud, God's chosen people - Burying old dogmas - Dianetics and co-counselling - Ronnie Laing daring to care - The Japanese have Seitai - Love is the key.

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