Dr Michela Balbi Transpersonal Psychology and Constellations, 332 Bryanston Drive, Bryanston, Rivonia (2025)

15/05/2022

Celebrating the Emerging Proud day with David Lukoff and the Psychospiritual Emergency Italian Unit.

31/10/2021

Chi sceglie di fare un percorso clinico o evolutivo decide di iniziare un viaggio per contattare le proprie risorse.

Il mio approccio terapeutico é basato su un disvelamento delle risorse che già sono presenti in ciascuno. Soltanto, per diversi motivi, spesso non riusciamo a accedere a questa luce, a questo tesoro che é già presente in noi.

Ogni viaggio clinico o evolutivo é un percorso che si compie in due, in cui ci si addentra nel buio del proprio bosco interiore.

A volte é necessario prima far uscire alla luce del sole tutte le risorse, riscaldarle, stabilire un contatto e fare sì che questo contatto sia continuativo, saldo e profondo prima di affrontare “la selva oscura”.

Altre volte le persone sono già pronte per contattare le proprie ombre, ossia i pattern disfunzionali che hanno messo radici dentro di loro da tempo immemorabile.

Esistono alcuni aspetti del temperamento che ci caratterizzano sin da bambini, e sono unici e singolari per ognuno. Molti non dipendono neppure dalle influenze dei nostri genitori o dell’ambiente.

Alcuni di questi schemi possono impedirci ad esempio di vivere la leggerezza nel momento delle scelte: in questo caso ogni scelta, anche la più apparentemente banale come scegliere un vestito in un negozio oppure un prodotto in un supermercato può diventare fonte di ansia, o provocare un blocco o, ancora, un irrigidimento interno.

Gli schemi innati e acquisiti o pattern sono spesso così radicati in noi che non ne siamo consapevoli. Possiamo avvertire malessere, pesantezza, o sintomi fisici senza capirne le ragioni.

Il primo passaggio in un percorso clinico o evolutivo é imparare a osservare questi schemi, vederli con nuovi occhi.

Il secondo passo é accettarli, senza giudizio, con amore, come parti di noi (a volte sono proprio le parti che ci hanno garantito la sopravvivenza psichica e che pertanto meritano rispetto e vanno ringraziate e onorate per questo).

Questi due passi portano all’ultimo, più importante, quello della consapevolezza.

Essere consapevoli significa agire e non essere agiti, significa avere la libertà di scegliere, significa sperimentare la pienezza di vita che deriva da un lavoro su di sé, con tutte le sfumature di luci e ombre che la consapevolezza profonda può portare in noi e fuori di noi. E con la gioia, la naturalezza e la leggerezza di diventare responsabili della propria serenità e felicità.

15/10/2021

Si potrebbe dire che ogni percorso clinico o evolutivo passa attraverso la riconnessione con il flusso dell’amore che ci riconnette alla nostra fonte.

Le costellazioni familiari, che sono nate in Sudafrica, si basano su un principio universalmente accettato e diffuso nella cultura africana: noi siamo il frutto dell'amore di migliaia di presone.

In quanto Europei, Occidentali, spesso dimentichiamo questo principio, lo escludiamo dalla nostra vita.

Cosa comportano questa dimenticanza e questa esclusione?

Spesso un rifiuto: vogliamo rinnegare i nostri genitori, i nostri nonni, tutto ciò che arriva dalla nostra genealogia.

La mia prima insegnante di costellazioni familiari usava spesso dire: “Anche il genitore che abbandona il proprio figlio un cassonetto della spazzatura va onorato perché ha donato al figlio la vita, ha assolto il suo compito biologico genitoriale”.

Perché? Come é possibile onorare un genitore simile?

I genitori, i nonni, i bisnonni, i trisnonni e tutte le generazioni prima di loro rappresentano il nostro contatto con la Fonte dell’amore. É una catena, di cui noi facciamo parte.

A volte, quando durante il lavoro costellativo le persone non vogliono riconoscere questo flusso e onorarlo, chiedo loro di pronunciare una frase provocatoria: “Io rinnego tutto ciò che siete e tutto ciò che sono”.

Spesso una simile frase scatena insight, fa uscire allo scoperto i nostri bambini interiori feriti, con la loro rabbia, delusione, chiusura.

Accogliere tutti questi sentimenti, dare loro spazio nel nostro cuore, é il primo passo per riconnettersi alle nostre risorse, al flusso dell’amore, all’albero della vita di cui noi siamo come una foglia, i cui rami e le cui radici affondano nelle generazioni passate.

