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Spiritual Psychosis and the Journey of Recovery. An introduction to the work of Anthony Fidler.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOjqrkbt5yI
In this video conversation, Anthony & Nick, a friend and experienced therapist discuss the life journey Anthony went through between university in 1989 with anxiety and depression though to burnout, and then 9 years of spiritual non-ordinary states / 'psychosis' up to 2010 when they met side by side in a Holotropic Breathwork (TM) about to intentionally enter into a non-ordinary state together.
Anthony explains a bit of the background to this choice, having gone through a near suicide situation while on medication late 2001 and coming off Risperidone early 2002, and then finding himself in a state at times of 'not believing' he was alive.
This seemed to lead to a death-rebirth process 'being required' in further non-ordinary states in Thailand and then Rishikesh, India. Anthony discusses his own birth trauma and felt the attention given to 'rebirthing' himself in Rishikesh significant and healthy.
He felt that that year's HB was a clean up of this process. His first session in 2009, having focused on the climax of his first 'episode', which was an extreme hospital trauma.
His last major 'natural' episode in 2008 in Northern Thailand had been a dark night of the soul experience and had persuaded him that supported inner journey work was a wise option to process whatever inner mess was causing the 'natural' episodes.
It worked and after 2010, with the exception of fairly minor destabilizations, the major pattern seemed no longer 'necessary' and stopped. A natural recovery from 'psychosis', when my psychiatrist's advice had been to take his medications for life!
Alongside this, Anthony discusses his journey with Zen, Tai Chi and Japanese Hara Training and Bodywork which helped him integrate his life challenges and strengthen his resilience. He mentions his Japanese teacher Kishi and Sei Ki: www.seiki.org.uk.
There is a brief introduction to Anthony's move into teaching, first with mindfulness courses for stress, then for people with extreme emotional pain and trauma and then on to people labelled with serious 'psychiatric' issues - bipolar, paranoid schizophrenia, acute psychosis, sexual abuse traumas etc. He doesn't do labels. He also gave many presentations for clinicians in Switzerland, Brazil and the UK.
Anthony finishes off with a brief presentation of his work now which is at the stage of shaping into three projects:
www.sensitive-being.com which is an exploration of self-identity and its importance for mental health well-being along with the necessity of journeying to grow and heal to 'recover'. He offers an alternative to the medicalization of suffering.
http://www.heart-touch.net: a community based project where people can safely be authentically human. Working with practices to clean emotion from the body and come to a good feeling through the breath, voice, mindfulness, spontaneous movement and expression practices and resonance based touch connection practices. Along with a cup of tea and a compassionate chat. He believes this would reduce the suicide rate, ease pressure on psychiatric services, cut the bill for anti-depressants and generally improve the quality of many people's lives.
Finally he discusses the Weathering Storms project which wraps the HeartTouch work in a more clinically supported framework to help people through acute extreme states and traumas. It also covers cognitive frameworks for navigation non-ordinary experience safely.
I hope eventually there will be no need to reach out for anti-psychotics medications when someone experiences spiritual crisis / trauma journeys.
Along the way Nick & Anthony have a good chat about the whole theme and plenty of laughter, so please enjoy!
Thank you to Nick for his support.
© Anthony Fidler May 2022 (All Rights Reserved)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOjqrkbt5yI
In this video conversation, Anthony & Nick, a friend and experienced therapist discuss the life journey Anthony went through between university in 1989 with anxiety and depression though to burnout, and then 9 years of spiritual non-ordinary states / 'psychosis' up to 2010 when they met side by side in a Holotropic Breathwork (TM) about to intentionally enter into a non-ordinary state together.
Anthony explains a bit of the background to this choice, having gone through a near suicide situation while on medication late 2001 and coming off Risperidone early 2002, and then finding himself in a state at times of 'not believing' he was alive.
This seemed to lead to a death-rebirth process 'being required' in further non-ordinary states in Thailand and then Rishikesh, India. Anthony discusses his own birth trauma and felt the attention given to 'rebirthing' himself in Rishikesh significant and healthy.
He felt that that year's HB was a clean up of this process. His first session in 2009, having focused on the climax of his first 'episode', which was an extreme hospital trauma.
His last major 'natural' episode in 2008 in Northern Thailand had been a dark night of the soul experience and had persuaded him that supported inner journey work was a wise option to process whatever inner mess was causing the 'natural' episodes.
It worked and after 2010, with the exception of fairly minor destabilizations, the major pattern seemed no longer 'necessary' and stopped. A natural recovery from 'psychosis', when my psychiatrist's advice had been to take his medications for life!
Alongside this, Anthony discusses his journey with Zen, Tai Chi and Japanese Hara Training and Bodywork which helped him integrate his life challenges and strengthen his resilience. He mentions his Japanese teacher Kishi and Sei Ki: www.seiki.org.uk.
There is a brief introduction to Anthony's move into teaching, first with mindfulness courses for stress, then for people with extreme emotional pain and trauma and then on to people labelled with serious 'psychiatric' issues - bipolar, paranoid schizophrenia, acute psychosis, sexual abuse traumas etc. He doesn't do labels. He also gave many presentations for clinicians in Switzerland, Brazil and the UK.
Anthony finishes off with a brief presentation of his work now which is at the stage of shaping into three projects:
www.sensitive-being.com which is an exploration of self-identity and its importance for mental health well-being along with the necessity of journeying to grow and heal to 'recover'. He offers an alternative to the medicalization of suffering.
http://www.heart-touch.net: a community based project where people can safely be authentically human. Working with practices to clean emotion from the body and come to a good feeling through the breath, voice, mindfulness, spontaneous movement and expression practices and resonance based touch connection practices. Along with a cup of tea and a compassionate chat. He believes this would reduce the suicide rate, ease pressure on psychiatric services, cut the bill for anti-depressants and generally improve the quality of many people's lives.
Finally he discusses the Weathering Storms project which wraps the HeartTouch work in a more clinically supported framework to help people through acute extreme states and traumas. It also covers cognitive frameworks for navigation non-ordinary experience safely.
I hope eventually there will be no need to reach out for anti-psychotics medications when someone experiences spiritual crisis / trauma journeys.
Along the way Nick & Anthony have a good chat about the whole theme and plenty of laughter, so please enjoy!
Thank you to Nick for his support.
© Anthony Fidler May 2022 (All Rights Reserved)