Author Archives: George Gintilas

‘BE’ and still get everything done!

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Spending quality time for self centering and whole body contact with yourself is crucial in this day and age. Especially with all the distractions, demands on our time and our highly over worked society. There is so much ‘doing’ that the ‘being’ part of us, our more real nature, is squashed or put on hold with ‘some day I’ll…’ or ‘one day I’ll….’.

It is very important to step off the over worked ‘doing’ cycle and allow yourself to have ‘arrived’ in the present moment, to just ‘be’ again. (Which is what the over doing most times is trying to accomplish, to get you to where you can just ‘be’ again.)

Most people don’t realise that they can just ‘be’ and still get everything done that they need to. Rather than the other way around that we are brought up with (and much less efficient way) in our western culture, ‘I’ll do do do, so then I can ‘get there’ to relax and be myself. You rarely get there in this way.

So if you allocate some regular time to ‘being’ each week, your ‘doing’ becomes much more efficient, creates less drama, is much less erratic, more fulfilling, and you feel more in control of your life. No one else or thing is running you.

How slowly or quickly this happens will depend on how much you are carrying from the past and how easily you can accept, feel, release and let go that past, over time.

Are you a Meditator?: What it says about you…

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The Self Healing Meditation Classes are chugging along nicely at my centre here in Melbourne twice a month. Averaging about 16 people a class.

If you are a person who Meditates, what it says about you is this:
that you know deep down that you are not your thoughts, that you are something greater and deeper than that. That you are a being that thinks, rather than just a thinking robotic machine.

This ‘being’ in you, that resides throughout your entire body holds the key to your fulfillment in life. It is your spirit. The real you. Taking time out to contact this directly is the road to complete freedom. Along that road you will bump up against the road blocks of your past. The blocks you put up to survive but which you then forgot to take down afterwards.

This class gives you the time and space to firstly remember who you truly are, get in contact with the real you again, and then take time to release the old road blocks that are not helping you move forward today.

I look forward to helping you further along your journey.

Combining Powerful Therapeutic Approaches for Better Results

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I reminded myself again today just how well my therapeutic work, specifically the P.S.H. Therapy and the Body Psychotherapy work combine so well together.

One is a great tool to bypass the intellect and drill down straight to the feeling cause of a problem (PSH) and the other is a great tool at keeping a person in their body present enough, for this to happen effectively.

Most people do the P.S.H. Therapy three session process first. If that process isn’t showing results within a month or two, then I bring in the Body Psychotherapy work to help them stay in their body better, to clear the original cause more effectively. The original cause of a problem very often releases in a minute. Once that release has occurred, then you give your body time to work through all the adjustments and renovations required to clear it out of your system fully.

It can be hard to tell if the cause has been released, which is why I give the person at least a month to see what changes arise. After the month, the client rings me for a follow up call, a stock take, to work out what has happened. From that call, there a number of ways things can go. Some of the typical options:

If things are…..
1. Going amazingly well! – Give it 12 months for the full effect, no more sessions required
2. Noticing some improvement, going okay – Give it another month and check in again
3. Not quite 100% – Book in a fourth session
4. Still very stuck – Move onto the second stage, Body Psychotherapy three session process

Sadly, some people do not ring back after a month, and then ten months later, I receive my questionnaire back from them with feedback that the sessions didn’t help them much. If only they had rung and went that next step. Most of the people that do ring back when there is little shifting, make big breakthroughs when they move onto the Body Psychotherapy process. Like one client commented after their stage two sessions, “Yep, that did it George!”

New Self Healing Meditation Class

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The responses so far to this new class have been very positive. People feelings some real differences and shifts. So much so that I have had to run another class this week to accommodate everyone on the waiting list. And that class is almost full too. So, needless to say, I am very happy with the response so far.

This is a new Healing Meditation type class designed to help you self-heal. It is a combination of all my experience is various therapies and practices over 20+ years. It encompasses your mind, body, emotions and spirit. A holistic approach.

No one can heal you but you. This class provides a space to help you focus silently, deeply, within for an hour at a time. And with some guidance and the group energy, assist yourself to accept and then release deep old habitual blocks that have been holding you back from being more of your real self.

