Transpersonal Model of the Psyche Three Great Realms (levels of consciousness) Rowan, J. (2005): a. instrumental - defined by place in outer world b. authentic - self actualized, self defined Awakening Spiritual Consciousness c. transpersonal self 1 (soul) - ego detachment, Through the Healing of Trauma light Irene R. Siegel, Ph.D., LCSW d. transpersonal self 2 (spirit) - not defined, www.DrIreneSiegel.com enlightened, mystical union

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Spirituality and Resonance Resonance • States of Consciousness - waking, dreaming (soul All is vibrational and interconnected within access), deep sleep (access to the formless or causal an field spirit) • Sufism • Structures of Consciousness - levels of consciousness • Integral Yoga such as material, biological, higher mental, spiritual. • Stable holistic patterns found in both the level of development and the line of development • The Emissaries of Divine Light • Bodies - energetic support of the body (supports • Energy Healing waking mind), subtle body (dreaming state), causal It is through the practice of mindful awareness that body (spirit) (Wilber, 2000) this expanded experience can reveal itself

3 4 Human Energy Field • Spiritual Wisdom Traditions – Trauma leads to a dissociation and disconnection to soul. – Loss of self. – Abandonment of the sacred. – Intervention In Non-ordinary spaces - Entering sacred space, connection to the soul.

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Mindful Awareness Attunement

The experience of bringing one’s awareness within, Deep intuitive recognition of the emotions, thoughts, and

to a moment-by-moment experience of being present feelings of another person, without the need for words. Other and non-attached to outcome, in which each thought, feeling, person feels known, seen, and understood on multiple levels. and experience is accepted for what it is

7 8 Resonance makes two a part of one system, at least temporarily. Attuning to ourselves within mindful states, we have the observing and experiencing self in resonance. Attuning to others, we open ourselves to the profound adventure of linking two as part of one interactive whole. This joining is an intimate communion of the essence of who we are as individuals yet truly interconnected with one another. It is hard to put into words, but resonance reveals the deep reality that we are part of a larger whole, that we need one another, and, in some ways, that we are created by the ongoing dance within, between, and among us.1

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Interpersonal Neurobiology Science & Resonance

Mind Brain • Triception (Triangle of Well-being) is the way we perceive the flow of energy and information in the Acknowledges triangle of well-being. We perceive this flow as it

brain coherence moves through the nervous system (brain as and integration Biofield extends beyond the body and into the mechanism of flow), as it is monitored and between people1 modified (mind as regulation), and as it is environment, transcending time and space, holding communicated among people (relationships as and influencing evolution1 sharing). As this is a triangle of not just energy and information flow, but of well-being, triception is the way we perceive our states of integration and

Relationships then move the system from chaos and/or rigidity toward the harmony of integrative flow. This triangle is of an integrated brain, empathic relationships, and a coherent, resilient mind.1

1Siegel, 2010, p. 122 1Laszlo, 2009 11 12 Neuroscience of Heart/Brain

• The etheric and subtle fields of the human body are an antenna for electromagnetic energy transmitted through the interaction between the Coherence leading to greater integration of endocrine and chakra systems all systems.2 • The heart is the strongest electromagnetic oscillator of the human body

• There is a radiation of energy transmitted outwards from the heart antenna1

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Emotions are Reflected in Heart Rhythm Patterns (HRV)

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Source: HeartMath 2012 15 16 Transpersonal Pioneers Exceptional Human Experiences (EHEs) • William James - first to speak of spirituality in psychotherapy • Carl Jung - Self is ego, shadow, personal and collective • Rhea White (1990) - Defines a range of spontaneous unconscious unusual experience, often beyond ordinary human • Robert Assagioli - First to use the term transpersonal. Added consciousness. higher consciousness or superconsciousness to the field of the • 5 Major Classes: mystical/unitive, psychic, encounter, human psyche leading to the transpersonal self. Created Psycho- unusual death-related, and exceptional normal experiences. Synthesis. • Context for transpersonal psychology. • Stanislav Grof - Experimentation with altered states first through • Krippner & Powers (1997); Braud & Anderson (1998); psychedelics and then Holotropic Breath Work. Palmer & Braud (2002) • Abraham Maslow - Self actualization high on hierarchy of needs.

