2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
Excess weight, like any other symptom, can have different roots:
- Medical - for example: disorders in the thyroid gland polycystic ovary disease, other endocrine and hormonal disorders
- Hereditary - when a slow metabolism is transmitted
- Psychosomatic - when being overweight has one or more benefits. For example: "If I lose weight, a lot of wrinkles will appear" or the desire to avoid a relationship with a husband / partner through the statement "He is not worthy of a beautiful wife."
- Food addiction (complex problem) - it can be associated with all others and with eating disorders, most often, the cause of it is bad habits and the cult of food in the parental family.
This is what lies on the surface.
However, all causes may have deeper roots in the family system.
Very often overweight people are descendants
- concentration camp prisoners and dispossessed
- residents of besieged Leningrad or areas that survived the famines (Volga region, Kuban, Ukraine)
- people with very difficult fates
By conducting group spreads (online and offline) we:
- We collect information about the client's family.
- We select substitutes, among which may be: the client himself, a structural element - his symptom (overweight) and those "relatives" that, according to the client, may be associated with the above problems.
- Further, the Shapes interact with each other.
- The dynamics is revealed (communication with the client's deputy)
- Permissive phrases are spoken.
If the work is carried out in an individual format (online or offline), you can try the following simple algorithm
- After the obligatory constellation interview procedure for collecting information about the family system, the constellator, as in the above format, appoints substitutes, whose role is played by floor anchors - usually A4 sheets, clean on both sides
- On one of the sheets, the client writes "I"
- All others have either specific names (if the client knows them), or simply “prisoner”, “starving person”, “person with a difficult fate”. It is important that the inscriptions do not show through on the other side of the sheet.
- Then the client turns the sheets over and, not knowing where the floor anchor is, places them on the floor.
- Then, in turn (preferably without shoes), stand on each anchor and monitor your condition, focusing on bodily signals.
- The client rates each location on a scale of 1 to 10 and writes the number on the sheet (without turning it over)
- Before each new anchor, it is advisable to "zero", to clear of previous sensations - to breathe deeply, standing in a neutral position (on the floor without a sheet).
- Next, we turn over the sheets, starting with the lowest indicator, where it was hardest for a person to be. Most likely, there is a negative dynamic. If the most negative place on the “I” sheet is most likely, excess weight is not associated with deep systemic reasons, but has more understandable reasons - medical, hereditary, psychosomatic, or associated with eating disorders.
- After the dynamics are determined. The therapist voices the hypothesis. And asks the client additional questions, which often reveal a relationship with someone specific from the family system
- At the end of the constellation, permissive phrases are pronounced or a therapeutic letter is written to the relative with whom the symptom may be associated.
You can read about it here:
The "magic" of therapeutic letters and permissive phrases.
Conclusions:
- Of course, with the help of just one constellation, you cannot cope with excess weight, which has been gaining over the years!
- In dealing with this serious problem, an integrated approach is needed, which, whatever one may say, is based on proper nutrition and psychotherapy.
- However, knowing the root causes it is easier to look for a way out of any situation!
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