experiences life authentically…
It’s full.
A heart is filled…
with pain.
It’s full.
A heart is filled…
with confusion.
It’s full.
A heart is filled…
with numbness.
Then it’s empty.
A heart becomes emptiness…
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The following article is from the “Understanding Mental Illness” segment of CMHA (Canadian Mental Health Associatioin)
Depression
Problems and misfortunes are a part of life. Everyone experiences unhappiness, and many people may become depressed temporarily when things don’t go as they would like. Experiences of failure commonly result in temporary feelings of worthlessness and self-blame, while personal losses cause feelings of sadness, disappointment and emptiness. Such feelings are normal, and they usually pass after a short time. This is not the case with depressive illness.
What are the signs of depressive illness? Continue reading ‘What is “Depression”?’
Transpersonal Psychotherapy is a gentle, humanistic, and holistic approach that allows you to heal through the development of personal growth.
Transpersonal Psychotherapy is a powerful healing approach that integrates eastern philosophies and western psychology. It does not only focus on mind conditions but also include other levels of our consciousness like body, heart, and spirit. It will expand our living experiences as human beings and open the possibilities for us to purse the depth of human experience.
In a safe learning environment, the therapist will help the client to co-explore the inner world and personal histories in order to cultivate self-realization. The avenue of Transpersonal Psychotherapy suggests that everyone has the power to liberate her/his psychic block.
The way the therapist guides the client is very humanistic and non-judgmental. It will thus assist the learner to advance her/his significant process more smoothly. Fundamentally, the therapist leads the client to access and to develop inner power and further to foster the competence of dealing with difficulties.
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Living as a human being, we sometimes meet obstacles that stop us from functioning normally as usual and thus experience our inner difficulty. It is a very normal and human situation. It happens because the obstacles are parts of our lives. Inner difficulty is like our happiness. Both of them are natural phenomenon that arise from our experience as human beings.
We suffer from inner difficulty because we have not had opportunities that would allow us to learn how to cope with these difficulties. Therefore we get stuck in our inner state. However, we will continue to encounter and suffer from our inner difficulties in the future, unless we keep up our spiritual practice and finally reach an state of enlightenment that will free us from all the human sufferings.
In short, it is very natural to have inner difficulty. When it happens, we can choose to grasp the opportunity to learn from it in order to be frees inside.
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The life that we know was formed through the lens of current world structure. We have learned to see our reality under the constitution of our society and culture and have already got used to perceiving things and conditions via these institutions. We hardly would re-look and re-think of our reality unless a crisis occurs in our lives. For example, Jack would probably never need to think about how he can live entirely differently until the day he encountered a near-death experience. He did not need to fight the constitution of the whole world until he finally realized how much he wished that he could have a different way of living. Doesn’t this story sound very familiar? It is how most of us live our lives. The more security that we try to grasp, the more anxious we are; the more pleasure that we chase, the more frustrated we are. Living in the world that is operated by the current world structure, many of us are unconsciously losing our inner freedom everyday.
The constitution of our world serves us in various ways. We actually gain many benefits and feel convenient under its operation. However, the way it operates is also quite problematic and thus generates our sufferings, both physically and mentally. In order to live in this complicated world with inner peace and harmony, we need to take on a challenging journey that will facilitate the development of our whole-being. Learning to own balance in our body, mind, and spirit, we will begin to taste the pure joy of life.
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Transpersonal is not an easy term is define. I often think that defining something limits the possibilities of knowing it. Thus I prefer to use “Thick Description” to introduce the term “transpersonal.”
Transpersonal is a perspective/methodology/practice/…that will facilitates a person to
* know what/who s/he is
* relearn her/his mind, body, and soul
* awaken from Samsara/modern reality
* view human potential beyond the conventional “personal” realm
* cultivate self-awareness and wisdom
* unlearn from personal limited experiences
* study and expeand consciousness
* develop/return to real-self and beyond
* be authentic
* build and conduct meaningful relationships
* form/reform the meaning of life
* understand human experience
* approach soul and spirit
There are more descriptions and stories can expand this list (use your transperosnal experiences to imagine).
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