Bioenergetics is the revolutionary new therapy that uses the language of the body to heal the problems of the mind. This exciting body-mind approach to personality has a liberating and positive effect on emotional, physical, and psychic distress. Increased joy and pleasure are possible in everyday life through an understanding of how your body functions energetically: how it determines what you feel, think, and do.   Lack of energy is the result of chronic muscular tensions, a condition caused by the suppression of feelings. These tensions can be dissolved through the direct body work in bioenergetic exercise, which restores the potential for living a rich, full life.   Common physical ailments like headaches and lower back pain can be overcome by releasing the muscular tension that create them.

Bioenergetics is the part of biochemistry concerned with the energy involved in making and breaking of chemical bonds in the molecules found in biological organisms.  It can also be defined as the study of energy relationships and energy transformations in living organisms.

Bioenergetics is the biology of energy transformations and energy exchanges within and between living things and their environments and also a system of therapy that combines breathing and body exercises, psychological therapy, and the free expression of impulses and emotions and that is held to increase well-being by releasing blocked physical and psychic energy.

Bioenergetic Analysis is a specific form of body-psychotherapy – based upon the continuity between body and mind – rooted in the work basically combines a bodily, analytic and relational therapeutic work, based upon an energetic understanding.

Bioenergetic Analysis helps to release chronic muscular tensions, manage affects, expand the capacity for intimacy, heal sexual difficulties and learn new, more fulfilling ways of relating to others. Tenderness, aggression, assertion – and their confluence in sexuality – are seen as core lifesaving forces. The therapeutic relationship provides a place of safety in which healing begins.

The therapist reads the body, resonates with its energy, feels the emotions, listens, hears and answers the words. The language of the body (posture/gesture, breathing, motility, expression) is on focus as it indicates the status on the way to personhood – from the past to the present and future. Techniques are used which address the energetic aspect of the individual, including her self-perception, self-expression, and self-possession. These also include work with body contact, boundaries, grounding, and the understanding of muscular tensions as indications of somatic and psychological defenses against past trauma. The goal of therapy is more than the absence of symptoms – it is having aliveness, getting a taste of pleasure, joy, love – vibrant health.

Bioenergetics is one of the right directions to work in. It is not complete, it is not yet a whole philosophy of life, but is moving on the right lines. The body is the base, and much work is needed on the body before you can start any work on the mind. Then much work is needed on the mind before you can start any work on the soul. So it is the right grounding; to start with bioenergetics is the right beginning. And if the beginning is right, half of the work is done. It is very essential and significant, but remember only that it is not the whole thing. You will begin with it but you should not end with it. That has to be remembered, otherwise you are moving in a circle.

The body is not all. The human mind tends to be extremist. Christianity was anti-body; it created all anti-life attitudes. Then the pendulum went to the other extreme, full circle, and Freud and Wilhelm Reich and others started to move too much towards the denied part. So the body is the denied part in the West. Christianity never accepted the body; that has been the curse. But now, just to be in reaction, one can become so obsessed with the body that one can forget something which is higher than the body and which is residing in you.  The house has not to be forgotten, has not to be neglected — every care has to be taken of it but the house is simply the house; don’t forget the master of the house. So bioenergetics is a good beginning, but it cannot be the end.

If meditation goes rightly, it always makes you more alive, more loving. It gives you energy, passion, life, so don’t obstruct it. Once you start obstructing some energy, blocks are created. Now the energy is streaming, so allow it, move with it; wherever it leads, trust it. That’s what trusting means: trust your energy. If the thirst for love has arisen, then move into love and don’t be afraid. Fear will come, because love needs much courage. It will lead you into involvement, commitment, and into unknown paths. It is always the beginning of a dangerous life.

So fear will be there, naturally, but don’t listen to the fear. Go into love in spite of it — whatsoever the cost. When love starts arising in you, uncoils its energy, that is the moment to be courageous, to be daring. Take the risk, and only then more and more life will happen to you. If you recoil, if you obstruct your energy, the same energy will start becoming frozen.

That’s what bioenergetics people go on destroying — that rocklike armour around you. You wanted to love but somehow you obstructed it. The energy that was going out cannot go back to the source. There is no way for it to go back. If you are going to be angry and the energy has to come to the hand to hit the person, to slap the person, and you don’t slap but go on smiling, the energy will be retained in the hand.  It cannot go back — there is no way. That energy will become a heavy load on the hand. It will destroy the beauty and the grace of the hand. It will make your hand dead.

So whenever an energy arises, go with it. If it is something which can be dangerous to somebody — for example, if it is anger — then go into your room, beat a pillow.  But do something. There is no need to be destructive to anybody, don’t be violent to anybody, but you can be violent with a pillow. Your energy will be released and you will feel fresh energy flowing. Never hold in any energy.

When you are giving energy to life, life goes on giving energy to you. This is the ecology, the inner ecology. Energy moves in a circle. Life gives to you, you give it back; life gives you more, you give it more. And the circle continues. It is like the river which flows into the ocean, then moves to the clouds, and then again rains on the mountains, and flows again in the river to the ocean. And the circle continues — there is no obstruction anywhere.