These old holdings are the accumulation of unfinished business that most people have learned to conveniently push aside in order to get on with their lives. Only these issues do not go away, they just fester and build on-top of each other, weighing you down more and more as you live your life.

All anxieties, depression, worry, negativity, reactivity, suffering, most physical problems, even diseases and health, all have an inner component that can be accessed and released and healed. I have seen it many times in my practice over and over, people healing things that have plagued them with no resolution for years.

This is a powerful process to help you get back more of who you truly are, aliven yourself, free yourself and feel lighter freer, happier, healthier and more at peace than ever before.

The class is run at the Elwood Centre for Wellbeing – 1B, 41 Glenhuntly Road, Elwood in Melbourne, Australia.
On the first and third Monday nights of each month. 7.30pm to 9pm+
Each class is limited to 20 people. So booking is essential.

Taking the Inner Risk that Heals

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It takes courage for some people to come and see me for sessions.  Even though a person may have a problem, whether it is mental/emotional/physical/spiritual or a health medical issue, that is the cause of great pain and suffering, it still can feel scary to have sessions. Even though you know it can help greatly and even heal the problem completely, the mind can still hold you back from taking action.

Why?

Because deep down you know that something has to change, that something has to be faced and let go. And that is very risky. The risk is that you will feel something that you have been trying hard for years to hide away and keep under wraps. In order to heal, you may have to feel a little of this, of what you have been doing your best not to feel for decades.

Good therapy work and good therapists, know how to help you face and take a risk that is manageable. A good therapist will help you safely face a manageable chunk of risky feelings and territory, that you locked away long ago.

Taking inner risks in a safe environment, with someone you can trust, who will be there for you whatever comes up, is a big thing, and it is extremely healing when such risk, releases old diseased and long forgotten areas and feelings within you.

That’s the bottom line with deep healings (ones that medical doctors scratch their heads and cant explain how it happened), the client took an inner risk  to open, access, release and heal areas they never felt comfortable doing with, with anyone else before.

So when a client comes in, sits down and says, “I was feeling very nervous about coming here today!” Or, “My mind was saying, as I was driving here, why are you going!? You don’t need this! It won’t do anything, you’re okay!” I have to smile, and I know that the client is right on track and ready to take that inner risk that will heal.

Ask the therapist: “Have you had sessions in this work yourself?”

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The theme that arose a bit this past month from a number of people and therapists that I have been talking to has been about the well known fact that the best therapists are normally the ones that have had a major problem/health issue that they healed in themselves before becoming therapists.

Why is that?

My three reasons:

1/ The therapist has been in your shoes. They have been a client and have sat in that other chair and know what it is like. So there is a greater empathy and care. The therapist doesn’t ‘look down’ on the client.  The relationship is more equal.

2/ The therapist believes in the work they trained in, because it helped heal them. So there is a high confidence that ‘you too can be helped’. It’s not just theory. They ‘know’ it can help the client. And many clients certainly need some hope that they can get better. It rubs off easier when the confidence is real.

3/ The therapist healing themselves most likely means that they have received an adequate number of personal  therapy sessions. Which means they are more clearer, less reactive and calmer when working with people. And the client feels that. The client tends to feel safer in the therapist’s presence. The technical work can be performed with more professionalism and care.

So it is always a good question to ask a therapist you are interviewing on the phone or in person: “Have you had session in this work yourself?”

The answer is a definite yes for me. And (surprise surprise) the work helped me so much that I decided to change careers completely and become a Body Psychotherapist. Originally I was a qualified accountant (with a University Honours Degree in Economics). I worked as a computer programmer /IT consultant for 12 years (in my 20’s) before switching, (saw my first client just before my 30th birthday.)  I was a client myself for about 500 sessions in Radix Body Psychotherapy. Plus many sessions in other body based therapies too. Amazing work. Completely transforming.

I also did the P.S.H. Therapy early on in my P.S.H. Therapy two year training. That had a remarkable effect also (See my story on my website My personal Story).

Now each year I am wise enough to see a body based therapist for a number of session (normally 3 to 10) to help maintain and improve things further. So nothing is allowed to ‘stick’ for too long. In the sessions I always discover something I had been carrying/holding onto that was weighing me down that I didn’t realise was there. Doing such maintenance work actually helps me feel better every year. Lighter, freer, calmer, happier.

