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Documents en lien avec la Méthode Grinberg
- Transformer la douleur (en anglais)
- Le code éthique des praticiens de la Méthode Grinberg (en Français)
- Directives professionnelles de l'association des praticiens de la Méthode Grinberg (en Français)
- Le manuel de l'étudiant de la Méthode Grinberg (en Français)
Articles de presse
- Article sur Plurielles.fr - Nov 2011
- Ma Santé - CH - Juin 2009. Découvrir la méthode Grinberg
- Ma santé - CH - Avril 2010 - Le corps : un allié étonnant.
- Le blog des Paresseuses.
- Elle UK - 2007 - Meet the foot reader
- Health and Fitness - UK - The Grinberg Method
- DW - Germany - 2012 (en anglais et en français). Challenging 'talking therapies' on fear an pain.
En français, ICI.
Radio :
- WRS - Health Matters: Using Grinberg Method to heal from abusive childhood (en anglais)
Certaines articles sont reproduits plus bas.
Article paru sur le site de DW - 2012 (en anglais)
http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,16219102,00.html
HEALT
Challenging 'talking therapies' on fear and pain
No
matter what we do, fear and pain are part of life. But the Grinberg Method -
which is taking off in Berlin - says we should focus on fear and pain rather
than avoid them.
Whether it's stubbing a big toe, suffering chronic pain, or
struggling with the loss of a loved one, we experience fear and pain both
emotionally and physically.
If we go to a physiotherapist or a psychologist, they're likely
to only treat one or the other symptom - the physical pain or the stress.
But the Grinberg Method says that by changing our attitude to
pain and fear, we can address those physical symptoms, while at the same time
improving our emotional and mental wellbeing.
"Worse
than the pain itself"
Jörg Seifarth is a German project manager and professional
climber. Last year he started suffering from severe elbow pain and tried
everything from physiotherapy and painkillers. But after 6 months he was afraid
he'd damaged his elbow permanently and began to despair.
"My personal reaction to the pain was actually worse than
the pain itself because it kept me from working out hard and it frustrated me
and it was really depressing," says Seifarth.
Then he took part in a Grinberg Method chronic pain project in
Berlin.
Seifarth found the method quite unconventional at first, but the
pain was almost gone after the sessions. He learned new techniques, which he
has integrated into his warm-ups.
The Grinberg Method is a physical discipline that asks 'clients'
to focus on the pain
Other people came in suffering migraines, lower back pain, neck
pain, shoulder pain and knee pain. Three months after the project ended 72
percent of the 180 participants reported that their pain was still
significantly reduced.
"Often when we have pain we hold our breath and try not to
move in a way that would create more pain, and a lot of times exactly this kind
of effort is what makes the pain stay and get worse," says Emily Poel, a
Berlin-based Grinberg practitioner who worked on the project.
Practitioners try to show their "clients" where they
are holding a particular tension or "effort" against pain. They then
ask them to hold it and exaggerate it. The aim is to teach the person to
recognize what their muscles have been doing automatically so that they can
stop the reaction in future.
"It's much more than just awareness," says another
Grinberg practitioner, Eylam Langotsky, "It's a physical discipline."
Practitioners then teach their clients ways to deal with the
pain and fear, which include breathing and relaxation techniques and how to
move in different ways.
Teaching
vs. fixing
The Grinberg Method was founded by Avi Grinberg in the 1980s. He
had trained as a nurse and studied many different disciplines, including
reflexology, yoga and martial arts.
But after working with people suffering from chronic health
problems for a number of years, Grinberg began asking a different set of
questions.
Langotsky says the method is about teaching rather than
"fixing" people - and that requires different questions.
"Which kind of tools should we give people? Which kind of
discipline should they train in order to get better? And how can they take back
the responsibility over their bodies and into their own hands, while the
practitioner is actually guiding them, rather than healing them," says
Langotsky.
Grinberg clients say the method also helps them reconnect with
their bodies.
Just as we try to avoid feeling pain - we also tend to avoid things
that
scare us - but they happen anyway. Whether it's a car crash, an
abusive relationship, the death of a loved one, or dealing with personal
failure - all these things can leave emotional and physical scars that affect
our confidence and our relationships with others.
