MIND AND
MOVEMENT
The Practice of Coex
Tony Crisp
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Copyright Tony Crisp 1987
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First published in Britain by The C.W. Daniel Company Limited in 1987
This edition published by Ebury Digital in 2010
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Contents
The creative and healing human potential What it is and how it works Cooperation with the self-regulatory process Its connection with muscular tension and the dream process Extending awareness.
Examples from everyday life Sex emotion and holding back Hunches and the Feeling Sense Creative Imagination and the Seed meditation Working with the unconscious The power of a partner Creative listening The Seed Group.
Touching life in us Danced from within Movements to free life process Movement and meditation Loosening oneself through sounds Levels of awareness The urge to health Fear as a block to health Is it a cure-all?
Dealing with specific questions and problems How to focus on inner resources Signals from within Healing the body Traumas of childbirth Working through old hurts.
The blind spot in regard to dreams Dreams and self-regulation Entering a dream while awake Knowing your dream through posture and body movement Do you like eating people? Dina Gloubermans Creative Visualization Learning to trust oneself.
Teaching body skills Detailed relaxation techniques Instructions for group leaders Finding unconscious tensions Posture work Relaxed movement Daring to be free The fear of being oneself Postures and feelings How to enter the mind through the body Coming out of withdrawal Feeling Low/Feeling High The Earth the Seed and the Sun Awareness transforms Standing and walking anew.
New views of death and life The temptation to go Eastern in the unconscious Transcendence or war The voice of ones own experience Sam and fear on the streets Sex and manipulation Life before birth Life is a love affair Who are you? Escalation of responsibility.
Homeostasis The Wisdom of the Body Self-regulation growth and the mind Hypnosis and false neurosis Reich and The Emotional Plague Self-regulation and its place in our life.
How humans in different cultures have used their inner resources of self-regulation Coex in New Guinea Shaktipat, the Indian way to enlightenment Hallucination or inner knowlege? Trances, Spirit healing and possession Buddhism and the way of liberation Zen, Tibetan Secret teachings and Vipassana Christianitys unwanted secret Saint Paul, killer of the inner life Mesmer, father of modern psychotherapy Carl Jung linking East and West Aurobindo and integral yoga Reich and the cosmic energy From Guru to self responsibility Subud, Gods chosen people Burying old dogmas Dianetics and co-counselling Ronnie Laing daring to care The Japanese have Seitai Love is the key.
About the Book
By using body movements and postures as doorways to our own natural healing process, we can actively release tension; find balance between the mind and the body; learn to dream creatively while awake; and tap areas of the unconscious thought inaccessible.
Most physical movements and exercise are disconnected from our deepest drives, feelings and sources of healing. MIND AND MOVEMENT shows how to find a natural way healthy to healthy exercise and spiritual growth. The method of co-operating with our own internal healing and creativity has been known and used for centuries. In Japan it is called Seitai, in India Shaktipat; even the early Christian used this simple form of inner and outer hygiene.
Recent research has linked this activity with the self-regulatory and dream proces within us. But, no other book has made plain to the public how to co-operate with these internal functions for ones own benefit.
Tony Crisp has been writing about natural health and self help for thirty years. His special interest in the healing potential of the dream process led him to work as a therapist during the past fourteen years. It is out of this experience MIND AND MOVEMENT was written.
Introduction
It is New Years Eve of 1986 as I write this introduction. The book beyond these pages has already been written. Over the past few weeks I have received cards and letters from people who have used the techniques and approaches described in it. In wondering how best to tell you about what this book contains, and what it may have to offer, I cannot think of any better way than allowing these letters to tell their own story.
The most exuberant letter was sent by Paul, a well known musician. The SEED GROUP he mentions is one of the approaches to personal healing and creativity described fully in chapter six. Paul writes:
I thank you again for the Seed Group experience at Atsitsa. With that I let go of so much accumulated rubbish! When I got back I had a session of Soul Directed Therapy and havent looked back. Those two experiences must rank among the most important of my life. In fact my life is rolling, my creativity is rolling, my relationships are rolling!! I hope you are too!
Here are two short letters, the first from Sarah who says:
Life has been somewhat difficult and confusing lately not such a bad thing, but I cant see when its going to sort itself out. Im still with Michael but also seeing Steve. I just dont know what I want. Still, heres to 1986 and hopefully some decision making!
Michael has been doing coex here in D... amazingly which has been very useful, thanks to you.
From a very different situation Tony writes:
Just a line of thanks for your having passed on to me the practice of coex. It is a path which has deepened and broadened over the years and although it functions differently it is still a source of eternal life. All my love, Tony.
The last letter is much longer, but from it a fuller idea of what coex is, and how it works in ones life can be gained. It is from Pat Hudson who studied with me a few years ago. Since then she has explored in many different directions and has brought coex into her life and love in an everyday sense. She writes:
I want to write to you about a dream and its process which I had a couple of nights ago. Its a marvellous dream. But first I need to say that there seems to be a tremendous healing process taking place in my inner being in three different areas. I have been experiencing a growing sense of forgiveness love and compassion towards my mother. I see her as a very vulnerable, sensitive spirit crippling herself by alcoholism and arthritis because she didnt and doesnt know how to deal with what society puts on her. I am becoming so much more alive sexually with my husband. It really astounds rue at my age fifty next birthday. I feel so much more loving and understanding towards him too. I am much more ready to receive his full-cream milk kind of love. He and I have been going to Blackpool once every fortnight to visit a recently bereaved aunt of his and this experience is turning out to be so healing for me. In the past I have hated