13/06/2021

SAVE THE DATE

Nutrire l’anima– Pandemia emozionale
Feeding the soul– Emotional pandemic

20 June 2021 6pm-10 pm CET time and SA time
Evento gratuito
Free event

Quest’anno l’evento annuale dell’Integral Transpersonal Institute avrá come tema la pandemia emozionale che abbiamo vissuto e stiamo ancora vivendo.
This year the theme of the annual event of Integral Transpersonal Institute will be the emotional pandemic which we went through, and we are still experiencing.

Presenteremo diverse pratiche di guarigione, finalizzate a prenerci cura delle nostre emozioni in un periodo storico in cui sono state messe a dura prova.
We will present different healing practices, aimed at taking care of our emotions, which have been highly challenged during this historical period.

La pratica che condurró aiuta a contattare le risorse della nostra genealogia per attingere forza interiore.
The practice I will guide helps to get in touch with the resources of our lineage in order to draw inner strength.

Alla fine dell’evento danzeremo, lasciando libero il nostro corpo, tempio sacro delle nostre emozioni e della nostra anima.
At the end of the event we will dance, leaving our body free, the sacred temple of our emotions and of our soul.

Tutti gli interventi saranno sia in Italiano sia in Inglese.
All the interventions will be in Italian and in English.

Ci vediamo presto online!
See you soon online!

Per registrarsi: https://integraltranspersonallife.com/feeding-the-souls-2021-emotional-pandemic
To register: https://integraltranspersonallife.com/feeding-the-souls-2021-emotional-pandemic.

03/06/2021

Along the clinical and evolutive journeys we face together, with courage and love, the wounds that are at the root of the pain and suffering paw and push so that a healing journey starts.

We often feel wounded by someone or something, so we close ourselves in our pain and we struggle to retrace the story that it has to tell us.

My job, as a transpersonal psychologist, is to accompany people and take their pain in hand.

The big step, which requires courage and trust, is to open the doors to this pain, to allow it to be expressed on all of our five levels: the physical, the energetic, the emotional and the spiritual one.

We will discover than that that pain has its own story to tell, it has its reasons to exist, it has a valuable function in our life.

By embracing that story, that reason, that function, through a dialog on all our levels, we will discover that, as the sun rises by defeating the clouds or by illuminating the darkness of the night, in the same way our story can be illuminated, lit up, purified.

Only through the healing of each one of the nodes that we bring inside ourselves and that derive from our personal, but also generational story, we will be able to access our freedom and “permanent gravity center”.

Only in this way we will be able to live a plain life, have a deep happiness and an inner freedom which will allow us not to react to events but to act in a conscious manner, being crossed with them without being wounded by them.

22/04/2021

“What are you prepared to lose?”

This is a question that often helps people start their transformative journey on a clinical or evolutionary path.

The answers are very different.
“I am not willing to lose my beauty”
“I am not willing to lose my hair”
“I am not willing to lose my strength”

The question we can ask ourselves is: which part within us is so attached to this beauty, this hair, this strength that we get scared at the idea of letting it go?

Let’s try to get in touch with that fragile, vulnerable, scared part.

As with all our more sensitive parts, it will guide us towards other parts within us that we still haven’t contacted with in a meaningful way.

These are the parts which tell us about our strength, not about our physical strength but about a strength that is drawn on a superior level, it’s something less material.

We all start evolutive journeys, not to cancel our fears, not to ignore what we are afraid of losing, not to change events around us, but by facing our fears we learn from them how to master our inner experience.

How do we do it?

How do we water them, when they are dried up and it seems we are not experiencing any emotion?

How do we contain them, when we feel like we are going to overflow like a river in flood, without banks?

How do we cure them, when our pain or suffering seems to be bigger than we can embrace?

Let’s start by facing our attachments, let’s start to accept them, to caress them inside. By doing so, we will discover that we can take care of our inner parts like monks took care of the Buddha child.

Our deepest parts which yearn for attention and to be listened to are exactly the parts which will lead us toward our strength, our personal power, our resources.

Our inner resources are often frozen, cooled so much from not having received warmth, care, and love.

Every clinical or evolutive journey accompanies a gradual unfreezing and revelation of the resources which each one of us have, like a hero on a journey who, at every step, reaches for the biggest, most priceless of the conquests: inner freedom.

If you want to discover more, visit: https://www.thepsyjourney.com/en/home

02/04/2021

“I feel guilty and I don’t know where it comes from”.
“I feel guilty and even though I have everything, I still have a feeling of discomfort”.

