Neden bağımlıyız nasıl iyileşiriz?

A Turkish outlet profiles bioenergy practitioner Osman Özerman

Gazete Oksijen recently profiled Osman Özerman as part of a feature on addiction and alternative approaches to recovery. The piece describes a visit to his Nişantaşı practice, where the writer experienced a session firsthand, though not one focused on addiction specifically.

According to the article, Özerman traced his interest in bioenergy back to early childhood, describing experiences of holding plants in his hands. He credited his mother for never questioning or restricting this curiosity. He later spent about two years training in Israel, focusing especially on bioenergy and aromatherapy oil-based work, followed by three years of further training in Germany in aromatherapy and sound-frequency healing. On returning to Turkey, he worked for eight years at a private clinic, including collaborative work with Dr. Gökhan Özışık, before going on to split his time between Istanbul and Fethiye. He described his current method as a blend of what he learned during his training in Germany.

The article outlines his general session structure: an initial consultation regardless of the issue, whether fear, worry, sleep problems or substance dependency, followed by the use of aromatherapy oils to help identify the client's emotional state. During the bioenergy session itself, the client lies down and is covered with a blanket, since sensations like cold, shivering or trembling can occur at certain points in the body during the work. The writer recalled feeling cold during the session, and a sensation of pressure on the arm despite no physical contact taking place.

Özerman also described working with bells during sessions, comparing the practice to retuning a musical instrument that has fallen out of tune.

On alcohol dependency specifically, the article reports that he considers two sessions in consecutive weeks generally necessary, while other issues, including smoking, eating difficulties and sleep problems, are usually addressed in a single roughly two-hour session, unless a deeper underlying emotional state is involved. He attributed this difference to alcohol dependency typically being rooted in a deeper emotional state. Working mostly with clients in Turkey on alcohol and smoking dependency, he told the outlet that he sees smoking dependency resolved more often in men, while alcohol dependency is more common among the women he works with.

He noted that belief in bioenergy isn't a requirement for a session to be effective, and said interest in the field has grown over the years, from being seen as an unconventional or fringe pursuit to something that even some doctors now recommend.

Source: Gazete Oksijen, "Neden bağımlıyız, nasıl iyileşiriz?" https://gazeteoksijen.com/iyi-yasam/neden-bagimliyiz-nasil-iyilesiriz-209477