With body-oriented therapy, you can achieve the following:
- The ability to accept the reality of life and yourself with great inner openness, as it is, rather than how it “should” be—neatly ordered and nicely packaged.
- Recalling essential experiences from your past, even if they were painful and frightening, and expressing the emotions associated with them appropriately. This means those emotions are neither completely absent nor overly intense.
- The ability to trust others because you trust yourself. You are aware of your own weaknesses and understand that others have them too.
- Recognizing when caution is necessary in relationships with others.
- Your inner health is reflected in the ability to engage in deeper emotional relationships.
- You maintain good relationships with others because your relationship with yourself is healthy.
- You can notice when you lose connection with yourself in certain relationships and have the ability to step away from them.
- You handle your own sexuality in a way that serves mutual pleasure while respecting the sexual autonomy of the other person.
- Healthy sexuality occurs in an intimate context and not in secrecy or through manipulation.
- You reflect on your actions and are willing to take responsibility for their consequences. This means you don’t deny guilt when others have been wronged, nor do you feel guilt for things you haven’t caused yourself.
- Self-reflection and taking responsibility are possible because you have a will of your own, oriented toward truth as it truly is.
- You believe in your free will and accept that it can be influenced by unconscious processes.
- A desire for clarity arises from the realization that unclear feelings and thoughts create confusion, which helps no one.
- You are primarily honest with yourself.
- Your need for authenticity includes an interest in achieving the clearest possible understanding—of yourself, as well as the society you are part of, including its political, economic, and historical truths and connections.
- You focus on sustainable and thorough solutions to conflicts, avoiding illusions of how things “should” be. You don’t resort to quick fixes, nor are you entirely discouraged by difficulties or setbacks. Instead, you nurture realistic hope for good and lasting solutions.