The Psychology of Symptoms

The Psychology of Symptoms We cannot control all of what happens to us externally, but we can control and manage our internal responses to life's challenges.

The Psychology of Symptoms (POS) is a body-mind centered psychotherapy and healing process that helps you identify how the stressors in your life are contributing to your physical symptomology. The POS process helps you identify how you can use your awareness and presence to heal and balance repressed emotions, the inability to set clear boundaries, and over-identification with self sacrificing ro

les and patterns that prevent us from being present to our emotional needs. These three factors have been identified as significant contributing sources of many common medical problems. The Psychology of Symptoms is a psychospiritual process that is based on the fundamental principles that we are all loved, lovable and enough just as we are. We are whole, perfect, and made in the image and likeness of the Divine. With that said, we all experience "wounding" as children in that we are loved with conditions and not seen or heard for the essence that we are. Everyday in my practice I witness self sacrificing behaviors as roles or "Selves" we develop in early childhood to compensate for a perceived emotional threat...most commonly the perceived threat that we will not be fully loved unless we behave and act in a compromised form of self denial. This manifests in us the need to adopt roles or strategies to get the love we want and need. We become locked into the role of pleasers, caretakers, rebels, responsible ones, overachievers, perfectionists and helpers to secure the love, approval and acceptance we know we need to survive and grow. The Psychology of Symptoms is a dynamic body-centered process that helps you embody ways of being that are more balanced and afford you the opportunity to secure getting your emotional needs met. As a result dramatic changes can occur in your physiology, including improved immune and hormonal functioning, and restoring balance to your central nervous system. Through POS, many common psychosomatic illnesses such as headaches, migraine's, neuromuscular problems, skin rashes, acne, ulcerative colitis, insomnia, sexual dysfunction, fibromyalgia, anxiety, depression and other disorders can begin to be resolved in an integrative sustainable way.

Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; Let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow. ~ Kahlil Gibran
08/10/2012

Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; Let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow. ~ Kahlil Gibran

"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." - James Bryant Conant
08/10/2012

"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." - James Bryant Conant

Decreasing the charge in reactive patterns is one of my core goals in couples counseling. http://bit.ly/OZ2CqO
08/10/2012

Decreasing the charge in reactive patterns is one of my core goals in couples counseling. http://bit.ly/OZ2CqO

Douglas' relationship counseling is to create a safe space where both peoples needs, wants, resentments, pain, concerns, and dreams can be deeply heard...

Personal Retreat Sessions with Douglas Brady are a unique cutting edge experience in body-mind psychology and healing. h...
08/10/2012

Personal Retreat Sessions with Douglas Brady are a unique cutting edge experience in body-mind psychology and healing. http://bit.ly/O7lpAZ

Personal retreats are fashioned for your specific condition(s). Acts as a take home pain remedy. 30 years experience and intuition as a body-mind therapist.

Modern medicine has confirmed, what I have intuitively known for decades, the Body and the Mind are inseparable. http://...
08/10/2012

Modern medicine has confirmed, what I have intuitively known for decades, the Body and the Mind are inseparable. http://bit.ly/PIeE67

Did you know that over 90% of Doctors visits are due to health problems caused by stress?
08/10/2012

Did you know that over 90% of Doctors visits are due to health problems caused by stress?

Just returned from teaching a 4 day Workshop in Boulder, CO. with one of my best friends, Marc David. Surrounded by Beau...
08/10/2012

Just returned from teaching a 4 day Workshop in Boulder, CO. with one of my best friends, Marc David. Surrounded by Beautiful Souls, The Divine was definitely present.

3 Spiritual Keys for Healthy Living
08/07/2012

3 Spiritual Keys for Healthy Living

Do you suffer from Headaches, backaches, neck and shoulder tension or other neuromuscular pain? Do you have reoccurring symptoms that do not respond to traditional medical intervention?

08/07/2012
Boushra Dalile is published, undergraduate psychology student. Boushra and Line Dalile, born in Syria, are 15 and 13 yea...
08/07/2012

Boushra Dalile is published, undergraduate psychology student. Boushra and Line Dalile, born in Syria, are 15 and 13 years old home-schooled students. Line speaks Arabic, English, Chinese and German while Boushra speaks Arabic, English, Italian and French. They both have a beautiful message in this Tedx video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEXyZYarpXc

About The Speaker: Boushra and Line Dalile are 15 and 13 years old home-schooled students. They were born in Syria and have lived in the UAE since 2005. They...

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.” -Rumi
08/06/2012

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field.
I will meet you there.” -Rumi

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08/03/2012

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08/02/2012

Let me know what you think about my new website: http://PsychologyofSymptoms.com

Modern medicine has confirmed what I have intuitively known for decades. The Body and the Mind are inseparable. Our repressed emotions, our early childhood survival strategies, our fears, disappointments, grief, and anger all have a direct and profound effect on our physiology and subsequently on ou...

In Beautiful Boulder, CO. teaching a 4 day Workshop: The Psychology of Symptoms - A Deep Dive into Eating Issues with my...
08/02/2012

In Beautiful Boulder, CO. teaching a 4 day Workshop: The Psychology of Symptoms - A Deep Dive into Eating Issues with my dear friend Marc David. Love and Blessings to all...

Marc David and Douglas Brady are teaming up to present a powerful 4-day workshop that combines each of their unique bodies of work. This promises to be a powerful time together. We’ll be calling upon the wisdom of mind-body science, psychology, and soul-directed healing modalities to help catalyze l...

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the sm...
07/30/2012

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of
caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
― Leo Buscaglia
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