Are you suffering from debilitating fears or anxiety?

Does something hold you back from living your life fully?

Are you functioning at less than your real potential?

Have your suffered a severe shock or trauma that still haunts you?

Do your relationships fall apart repeatedly?

 

 

Deep Memory Process can help you.

 

It is a widely applicable therapy which has been successfully used in treating difficulties in

 

·       interpersonal relationships and fractured familes;

·       issues of self-esteem and personal empowerment;

·       residual psychic scars from adult or childhood sexual abuse;

·       all forms of domestic and urban violence; 

·       post-traumatic reactions to war, torture and devastating loss

 

What is Deep Memory Process?

 

Deep Memory Process (DMP for short) is a creative therapeutic synthesis of active imagination, hypnotic regression, psychodramatic role play, various body therapies and transpersonal psychologies. It was developed by Roger J. Woolger, Ph.D from many years of intensive practice with the methods of Jung, Reich and various shamanic and spiritual traditions

 

How does DMP work?

 

A trained practitioner of DMP will begin by inviting you to explore whatever problem you wish to work with.

 

In a safe and caring environment you will be helped, if appropriate, to:

 

o      clearly recognize the core issues or complexes running your life

o      journey in time to resolve childhood and other traumas

o      vividly relive and resolve emotional conflicts through a healing psychodrama

o      develop somatic awareness of deep memories to release them from your body

o      let go of old unwanted ancestral patterns and influences

o      integrate wounded soul fragments (“past lives”)

o      clear your energy field of negative influences

o      open up with love to higher spiritual resources within yourself

 

How Long does the Process Last?

 

 A typical DMP session lasts about  two hours; this includes fully adequate time for integration and processing. (See A Typical DMP Regression Session below)  Usually a series of sessions is recommended but occasionally radical changes can occur in only one or two sessions. Deep Memory Process can be used as an exclusive therapy for specific complaints and it also works well in conjunction with other ongoing therapies.

 

Finding a DMP Therapist

 

For lists of practitioners and other useful phone numbers and links, click on  UK Practitioners or US Practitioners .  You can find out more about workshops introducing DMP at the following locations: 

 

 Woolger USA                Woolger UK & Europe                        www.woolger.com.br

 

 

 

A Typical Regression Session                       by Ana Paula Miranda, DMP Practitioner 

 

  

When a client seeks me, as a regression therapist, I usually start the session with an interview, with the goal of finding out what the recurring problems are and to explain that the regression technique is used as tool within a therapeutic process and not as mere curiosity.

 

In a second moment, I ask the client to tell his/her personal history, starting at birth, observing the occurrence of diseases and emotional disturbances, so that I can identify relevant facts.

 

Lying down, with eyes closed, after a simple relaxation exercise, the client is encouraged to say everything that comes to mind, while trying to stay open to whatever may appear on his/her own mental screen. As soon as the images, words and feelings become more intense, I suggest that he/she follows them so that a story – from this or from another life - may present itself. In this situation, religious faith or belief in reincarnation do not matter, one should just allow the story to manifest itself, as if it were real, during the time of that session.

 

It is very possible that the client sees herself in a body and with a personality very different from his own, or present one. Following the principles of psychodrama, the client is encouraged to relive, in its fullness, the most important and decisive moments of that other life, whichever they may be, even if they seem confusing and incoherent. He/she is then driven to its consummation, so that this memory is relived in the level of the physical conscience. Here a number of physical sensations may arise such as numbness, heat, cold, paralysis, tingling or shakes, because these are all part of the somatic process of spontaneous release, in other words, they express the release of blocked energy which was associated to an old trauma. It is the same principle successfully used with victims of war neurosis, according to which it is only possible to free oneself from a trauma by recalling it.

 

It is necessary to go through the memory of a story until the moment of death of that specific personality, because this is the only way to attain the feeling of consummation and of distancing. The death transition provides an opportunity to free oneself of thoughts, feelings and pains. It is in the after death period – the Bardo, as defined by Tibetan Buddhists – that one has the valuable opportunity to contemplate and reflect over the themes of that past life and its unresolved problems, in order to integrate them with more consciousness.

 

At times there are painful and sometimes even shameful aspects of the self which will have to be confronted. Roger Woolger says this is the elaboration of the shadow, in the Jungian perspective, which means that one must face these negative and unpleasant characteristics and not to further repress them. 

 

The session usually takes about two hours to cover the three stages of the process: interview, intensive work, reflection and recovery. In the next step these experiences are incorporated to that person’s therapeutic process as a whole, with the intention of having more data and more proximity of the themes that emerged. This method is quite different from others which, in spite of taking longer, don't involve the person in terms of experiences and, in the end, only work in the intellectual and interpretative levels. 

 

I firmly believe that mental, emotional and somatic releases are irrefutably  indispensable for a complete healing process. 

 

Ana Paula Miranda

May be contacted at her E-mail Address:  punita@miranda.as

 

 

 

To Learn More about Deep Memory Process we Recommend:

 

Roger J. Woolger.  Other Lives, Other Selves, Bantam, New York, 1990.

Roger J. Woolger.  Healing Your Past Lives. Sounds True. Boulder, Cvlorado, 2004

Roger J. Woolger.  Eternal Return (6 tapes), Sounds True, Boulder, Colorado, 1999

Roger J. Woolger. "Body Psychotherapy and Regression: the Body Remembers Past Lives"

in Tree Staunton (ed).  Body Psychotherapy. Routlege, London, 2002

 

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