These are some of the things that people say at the beginning of a clinical or evolutive journey.

By keeping in contact with this sensation, in most cases a strong fidelity to the origin system emerges.

Bert Hellinger, the founder of Family Constellations, argued that the love for our parents, on a deep and unconscious level, is so strong that it urges us to remain faithful to our belonging system, as a form of loyalty.

How are faith and loyalty interpreted?

Some examples: a son or a daughter is about to embark on a full professional journey, that would lead them to be happier, wealthier, and more satisfied than their parents (or ancestors). Or they are simply about to enjoy the happiness of taking care of themselves, but they come from a family system where the “code” is based on sacrifice and renunciation.

In both circumstances, the unconscious knocks at the door of our soul or psyche in the form of feeling of guilt. Sometimes inexplicable.

Such malaise or discomfort, as with every form of malaise or discomfort that we feel over the course of our life, represents a guide, a trail to follow.

Let us try now to look at the feeling of guilt as a form of loyalty to our family system.

What do we see?

Let us try to consider it as a strength and not as a limit.

Let us try to remain on that border point and to let our psyche and soul speak.

Let us contact the gratitude, the love that bonds us so strongly to our origin system.

One of the things we can say is: “Dear dad, dear mom, dear ancestors, please look at me kindly and give me your blessing while I live my life fully and completely”.

We will discover that our parents and ancestors, together with our psyche and soul, through that malaise, will give us the strength to leave ancient schemes and limiting codes behind us.

19/03/2021

What is a limiting conditioning?

It is a belief, with which we are so much identified that we don’t see that we are not that belief.

It can result from sentences that someone told us, or from ways of seeing the world or ourselves which we inherited as an example from our family system.

Sometimes believes, in the form of judgments, become chronic and create armors. The armors can cause physical blocks, pains, negative thoughts or a lowering of the vital energy.

Behind each one of these symptoms lies a bridled strength, which presses to be freed.

One of the ways to access such a healing and transformative force is learning to disidentify ourselves.

How can we do?

Transpersonal psychology and other disciplines offer many tools to do it.

Firstly, it is important being able to stay (or remain) in contact with these symptoms.

Giving them space, worlds, listening to the story that they would like to narrate. Otherwise, the disidentification risks to be only a “jump” or a “bypass” that can give immediate relief but that doesn’t dissolve the symptom, doesn’t transform the totality of our being.

Only through a conscious and brave journey it is possible to access new dimensions of our pysché, by contacting that part within us that presses to show us the evolutive path of our soul.

www.thepsyjourney.com

13/03/2021

“At certain moments, I don’t know what is happening to my body”

Who is talking? We identify ourselves so much with our mind that we leave her to speak and to take control.

What would happen if we started to say, “I am a body” instead of “I have a body”?

How would our view of ourselves change if we started to view ourselves as a body which is physical, energetic, emotional, mental, and spiritual? In a word, if we started see ourselves as integral beings.

When we have an experience, we experience it in all our bodies.
What impacts us more and determines the quality of our experience is often not what we think, but what we experience in our physical body, in our emotional body, in our energetic body and, finally, what happens to us on a spiritual or transpersonal level.

Let’s consider, for example, ‘pain’ and let’s ask ourselves how our body experience it.

Let’s try to listen to our pain (or anger, or depression, or anxiety…), to make room for it in our home, to leave it to breath freely in all our body, without fighting it or judging it.

We will discover that, if we give voice to our pain on all our levels, the pain itself will show us the way toward its dissolution.

22/01/2021

What is the psyche?

According to the discipline of Biotransenergetics, the psyche (ψυχή) includes our mind or mental body, but also our physical, energetic and emotional body.

Perhaps most importantly, it includes our spiritual body. It is experienced in nature, during prayer and meditation and in instances that are not easy to articulate.

Our bodies are always connected and interconnected, even if we are not aware of it. Each of our bodies is a door, which is the gateway to a world of connections and interconnections.

A pain experienced in a shoulder allows for an opportunity to to connect to an emotion that is stored in that pain point (such as sadness, or anger), as well as with the thinking or judgment connected to it.

Through that door we can also listen to the related energetic level (which could be low) and we can discover how that pain manifests on a higher, spiritual level.

Learning to observe, accept and become aware of all these connections and interconnections is the first step towards the healing and well-being of our psyche.
https://www.thepsyjourney.com/en/home

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