Much of the work of Alexander Lowen has been a great inspiration to us at Command Z. Most of his work centered around feeling, grounding and moving the body. No matter how much talk happens, he recognized that nothing really occurs until the body is energized and brought back to life. Check out what he…
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One of our long time students, Brendan, wrote the following after taking the Mind/Body Restruction courses. Enjoy! Hey guys! Just finished watching both courses, and now I’m watching them again. I had a memory of an experience while watching the first course. I can’t remember what exactly it was that Riley said, but the memory…
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You know that feeling… When you’re really connecting with someone… The conversation flows effortlessly, and your posture matches up. You don’t need to think, because everything is just flowing. You feel it, and you know they feel it, too. Maybe you’ve had moments of such deep rapport that it seems to verge on telepathy—like it’s…
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Have you ever seen a deer or a dog with just 3 legs? They don’t spend much time complaining. They just adapt to the new circumstances and keep doing whatever they want and need to do. The body adapts automatically to almost any new situation or circumstances it encounters, inside and out. You might argue…
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This article is about true joy. It proposes that true joy and wisdom are one and the same. Proverbs 9:10 is often mistranslated from Hebrew as, “The fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom.” This has been used as justification for a rather tyrannical and wrathful conception of god as some warlike man…
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“If the development of civilization has such a far-reaching similarity to the development of the individual and if it employs the same methods, may we not be justified in reaching the diagnosis that, under the influence of cultural urges, some civilizations, or some epochs of civilization–possibly the whole of mankind–have become ‘neurotic’?” -Sigmund Frued, Civilization…
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