Holistic Health Clinics Sligo County

Gerda Boyesen the founder of Biodynamic Psychology and Psychotherapy discovered that the gut has an additional function, which is not only to digest food, but also to digest the bio-chemical by-products of stress, life experiences and emotional events, including trauma or abuse. She named this function “psycho-peristalsis”. This term was chosen to indicate the psychodynamic aspects of the peristaltic function and to acknowledge the neurological, psychological and emotional components of the digestive process.She went on to discover that the by-products of stress accumulate and get stuck or trapped in the normal fluids of the body and change their composition. She coined the term “energetic nervous fluid” (ENF) to distinguish this from normal body fluids because the body fluids now contain hormonal remnants and biochemical residues – leading to tissue armour or numbness and stasis. These by-products, if left in the body, can lead to dysfunction and eventually, disease. Gerda Boyesen developed a range of biodynamic methods including biodynamicmassage’ (placing a loudspeaker stethoscope on the abdomen of the client during the massage to listen to and monitor the sounds of psycho-peristalsis) which includes‘emptying’. This treatment is designed to help the body to “empty” energetic nervous fluid and to assist the natural elimination of potentially harmful nervous energetic fluid from all cells and processes in the body. Emptying is a regenerative treatment, often leading to feelings of cleansing, relaxation, peace and relief.