The Seeker Seems to Seek Out the Massage Therapist
April/11/2009 03:55 PM Filed in: Ethics &
Archetypes
The
Seeker is such a prominent archetype for most people
who enter the healing arts. After reading many
statements from massage and bodywork therapists who
have taken the
Ethics & Archetypes Home Study CE
Course over
the last 8 years, I am convinced that it is a core
part of the process we each go through on our way to
becoming an effective therapists. In this post, a
massage therapist describes a long journey with "The
Seeker" for a couple of decades before getting into
the healing arts.
"I began my seeking 31 years ago studying and practicing the 8 limbs of Pantanjali yoga as well as reading such books as Gerald Heard’s, ‘Five Ages Of Man’ hoping to find the answer with the turn of each page and the hundreds of
books and thousands of pages after that.
I can recall numerous phases and stages including LSD, Cannabis, Primal Therapy, Gestalt therapy, Rogerian Therapy, Primal Birth Regression, Bio energetic, Core Enegetics, Rolfing, Hellerwork Grof breath work, craniopathy, Tibetan vajrayana yoga as well as 26 years of having hands-on healing work from many practitioners of many modalities.
When I took the survey with the Ethics & Archetypes home study course, my highest ranking archetype was the "Sage" but if I had taken it 31 years ago the numbers of sage / seeker would have been reversed.
In my professional life today, I believe that I embody the best qualities of both Seeker and Sage. It was the guidance of the Seeker over three decades that has helped me to develop the necessary perspectives and knowledge, especially self-knowledge, to be therapist and healer.
These archetypes are teaching me that life is an intuitive process set within the seemingly solid matrix of time."
Readers are welcome to email questions or comments! sunny@lifecircles-inc.com
"I began my seeking 31 years ago studying and practicing the 8 limbs of Pantanjali yoga as well as reading such books as Gerald Heard’s, ‘Five Ages Of Man’ hoping to find the answer with the turn of each page and the hundreds of
books and thousands of pages after that.
I can recall numerous phases and stages including LSD, Cannabis, Primal Therapy, Gestalt therapy, Rogerian Therapy, Primal Birth Regression, Bio energetic, Core Enegetics, Rolfing, Hellerwork Grof breath work, craniopathy, Tibetan vajrayana yoga as well as 26 years of having hands-on healing work from many practitioners of many modalities.
When I took the survey with the Ethics & Archetypes home study course, my highest ranking archetype was the "Sage" but if I had taken it 31 years ago the numbers of sage / seeker would have been reversed.
In my professional life today, I believe that I embody the best qualities of both Seeker and Sage. It was the guidance of the Seeker over three decades that has helped me to develop the necessary perspectives and knowledge, especially self-knowledge, to be therapist and healer.
These archetypes are teaching me that life is an intuitive process set within the seemingly solid matrix of time."
Readers are welcome to email questions or comments! sunny@lifecircles-inc.com