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Misha Yurchenko's avatar

Wow, great conversation guys! Thanks for putting words to something I've been feeling for a while now!

In going down the path of Buddhist meditation I've felt at one point that I was doing a lot of bypassing, and still somehow stuck in patterns that "should" have been solved through all of this silent practice. But in reality I found that I could access deep states of stillness and presence and not actually work on those messy/painful things directly. Metta and the bramaviharas did wonders for me, yet there was still something lacking.

Out of the therapy and coaching I've received, IFS and somatic experiencing have been the most transformative for me to heal trauma and to let go of destructive thought patterns. There's also all the work on attachment styles and coming to understand my own behaviors this way in relationships. I resonate a lot with what you said Scott about meditation strengthening the Witness, making the healing work easier to approach from a place of curious unfolding.

Speaking of which, I've started my Aletheia training, and it has been super cool to see the integration of these various depths in a coherent framework. It's brought together a lot of the work I've been doing the last few years and giving it a fresh new, integrated lens. Thanks so much man, wouldn't have found it if it wasn't for you! :)

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Roc Guiducci's avatar

That’s interesting on the point about awakening and healing. I view them as inseparable. Reminded me of this from A Course in Miracles section on “the purpose of psychotherapy”:

“Very simply, the purpose of psychotherapy is to remove the blocks to truth. Its aim is to aid the patient in abandoning his fixed delusional system, and to begin to reconsider the spurious cause and effect relationships on which it rests.”

“Psychotherapy is the only form of therapy there is. Since only the mind can be sick, only the mind can be healed. Only the mind is in need of healing.”

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