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Art therapy for sub personalities.

Posted May 2nd, 2009 by The World is Li...
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Subpersonalities

This is more of an inquiry than a blog post.

One of my practice modules is doing The Work (of Byron katie) and it is helping me tremedously.


However, after many session certain themes becomes apparant and certain "sub personalities" or traits occur again and again- for example, for me: The desparate one\depair, or (this is more of a quality than a personality): giving to much credit for "futility" (as in, avoiding in the guise because the activity is futile).

Anyway.... At some stage, all these issues, thoughts, cognitive ignorance, become pure nonverbal emotion  or feeling. And I was wondering if anyone has any direction, or guidance, or reference, to a resource from which I could draw inspiration for further exercises that can relate to this
non\pre-verbal emotion material, my intuition is that expressive 'art' therapy can help if I know what I am doing so to speak...

 

Any thoughts?

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Posted May 2nd, 2009 by Kamm

Hi

Is it possible for you to observe some "trigger" which is generally present when that sub-personality you mentioned begins to emerge? Is it something you can quantify, or make an analogy for? Is it possible to either personify it, or create an icon which represents it, in your mind?   Then, you might either draw, or paint, or sculpt or write about it.

I have had some success with this kind of thing.

A friend suggested I  paint 'fear' and then  that I might cover it over, and black it out.

No matter what, its bound to be fun.

"can you just let go the Judgment of it?" words from Baron Baptiste

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...but then again, maybe I do.

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art therapy

Posted May 4th, 2009 by David Marshall

I think this is a pretty interesting idea, art therapy for sub personalities.

I once had a conversation about this with another integrally informed person who is very evolved, gentle, kind, etc. but, being a man or a particular type of man, has violent impulses that are supressed by his culture, the law, his own sense of ethics, etc. He deals with it by watching violent movies and playing music with violent lyrics.

Neither of us knew for sure whether this therapy worked, but we both seemed to agree that it might. There may be something to the idea of "exercising" subpersonalities a little without acting on them.

Often we hear that violence in movies and violence in sports will increase violent action, but is this so? Could it have the opposite effect?

Of course after a point this sort of thing could end up feeding a subpersonality, perhaps.

I have heard of "role playing" in therapy--is that what this involves?

Are there any other sorts of therapy like this?

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ideas for working expressively with sub personality

Posted July 28th, 2010 by phillipa reeve

I come from a psychosynthesis background (which works with sub personalities) and am training in expressive therapies.

There are so many ways to explore and develop a relationship with this part of yoursel (of course just a model not a reality, but useful all the same) Ideas that spring up are perhaps connecting with the SP through moving, taking whatever form or movement that seems to express it, dancing it, really connecting with the embodied expression.

Then maybe drawing the experience or paint or scuplt.

Could then connect in to a part of the art that holds charge for you and allow yourself to hear what it has to say, looking at things like it's worldview, what it needs and wants. The theory is it holds a quality, a pattern of energy that is available for expression when the need is met, an opening to more of yourself.