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Transpersonal Psychology Transpersonal Developmental Model • Traditional psychology is interested in a continuum of • Wilber’s (2000) transpersonal developmental model, human experience and behavior ranging from severe based in the common core philosophy of great spiritual dysfunction, mental and emotional illness at one end, traditions, reflects the view that “reality is composed of to what is generally considered normal, healthy various levels of existence—levels of being and knowing behavior at the other end and various degrees of —ranging from matter to body to mind to soul to normal and maladjustment in between. spirit” (p. 5). Within what is termed, the Great Nest of Being, potentiality unfolds within this morphogenetic • Transpersonal Psychology is a full spectrum psychology field, “nested in a hierarchy of holistic that encompasses all of this and then goes beyond it embrace” (Wilber, 2000, p. 7), which allows by adding a serious scholarly interest in the immanent consciousness to evolve from basic structures to more and transcendent dimensions of human experience. organized levels of spiritual psychology.

19 20 Transpersonal Developmental Model Transpersonal Psychology Research (cont’d) • Non-local healing • Systems within systems, like waves of energy, • Research validates its efficacy1 influence one another within the spiral. Each • Empathic and sympathetic resonance stage of consciousness has its own level of • Deep embodied resonance between two people ego functioning, interpersonal and social • Bodymind’s experience of a vibraonal merging resonance with functioning and morals and perceptions of internal and external sources the world. • Siegel, I. R. (2013). Therapist as a container for spiritual resonance and client transformation within transpersonal psychotherapy: An • Bottom Up (hierarchical) approach integrates exploratory heuristic study. Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, with Top Down approach (heterarchical). 45(1), 49-74.

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Participants’ Understanding of Spiritual Resonance Inter-Dynamic Client Therapist Experience 1 6 Therapists’ Attunement as a Doorway Therapist Awareness of Internal 1 3 Themes to Spiritual Resonance Emotions, Sensations and Cognitions Attunement to the Divine 2 is Always Present 7 Internal Feedback Mechanism Using Skills of Alternative Knowing Detaching from Ego

2 3 8 Nonlinear Process of Non-attachment to Goals, Expectations Vibrational Resonance Assessment and Healing and Outcome

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3 Internal Focus of Attention Transference and Countertransference

Central Core of a 5 10 Philosophy of Wholeness Integration of the Egoic Mind Transmission of Energy and Expanded Consciousness as a Tool for Change

10 Themes

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1 4 • Spiritual resonance is a mutual process of Development of Spiritual Consciousness Improved Coping Skills transformation 2 5 • As the client’s inner light brightens so does that Emotional and Cognitive Healing Behavioral Changes of the therapist 3 6 Physical Healing and Transformation Vibrational Changes • Therapists feel joy and gratitude for being a vessel for this higher range of consciousness • Therapists' spiritual development continues to unfold

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Spiritual Resonance: The Evolved Definition Spiritual Resonance: The Evolved Definition (cont’d) • A vibrational pattern accessed by soul awareness • Non-linear in nature transcending time and space • A central core of life, not just healing • Therapist and client become transmitters of this range of energy within the therapy session • Vibrational fabric from which healing and life • Within the vibrational range of spiritual resonance, the client emerge; has the choice to resonate with that range of frequency, is not component-based dis-identifying with ego, changing perception, and • Perceived as a gift to the receiver transforming within the unified experience of cosmic wholeness • The potential for realization is present in all • Ultimately, transmission of spiritual resonance is multi- • Realized through an experience of expanded directional between therapist, client, a Divine cosmic source awareness and Earth

27 28 The Transpersonal Therapist The Transpersonal Therapist

Consciousness is both the instrument and object of Double Vision change. The work aims not only at changing behavior and the contents of consciousness, but also at Creating a balance of perception between the freedom developing awareness of consciousness itself as the of transcendent truth and the limitations 1 context of experience.1 of the immanent truth of the human domain.

