Therapy, Healing and Spirituality: Part 2 – A New Paradigm for Human Evolution

Therapy, Healing and Spirituality: Part 2 – A New Paradigm for Human Evolution

Question: “How many therapists does it take to change a light bulb?” Answer: “One, but the light bulb has toYes, reallywants to change!”

I think I was a lightbulb that really wanted to change because therapy worked for me. This reminds me of a client who came to me recently and when I asked him if he had ever been to therapy, he replied, “Only for two sessions.” Why didn’t you continue therapy?” I asked. “Honestly, I thought the therapist needed therapy more than I did,” he replied.

helpers and sufferers

This is not unusual. Therapists and other practitioners can set up practice and pose as helpers to the public while privately providing the very services they themselves desire; the helper is really the sufferer in disguise.

This is one of the lessons of the last 40 years, but there are many more. When I wrote my book Human Awakening, I wrote about the need to recognize the pitfalls, drawbacks, shortcuts, and warnings of inner work, both psychologically and spiritually. Every time the list got so long, I had to step back so as not to let the negatives of therapy overwhelm me and my readers. In the end I had to decide on a short summary.

Therapy and healing must be real

Those seeking complementary/alternative healing and therapeutic treatments may be running on faith, but beneath their innocent hopes, which are sometimes dashed, is an instinctive impulse. This impulse is toward wholeness, either in the integration of personality, an all-encompassing approach to illness, or the wise conviction that a connected life is a healthy life.

The pursuit of therapy/healing/spirituality is solid; those who seek the benefits of such treatments are essentially healthy. But practitioners, of whom there are now exceptional numbers, need a new paradigm of radical authenticity.

Psychotherapy, healing and spiritual guidance and practice are only effective when they are real. And they become real when the practitioner practices from an authentic, central place. Personal gain, self-aggrandizement, money, status, manipulation, power and control are not topics to be avoided as they are all relevant to the practitioner who has a trace of attachment to the personality (i.e. almost all). from us).

Rooted in authenticity

For therapists and alternative practitioners to be genuine and deeply rooted in authenticity, they must have completed the inner journey and be well versed in the practice of truth. Crucially, they must not be associated with the role of psychotherapist, healer, guide or whatever their title is. It is a big 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 critical to healing and sustaining the world - the world that objectifies and magnifies hostility, violence, dogma, bigotry, prejudice, powerOverothers, unfair control, intimidation and terror into the collective: the global arena.

Global consciousness and the inner world

If you look around, you will see the results of man's creations alongside nature's creations. Everything you see on this level began within, has its origin in the inner world. Out of imagination, wish fulfillment, aspiration, sometimes inspiration and desire, humans have created the most spectacular and amazing things. What we take for granted today seemed like a miracle to us a few years ago.

Not only the wonders of technology, but also the aberrations of war, the callousness of prejudice and victimization - the entire sum of inhuman acts from one human being to another or from a collective of country/nationality, religion, political opinion, gender to another - have sprung from the inner world of individuals and collections of individuals.

So when we look at the practices and personal commitment to knowing and transforming the inner world, we should see it for the momentous act that it is. A person who truly embraces the path of self-responsibility has a tremendous impact on global consciousness.

Therapy and inner work: hope for the future

Psychotherapy, meditation, inner work and personal healing form the hope for the future development of humanity, because the imbalances and disharmony in an individual person are directly reflected in the outside world.

People are fundamentally unhappy in an unhappy world

People are fundamentally 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 lives and their world. Since the place and source of happiness lies within, only by encouraging people to take personal responsibility for their lives, to undertake the inner journey or descent into their deep humanity, can we make a real difference.

Alternative practitioner psychotherapy

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