Psychotherapy: a journey towards integration and balance

The human journey, LIFE, is an adventure packed with all sort of emotions. While some of these emotions invigorate us and support our wellbeing, others drain us and even may make us ill.  In fact, one of the greatest evolutionary outcomes that human beings have to achieve from a very young age is finding efficient mechanisms to regulate our emotions, so that we can come from a state of hyperarousal back to homeostasis and balance. 

The way that each human being achieves balance is unique and depends both on external and internal circumstances. Sometimes, the external circumstances are so overwhelming that they seem to surpass one’s ability for finding balance. This can be the case of dealing with a disabling chronic condition, either one’s own or one of somebody in the family, or grieving over a traumatic or sudden death of a loved one, facing bankruptcy, etc. At other times, it is one’s nature that is more sensitive and receptive than average, and the nervous system is more prone to collapse after reaching a certain stimuli threshold.  In an increasingly complex, fast paced, and demanding society, being highly sensitivity may become a disadvantage for adaptation. Nonetheless, both these external and internal difficulties are also great opportunities for personal growth and evolution. 

For me, an effective Mind-Body-Spirit Psychology is that which assists people to understand their own particular circumstances, both internal and external, and that which provides tools to find balance while still engaging the passionate adventure of self-discovery. That is, a psychology that leads one to find strength and the other hidden treasures of one’s psyche in what at first appeared as a weakness or shortcoming.