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