Psychologist - Fresnaye Cape Town
I’m playing my Brain HQ game on my phone to prevent Alzheimers.
The scourge of the aged.
I keep making mistakes – which is part of the game – and I see that I’m not going to beat my record.
Horror of horrors, my heart sinks.
If I know that I am love then what matters, this mistake or the next one?
A sinking heart, knows no love.
Here’s a quick summary of how some of the major therapies try to help us.
Sigmund Freud said that we are welded to the pleasure principle. We are chasing pleasure and running from pain. He also said that our instinct for sex and aggression were balanced by our conscience which is always trying to control us. Meanwhile, the ego (not in the everyday sense of the word) is trying to manage all of this.
Cognitive behaviour therapy says that our thinking creates our problems. Our fear and anxiety is created by our belief systems, change the beliefs and the problem disappears. Byron Katie says the same thing, but she works with it from a spiritual perspective.
Gestalt therapy says, own your disowned parts and get into the present moment.
Carl Jung says that we need to own our shadow, our dark side, know our archetypes, integrate and we will heal.
Client Centered therapy says that all we need to do is listen really carefully to our clients and this will enable healing to happen. Often it does. [Read more…] about Every Snowflake Is Unique – So Are You!
Are we really experiencing life,
Or are we just experiencing our minds?
Life is sensation and hearing and tasting and touching and connecting.
It is love and creation so vast.
The mind tell its endless, desperate story,
Unravelling infinitely into worlds of division and chaos.
It interprets life.
It is once removed from life.
While life is happening all around it.
Oh to know the truth, to be touched by it, to be re-discovered by it.
I have never had a client ask me what is the one thing most likely to transform their suffering.
I wonder why?
The answer is, to learn to drop your expectations.
I often hear people say, “Life so difficult.” My response is “Compared to what? ” [Read more…] about Are You Addicted To Your Expectations?
I do you a beautiful piece of work with a client… It is in enriching and rewarding. But then I need to check.
Did I do the work or did my Spirit do the work?
If I did the work – my ego – then I’m in danger of moving into self-righteousness or self-wrongeousness and I’m going to be grasping for Self-Esteem.
If my Sprit did the work, then there is just peace and love and gratitude.
I’m putting my money on Spirit.