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emotions and thoughts while remaining fundamentally unaffected by them) must be taught. It is not a matter of one or the other, it is a matter of both disciplines having their time and place.
What is needed, then, is integration—insightful, sensitive and appropriate integration of psychological and spiritual approaches to an individual’s health, well-being, personal fulfillment and growth— and always, always remembering the fundamental reality beyond duality. In so many subtle ways a vision of the more profound truths underlying our contemporary view of “reality” must be developed in those seeking treatment, even while mental and emotional fears are being addressed. Beyond the false is truth; beyond doubting, faith; beyond darkness, light; beyond death, immortality.
Beyond gratification is renunciation; beyond the physical, the transcendental. Beyond jogging are yoga postures; beyond crying is breath control; beyond catharsis is calm; beyond the outer world, the inner. Beyond free association is meditation; beyond desire, devotion; beyond defiance, respect; beyond anger, bliss; beyond violence, peace.
Beyond chaos is morality; beyond agitation is stillness; beyond verbalization, silence; beyond tears, equanimity. Beyond memory is mergence; beyond mind is spirit; beyond selfishness, selflessness; beyond bondage, liberation; beyond hatred, love.
“GOOD-JUDGMENTAL”
The therapist himself must appreciate and practice morality at a new level of understanding. Beyond education by word, he must set an example by deed. His life must reflect a unity in thought, word and deed, or the words become empty and useless. With his consciousness firmly centered in the higher life, his devotion, equanimity and love must be reflected in a just and moral character.
His character and morality are vitally important. Unlike what is now commonly accepted in psychoanalysis, his central attitude must not be non-judgmental, but good-judgmental (discerning). I see one of the major goals of treatment as the development of good judgment concerning one’s responsibility for morality. Presented in a non- demanding, completely open, accepting and compassionate way, the development of good moral judgment must be at the very core of therapy.


































































































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