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What the session is not
Please note: personal sessions, in person, by phone and by video (Zoom), are held in German only.
I read your energy field and explain to you what I see. The session is not psychotherapy, a medical assessment, life counseling or an emergency service.
Understanding the session · the limits
Medicine is there for the body, psychology for the psyche. The session is about your energy field.
I read your field and explain to you what I see. What doesn’t belong there, I tell you openly, and I take nothing away from any other professional.
What the session is, in one sentence
The session is a conversation about your energy field. I read it, explain to you what I see, and answer your questions from it. In doing so, I don’t transmit any energy and don’t work on your field. I make visible what otherwise stays invisible, and put it into context with you.
Because the session is a conversation, it is easily mistaken for other kinds of conversation. That is why this page describes what it is not.
Three areas, three responsibilities
In a person, I distinguish three areas: the body, the psyche and the energy field. Someone different is responsible for each, and I work only in the third.
For me, the psyche is not part of the energy field. That surprises many people.
Rico’s words
The psyche is not part of the energy field. In my view, the psyche is part of the body. But the psyche is the part that reacts most strongly to the energy field.
Rico Brunner, conversation
Feelings, on the other hand, I count as part of the energy field. With some difficulties, it is not clear whether they lie in the psyche or in the field. How to tell the difference, I have not yet set down. I say that openly. That is why it is here as well. This is explained in detail in the documentation on The Field under Body, psyche and energy field.
Not psychotherapy and not life counseling
The session is not psychotherapy. I don’t work on your behavior. Psychologists and psychiatrists have their full place, especially when it comes to behavior. What they do, I don’t do, and I don’t want to replace it either.
The session is also not life counseling and not coaching in the usual sense. I don’t give you an opinion or a philosophy that applies to everyone. I tell you what I see in your field. If I give you advice on it, it follows your standard, not mine. The decision is yours.
And we don’t stop at how something feels. I take what you experience seriously. But what interests me is where it comes from in the field.
Not a medical assessment
What lies in the body belongs to medicine. I don’t assess anything medical and don’t tell you whether you are ill. With physical complaints, you go to a doctor first.
Field and body can act on each other. In my experience, though, the energy field is as a rule not the cause of a physical illness.
Rico’s words
What a strong energy field cannot do is make sure that you don’t get ill, just as a strong energy field cannot make sure that you don’t grow old.
Rico Brunner, interview
Two rules that always apply
You never stop taking a medication because I have seen something in your field. You discuss any changes with those who prescribed it. And whether medical or psychological support continues is something you decide with your doctor or psychologist, not with me.
I don’t promise any result and don’t predict any course. What I describe are observations from my practice since 1998. Energyology is an experience-based model, not a scientifically tested method.
Not an emergency service
A session has an appointment. In a crisis, nobody can wait for an appointment.
Emergency 144
in acute danger to life and limb, for you or others
Die Dargebotene Hand 143
if you need someone to talk to
Children and young people 147
counseling for young people
If you are in acute distress
Turn to medical help immediately, or to one of the numbers above. This also applies if you have just booked a session or have The Field. The numbers apply in Switzerland; outside Switzerland, call your country’s emergency number.
Where the conversation reaches its limit
A conversation can clarify and help make sense of things. But understanding and putting into practice are two different things. Some of what you understand in the session you can’t put into practice in your everyday life right away. That is not a weakness on your part. It is a limit of what a conversation can do.
What you make of the session, and when, is up to you. The daily work on your field does not happen in the session, but in The Field (remote energy work). How the two fit together is described under Understanding in the session, working in The Field.
The same limits in every situation
Someone going through a hard phase often already has a doctor or psychological support. That stays as it is, and the session comes in at most in addition. Someone who wants to hold on to what they have built may still see someone regularly. And someone who wants to develop further, without anything weighing on them, may have no other support at all. The limits on this page are the same for everyone, and a person can stand in different places in different areas of their life.
Questions that come up often
- Does the session replace a visit to the doctor?
- No. What lies in the body belongs to medicine. With complaints, you go to a doctor first.
- Can I take a session alongside psychological support?
- Yes. What you have agreed with your psychologist or psychiatrist still applies. The session does not work on your behavior and does not get in the way there.
- Will you tell me whether I am ill?
- No. I don’t assess anything medical. I tell you what I see in your energy field.
- May I stop taking a medication because you see something in my field?
- No. You always discuss changes with those who prescribed it.
- What do I do if I am in acute distress between two appointments?
- You don’t wait for the session. In Switzerland, you call 144; you can reach Die Dargebotene Hand on 143, and children and young people can call 147.
- Is the session life counseling?
- No. I don’t give you an opinion or a rule for everyone. I tell you what I see in your field and put it into context with you.
Where to go next
How a session works is described under How a session works. Where the session ends and the daily work begins is explained in Understanding in the session, working in The Field. How body, psyche and energy field are connected is described in detail in the documentation on The Field under Body, psyche and energy field and Alongside doctors and psychology.