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Life the Hidden Template, Life Energy the Driving Force, Grounding the Action

Pages 54-67
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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The author suggests that, in the aftermath of the proliferation of new personal change systems in the 1970s and 1980s, many practitioners concentrated on pathology and problems. This meant that some early transactional analysts missed the opportunity to explore the nature of physis (Berne, 1947) fully as a living force, including its origins and how to use it in everyday life. In this article, based on the author’s extensive exposure to Eastern teachers and his therapeutic training and experience, the term life energy replaces physis, having Life as its origin and grounding as a powerful way to harness it in everyday living. The author claims that grounding makes daily life much easier and more fulfilling because it produces palpable physical, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual balance. The oneness, completion, fulfillment, and healing in these changes are so profound because they arise from Life mysteriously drawing us into itself.

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Ken Mellor

Author Biography
Ken Mellor, Dip. Soc. Studs., BA, trained with Bob and Mary Goulding and Jacqui Schiff as his cosponsors. Awarded his TSTA (psychotherapy) in 1975, he has continued developing TA since then. His emphasis is on integrating elements of theory and practice, within and outside of TA. A regular contributor to the Transactional Analysis Journal and an Eric Berne Award corecipient in 1980, he trained for 35 years with four Eastern masters and is now empowered to initiate others. He has also presented this learning to TA teachers, practitioners, and trainees. A member of the ITAA since 1970, he still teaches internationally. He is a prize-winning author published in more than 30 languages. In 2016 he was awarded the Muriel James Living Principles Award. Ken and his wife, Elizabeth, lead The Awakening Network, which is based in Victoria, Australia. He can be reached at PO Box 271, Seymour, Victoria 3661, Australia; email: .
 

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