Grinberg says we need to change the way we relate to fear and
pain
Anna Schmutte tried Chi Gong, Tai Chi, yoga, homeopathy and
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy before trying the Grinberg Method. She says all
the other disciplines and therapies helped her up to a point but that the
Grinberg Method has given her more practical tools to gain strength and clarity
in her life.
"When I started I felt much more a victim of circumstances
in many situations than I feel now. I have so many tools now. It's just not an
option for me anymore to see myself as weak," says Schmutte.
Mind
and body
While traditional psychology and psychiatry focus on a person's
history and re-telling the story of an event, the Grinberg Method aims to teach
people how to identify how stressful events were originally experienced by the
body - and how those events continue to manifest themselves in bodily reactions
like holding one's breath or tensing certain areas.
"It's not that we are teaching a person to be confident,
but we know that if they will stop their insecurities they will be naturally
confident," says Vered Manasse, who runs the Grinberg School with Claudia
Glowik in Berlin. "So if we're looking at people who went through abusive
trauma in childhood, it's not that I have to teach them to be stronger, but I
have to teach them how to stop becoming insecure in certain situations and how
to stop interpreting a situation today as if it's something that happened in
the past."
Glowik also heads the International Association of Grinberg
Practitioners. She says it's important to help people reclaim their bodies as a
means of dealing with fear.
"You can imagine that with such a history, people have a
very disturbed way of how to relate to their own body. There was so much pain
inflicted and it's very clear that certain symptoms developed through the years
because of that kind of history," says Glowik.
No
substitute
But this method is not for everyone. Different people require
different kinds of help.
Glowik says the Grinberg Method is no substitute for medical
treatment or psychological help - and when necessary, practitioners refer their
clients to the appropriate professionals.
"The Grinberg Method is not like a recipe against fear or
that you will never be insecure again in your life. It doesn't teach you
something that you can now believe in and do it always like that," says
Schmutte. "Actually what you learn is that you take responsibility for
yourself in whichever situation you encounter in your life. And this means a
lot of independence, a lot of freedom, and a lot of self-discipline."
Date 04.09.2012
Author Cinnamon Nippard,
Berlin
Editor Zulfikar Abbany
Article paru sur le site de DW - 2012 (en français)
Une thérapie qui nous challenge avec la peur et la douleur
Peu importe ce que nous
faisons, la peur et la douleur font partie de la vie. Mais la méthode Grinberg
dit qu’il faut plutôt focaliser sur la peur et la douleur que de vouloir les
éviter.
Que ce soit de se cogner le gros orteil, souffrir d’une
douleur chronique, ou de lutter avec la perte d’un être cher, nous
expérimentons la peur et la douleur à la fois émotionnellement et physiquement.
Si l’on va voir un physiothérapiste ou un psychothérapeute, ils vont
probablement ne traiter qu’un seul de ces symptômes : la douleur physique
ou bien le stress.
Mais la méthode Grinberg dit qu’en changeant notre attitude
à la douleur et à la peur, nous pouvons nous adressez aux symptômes physiques
en même temps que l’on améliore notre bien-être émotionnel et mental.
« Pire que la douleur
elle-même »
Jörg Seifarth est un chef de projet allemand et un grimpeur
professionnel. L’année dernière, il a commencé à souffrir d’une douleur au
coude et a essayé tout ce qu’il a trouvé depuis la psychothérapie jusqu’aux
médicaments anti-douleurs. Mais après 6 mois, il a eu peur d’avoir endommagé
définitivement son coude et a commencé à désespérer.
« Ma réaction personnelle à la douleur était en fait
pire que la douleur elle-même parce qu’elle m’empêchait de m’entraîner et cela
me frustrait et je devais vraiment déprimé », raconte Seifarth.
Puis il a participé à un projet de la Méthode Grinberg sur
les douleurs chroniques à Berlin.
Seifarth a trouvé la méthode assez peu conventionnelle au
début, mais la douleur est partie après les séances. Il a appris de nouvelles
techniques, qu’il a pu intégrer dans son échauffement.
