Alessandra Merizzi - Clinical Psychologist, Gestalt Psychotherapist

This is my professional page where I share psychology /psychotherapy news, articles and events. Focus on your breathing and your body, let's start.

Why focus on your breathing and your body? Because basically we are animals, earth creatures: by our evolution, we started to high develop our brain and study comfortable ways of living our life. Doing that and using the verbal dialogue as exclusive way of communication we started to make confusion within the famous Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Now a days the need of giving a verbal meaning to our experience, thus a value and a qualitatitve-quantitative measure, seems to be the most important one. Since we are a child we learn to give extreme importance to this need and often we sacrifice the recognition of our most important needs, thus we boycott our feelings, our body sensations that are linked to these needs. We learn to be "thinking creatures" and we tend to forget that we are animals, that we are a body and a mind all together in a single body continuously interacting with our environment. If, for instance, we look at our cat we can see how he never forget it!
So lets start to re-learn some body awareness of being in the world in the here and now, also whilst you are reading this page!