Deep Memory Process

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First, an interview will determine which area you are ready to work with and which issue is most urgent or holds the most emotional "charge" at that moment.  From that point you will be guided through a past life regression that will take you to the initial cause or "core" of your issue.  Sometimes this process can take two or three sessions as you become more comfortable with the process and inch your way closer to the release of the complex.Deep Memory Process (DMP) is a creative therapeutic synthesis of active imagination, hypnotic regression, psychodramatic role-play, various body therapies and transpersonal psychologies.  It was created by Dr. Roger Woolger, world renowned author of Other Lives, Other Selves from many years of intensive practice with methods of Jung, Reich and various shamanic and spiritual traditions.

  Deep Memory Process has been successfully used in treating difficulties in:

          * Personal relationships and fractured families

        *Self-esteem and personal empowerment

        *Residual psychic scars from sexual abuse

        *All forms of domestic and urban violence

        *Post-traumatic reactions to war and torture

        *Anger and rage

        *Grief and devastating loss

A Complex Arises When We Suffer A Defeat In Life

Dying thoughts or dying words from other lifetimes still influence our lives as if "an old tape" was still running.  These patterns and their influence can be released. Phrases such as "I'm a failure", "I've got to do it alone", " I can never get ahead", "People always leave me" are examples of dying thoughts and common phrases that leave an imprint on the soul and are carried from lifetime to lifetime. They can have debilitating  affects on our own lives but also on our relationships.

"The Body Tells the Story"

It seems the soul and body have minds of their own and will ultimately lead the client to explore that which is the most urgent issue ~ the one that is ready to be "released".  Once clients make up their mind to work on a particular issue, they may notice "pre-activation" wherein arious parts of the physical body will "flare-up" or throb as if pointing the way to the nature of the story ready to unfold.

Dr. Roger Woolger explains, "The body tells the story...simply closing ones eyes or paying attention to a part of the body or a mental image or phrases is enough to put many people into a light trance."  (Woolger, pg. 92)  By focusing on the area that is hurting or the phrases that elicit strong emotions or images, thoughts and feelings quickly arise.  From this point, we go into the story of the past life.

For instance, an asthmatic might find that his story includes memories of asphyxiation, hanging or drowning..  Someone with an eating disorder such as anorexia or bulimia might find that they were a victim of starvation, crop failure, disease or poverty.

During the regression, the client might experience a number of lifetimes dealing with one or more themes or issues connected by a common thread until we arrive at the inception of the trauma.  Once the trauma is experienced and released, they journey to an intermediary realm the Tibetans call "the Bardo" to reflect and heal the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual  bodies.  It is in the Bardo that one can let go of old patterns that still run our lives.

How Long Does A Session Last?

A typical Deep Memory Process session can last about two to three hours.  This includes fully adequate time for integration and processing after the session.  Usually a series of sessions is recommended but radical changes can occure in only one or two sessions.  Deep Memory Process can be used as an exclusive therapy for specific complaints and works well in conjunction with other ongoing therapies.

 

The following is from www.rogerwoolger.com

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

  

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.

 

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

 

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, Colorado, 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"

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

 

How Does Deep Memory Process Work?

This article is from the

November 2009  KINDRED SPIRIT Magazine 

GOING DEEPER

Deep Memory Process is a therapy that brings the soul

into a person’s psychological healing.

Simon Heathcote writes on how this process works

I have always been drawn to depth psychology and instinctively understood the Jungian concepts and

principles that draw on something happening deep within the structures of the psyche. It is my belief that

without this deeper understanding therapists often misunderstand what is happening with the patient or are confi ned to the limited perspective of their own training.

I often attract clients of two basic types: those who experienced severe intra-uterine or childhood trauma and cannot seem to fi nd a way out of their suffering through conventional therapy; and those who cannot

find reason or explanation for their symptoms in anything that has happened in this life. Both groups, I believe, are suffering from wounds to the soul that have happened in other lifetimes: research would

indicate the clients who experience trauma in early life are in a sense starting where they left off in another life and quickly fi nd themselves entangled once more in the same old drama. The second group are more unconscious and have fewer clues to help them.

