Traditional Counseling rooted in western psychology
We have to know how to work with egoic deficiencies or we will be lost and painfully confused in life and make no progress on the spiritual path. No amount of effort or mental understanding will heal the deep pain that most of us experience within ourselves. Our personal egoic deficiencies must be loved to death, if we are going to heal. If we truly want to [...]
It is common for individuals to protect themselves against mental, emotional and physical pain by armoring ourselves, in a psychosomatic way in our physical and emotional bodies. This tends to happen at a moment of a real or perceived crisis, when our bodies instinctively go tense in an effort to brace oneself from being overwhelmed by feelings. As therapist and teacher, I have worked with many individuals throughout the years that hold heavy layers of protection around themselves; sometimes decades after an experience of pain or trauma took place.
Craig Holliday spiritual teacher Boulder, Colorado When storms of emotion come forward the normal reaction is to run, avoid or fight with what is here. Most of us spend our entire lives in this dance of reactivity, but it seems to only lead to more pain for us and those around us. A different approach is for us to remain radically open and loving [...]