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Internal Feedback Mechanisms

• Alternative Ways of Knowing: – Auditory – Visual – Kinesthetic – Proprioceptive – Direct Knowing and Intuition

– Emergence of Unconscious Material (Braud & Anderson, 2002)

31 32 Internal Feedback Mechanisms (cont’d) Internal Feedback Mechanisms (cont’d)

• Determine resonance and flow • This internal step-by-step tracking of the client, as the • Double vision between expanded and egoic therapist stays present, helps the client “free up the awareness drive for integration” (Siegel, 2010, p. 149). • The therapist uses internal cues to determine • Therapist and client attune within spiritual resonance, interventions verbally, nonverbally, and vibrationally processing from higher consciousness or soul • Wait for vibrational shift before engaging the egoic • Client learns to identify internal alternative ways of mind knowing as spiritual wisdom emerges and the context • Emersion into nonlinear process without of treatment changes expectation; energy and information flow • Applies to all phases of treatment.

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Eye Movement Desensitization and Therapist’s Preparation Reprocessing (EMDR) - 8 Phases Therapists may use the following skills of preparation • EMDR is based in an adaptive information processing (AIP) model (Shapiro, 2018). EMDR therapy conceptualizes prior to the session in all phases of EMDR protocol to unprocessed traumatic as stored in the client’s create an experience of mindful awareness: memory networks, containing related emotions, thoughts, • Meditation beliefs, and sensory experiences. • Imagery • The EMDR therapist reprocesses the trauma to an adaptive resolution by psychologically integrating the information • Deep Breathing and Centering through an eight-phase protocol incorporating the use of • Attunement to what may be described as a greater bilateral stimulation (BLS) such as eye movements, tapping, or tones. interconnected cosmic whole

35 36 Phase 1: Phase 2: Client History Preparation • History taking and the development of the treatment • The therapist maintains an experience of mindfulness plan is consistent with EMDR protocol. History of and expanded awareness while engaging with the client, as the client mirrors the process transpersonal or spiritual experiences are noted. • The client listens to a Bio-Lateral CD with headphones • Client's adaptive aspects are identified and affect regulation skills are evaluated • Client is invited to close his/her eyes and to envision a safe space • The therapist sets a safe space within the therapeutic sitting quietly, developing self soothing and affect container regulation skills to facilitate dual awareness and • Maintains a centered and calm state as an experience maintain stability between sessions of being present is internally accessed within the • Client is vibrationally invited to resonate with the therapist therapist

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Phase 2: Positive Resourcing Preparation (cont’d) Cognitive to Cosmic Interweave • The shared field begins to vibrationally flow more fluidly - mirroring • Ego State Work • Using internal skills of tracking, therapist is able • Positive (Functional) Dissociation - Chaos to ego re- to sense the shared interconnected field and structuring from a level of higher integration the vibrational change within the client • Healing through symbols • Positive transpersonal resource instillation • Healing through light promoting adaptive memory networks may be • Boundaries - emotional and energetic accessed from a transpersonal perspective - • Transpersonal Mirroring Cognitive to Cosmic Interweaves

39 40 Phase 3: Positive Resourcing Assessment (cont’d) Cognitive to Cosmic Interweave • Client identifies the memory of greatest stress • Holding a field of coherent energy and informaon • The negative cognition and SUD (subjective units of flow. disturbance) level are identified • Body memory is identified and client uses inner senses to • Meditaon and Mindfulness identify symptomatic area, giving it a voice or an image to • Spiritual Resonance express it’s message • The positive cognition and VOC (validity of cognition) level are • Integraon of Higher self identified • Teachers and Guides as Internal Resources • The therapist is aware of the energy shared and maintains a field filled with peace and safety, as client is ready to share in • Power Animals the resonance

