The Impact of Embrace Therapy® in the Light of Transactional Analysis on the Closure of Needs ("Strokes") of the Inner Child, Changing the Perspective of Assessing the Situation and Releasing Difficult Emotions Cover Image

Wpływ Embrace Therapy® w ujęciu analizy transakcyjnej na domknięcie potrzeb („głasków”) wewnętrznego dziecka, zmianę perspektywy oceny sytuacji i uwolnienie trudnych emocji
The Impact of Embrace Therapy® in the Light of Transactional Analysis on the Closure of Needs ("Strokes") of the Inner Child, Changing the Perspective of Assessing the Situation and Releasing Difficult Emotions

Author(s): Dagmara Szymańska
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Uniwersytet Jana Długosza w Częstochowie
Keywords: transactional analysis, embrace therapy; inner child; spirituality; biofeedback

Summary/Abstract: The Embrace Therapy® (ET) method is correlated with the concept of Transactional Analysis (TA®), which is currently considered to be one of the most holistic approaches to personality. Transactional analysis (TA), as a theory of the egostates (Parent, Adult, Child), provides a coherent and simple system for determining one's own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, both in relation-ships with other people and with oneself. Its practical therapeutic application touches on work and communication with the Inner Child (the Child ego state), which is the most primal and essen-tial component of every personality. The ET® method combines the mental and spiritual aspects and is used to communicate with the Inner Child (IC) from the level of the Divine Parent (DP), i.e. Spiritual Consciousness, which in the concept of TA corresponds to the Adult ego state. The ET® method isused to release difficult emotions such as fear, anxiety, shame, guilt, powerlessness, anger, rage, sadness, grief.It offers an opportunity to release emotions from memories of the distant or near past, from the present, and from imagined fears for the future, as well as to change the perspective of an event. The empirical part of the article presents the results of research based on reports from brain wave recordings before and after ET® sessions, which indicate a significant reduction in stress and an increase in tranquility and calm in the subjects. The Biofeedback meas-urement method was used to study 8 volunteers. In the study, the parameters of all 8 waves (Delta, Theta, Alpha, SMR, Beta 1, Beta2, HiBeta, as well as Gamma) were measured and conclu-sions were drawn from the reports of these studies.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 121-148
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: English
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