Transpersonal Psychotherapy
From a furious fire...
...to warming glow in one hour
An example of what a Transpersonal Psychotherapy session can be like.
Simon came in fuming one day; straight from work, where things were not going to plan. The people his firm were producing something for, were trying to 'milk everything they could' out of Simon without being willing to pay for it.
Simon felt trampled upon and got at. He felt under attack. When visualising the people he was angry with, he saw them standing, huge and threatening - with BOMBS in their hands - over him. He, himself was only very little, about a foot high. This unconscious feeling of being threatened produced Simon's fighting instinct and he was all ready to go into battle.
I suggested that Simon use his imagination and 'shrink' the people into normal size. Once he'd done this he found that the bombs had disappeared and the men didn't look menacing at all any more. He himself had grown to an equal size and he now saw that these men were frightened themselves. They were frightened of what their bosses would say.
As he continued visualising the situation, moving further and further up the hierarchy, he noticed that everybody was putting pressure on the ones below, out of fear more than anything else.
Simon then decided to do something about this. He saw himself sharing of the energy of hope and calm that he was now feeling. The image he got was of himself standing on a theatre stage and light spreading out from him. First to the people in the front row, then from these out to the sides and onwards and upwards until the whole auditorium was filled with people bathed in light. Simon felt very inspired and elated by this vision and went back to work in a totally different mood from the one he'd come with. Needless to say, he since found that it was much easier to deal with his clients. He'd learnt that he didn't have to fight; that there are other ways of dealing with these situations.
This is just an example of a strategy for handling a situation, which can be learnt and used very easily.
The next step on the journey would be to find out why Simon responded to this kind of stress in the way he did. What in his history makes him 'shrink' like this and loose his sense of self?
It is often a question of having been 'shrunk' rather than helped to grow as a child - either by parents and/or by teachers. Of having been criticised a lot and not praised. By becoming conscious of what started this habitual pattern in the first place, we can ‘re-programme’ our-selves and so move onwards in life with another, more positive ‘script’ ‘hard-wired’ in our unconscious self. This is done through another process that is part of the healing journey as I see it in my work.
Hence, the story continues...
This is just one small example of what might happen in a psychotherapy session with me, Kerstin Lindley-Jones. I use many methods in order to help the person I’m with to find ways of handling life in the present better and also enrich the experience of living on the whole to add a sense of joy, happiness, excitement as well as serenity to the palette of their colours for existence.
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