Book: The dialogue between therapist and patients in humanistic therapy

We all seek God, everything. Atheists and agnostics are no less passionate than the pilgrims. We can abandon the search nothing more than to stop the flow of our consciousness.

The deeper I can get into their own potential, the closer I come to see God. I don't think there is an endpoint. I do not think of God as a specific entity or being. I think God is a dimension of infinite possibility; God is the possibility only. So God is Everything. Inside I can feel all the possibilities, although I can't imagine anything even close to this infinity.

Basically, as far as we know, the world and the cosmos exist as a perfect clock which was once wound and now you go and will go on forever. From the condensed moisture to form clouds, which rain down on areas where increased mass of greenery, promotes condensation, etc. the Whole design is wonderfully thought out to work without opening the factory seal. Of course, sometimes man intervenes and breaks the seal (eats the Apple), and then the great clock stop or change rhythm at least for one shot. Nevertheless, man is part of this plan. But he is something more. Man is the special element of the system element with knowledge of the whole system and about himself. It is absolutely clear that man does not know everything - or maybe doesn't even know the most part about the system and about themselves, but the fact that he knows something, change the whole course of things. In a broad perspective (a hundred years, a million?) it may be better or worse (for whom and for what?), what he knows, but that's not it. The fact that a person knows. And that's another very real divine ability that man possesses: we participate in the great work of creation. We are creating not only new meanings and images in our subjective world. We also - as we know - the only creatures in the entire cosmic system who consciously choose from the endless possibilities of those elements, which are implemented in reality. We humans are architects of reality, constantly altering reality and more or less successfully adapting it to their needs. So when I speak about finding God hidden in man, I mean, quite literally, believe in the divine power that resides in each of us - in creativity and awareness of our participation in determining the shape of the world.

... our nature is much deeper and less explored than we usually assume. And the greater part of his life we live, with its limited ideas of ourselves.

Popular culture - movies, novels, TV shows - has created the image of a healing effect that has on people sudden insight, a new perspective on my life. This has led to what I call the "detective" direction in psychotherapy. Many patients treat themselves this way and are willing to examine their own actions, words, clauses, dreams and everything else, to find evidence on the basis of which it would be possible to build a case. The difference between "insight" to which come (therapist, patient, or both) with the help of a detective psychotherapy and through awareness of inner feelings, this is the same as the distinction between artificial lighting and sunlight. The first may show us things that we otherwise would not see, but only the latter has all the properties that we need for life and growth.

Analysis of the individual as futile as any medical event in relation to the dead. Who I was is dead; my awareness (I'm aware of) is now alive and moving, constantly changing.

My true essence is "awareness". In other words, I distorted or enlarged. I don't have a product of these processes; I am in the process itself. So, if I realize that I have distorted our awareness, that I have partially restored him; when I realize that one can improve his awareness, what I'm doing. It is easy to lose sight of the importance of this identity for our lives and our consciousness. We, Westerners, are so used to the objective view of the world that is constantly trying to transform its own being into the object. And to find the most suitable for this effort objects. The object is a person. Personality consists of all truly objective aspects of our being. It includes our body image, our ideas about its nature, our assumptions about how we are perceived by others, and our personal history. So the concept of "personality" is an abstraction, perceptual and conceptual object. It's not who I am; it is rather what I was and what I did. Personality is a product of It's flushed skin, externally observable aspect of what has changed and is absolutely pure and completely subjective process.

... our nature is fully embodied in awareness. So, the more I realize, the more alive you are. The more I distort their awareness, the more spoil his life. The more I increase the volume and mobility of your consciousness, the more complete is my experience.

... why the awareness process has so much power: awareness is the fundamental nature of human life.

... we often look for some verbal trap or mystical ideas, instead of to face up to the enormous force of our existence. So, Cold all the time trying to learn "how" to realize their inner life, of course, treating yourself like a strange machine, which he must learn to manage by separating his consciousness and will from his inner experience, thereby causing himself a real injury. Turn yourself into an object is the same that to push forward the car rather than sit in it and go.

It's very simple: we don't have to do anything to be what you really want to be; instead, we should just be truly ourselves and more widely aware of their existence. However, it is just in name only; it is incredibly difficult to achieve this in reality. The thing is that when I'm more fully aware of what you want to be and that keeps me from having to be so, I am already in the process of change. Full awareness is itself a way to become what I truly aspire to become.

There is a crucial and very important difference between the learning engine and a more full awareness of his existence. After I finished checking the engine, the real work is just beginning. On the other hand, when I am fully aware of its existence - including their feelings about its way of being and how I really want to live in, the real work ends!

From research my understanding there is something greater than what can be explained by simple actualization of the past experience or any novel combination of previous learning, which is obtained from dicing of information in my head. No, there is only one way to determine it. It seems to me to be correct: something is created. New values, new perceptions, new relationships, new opportunities exist now where they didn't have before. In short, my inner vision is a creative process that not only examines what is already available; it gives life to new possibilities. This is a remarkable and creative opportunity inherent in our existence.

When I do become aware of something important in your life, the process is completely different. First, I "dived" into the issue. Allow all sides to influence me and experiencing anxiety, anger, stress and any emotions associated with it. But not trying, if I manage to resist, immediately to solve the problem. Then, when the process is already running, I'm talking to someone (or, if not possible, write to myself, but lately I have someone to talk to). And the only thing I do during that conversation - say everything that comes to my mind regarding the case, which I'm busy: I can feel it all over me, etc. and the person I'm talking to, just helps me to say all this and avoids to criticize me, give advice or interfere. In this moment begins to occur interesting thing. When I open from the inside, so say whatever comes to mind, there are also many unexpected perspectives. What seemed a hopeless situation gradually begins to take on new opportunities. Some of these "solutions" are not feasible; some are quite real, but inaccessible to me at the moment; and some- I suddenly understand - beat precisely in the purpose. And yet, something strange is happening with the target, a problem that seemed so huge, difficult and irresistible. It varies. Like I can't even remember what it was. Or, maybe, can't remember why it seemed so important; or even I can't understand why she gave me so much trouble and initially seemed so intractable. Not always, of course, but very often the question begins to shrink and change shape. This process is another transformation. All the time of what is happening, I am or at least implicit awareness of oneself in relation to standing in front of me choice. When this process occurs correctly, the awareness of a few changes. I think differently about themselves, perceive differently their capabilities, understand something new, remember something forgotten.