2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
Sand Therapy - Alchemy Lab Authorship
When you decide to become an Author, choose your own creative lab and project!
What does it mean to be the Author of life?
For me, it's the courage to be myself. Understand what I think, what I feel and feel; know what I want. Accept all your thoughts, feelings, sensations, desires and distinguish between others. To be able to tell about it. Realize your desires and satisfy your needs, by yourself and with the help. Make your choice in everything and accept its consequences. To be aware of what is happening in my life, to build it based on my desires and real conditions. To love, to be loved. Respect the right of others to be different, their choice of authorship or dependence.
My article about the opportunity to become an Author
To start creating your own life, you need to take one important step. He's most frightening. For it takes courage take responsibility for your choice … Each of us has to choose in different ways. Voluntarily or compulsorily.
Life once pushed me to this step with a crisis, painfully and harshly. I am grateful for that pendel, because it took me away from the path of addiction. Sand therapy became my healing and discovery. Today I know who I am, what I WANT FOR MYSELF. I have walked the path to my Authorship in life and now I help others along the way.
How is sand therapy useful for Authorship?
This is a psychological space for playing life. Experimental laboratory, training ground, stage of small (individual and group) theater. In the sandbox, people act out events from their lives, mainly dramas and tragedies. Sometimes, during the course of work, the genre is replaced by comedy or disaster. Unpredictable, alive. And you always know who the director of the production is - you yourself.
Playing in the sandbox promotes the development of spontaneity, awakens interest in life
Sand therapy has a lot of freedom to express yourself - clear rules and few restrictions. A special box of sand, a set of auxiliary materials in the office and a caring psychologist nearby provide an opportunity to respond to emotions and experiences that prohibit or condemn social attitudes. No evaluation, no division into positive and negative, permitted and prohibited. In the sandbox, you can express all your feelings, speak, do whatever you want. For a long time I wanted to do or say, but there was no place for this safe, protected from prying eyes and ears.
Sand therapy teaches you to understand and express your thoughts, feelings and actions
Difficult experiences sometimes sit repressed and suppressed in the human body for years and decades. They live in symptoms, illnesses, muscle blocks and clamps. Waiting for their release. They want to be completed with those actions, emotional reactions that were once stopped by strict views, criticism and prohibitions of parents. Which you were afraid to do so as not to offend, disappoint, not upset loved ones. Which suppressed, so that the neighbors would not hear and not to look like "hysterics" and "psychos". You are polite, well-mannered, strong. But you feel deeply unhappy and lonely at heart. Experiences have not gone anywhere. They remind of themselves from time to time. They burst out with an eruption of aggression, accusations and claims. Manifested by poor health and complaints. Who gets the explosive mass of your emotions?
A sandbox is an ecological container in which you can safely place accumulated experiences and bodily pain for transformation
The sand absorbs them like water. He suffers hysteria and aggression, absorbs tears of pain and disappointment. Accepts the stress and suffering of the body. Working with sand allows you to gradually, in small doses, experience emotions and feelings, separate them, denounce them in various forms and symbols. Experiences are transformed: on the site of the ruins of the sandy world, new pictures, plots, stories appear. This process continues until the author of the work creates his own world out of sand, water and auxiliary objects, such that he will like it. A world in which he wants to live. Sand paintings are embodied in the real life of people.
Working with sand heals painful memories, teaches you to understand their lessons, to give them new forms in creativity
Sand therapy makes it possible to free yourself from other people's scripts and create your own world according to your own project. Build, test, make mistakes, change it according to your values and desires. This is an effective and creative method of development for those who are ready to become the Author of their lives.
The sandbox remains my favorite alchemical workshop for personal growth and professional development.
