Interview with sophrologist Delphine Bourdet

Delphine Bourdet is not unknown to Sophro Actu readers. The practical videos of this young sophrologist are regularly relayed in the reviews of the blog. It was therefore natural to meet him in order to know a little more about his journey.

Hello Delphine, where are you from? What was your life before sophrology?

Hello ! Before discovering sophrology, I was a stressed young girl, who sought to control everything to achieve perfection. I thought you had to do billions of things to be loved. The practice of sophrology has really changed my life!

At what point in your life did you become a sophrologist?

After graduating as a journalist, I worked on the radio, on TV, for the international service of a French daily newspaper, but also for a political weekly in Dakar, Senegal! I was passionate about everything but I couldn’t find a permanent job and I really needed security. So I joined a communications agency that fired me after a year. I took a lawyer and negotiated my departure. I was 22 years old, my head full of dreams and the feeling of being thrown like a mop… The sophrology helped me so much during this period to step back, to be positive, that I decided to train myself in this method and make it my job.

How do you concretize your letting go on a daily basis?

  1. I listen to how I feel.
  2. I accept everything that comes without judging myself.
  3. I breathe and relax, then work on positive thinking.

The present is much less distressing than the projections of the mind about the future or the past.

Concretely, I do between 20 and 45 minutes a day of sophrology or yoga or meditation or hypnosis. It’s my lifestyle. For formal practice I listen to audio recordings or I go to my yoga or meditation center. I also do informal practice, that is to say that when I open my shutters, I consciously open my rib cage and I tell myself that I am opening up to all the positive of this day for example.

You are very active. Can work be a source of well-being?

I don’t remember who said “choose a job you like and you won’t work a day in your life”, that’s exactly how I feel. The feeling of helping people gives me immense joy. Sharing what helps me every day and seeing how people break free from their thought patterns is priceless. I am passionate about my work. Sophrology also helps me to refocus. When I started my training, I thought I was going to transform myself into a joyful and contemplative vegetable. In reality, I always overflow with so much energy, but sophrology helps me to channel it.

You offer many sophrology videos on your YouTube channel, but also on the Doctissimo site. How did this collaboration take place?

I have been working for 8 years as a freelance journalist for the Doctissimo health site. The collaboration on health and well-being was done naturally … I really want everyone to discover the benefits of sophrology so I make videos, articles, I run a blog … and there I take out a book this year.

Do you still practice your profession as a journalist?

Before, the journalist / sophrologist ratio represented 80/20 of my working time. Now it’s the other way around. But I want to keep the two activities because both fascinate me.

How does a sophrology session take place in your office?

I do exactly what Catherine Aliotta, of the’Sophrology Training Institute, taught me because I totally agree with its simple and educational way of practicing sophrology. The session begins with a time of exchange, followed by dynamic relaxation exercises and then a sophronization in the lying position with breathing exercises, relaxation and positive visualizations. The session ends with a time for discussion allowing people to verbalize and integrate the benefits of the session. I suggest that people record each session so that they can practice between each session.

Run away from happiness lest it run away, sings Jane Birkin. This is a formula that does not suit you, on the contrary, you campaign daily for happiness. How do you decide on your happiness?

Sophrology really helps to be happy. It is a very complete method which offers the possibility of accessing emotions, feeling the body, discovering our intrinsic values ​​but also living in the present. It is a philosophy of life which also develops self-confidence because it allows to reinforce positive experiences of the past, to transform difficult moments and to create through visualization a future rich in all possibilities. My happiness therefore goes through daily practice of this method. It is really decided to practice daily because it requires as much kindness towards oneself as firmness. That’s what happiness is for me, a clever mix of determination and sweetness.

2 mins from Sophro relaxation…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZTyZG7M_BQ

Delphine Bourdet’s website.
His YouTube channel.