La méthode Grinberg est une
discipline physique qui demande au client de focaliser sur la douleur
D’autres personnes sont venues avec des migraines, des
douleurs de dos, au niveau de la nuque, des épaules ou des genoux. Trois mois plus tard, 72 % des 180
participants ont rapporté que leur douleur s’était significativement réduite.
« Souvent quand nous avons mal, on retient sa
respiration et l’on essaie de bouger d’une manière qui va créer encore plus de
douleur. C’est exactement le genre d’efforts qui va faire que la douleur reste
et va même empirer», raconte Emily Poel, une praticienne de la Méthode Grinberg
basée à Berlin et qui travaillait sur ce projet.
Les praticiens essaient de montrer à leur client où ils
tiennent leur tension et les efforts pour ne pas sentir la douleur. Ils
demandent ensuite de les tenir et de les exagérer. Le but est d’enseigner à la
personne à reconnaître comment leurs muscles fonctionnent automatiquement afin
qu’ils puissent ensuite stopper la réaction dans le future.
« C’est plus encore qu’une conscience », raconte
un autre praticien de la Méthode Grinberg, Eylam Langotsky, « c’est une
discipline physique ».
Les praticiens enseignent ensuite à leurs clients
différentes manières de gérer la douleur et la peur, ce qui inclut de respirer,
des techniques de relaxation ou encore comment bouger de différentes manières.
« Enseigner contre
fixer »
La méthode Grinberg a été fondée par Avi Grinberg dans les
années 1980. Il s’est d’abord aguerri en tant qu’infirmier et a étudié
différentes disciplines comme la réflexologie, le yoga et les arts martiaux.
Mais après avoir travaillé avec des personnes souffrant de
problème physique chronique pendant de nombreuses années, Avi Grinberg a
commencé à se poser plusieurs questions.
Langotsky raconte que le but est plutôt d’enseigner aux
personnes que de les « fixer » - et cela pose différentes questions.
« Quel genre d’outils devraient être donnés aux
personnes ? Quel genre de discipline doivent-ils entraîner dans le but de
se sentir mieux ? Et comment peuvent-ils prendre la responsabilité de leur
propre corps, pendant que le praticien les guide plutôt que de les
guérir, » raconte Langotsky.
Les clients de la méthode Grinberg disent que la méthode les
aide aussi à se reconnecter avec leur corps. Comme nous essayons d’éviter de
sentir la douleur – nous avons aussi tendance à éviter les choses qui nous font
peur – mais elle arrive quoi qu’il en soit. Qu’il y est un accident de voiture,
une relation abusive ou des cicatrices physiques – toutes ces choses affectent
notre confiance en nous et nos relations avec les autres.
Grinberg dit que nous avons
besoin de changer notre relation à la peur et à la douleur
Anna Schmutte a essayé le Chi Gong, le TaiChi, le yoga,
l’homéopathie et la thérapie cognitive comportementale avant d’essayer la
Méthode Grinberg. Elle dit que toutes ces disciplines et thérapies l’ont aidée
jusqu’à un certain point mais que la Méthode Grinberg lui a donné plus d’outils
pratiques pour gagner de la force et de la clarté dans sa vie. « Quand
j’ai commencé, je me sentais beaucoup plus victime des circonstances dans
beaucoup de situations que maintenant. J’ai plus d’outils. Ce n’est juste plus
une option pour moi désormais de me voir comme faible », raconte Schmutte.
Esprit et corps
Pendant que la psychologie traditionnelle et la psychiatrie
focalisent sur l’histoire personnelle et la ré-écrire, les buts de la Méthode
Grinberg est d’enseigner aux personnes à identifier comment certains évènements
« stressants » ont été originellement expérimentés par le corps – et
comment ces évènements continuent de se manifester au travers de réactions de
notre corps, comme de retenir sa respiration ou de tendre certaines zones du
corps.
« Nous n’enseignons pas aux personnes à être confiance,
mais plutôt nous savons que si elles arrêtent leur insécurité, elles vont être
naturellement plus confiantes », raconte Vered Manasse, qui tient une
école de la Méthode Grinberg à Berlin avec Claudia Glowik. « Donc si on
regarde les personnes qui ont subi des traumatismes dans leur enfance, ce n’est
pas que je ne vais pas leur enseigner à être plus forte mais comment arrêter de
devenir insécurisé dans certaines situations et comment stopper d’interpréter
la situation d’aujourd’hui comme si c’était le passé . »
Glowik est également la présidente de l’Association
Internationale des Praticiens de la Méthode Grinberg. Elle dit que c’est
important d’aider les personnes à reconquérir leur corps comme un moyen de gérer la peur.
