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you towards restoring inner peace and harmony, optimal health, and the higher goal of self-actualization.
Although, I graduated with highest honors in psychology from one of the top 15 universities in the world, UC Davis, it seemed to me that there was something missing in the psychological paradigm I had learned there. In therapy people were learning to cope with their situation, but coping is just getting by, which is not the same as fully living, free of suffering. People deserve to get better, to live full exciting, healthy lives and enjoy themselves... not just sometimes or somewhat.
I thought a fresh look at therapy was needed... a look from a different perspective, a paradigm shift, a different path... but such paths did not yet exist. I was inspired by the Australian Aboriginal saying,
“Stranger, there are no paths! Paths are made by walking.” Marching to the Beat of a Different Drummer
Why take a different path to understanding the world and who we are in order to create a new therapy? Because, after over two decades of working with clients, I came to understand that the limitations of the current therapies are not of the sciences themselves. Rather, they are the limitations of the dualistic level of consciousness such sciences emerge from.
As Albert Einstein explained:
“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”
To offer a better therapy, then, it was necessary to step outside the dualistic paradigm, altogether, and shift to a higher level of consciousness, known as “non- dualistic”, which became the springboard for the new therapeutic paradigm shift outlined here.
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