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Desensitization Desensitization (cont’d) • The client is invited to close his/her eyes during • The resonance between therapist and client becomes apparent, processing sensed as a calmness and a flowing energy in the mutual field. • Therapist maintains a state of inner centeredness and • Cognitive (cosmic) interweaves may be used to facilitate process connection, detached from ego and expectation as needed, and may take on transpersonal elements. • Therapist uses intuitive skills of alternative ways of • After the shift into resonance, the client is asked to share emerging experience knowing to internally track the flow of the shared field • Client may report a level of processing from a perspective • Therapist may sense the client's energy becoming of inner wisdom, expanded awareness, and experiences that brighter and more expansive connect her to a greater cosmic whole • This may become a tangible pulsation within the body, or • Client’s SUD level may quickly shift down to a zero initiating a sensation of heart opening and filling with compassion an immediate positive cognition

43 44 Phase 5: Phase 6: Installation Body Scan • The therapist takes the naturally emerging positive • Client scans his/her body with eyes open or cognition and reinforces it in the evolved targeted memory closed, noticing changing imagery, sensation, and • With eyes open or closed, therapist and client share belief throughout the body and the energy field

an expanded field filled with the flow of compassion • and wellbeing Client learns to use internal tracking skills and may report a tingling sensation, a flow of energy, • The energy field as well as the client's positive belief becomes more integrated and stable and a calmness throughout • The VOC becomes a 7 around this positive cognition, often • Therapist and client may mutually resonate from a perspective of expanded awareness as the silent within a shared experience of connecting to a resonance is maintained greater cosmic whole

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Phase 7: Cellular Memory and Vibrational Patterns Closure • Give the cells and vibrational patterns a • The client is brought back and grounded consciousness, color, or form. • Client shares experiences, inner visions, and sensations • Access inner teachers to be part of your healing indicating learning to use alternative ways of knowing and team. perceiving • Some clients try to describe the experience of the shared field • Healing Ancestral Wounds. • The client learns to self sooth and regulate while changing the • Change the energy frequency of the cell. context for the trauma. Life lessons, and soul’s purpose and • Awakening inner wisdom. Client becomes the mission are explored as inner wisdom emerges. shaman. • The client is asked to keep a journal and is informed that processing may occur even outside of the session • Change your destiny. • The client is reminded of safe space

47 48 Phase 8: Strengthening/Enhancing the Biofield Re-evaluation • AIP three pronged process: Address the roots of the past trauma, making sure the SUD level is still a zero and that the VOC is a 7; desensitize any present triggers; and reinforce future outcomes - influencing the energy field that surrounds the cells and emotional expression • Clients often report the development of alternate ways of knowing and a larger spiritual context for their trauma. • Self-love may develop as brain integration evolves to a higher level, contributing to the resolution of trauma as well as physical dis-ease and symptoms

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Transpersonal Protocol Transpersonal Protocol (con’t) • All phases of therapy are reviewed from a • Goals shift from healing symptoms to reaching full transpersonal perspective. Allows for soul essence to potential. Positive cognition expands with emerge and installation as positive resource awareness. throughout all stages. Evolving negative and positive beliefs, emotions, and sensory experiences are • Transpersonal cognitive to cosmic interweave. Inner monitored as personality’s journey and soul’s journey wisdom emerges to change perception of history. entwine. • Functional dissociation and ego detachment as a • Non-linear, non-sequential flowing transpersonal road to healing trauma through higher integration. process emerges as client mirrors internal focus and • Processing of personal, collective, and archetypal states of consciousness. patterns.

51 52 Therapist’s Skills Therapist’s Skills (cont’d) EACH PHASE OF THERAPEUTIC PROTOCOL allows for: • The therapist may develop the skill of moving fluidly • Therapist to open to an expanded mindful awareness from egoic to expanding awareness throughout the where entrainment between therapist and client is session. invited • The reference point becomes the client’s inner wisdom • Alternative ways of knowing as internal feedback based on an expanded awareness of an interconnected mechanisms are used to track information and energy cosmic whole. flow within a Triangle of Wellbeing, detached from • The consciousness of the therapist is a determining expectation factor in the expansion of the shared field within an experience of expanded awareness. • Share a mutually resonant energy field that allows the client to do the same Be the transformational tool of change!

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