« Vous pouvez imaginer qu’avec des traumatismes, les
personnes peuvent avoir une relation très perturbée avec leur propre corps. Il
y a tellement de douleur affligée que c’est clair que certains symptômes vont
se développer au cours de années, » raconte Glowik.
Pas un substitut
Mais cette méthode n’est pas pour tout le monde. Des gens
différents requièrent différents types d’aide. Glowik dit que la Méthode
Grinberg n’est pas un substitut à un traitement médical ou à une aide
psychologique – et quand cela est nécessaire les praticiens de la Méthode
Grinberg recommandent leurs clients aux professionnels adaptés.
« La méthode Grinberg n’est pas une recette contre la
peur ou que vous n’allez jamais plus vous sentir en insécurité dans votre vie.
Elle n’enseigne pas quelque chose en lequel vous pouvez croire et faire
toujours la même chose, » raconte Schmutte. «Vous apprenez comment vous pouvez prendre plus de responsabilité pour vous-même quelle
que soit la situation que vous rencontrez dans votre vie. Et cela veut dire
beaucoup d’indépendance, de liberté et de discipline. »
Article paru dans le magazine Ma Santé en juin 2009
Article paru sur le site internet du journal The Telegraph le 25 septembre 2009.
By
Anna Murphy 7:00AM BST 25 Sep 2009
Victoria Oldham is telling me how she too used to be a sceptic.
'When I first went and saw a Grinberg Method practitioner I wasn’t into that
sort of thing at all. I was incredibly sceptical, but I was also curious. I
went because I had had neck ache for a long time and then one morning I
couldn’t turn my head one way. I was in Switzerland at the time, and someone
told me to try the Grinberg Method, which is very well known over there. And I
went and saw this person, and she gave me a foot analysis, and I was quite
blown away by the things she said to me and the insight she had into my life.’
After two sessions Oldham’s neck pain had disappeared, and then
she 'carried on going because my whole life started to take a different shape.
I found myself seeing things differently. I found myself more aware of what I
wanted in my life.’ Which meant abandoning her career as an artist and
retraining as a Grinberg practitioner herself.
A decade on and it was I who was in the position of sceptic,
with Oldham the practitioner. I had never heard of the Grinberg Method, and
when I learnt that it was based, at its simplest, on 'reading’ the feet, not in
the same way as reflexology but holistically – identifying patterns of tension
or of energy rather than the state of specific organs – I was prepared to be
unimpressed. But I went along to see Oldham anyway, and like her and many
others before me was 'blown away’. She did indeed examine and manipulate my
feet while asking me questions about physical symptoms and my more general
wellbeing. Quickly she was pinpointing exact periods in my life when a
significant event had happened – not the event itself but the impact it had had
on me; she was disentangling assorted different versions of 'me’, some
intrinsic to my character, some constructed and therefore unhelpful; she was
identifying destructive patterns of behaviour and relationships. And on a
practical level she was diagnosing how all these tendencies were being played
out within my body – how physical and emotional experiences from my past were
being held, locked almost, inside me. Then, over the course of the ensuing
sessions, she showed me how we could work together – through breathing, through
exercises, through her manipulations of my body – in order to unlock these
long-held patterns.
Or, as the 35-year-old Oldham puts it, talking to me a year and
a half after our first session, 'What I am doing is teaching you how to pay
better attention to your own body, to what it needs and to what you may be
doing that could be damaging it in some way. If someone comes in with a
physical symptom I work with them to show them how, through their behavioural
patterns, their patterns of thinking, their posture, they themselves could be
producing the symptoms they are struggling with.
If someone suffers from indigestion, for example, it could be
that when they get stressed they tense up their belly. If someone has sinusitis
it may be because they scrunch up their face when they are working on their
computer.’
