You focus on your beliefs, ‘shoulds’ and parental voices internalised in the mind. You realise that the brain has registered these ideas, and you have identified yourself by accepting them as your own.
An important part of the work is becoming aware of the effects of these messages and the reasons why you listen to them, to begin putting more distance between yourself so that you can slowly disidentify.
The mind wants to have an agenda and guarantees: to do a workshop and be free forever. We all have the magical belief and hope that someone or something can solve our restlessness in a split second without any sorrow or effort on our part. The child in us waits for the blue fairy to perform the miracle with her magic wand.
It is impossible to tell how long it takes to complete the process triggered by Primal work; each growth is individual.
In any case, this question becomes irrelevant after a while: you begin a process of transformation in which you awaken your vitality and become more curious and more interested in discovering your inner reality than in achieving a goal.
Primal themes also emerge in other courses: in a way, all our problems are Primal issues because everything started in childhood.
A Primal workshop is neither the end nor the beginning of the healing process of the past.
A significant transformation occurs during the course and will continue if you allow it.
Most people who have gone through this process say that significant and radical changes have occurred afterwards.
“That’s what the meaning of Primal Therapy is: you have to go back, regress. Wherever something has gone wrong, you have to re-traverse the path, move to that point, undo that knot and move again.”