Emotional Body Healing

About the Book

The Application of EBH When Do We Apply EBH? When we know deep down that science alone cannot provide all the answers to the questions in our lives. When we are not sure which direction to take in our lives. When our bodies hurt. When life presents us with new challenges. When we are gravely ill. When we would like to accelerate our personal development process. When we would like to question some of our convictions. When we would like to go beyond the same old limiting experiences. When we would like to achieve calm. When we would like to pay more attention to our intuition. When we want to learn that illness and suffering are not punishment. When we would like to strengthen the powers of self-healing within us and others. When we would like to bring more love into our life and into the lives of others. When we would like to listen to another person with empathy and patience. EMOTIONAL BODY HEALING 33 Application Areas of EBH With the help of EBH, we would like to restore our health—meaning the health of body, spirit, and soul. Through the application of our method, we would like to restore in our clients the confidence that they will be able to tackle all their life’s problems. We aim to restore access to their own powers so that they may be better able to cope with stress and other negative influences that make them sick, and to embrace these life demands as challenges. In our view, health encompasses the will to live, the enjoyment of life, and the willingness to learn. EBH may be applied to all kinds of complaints and difficulties, including minor and major worries, relationship problems, jealousy, small and large anxieties, hurt, upset, rage, emotional pain, and depression, in addition to various symptoms of illness such as vertigo, migraines, back pain, cardiac complaints, and/or gastrointestinal pain. To put it briefly, any type of emotion or illness may become the object of treatment. EBH has proven its effectiveness as a subsidiary measure prior to, and after surgical intervention, anesthesia, major diagnostic intervention, and other healing methods, such as chiropractic and physical therapy. Moreover, EBH has proven to be particularly effective in the treatment of chronic diseases and as accompanying measure to aggressive therapies in connection with cancer, for example. It also may be efficacious for clients who have reached the limits of their medical therapy. Equally, EBH may be applied in transitional life situations, such as birth and care for the terminally ill. Through EBH, we motivate clients to self-regulate at the physical level, in connection with their desire to be free from pain, or their need to deal with illness, sleep, and/or sexual issues. Through EBH, we motivate clients to self-regulate at the emotional-social level in connection with their desire for love, friendship, and belonging. Through EBH, we motivate clients to self-regulate at the mental level, in their decision-making process, their desire for greater knowledge and understanding, and their quest to learn more about themselves. 34 SUSANNA LUEBCKE, MD AND ANNE SOELLER, PT Through EBH, we motivate clients to self-regulate at the spiritual level, in their desire to develop their own intuition, to achieve self-actualization, and personal growth and creativity, to find authenticity and the fulfillment of their own development potential, and to overcome crises of faith. Through EBH, we motivate clients to self-regulate at the everyday level, in their desire to be joyful around their family and in their work, to manage their finances, and to live peacefully with their neighbors and fellow human beings. Since it is impossible to categorize human beings, problems we encounter during therapy tend to relate to several different areas. During our EBH sessions, we frequently work with several problems at the same time, as physical symptoms such

About the Author

Susanna Luebcke, M.D. (born 1952) is a physician and allergy specialist. She received her doctoral degree from the University of Berlin and worked in Berlin as General Practitioner until 1993 when she moved to Oregon. She is married and is active as EBH therapist and trainer in Oregon, California and Berlin. Anne Soeller, P.T. (born 1940) is a physiotherapist and training therapist according to the Bobath method and lives in Berlin. She has two daughters and three grandchildren and is active as EBH therapist and trainer in the German speaking countries.