As you may know I’ve been developing a collection of processes I call Identity Healing since 2010 as a way of working with entrenched patterns of emotion and behaviour that are often installed during childhood.
In every painful situation, there are two sorts of suffering.
A man was walking home late one night when he saw the Mulla Nasrudin searching under a street light on hands and knees for something on the ground.
If you burnt the toast this morning as you were making breakfast you could say that you blamed yourself for the mistake.
heal (verb) : Old English hælan ‘cure; save; make whole, sound and well,’ from Proto-Germanic hailjan, literally ‘to make whole’
“Always remember that you are absolutely unique, just like everyone else” - Margaret Mead
I’ve just been listening to a recording of a talk about “Focusing”, a therapeutic technique that came out of research done by one of Carl Rogers' colleagues Eugene Gendlin.
Lots of people are hard on themselves. Some people are very hard on themselves.