And that is the thing about the Grinberg Method. It may
initially sound rather intangible, airy-fairy even, when you try to describe it
to someone who has never experienced it, yet it is at heart almost humdrum in
its practicality. Quite simply it identifies what you are unconsciously doing
to yourself to make yourself feel less than top-notch, and teaches you how not
to.
The method was first developed in the 1970s by Avi Grinberg, an
Israeli former paramedic who then worked as a therapist and healer, and
published an influential book called Holistic Reflexology. As Grinberg himself
now puts it, 'Many years of therapeutic work proved to me that there is no use
in trying to cure people. I had to face the fact that the best healer a person
could have is himself. At that point I started to move from being a therapist
to being a trainer.’
His method – which has grown away from its roots in reflexology
into an entirely separate discipline – is now widely practised in Switzerland,
Germany and Italy. There it is often used in tandem with conventional medicine,
particularly in aiding recovery after surgery or broken limbs.
Some of the most remarkable results Oldham has achieved have
come many years after an original trauma. She tells me about one woman who had
had a brain tumour as a child. 'She had a big scar right down the middle of her
forehead, which had healed badly and was very bumpy, and she had bald areas on
her hairline. By the time we had finished, her forehead was smooth, with only a
faint line on it, and the hair had regrown.’
Another case seems more remarkable still. 'One client had had
part of his lung cut away because of a tumour. He came to me soon after surgery
and had a 15cm scar across his back. After seven sessions there was a fine
white line, as if someone had drawn on him with a pencil. When he went back to
the surgeon for a check-up to see whether the tumour had returned, the surgeon
was amazed to see part of his lung had actually grown back.’
And then there is the man crippled by psoriasis, which has now
almost entirely gone, or the man with terrible burns, which, having flared up
so as to look almost fresh after early treatments (a sign of the body
restarting the healing process), promptly disappeared.
Such stories may appear so miraculous as to be almost
unbelievable. (Oldham herself describes what she witnessed on these occasions
as 'magical’.) Certainly, they test the boundaries of modern scepticism. I can
only vouch for my own experience, because the focus of my sessions with Oldham
was an abdominal scar from a childhood operation. In each session Oldham
combined intense, sometimes painful periods of massage around the scarring with
exercises to release tension in that area, and also in other areas, which
unbeknown to me had been affected by the surgery – from under my ribs to down
into my hip and thigh.
Some sessions were gruelling: to my amazement, when she worked
on the scar for the first time my whole body was flooded with a feeling of
fear, and my temperature plummeted. In later sessions this fear would occasionally
return, but mixed with a euphoric sense of release. How I could feel two such
contradictory emotions at once was only one of the mysteries of what Oldham was
doing to me. More mysterious was how the appearance of my scar was dramatically
improving and my long-standing digestive problems easing.
'People do things around a wound not to feel the old pain or the
fear,’ Oldham offers now, by way of explanation. 'Grinberg is about teaching
them that it is OK, and that the body can finally heal. I get the body to feel
the fear again, but in a safe environment. The body then learns it is safe to
let it go and to heal.’
Not surprisingly the Grinberg Method can be an empowering and
addictive experience. My sessions have turned into something of a project, with
myself as the work in progress. And Oldham tells me that I am far from alone in
having the next stage of that project already lined up in my mind. 'People who
find Grinberg works for them tend to get quite into it and want to develop and
work on other things,’ she says.
Oldham herself currently has a rather bigger project to work on,
that of making the Grinberg Method widely available in Britain. At the moment
there are just five other practitioners – two in Scotland, two in London and
one in Yorkshire – with Oldham herself making only monthly visits from Geneva,
where she has her main practice. Starting in November she will be running a
training course for would-be practitioners – four week-long residential courses
a year over a three-year period – and is currently on the lookout for recruits.
Oldham believes that with more practitioners the therapy will
catch on as quickly here as it has done elsewhere. 'There is a lot of openness
to the Grinberg Method in Britain,’ she says. 'People who come to me immediately
see what is special about what I am doing. They love it because it is very down
to earth, and it works. Their main question to me is, “Why on earth haven’t I
heard about this before?”’ If Oldham has her way, that won’t be a question that
will be asked for much longer.
Article paru dans ELLE UK en 2007
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