Synergetic Therapy and its scientific background
Synergetic Therapy was defined by the German Bernd Joschko in 1988. This
approach is defined as a ‘guidance to a self-healing process through
the awareness of the self’. Joschko, a trained civil engineer with
an added degree in physics, had already been exposed to numerous therapies
dealing with self-awareness and a variety of holistic approaches throughout
the seventies.
During the development phase of the Synergetic Therapy, he started to creatively
combine the most effective aspects of these approaches in terms of the development
and healing of an individual. These took place in one-on-one sessions where
the client entered into a state of deep relaxation in order to increase
the flow of energy.
In this context, Joschko soon discovered the ‘self-organisation process
based on information levels’. In other words all recalled images and
internalised symbols are mutually linked and interdependent and create defined
patterns. Any change of individual images simultaneously changed the correlated
images. The structure of all connections among each other - the energetic
structure of the neuronal matrix - represented the structure of illnesses.
This structure could be approached and systematically dealt with by the
Synergetic Therapy Method, by way of a self-organisation process.
Over the past ten years, the Synergetic Therapy Institute has gained a great
deal of experience working with seriously ill people such as those suffering
from multiple sclerosis, asthma, and epilepsy, but also those suffering
from cancer. This has led to the recognition that each individual is able
to heal himself if he actively changes the remembered or internalised experience
with the support of an experienced aide.
Such a person could be either a Synergetic Therapist as an impartial aide,
in order to increase resilience in terms of stability and health, or a Synergetic
Profiler who is able to directly identify information patterns - and hence
the background to various illnesses - in the neuronal matrix. The therapist
thereby accompanies the client on his inner journey in order to gain access
to the neuronal connections and networks relating to his ’inner imagery
reprocessing’.
Synergetic systems - the ‘doctrine of the interdependency
of functioning’ scientifically proven by Hermann Haken
Hermann Haken, born in 1927, earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University
of Erlangen. In 1956 he became a Lecturer of Theoretical Physics at that
university. Since 1960 he has been Professor of Theoretical Physics at
the University of Stuttgart. He has been a guest scientist, consultant,
or visiting professor at various institutions in the United States, Great
Britain, France, Japan, and Russia. He has made numerous contributions
to group theory, solid-state physics, laser physics and nonlinear optics,
statistical physics, plasma physics, bifurcation theory, chemical reaction
models, and theories on morphogenesis. He is author of the monograph Laser
Theory, the texts Synergetics an Introduction, and Quantum Field Theory
of Solids, and of various other books, including text books written jointly
with H.C. Wolf on The Physics of Atoms and Quanta as well as on Molecular
Physics and Elements of Quantum Chemistry. In 1976 he was awarded the
Max Born Prize and Medal of the British Institute of Physics and the German
Physical Society for his outstanding contributions to the theory of excited
states in solids and to quantum optics, in particular, laser theory. He
received the Albert A. Michelson Medal of the Franklin Institute, USA,
in 1981 for his work on laser theory and his pioneering efforts in Synergetics.
In 1982 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Essen,
in 1987 from the University of Madrid, in 1992 from the Florida Atlantic
University and in 1994 from the University of Regensburg. Among his further
awards are the Max-Planck-Medal of the German Physical Society, the Honda
Prize (Tokyo) and the Lorenz-Oken-Medal of the Gesellschaft Deutscher
Naturforscher und Aerzte. He is a member of several academies including
the Leopoldina, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, the Academia Europaea,
London, and the Academia Scientiarum at Atrium Europaea, Salzburg.Synergetic
Therapy based on the ‘interdependency of functioning’
Synergetic Therapy applies the scientifically-proven physical laws of
synergetic systems – ‘the doctrine with regard to the interaction
of energies’. Hermann Haken explored the principle of self-organisation
in laser theory and, as stated above, was able to prove this mathematically.
All of life contains patterns and the human brain functions as a huge
integrated communications network. As many as fifty years ago, the idea
of self-organisation had emerged in brain research. The scientist Maturana,
for instance, believes that the perception of the brain is based on self-organisation.
In this process, new connections are continuously created with the neuronal
network. Joschko assigned the principle of the synergetic pattern recognition
to the inner imagery emerging in a state of deep relaxation. This enables
ill people to prompt self-organisation processes on their neuronal level
which can lead to self-healing processes in terms of physical symptoms.
The resulting synergetic effectiveness is to turn the structure of the
energetic inner imagery into deterministic chaos according to which the
inner imagery is actively destabilised. There is no active projection
of desirable or positive imagery. The unveiling of imagery that is associated
with illnesses is achieved through a free-flow error detection and correction
process linked to pattern recognition.
Joschko meanwhile discovered the effectiveness of the principle of self-organisation
on the neuronal level in many one-on-one sessions over a period of sixteen
years. His idea was that the individual’s psyche is the expression
of his neuronal matrix. In a state of deep relaxation, the neuronal connections
of the brain are revealed in a free-flow process of inner recalled-imagery
(re-)processing. Any informational patterns of a human being’s psyche,
for instance recalled experience, inter alia from childhood, symbols,
and reincarnation are in constant interaction, and may be constantly changed
through a process of self-organisation of their informational structure.
The rearrangement of the neuronal structure is subject to an evolutionary
process that enhances resilience, and results in a self-healing process
on the physical level, for example the healing of cancer.