Both feel stuck, desperate and hopeless, unaware the problems lie deep within the soul’s long experience and that they are endlessly incarnating into lives where their particular complex will intensify until they fi nd resolution. Clients can be helped whether they believe in past lives or not. The unconscious and physical body stores the memory of trauma, which moves from lifetime to lifetime within the etheric body. Just like in conventional therapy the process of remembering, recollection and reunion has to happen for a complete healing to occur.

Deep Memory Process, founded by the Jungian academic and therapist Dr Roger Woolger, synthesizes Jung’s active imagination, Reich’s bodywork, Moreno’s psychodrama and past life regression to focus on the timeless journey of the soul. It is the most comprehensive and multi-layered therapy I have ever encountered and reaches the parts that other therapies cannot reach, cannot comprehend or

both. Only a remembered trauma can be let go of. If the trauma happened in another lifetime or has its roots there, which is always the case, then full healing is problematic if not impossible while doggedly looking in the wrong place.

The therapist’s fi rst task is to look at the patient’s history watching for the themes and breaks that will characterise that life – loss, abandonment, betrayal, suicide, addiction, the archetypal themes of human existence that resonate at our depths and shake us to the core.

According to Dr Woolger, the most heard story of the soul is that of guilt. The client sabotages their current life because of deep and painful failures in other lives, most often failing to save family or loved ones in tribal battles or global wars. It seems that guilt, believing we are unworthy of either human or divine love, keeps us in a place of unforgiveness perpetuating our self-hatred lifetime after lifetime. Contrary to popular belief, most past lives are not spent as Cleopatra or Pharaoh, but as ordinary anonymous people caught up in often terrifying circumstances beyond their control.

DMP then is not a light or easy therapy but deeply soul-searching, often wrenching, but powerfully effective. It is, as suggested, deep work that aims at equanimity and balance but takes us through a painful journey as we act out the aspects of our own complicated nature.

Where DMP differs even more radically from conventional therapy is that it works to achieve resolution in the after-death states, what the

Tibetans call the Bardo realms, where powerful

healing work can be achieved as the soul is freed from the limitations of bodily existence. Although clients are not hypnotised, they do embody the past life character. The therapist encourages the client to suspend disbelief and follow the thread of the story that comes to the mind, often starting with a piece of artwork.

As the client finds himself in another world

the therapist encourages the client to trust imagination and go with what arises. The therapist then becomes an attendant to the soul, following the client, bringing them face to face with painful experiences and

through the story to its end, usually death, before moving to the bardo realms. Often the therapist uses props: a rope around the client’s neck; a prod with a wooden ‘spear’ etc to facilitate the story and the healing. There is often powerful somatic release,

crying, shaking, screaming, trembling as the body lets go its hold on the old.

Resolution and the relief of unhealed physical ailments are remarkable. Infertile women become pregnant, physical symptoms disappear, guilt evaporates when understood and success appears in a life after years of abject failure unhelped by conventional means.

By Simon Heathcote, UK counsellor

specialising in relationship addiction.

He can be contacted on 07940 321622

or heathcosim@aol.com

What is Deep Memory Process?

Therapeutic Regression

Do fear and anxiety keep you from living life to your fullest potential?

Do you feel lifeless? 

Exhausted by unexpressed anger?

Do parts of your body feel like they are screaming?

Do memories of a severe shock or trauma keep you from moving forward?

Is something holding you back from realizing your full potential?

Would you like to regain your power?

What is a Deep Memory Process session like? 

Listen to this 30 min. recording

as Patricia Walsh,  Woolger Intl's Chief US Trainer,

as she discusses what you can expect for your first session. 

Call Patty at 860-514-7685

Call Patty at 860-514-7685

"Contrary to popular belief, most past lives are not spent as Cleopatra or Pharaoh,

but as ordinary anonymous people caught up in often terrifying circumstances beyond their control."                                                                            See " Going Deeper" article -Simon Heathcote

"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you;   If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. "                                                                                                           Jesus: Gospel of Thomas

"We do not become enlightened by imagining figures of Light but by making the darkness conscious."                                                                                                    Carl Jung

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