“Learn to live with it”

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I’ve heard this line many times. A statement made by well meaning therapists to clients of mine who were seeing such people in the past.

I heard this line again recently from a client referring to a friend of theirs who had been seeing a psychologist and getting CBT for their anxiety.

“Learn to live with it.”

I’m glad my client wasn’t happy hearing that. And needless to say nor was I.

With what’s available in the body based therapies now, anxiety is completely healable. What I can’t tell you is how many sessions it may take.

I’ve lost count as to the number of clients I have worked with over the years, who now have no, (or virtually no) anxiety to speak of. They have no anxiety that needs to be “lived with” for the rest of their lives. It’s gone. Finished. Completed. No more. In fact many even forget that they ever had it.

There are very advanced therapeutic methods available now that help completely heal anxiety and panic. The key –  is that they are body (nervous system) based, not cognitive based. Go to a cognitive based therapist and they can only really help you to “live with it” because they are only cognitive based trained. And this has it’s value too.

My aim with every client who wants it, is to heal the anxiety completely, 100%. And I don’t care how bad it is or how long the person has had it. It is healable completely.

In fact once it does heal the person is rarely the same again. They frequently end up even better than before. Transformed.

This is very transformative work.

ASTA Conference – for P.S.H. Therapists

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I’ve just attended the ASTA Conference for 2010 in Sydney. ASTA is the association for all P.S.H. Therapists around Australia. It was an inspiring day of more learning and meeting up with colleagues from around Australia most whom I only get to meet once a year.

I gave two presentations (120 mins and 90 mins.) One on managing your private practice, and one on how I do the P.S.H. Therapy work (for many years now.) The aim was to help practitioners get some new ideas to keep their practices fresh and running better. Both talks were well received.

Michael Masani

Michael Masani also gave a good talk on how the feeling subconscious part of us will respond to stimuli much quicker and well before our intellect registers the response. It reinforced how our real life is really being run by the inner subconscious part of ourselves and not so much the intellect.

All the more reason to spend time getting to know our subconscious and making sure we run maintenance work on it regularly! Because deep down, it is the part that’s really running the show.

“You’re a Lid Popper!”

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At a recent Women’s Trauma Release group I am co-leading one of the participants after her individual session said with a laugh, “George, you are a lid popper!” We all laughed. And I agreed. What a great phrase I thought. A lid popper.

The Body Psychotherapy work, (especially the Radix Work) is excellent for helping people ‘pop their lids’ (in a  safe way of course.)

What are all the past pains and hurts and emotions that you have put a strong lid over to cover up and not feel ever again? Some people have many lids – and that can get very tiring, draining and create exessive thoughts quizzing around in your head. Not to mention the behavioural limitations and reactions they cause, and long term, if not addressed, disease.

“I never knew that was there!”

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This weekend (August 21/22 2010) I just completed running another Energy Body Psychotherapy Workshop with eight amazing participants. (Plus one fantastic assistant.) The bond, safety and caring created by the whole group was beautiful to be part of and experience. And the releases that each and everyone of them freed up in themselves was powerful and deeply moving.

One of the comments that came up regularly after a deep process was “I never knew that was there”.

I’ve heard this a lot over the years from clients. And it again highlights how well we as human beings are able to suppress and hide deep emotional wounds, from ourselves. So we go about our lives thinking we are okay because we are functional, but deep down the nagging problems, behaviours, dramas, reactions and diseases that we can’t shake off, are still there.

Accessing this core material requires much deeper work, and it requires getting deeply in touch with the body inside. Doing this with just talking doesn’t do it for a lot of people. To get deep inside your body, you must engage it fully. That means adding sound, movement, feeling, touch, energy and contact with the intellect thinking.  Doing this means often, we are awakening the inner child within. Accessing and awakening the younger part of your nervous system so you can finally heal yourself where it counts.

So if you do still have nagging problems after many years of working on yourself. Just know that deep within you there is a layer or two that is still active and still influencing your current behaviour. And it may be time to go much deeper.