The ‘Heidelberger Schule’ for psychosomatic medicine believes
that illnesses do not exist per se, rather there are unwell people whose
individual illnesses and history are unique to them.
Synergetic Therapy is based on identifying the fractal neuronal informational
structures in the brain of ill people. If the client alters the resultant
perceived images on his own initiative while being guided by a Synergetic
Therapist working with synergetic principles, the subsequent neuronal
structure may prompt a self-healing process in accordance with the principle
of self-organisation. The client thereby confronts the images in a dialogue
using the present tense – he relives the situation once again –
and thereby follows his impulse to act. The client is not actively led
by the Synergetic Therapist as to how to approach these images, but rather
will be offered a number of possibilities to prevent the process stagnating.
The three levels - the brain - the immune system and the body/organs -
constantly interact according to the doctrine of psychoneuroimmunology,
and they too are subject to the principle of self-organisation. Synergetic
Therapy utilises this principle and refuses to resist symptoms, since
these symptoms are an expression of the informational structure already
embedded in the brain. Instead of resisting them, the symptoms are used
in order to identify and alter them via images. Synergetic Therapy is
therefore beneficial to isolate patterns of disease in order to deal with
them. The aim is to achieve spontaneous remission, an approach that ill
people can use for themselves.
Two important points should be kept in mind. Firstly, the inner imagery
reprocessing may be actively carried out on his own by the client, since
this specific modus operandi strengthens the ability of the client to
assume personal responsibility and autonomy of action. Secondly, Synergetic
Therapy does not follow a goal-oriented strategy, but rather prefers to
work in line with the synergetic principles embodied by chaos theory.
Chaos theory explains how a small change can bring about a huge effect
and alter fundamental information patterns in an evolutionary way, much
as the wing beat of a butterfly can trigger a hurricane.
Procedure of a synergetic session
The Synergetic Therapist does not carry out any form of diagnosis. Exploratory
discussions are not necessary, but they may be of help for the client
in order to decide where to lay emphasis in his session. Since the session
is a free-flow process and has an evolutionary character, the Synergetic
Therapist may integrate the client’s wishes where the setting allows.
Firstly, the client lies down on a comfortable mattress. He puts on a
blindfold in order to focus his attention on the inner imagery. He is
brought to a state of deep relaxation with the help of a meditation text
and appropriate music. Once the client is in a state of relaxation, the
Synergetic Therapist asks the client to visualise e.g. a staircase leading
downwards. He is asked to go down and visualise a corridor with several
doors. With the assistance of simulated sounds (e.g. a creaking door),
the client voluntarily opens a door of his choice and describes the room
that the door opens onto. The first symbolic image that appears is connected
to his experiences and underlying feelings.
The client follows this inner energetic structure and may freely converse
while experiencing these images. In doing so, he embraces everything that
emerges directly and communicates using the present tense. The Synergetic
Therapist may, for instance, choose to play realistic sounds for provocation
purposes to make the client’s experience feel more real. The inner
confrontation enables the change of symbolic images. In this process,
the client can work with all of his aspects - e.g. male, female, Inner
Child, Inner Lion, Wise Man, Healer, Guardian Angel - and acknowledge
any imbalances in himself. The goal is to restore the ‘inner wisdom,
intuition and guidance’ to boost the immune system. The aforementioned
aspects are made accessible within the client in order to assist him,
for example in revealing deeply buried traumata.
The level of appearance of the informational structure (real experience,
fantasy images, personality traits etc.) - physical perception (warmth,
glowing, tense etc.) - emotions (sorrow, anger, joy etc.), may in this
process be changed at any time to maintain the flow of energy. This context
is always subject to prompt new ‘illogical’ behaviour, i.e.
to prompt new neuronal connections in order to destabilise the underlying
structure.
The client may for instance access the recalled image of when he was a
baby but with the consciousness of himself as an adult, and to decide
to help the baby at key moments. Even recalled traumata may be reprocessed
easily and dealt with in this way. These processes frequently give rise
to intensive cathartic emotional release.
Areas of application and perspectives
Synergetic Therapy primarily works on the level of inner images and may
only be undergone by clients who assume sole responsibility, and actively
want to confront their illness or a crisis on their own initiative. The
method was developed as a guidance for self-healing, and it works on the
principle that almost every background to an illness may be tackled by
the client on his own with the result that a self-healing process is also
introduced on the physical level (symptoms). The success of each individual
self-healing process, or in other words the visible result, is primarily
dependent on the client’s willingness, and the rapidity and intensity
with which he embarks on his inner journey. Integrating the insights into
daily life is also very much the client’s responsibility.
Experience shows that after a mere handful of two-hour sessions, extraordinary
progress can be made.
The Synergetic Therapist does not need to be a qualified psychotherapist.
He does not proffer advice, nor does he promote any particular world view.
His skill is limited to accompanying his client on his inner journey and
supporting him in line with synergetic principles. Medical aspects are
not addressed nor any medical treatments recommended.
The way
The psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich once said: “The only universally
valid rule to finding your own particular truth is to learn to listen
patiently to yourself and to allow yourself the possibility of finding
your own way, a way that belongs to you and to no one else.”
Synergetic Therapy helps you to embark on a journey through your inner
images and to find the unique way that belongs to you and to no one else.
Christine
Synergetik Profiler
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