Keeping the Inner Children Safe

“Trevor” was a multi-millionaire shipping magnate, from Melbourne, and depressed to the point of suicide. Having built up his business, he wanted only to pass it to his sons, who were not interested. His marriage was in tatters because of all the time and energy he spent at work, and “Trevor” had lost touch with the meaning of life — to seek joy.

This was the day the “Ancient Child” technique came into focus. I’d been hired at an ultra high-end stress clinic in Santa Monica, doing body-mind integration work. Even though most of the other experts were Phd psychologists and neuralfeedback specialists, they often brought me the most difficult cases, as my approach avoided the scrambled concepts and values that filled a client’s head with tangled spaghetti, and just looked at a few simple things: did they have contact with their physical survival drives? Were their physical and emotional needs aligned? Were their hearts and heads aligned: their emotions and their “hunting and gathering” and problem solving?

Yes? Then all I had to do was teach them to breathe and move properly, and if their energies, emotions, and minds are aligned, they automatically improve. Unlike the mind, the body doesn’t lie. He was very much an Alpha male, bluff and sunburnt and muscular, and he tested me, and I put him on the ground with my hands on his trachea, and the phrase “rolled over and…