ISSN: 2576-0319
Authors: Max H* and Barry H
True psychotherapy does not involve helping clients “feel better” in a false way by providing any kind of consoling distracting escape from the actual experiential truth of them. The basic goal of genuine psychotherapy is to truly resolve or heal psychological pain by making it fully conscious, rather than disguising it in any way... Genuine psychological and Spiritual growth (or Transpersonal Self-Realization) can be achieved only if psychotherapists urge their clients to acknowledge and fully consciously experience their painful or uncomfortable emotional feelings (the blues), rather than encouraging clients to escape from actual unpleasant experiential truths or uncomfortable emotional feelings by superimposing distracting positive thoughts, affirmations, and pleasurable sensations, which could be described as covering over the blues by superimposing the pinks. However, superimposing more pleasant thoughts, affirmations, and sensations only covers over deeper troubled emotional feelings and unpleasant experiential states, but does not truly resolve, heal, or transcend them. The only effective way to truly resolve, heal, or transcend unpleasant emotional feelings and experiential states is by letting them arise to our full conscious awareness, without any kind of control, censorship, interference, distracting escapes, or distancing speculative interpretations of the unpleasant feelings, speaking for the feelings from a stance dualistically outside of the feelings, instead of letting the feelings speak for themselves from a perspective of non-dualistic full and direct (non-evasive) conscious unification with one’s actual uncomfortable feelings or experiential states... There are only two basic ways to deal with the blues (i.e., any painful psychological state or uncomfortable emotional feeling). One is for our conscious awareness to penetrate beyond distancing, presumptive, speculative, conceptual interpretations into direct, deeper, contact with the experiential truth of the emotional feelings or experiential contents that are actually arising within oneself, in the here and now present moment, which is termed, the way of Being; whereas the other approach is termed, the way of becoming, and reflects, basically, the attempt to escape from the full, direct/unmediated experiential contact or full conscious awareness of the blues by superimposing some more positive, idealized, self-consoling, distracting, interpretation, self-definition, self-conceptualization, or pleasurable compensatory feeling or sensation upon it, which may be referred to as the pinks, for purposes of clarifying this discussion. The pinks represent a kind of “rose-colored” conceptualized, distortedly exaggerated, idealized, proficient view of your own individual being and emotional feelings, or experiential life; whereas the blues represent a deficient view of your individual being as though viewing your actual emotional feelings and related experiential states “through a glass darkly,” or “a poor reflection” (I Corinthians 13:12), i.e., through the equally distorting bias or opaque filter of a selfconceptualized, presumptively interpreted, sense of deficiency, distanced from direct contact with your actual emotional feelings and related experiential states. Genuinely effective psychotherapy cannot be the result of a predetermined method or technique because all such reflect contrived commitments by conscious awareness. This is in opposition to real, creative, effective treatment, which can arise only from a consciousness that is free to flow non-dualistically, nonevasively, non-selectively, and non-resistively with the moment to moment spontaneously arising actual experiential truth of one’s being. Dealing with what is, requires no prescribed technique, whereas with what ideally, presumptively “should be” requires a method of some kind as a means of trying to fulfill some kind of predetermined goal.
Keywords: Genuine Psychological; Self-Definition; Blue
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