What is Psychosomatics, Psychosomatic Therapy or Psychosomatic?

Author:  Bianca Moeschinger - 15th March 2023

Psychosomatic is the communication between the mind and the body. 

This communication shapes us as human beings.  In the mind, it is what we know, what we have been taught and how we put things together to have an outlook of the world and ourselves.

Emotionally it is the re-action or trigger to an event. This reaction is shaped by childhood. The level of the reaction depends on how we have experienced that reaction in the past.  Emotion, at it's most basic, is an energetic reaction in motion that carries a cognitive or sensory memory or story.  It usually contains an emotional level that we feel safe in.

The physical is the action: how it has landed and how we action a situation either by words or movement.  Our body is then physically shaped to support that action.

Psychosomatic Therapy looks at how all of this plays a part in how you are shaped in the world externally and internally.  This information that we can see and feel usually registers a familiarity with the person receiving the information - it makes sense.

Medically psychosomatics is used in the context of when a doctor or specialist cannot label a clear cause of a diagnosis or category it is often regarded as psychosomatic.

What is the purpose of understanding my Psychosomatic language?

The purpose of understanding your own psychosomatic language is so that you can apply this information to any situation, it gives you awareness from a mind, emotion and body perspective, i.e. think/feel/do.

Our objective is to become more conscious. When we become more conscious, we can unlock the stories, memories and hidden layers of ourselves to see and feel things from the past in a different light.  This unravels the whole system, and we can then consciously choose how we wish to move forward.

Life is all around us and within us. Life speaks to us all the time. Life is that force or spark of light/electricity that keeps us alive.  We can easily get distracted, the world is a busy place full of influence.  

We can be shy, awkward, and insecure, we can feel unwelcome or out of place. These are all human reactions to others as we are all navigating our own space and finding where we fit in.

We are governed in the beginning by others accepting us before we truly learn to accept ourselves. It is in those formative years that most of our behavioural patterns start, and from there, a cascade into the shape or form that you are now in. This then directly relates to your current position in life with profession, relationship, wealth and health.

This is where psychosomatic awareness truly starts to shine. We can feel, see and sense our way through life to make our way gracefully through disease and disharmony to find ease and harmony. This is absolutely possible. The future comes from within. We have everything we need on the inside of us already, our job is to listen, nurture and understand this human form that we are in.

Those who train in Psychosomatic Therapy have the same tools, but each of us applies the tools in different ways integrating them into our lives and also into our work. The variety of ways Psychosomatics can be applied is limited to personal experience and your sense of adventure.