The Dr. Zwig Show

When you experience a body symptom you most likely attribute it to an underlying physical process. You SHOULD think this way. Check out your symptoms with a medical doctor. But there’s another, equally, if not more important, level of the human body—the PROCESS BODY. This isn’t a physical body with functions you can see, touch, and quantify but rather an experiential body you can feel and visualiz...

It’s difficult to be objective about yourself, and when you interact with someone it can be daunting. You get caught up in the relationship process and lose yourself. This happens because a relationship is far more than just two separate human beings communicating by sending and receiving signals and messages. Together, you and the other person form a system in which the contents of your psyches l...

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction both are transformed.” – C.G. Jung. This episode guides you through a practical exercise for working on your relationship. Sit together and make a video discussing a problem you’re having. Watch the video. Then, both of you close your eyes and imagine you’re an old, wise man or woman. You’re...

Being objective about yourself isn’t easy. You need a method to observe and facilitate your inner processes in a neutral, non-ideological way. Conventional psychology and psychiatry fail miserably at this but you can use processing methods to achieve it. drzwig.com - instagram.com/drzwig - youtube.com/drzwig - facebook.com/drzwig

A practical exercise in which you video yourself talking about a problem, tap into a new, more objective perception of your issue, and give yourself some sage advice. drzwig.com - instagram.com/drzwig - youtube.com/drzwig - facebook.com/drzwig

Does art imitate life, or does life imitate art? Is your life like a movie, or is a movie like your life? Neither! Life and art are the same thing, and they both arise from your process. Your relationship isn’t "like" a movie—it IS a movie—a dream…and you play a character in it. Your character and that of your partner, create the story, and hopefully, it manifests a lot of goodness. But trouble ca...

There are three levels of a relationship. The first one is what most therapists focus on—the communication level. This has to do with how well people share their feelings and listen to each other. Solutions on this level require you to learn how to communicate better. But oftentimes, this isn’t enough. You can learn all the “right" things to do but still suffer from conflict. The reason is that th...

Relationships get stuck when one or both people aren’t conscious of their deeper feelings and needs. A powerful method for tapping into your subconscious where these unknown parts of yourselves reside, is visualization. People typically use visualization to help them get into a certain state of mind, improve their performance at something, clarify goals they want to accomplish, or even to try to h...

Relationship conflicts are ubiquitous and difficult. Each person is absolutely convinced they are in the right. This creates a communication knot that feels impossible to undo. Visualization is a method that can help untie the knot. The method consists of sitting together silently, meditating on how you feel with each other, making images of your feelings, sharing them with each other, unfolding t...

There’s so much info on the airwaves these days saying, “Never give up!” “Power through the obstacle!” “Believe and achieve!” “When the going gets tough, the tough get going!”…and all that’s good. But this approach is only a subset of a more important and effective way to deal with the things that block you in your life. To truly understand and transform an obstacle you must unpack the information...

Change is a beast. Oftentimes, for something to be born, something must die. Even our bad habits feel like home; every time we discover something new in ourself we resist it because it means leaving our known, familiar way of being. It’s so much easier to just stay where we are. But this is exactly why we need problems, symptoms, and messed up chaos in our life to wake us up and push us into our p...

A painful problem isn’t set in stone. To the contrary, it's the negative manifestation of something in your psyche, which, when made conscious, transforms into a positive expression. This is due to the fact that every human process manifests either positively or negatively, in other words, consciously or unconsciously. For example, you can use your strength to stand up for your feelings. But you c...

The ancient martial art known as Aikido doesn’t use techniques to battle an opponent but rather employs methods for blending and harmonizing with their energy and movements in order to redirect the force of their aggression. Instead of fighting the enemy, the Akido master observes them carefully, and uses their own actions to transform the situation. It’s a basic process idea which says that a pro...

Change is a beast. For something to be born, something has to die, and this requires letting go of something near and dear. Even your bad habits feel like home. So, if you need to change something in your life—depression, anxiety, trauma, attention deficit, relationship problems, etc.—it can feel like being asked to leave your cozy comfort zone, the known, the familiar, the safe. It’s so much easi...

If you only focus on what’s negative in your life you miss the fact that your symptoms, pain, and conflict contain meaningful messages. These messages manifest as problems because they’re blocked from your awareness. They aren’t intrinsically negative but are rather symptomatic expressions of your deeper self trying to come to consciousness. When your mind can’t accept, is afraid of, isn’t ready y...

We usually try to suppress or “manage” our depression, anxiety, trauma, etc.  But within these issues lies your positive power trying to come forth. In order to discover it, you have to explore and process the “poison” in your problem, not run from it. Every human quality expresses itself either positively or negatively, in other words, consciously or unconsciously. For example, you can be emotion...

Therapy is music and music is therapy. They both help us connect with the deeper feelings and thoughts that reside in us but we aren’t aware of. They bring to the surface what’s hiding in the shadows of our psyche. You know how a song makes you feel a certain way—uplifted, melancholy, spiritual, fun, etc.? This state of mind and body already exists within you but you don’t have conscious access to...

A life problem contains a victimizing power. No matter how much you try to avoid, suppress, or change the issue, it persists. To heal it, you must transform the victimizer’s negative energy into your own positive power. To do so, you have to understand the fact that every human quality can be used either positively or negatively, in other words, consciously or unconsciously. For example, you can u...

The notion that life issues are meaningless, evil things that need to be eliminated as fast as possible, is as old as humans. But this viewpoint overlooks the fact that your problems contain meaningful information which is trying to point you in the right direction for your growth. To tap into this information you must amplify and process your symptoms, not just try to vanquish them. Amplifying yo...

Despite the fact that there’s never been a scientific study showing that mental distress is an “illness,” psychiatry employs the disease model used in physical medicine. This is why psychiatric treatment’s main focus is on suppressing symptoms. However, this approach misses the whole point of having a life problem. Distress / dysfunction aren’t “diseases”; they’re potent messages of personal chang...

We usually think of distractions as something bad. We value our ability to focus on tasks without interruption. When we can’t concentrate we assume something is “wrong.” Enter the “ADHD” epidemic. ADHD (originally called ADD) was first conceived in the early 1900s but was a rare diagnosis until the 1980s when suddenly everyone seemed to have it. It’s no accident that this happened at exactly the s...

Everything you experience aims at making you more aware. Feelings, moods, symptoms, problems, dreams, events, relationships, and trivial things in your environment that irrationally hook your awareness and take your attention, all carry meaning and purpose for you. They’re trying to spark your attention, light a fire under you, take something out of the shadows of your psyche and place it under th...

The conventional view of life obstacles is that they serve no purpose other than to irritate and frustrate you. They’re seen as a problem that must simply be eliminated. Therefore, you should do everything you can to immediately overcome them. This is a shallow understanding. Even though problems are painful, they contain essential information meant to guide you in the right direction. An obstacle...

Somewhere in your psyche you have an image of yourself at your full potential—an intuition of who you could be in your inner life, relationships, work, and spirituality. Your greater self is always present. But there are inner and outer obstacles that prevent you from living it. These obstacles are so pervasive they can block you from even knowing your potential.    Being disconnected from yoursel...

An inner critic can cause depression, anxiety, attention deficit, mood swings, and other problems. It isn’t just a negative internal thought process full of nasty content; it’s a part of your psyche that has its own personality. It communicates to you in a specific way by making you the recipient of a particular kind of energy, vibe, and style of communication. This is the HOW instead of the WHAT...