Do you need to gain or regain self-confidence? Are you stressed/anxious? Do you need to meaning and priorities in your life ? Do you need to work on your values or creativity?
You're facing a life challenge and need support (bereavement, burn out, separation, life change, pregnancy, pain...)?
Thanks to personalized tools and tailor-made support, sophrology can help you find/retrieve your inner harmony and achieve your goals.
Sophrology at the Clinique Naturelle with Célia Lobo (ASCA).
What is sophrology?
"The aim of sophrological techniques is to strengthen the human being's ability to live his existence in harmony with himself and with the world." Alfonso Caycedo - Psychiatrist, Neurologist & Founder of Sophrology
Sophrology is an existential pedagogy that gives meaning to our lives. Its aim: to achieve a certain level of harmony and develop the values of the individual.
This is a :
- psycho-corporal
- with immediate benefits
- which acts on both body and mind.
She guides you towards greater awareness of body, emotions and mindgreater confidence and genuine well-being in everyday life.
It is inspired by existential phenomenology and has three facets: educational, prophylactic and therapeutic. It is used in health sciences, education, sports and personal development.
Through its breathing exercises and dynamic relaxation, the practice of sophrology acts directly on the parasympathetic nervous system, inducing a state of physical and mental relaxation, reducing stress and improving digestion, fluid circulation and sleep.
Sophrology applications
- develop self-confidence and self-esteem
- improve stress stress
- welcoming emotions
- cope anxiety
- facilitate and maintain calm
- improve sleep sleep
- energize
- unleash creativity
- encourage mental preparation for important events (exams, interviews, competitions, etc.)
- facilitate pain management and convalescence
- preparing forchildbirth and supporting the perinatal process perinatal process
- supporting the stages and trials of life
- preventing or recovering from burnout
- regain balance in your life (relationship, family, work, etc.)
- developing potential and creativity
- improve concentration
- support weight loss by working on your specific issues (motivation, food cravings, stress, self-confidence)
- improve the quality of life of tinnitus sufferers
Sophrology protocol
Anamnesis - First session
Sophrotherapy begins with an initial anamnesis session, to better understand your needs, define your objectives and set up a therapeutic contract. This is followed by a session to discover sophrology.
This session will enable us to create a customized protocol to meet your needs.
Therapy
Each therapy session is focused on a specific intention, which has been established in advance with the therapist, and which will enable you to make gradual progress towards achieving your goals. Depending on your needs, Celia can also incorporate coaching exercises.
A session of sophrology
- Home exchanges around the issues and objectives of the day
- Dynamic Relaxation Gentle exercises performed in synchronization with breathing to help relax body and mind.
- Sophronization visualization exercise
- Phenodescription phase of exchange allowing you to express your feelings during the exercises.
- Closing exchanges and setting up the after session
Good to know
Sophrology is an effective practice with immediate benefits, which requires regular training, known as sophro-training, outside the sessions with the therapist, for deep, lasting effects.
Throughout the sessions, your practice will evolve in stages:
- Discovery - discovering the exercise. first impressions
- Appropriation - integration of the exercise, new, more precise sensations
- Transformation - awareness, anchoring positive feelings, new sensations of well-being
The foundations of sophrology
The term "sophrology" was coined in 1960 by its founder, the neuropsychiatrist Alfonso Caycedo (1932- 2017). It was originally used to designate the hypnosis techniques used by psychiatrists in hospitals. It was not until 1967 that sophrology as we know it today was born.
To enrich existing hypnosis protocols, Dr Caycedo drew inspiration from Eastern body, breathing and mental techniques, and combined them with Western scientific medicine. This is what makes sophrology so complete and effective.
Methods that inspired Dr Caycedo:
- Psychiatry - Psychoanalysis - Neurology
- Hypnosis: Dr Caycedo's first complementary method
- Jacobson's progressive relaxation: releasing muscular tension
- Yoga: stimulating breathing and relaxing muscles
- Schultz autogenic training: self-relaxation through suggestion
- Méthode Coué: positive thinking
- Tibetan Buddhism: an invitation to contemplation
- Japanese Zen: meditation practice
- Greek philosophy: including Plato, Aristotle and Hippocrates
- Phenomenology : learning non-judgment
Initially practised exclusively in hospitals by doctors, sophrology was totally democratized in 1977, when training was opened up to non-physicians, allowing the discipline to become truly emancipated.
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The 4 degrees of sophrology
Sophrology comprises 12 degrees, the first four of which are used in therapeutic support.
With the help of dynamic relaxation exercises and visualizations, known as sophronizations, we explore these four degrees, enabling us to work in a truly phenomenological way*:
DEGRÉ I • Vivance** du Corps
Concentrative relaxation
Inspired by Hindu techniques such as yoga
Better concentration and body perception
DEGRÉ II • Vivance de l’Esprit
Contemplative relaxation
Inspired by Tibetan Buddhist techniques
Mindfulness and self-image enhancement
DEGRÉ III • Vivance de la Rencontre du Corps et de l’Esprit
Reflective relaxation
Inspired by Japanese Zen techniques
Meditation and integration of body-mind patterns
DEGRÉ IV • Vivance de la Totalisation
Social relaxation
Inspired by phenomenology
Development of existential and individual values
*Phenomenological: learning to be non-judgmental
**Life: Also refers to the presence of the living or the perception of the living in consciousness.
We talk about sophrology in this article "What is sophrology?
Sophrology has immediate benefits, but requires regular training, known as sophro-training, outside the sessions with the therapist, for deep, lasting effects.
Through its breathing and dynamic relaxation exercises, inspired by meditation, the practice of sophrology acts directly on the parasympathetic nervous system and induces a state of physical and mental relaxation which can act at different levels, such as improving digestion, sleep and stress reduction...
Although there are currently no large-scale studies* demonstrating its efficacy, patients' accounts of their sophrology practice are very encouraging and positive.
Breathing exercises (such as cardiac coherence) and meditation have been shown to have very positive effects on our bodies, activating our parasympathetic system and reducing our stress levels.