Module Eight
Identity, Existential Pain, Chronic Illness, and Self Image
All societies exists, only because each individual decides to collaborate with the future of their society.
As individuals, we can become for, against, or ambivalent about our society, culture, or religion. This choice has a great influence on the structure of our identity.
Every experience that tells you who you are supposed to be, influences how you structure your identity.
Where do you begin and end?
What are your for or against?
How you experience your Innate Nature, your Fate, the aging process, and your unique mortality, can all influence your sense of identity.
If your life has included Visceral and Existential pain, or profoundly Emotional or Egoic Pain, it likely that those experiences have had an influence on your sense of Self. The pain of life and the ways each of us avoids pain can define your adaptive capacities and limits.
It is also easy to accept and understand how a traumatic life and chronic distress can cause almost any physical illness.
It is easy to forget how the constant and erosive burden of chronic pain, fatigue, nausea, or a hundred other haunting symptoms of chronic illness can be traumatic, life-changing, and also self-defining. One of the core wounds of Trauma is a loss of trust in others. A loss of trust in your body is an even greater wound.
If you have experienced any form of chronic physical illness, the symptoms and limitations have most likely had an influence on how you see your self and how you think other see you.
One of the greatest challenges in Qing Zhi Bing therapy, and on the path of Meditation, is to completely accept the structure of your identity and your Self Image. Forces that are even more powerful in the age of social media.
Each person’s sense of woundedness, their volume of distress throughout a year, or on any given day, will influence their habitual patterns, addictive behaviors, and ways of acting out against life’s Forces and Limitations (Da Xian).
There are many ways to understand and accept the pain of our lives. In some healing traditions, it is necessary to create a Sacred container for all forms of pain.
Module Eight Contents:
- The Necessity of Conditioned Identity Structures
- A Sacred Relationship with the Pain of Life
- Habitual Behaviour
- Resistance to Change
- Limiting Beliefs and Universal Limits (Da Xian)
- Chronic Illness and self Image
- 10 Most Common Causes of Chronic Illness
- Aging, Mortality, and Death
- The Five Taxations
- The Five Inner Organ Virtues
- Fate, Destiny, and Innate Nature
- Closing Circle – A Sacred Basket for Pain
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(Course Begins – Jan 22, 2025)
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This 6 – month training, includes over 40 hours of LIVE content.
This immersive training is intended to be a personal Healing Journey, as well as a clinical certification and continuing education program.
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Embodied Psychotherapy, Spiritual Recapitulation,
and Traditional Chinese Medicine
Qíng Zhì Bìng 情志病
6 Months – 40 Hours (Jan – July 2025)
Some Saturday Mornings
Every Second Wednesday 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Includes the Foundational Course and an Overview of Treatments, Practices, and Supportive Therapies
Includes the Foundational Course and Clinical Training in Herbology and Acupuncture, Trauma Informed Care, as well as an understanding of how a Personal Qi Gong or Nei Gong Practice supports healing.
There will also be an introduction to Somatic Mindfulness Processing – a form of Counselling and Spiritual Recapitulation.
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