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Life Centered
Psychotherapy
In
the Tao of life all things are in relationship, all things
interrelated. These interdependent relationships define who
we are. They are what give shape and form to our lives.
These relationships are not only with people, they are also with
places, things, activities, animals, dreams, or experiences, and
potentially, with the essences behind these manifest forms.
These essences are the “gods” or “archetypes”
of our existence. To achieve a life in harmony, it is
important to ask not only, “What do I want?”
But, “What do these essences that define my being need from
me?” Through entertaining the imaginative
fantasies that may guide us to the essences behind what is
happening to us, we may begin to see “who” is
attempting to speak to us through these happenings.
“Gods” dwell in the core of the symptoms that afflict
us.
Where there is difficulty,
there is misunderstanding. Life seeks and is always in
harmony. Following the work of Carl Jung, James Hillman, and
Arnie Mindell among others, Life Centered Psychotherapy focuses
upon the self-realization that may occur where harmony with the
archetypes of existence is imaginatively and actively sought.
In the work we seek to move from self-centered ego to
life-centered soul, from little you, to Big You. That which
stands in the way is misapprehension and misunderstanding.
The very problems that one is stuck in are there to hold psyche in
place until seeing through those attachments can take place.
By becoming more conscious of the marginalized aspects of what is
taking place, we open a much more complete picture of our
difficulty and discover “who” is behind what is
happening. Within this larger picture lies wholeness and
healing.
Wholeness
and healing bring with them a deep trust in life. Where one
trusts life, one feels equal to the task of living. Where
one feels equal to the task of living, life itself becomes once
again the center and purpose of existence.
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