Deep Memory Process, commonly known as DMP, is a therapeutic approach that works with all levels of a person – mental, emotional, physical and spiritual. It is through our body that we can release stuck and frozen residues and this method focuses on exploring, identifying and healing deeply rooted energetic and psychological issues. Created by Jungian psychotherapist and renowned author Roger Woolger Ph.D, DMP is based on the idea that many of our current problems and challenges stem from unresolved experiences from the past and energetic residues from soul wounds.

Development of DMP ?

DMP is a therapeutic process that transforms the residues that are negatively impacting your life. Over many years of study, research and working with clients, DMP is a synergy of many influences from :-

• Psychotherapeutic studies and research
• Jungian active imagination, story telling,
• Embodying the therapy/story, spontaneity of Moreno’s psychodrama
• Tibetan Buddhists Bardo wisdom from the Book of the Dead, what happens to a persons spirit after death
• Physiology awareness of how the body functions normally and in times of stress and trauma
• Somatic bodywork and release from the work of William Reich
• Understanding effects of trauma, dissociation, fragmentation from Peter Levine, Bessel van der Kolk
• Shamanism and the ancient techniques of connection practices and journeying to other realms
• Ancestral repeating patterns that filter through the generations
• Reincarnation and Past life memories that leave residues from Dr. Stevenson
• The concepts of the energy systems internally and externally known as the subtle bodies, aura, meridians and chakras of yogic and Eastern traditions.
• The awareness of the Spiritual dimensions, and helpers from Spiritualism and Eastern philosophies

DMP takes regression therapy out the narrow confines of hypnotherapy and talk therapy by giving it embodiment. Deep memories are supported to emerge and through allowing a ‘story’ to form from within. DMP works by connecting to all levels of a person, the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual aspects with in a session. 

Who is DMP For?

DMP is suitable for anyone interested in self awareness, or who wish to explore what is limiting them from living a fulfilled harmonious life. Any of life’s issues and challenges can be explored using DMP. Issues may range from loss of purpose and direction, to transform and ‘un pick’ repeating patterns that flow through the family, to a desire to heal the effects of trauma. Being open to delve into your unconscious world of emotions, thoughts and physical residues that may be stuck and frozen. will enable a profound transformation. Whether you are struggling with specific emotional challenges or simply wish to increase your self-awareness, DMP provides valuable insights and solutions.

Why DMP?

• Profound Healing: DMP works with the ‘whole person’ the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels. All these threads are interwoven into all our memories and by identifying, releasing and resolving these, this helps achieve a level of healing often not possible with more superficial forms of therapy.
• Holistic Approach: The method integrates both psychological and spiritual elements for comprehensive healing.
• Expert Guidance: DMP therapists are specially trained to guide you safely and effectively through your inner landscape.

What to expect in a DMP session

Following the initial discussion the client will lie down on a futon/mattress and close their eyes. The DMP practitioner will then guide the client to connect with their body, emotions, thoughts and take the client back to the events or situations from the past that will be related to current problem.

The DMP therapist will guide the client to stay in connection with their experience and focus their awareness on to their body including their feelings and thoughts etc  Connecting with their memories, where ever these are. The client will be guided through the experience to the final stages for release, healing and transformation. 

The layers DMP works with –

The clients body is the conduit between the physical plane of existence and the unseen world of memories and the energetic systems. The physical body is the connection to the present and the past where the root of the disturbance emanates; so the DMP therapist is trained to be able to work with all levels of a person and their spiritual essence.

• the physical body -sensations, spontaneous movements,
• the emotional layer – anger, sadness, despair, loss, grief, jealousy etc
• the mental level – thoughts, phrases, words
• spiritual complexes – patterns, themes

DMP is an ‘active’ method as memories have a physical component and so instead of lying down and unmoving on the mattress. The DMP therapist will encourage the client to make small movements when appropriate, to help the ‘body layer of memory from the root experience’ surface and be released physically.

Memories are made up from a combination of elements and involve a person’s physical senses ie vision, hearing, physical sensations, smell, taste and the internal process such as thoughts, emotions. All of these need to be explored in relationship with the memory and if appropriate brought to the surface of the client, to be released and transformed.

Vision – clients are guided to use their own ‘imagination’ to allow any visionary element to emerge. During the session deeply hidden or forgotten elements of an experience will surface. The DMP therapist will guide the client to release these in a safe and supportive manner.

The following are some examples:

Physical sensations of the memory eg. Heat, cold, tingling, impact of objects or touch. Different areas of the clients body during the event may have become tense, stiff. Certain automatic impulses in the body such as the sensation to run away or fight was never expressed. The energy of these impulses becomes stuck within the clients body system.

Emotions and feelings during the experience which were never expressed at the time can become stuck or suppressed inside. The anger and frustration of not being able to get people to listen, the overwhelming sadness and despair of feeling grief, the sense of intense jealousy when others are given something that the client feels they deserve.

The thoughts, phrases and words that were expressed by others to the client in the memory, that were domineering, hurtful, unfair, in accurate, that the client wanted to respond too but did not. Alternatively in the experience the client made some internal judgements that became stuck as ‘belief’ patterns.

Conclusion

If you’re looking for a in-depth professional training that incorporates psychological, physiological and spiritual  knowledge. The training enables you to identify, release, heal and transform issues that a client presents, then the DMP training is the path to join.