Question: “How many therapists does it take to change a light bulb?” Answer: “One, but the bulb must Really I want to change!”
I guess I was a lightbulb that I really wanted to change, because the therapy worked for me. This reminds me of a client who recently came to see me, and when I asked him if he had been in therapy before, he replied, “Only for two sessions.” Why didn’t he continue with therapy?” I asked. “To be honest, I thought the therapist needed more therapy than I did,” he replied.
helpers and patients
This is not unusual. Therapists and other professionals can start a practice and pose as helpers to the public while privately offering the service they themselves desire; the one who helps is actually the one who suffers in disguise.
This is one of the lessons of the last 40 years, but there are many more. When I was writing my book, Human Awakening, I wrote about the need to recognize the pitfalls, pitfalls, shortcuts, and precautions of inner work, both psychologically and spiritually. Every time the list got this long, I had to go back so that the negative aspects of therapy wouldn’t overwhelm me and my readers. In the end I had to opt for a short summary.
Therapy and Healing must be Real
Those seeking complementary/alternative therapeutic and curative treatments may have faith, but underneath their naive, sometimes dashing hopes lies an instinctual drive. This drive is toward wholeness, whether it be in the integration of the personality, a global approach to illness, or the wise conviction that a connected life is a healthy life.
The therapy/healing/spirituality aspiration is strong; those who seek the benefits of such treatments are essentially good. But the practitioners, of whom there are now an extraordinary number, require a new paradigm of radical authenticity.
Psychotherapy, healing, and spiritual guidance and practice only become effective when they are real. And they become real when the practitioner practices from an authentic and central place. Personal gain, personal aggrandizement, money, status, manipulation, power, and control are not topics to be set aside, as they are all relevant to the practitioner who has some vestige of personality attachment. (that is, almost all). of us).
Rooted in authenticity
For therapists and healing practitioners to be genuine and deeply rooted in authenticity, they must have gone through the inner journey and achieved the practice of truth. Fundamentally, they should not become attached to the role of psychotherapist, healer, guide, or whatever their title may be. It is a difficult task, but the fruits of successful inner work are great, so much can and should be asked of its practitioners. It is not only important personally, but also globally, that therapy, inner work and healing are successful.
Therapy, inner work and alternative/complementary medicine are crucial for the healing and maintenance of the larger world, the one that objectifies and magnifies hostility, violence, dogma, intolerance, prejudice, power. on others, unfair control, intimidation and terror in the collective: the global arena.
Global Consciousness and the Inner World
When you look around you, next to the creations of nature, you see the results of the creations of man. Everything that you see on this level began within, originated in the inner world. From imagination, wish fulfillment, aspiration, occasional inspiration and desire, human beings have created the most spectacular and amazing things. What we take for granted today would seem like a miracle a few years ago.
Not only the miracles of technology, but also the aberrations of war, the cruelty of prejudice and victimization: the sum total of inhumane acts from one human being to another, or from a collective of country/nationality, religion, ideology politics, gender to another. — have sprung from the inner world of individuals and collections of individuals.
So when we consider the practices and personal commitment to know and transform the inner world, we must see it for the transcendental act that it is. A person who truly engages in the path of self-responsibility has a tremendous effect on global consciousness.
Therapy and inner work: hope for the future
Psychotherapy, meditation, inner work and personal healing are the hope for the future evolution of humanity, because imbalances and disharmony in an individual human being are directly reflected in the outside world.
People are basically unhappy in an unhappy world.
People are basically unhappy in an unhappy world. In their search, their restlessness and their dissatisfaction, people reveal how they really are, how they really feel about their life and their world. Since the place and source of happiness is within, only by encouraging people to take personal responsibility for their lives, to undertake the inner journey or descent into their deepest humanity can we make a real difference.
