Spirituality & Mental Health Issues

“I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.” ---C.G. Jung

Are you struggling with personal problems that you have some understanding of, or are you somehow discontent anyway for reasons you cannot put your finger on? Mainstream psychology and counseling often help people a great deal. But many situations are also impacted by existential considerations—more basic things about life that we couldn’t change, even if we didn’t have the problems we have, and even if we did always make the best choices. These are things like: --Your family and cultural circumstances --Your aptitudes and physical characteristics --The personalities of those around you --The nature and of your work --Social and economic conditions --Climate change and acts of God --Politics and international events --Old age, disease and death Issues like these can cause tremendous suffering. Growth and maturity may involve accommodating ourselves to reality, but in recent years, reality has caused perhaps unusual levels suffering, for reasons outside our individual control. Being happy and content in spite of this is entirely possible, but getting there is more of a spiritual than a psychological accomplishment. The internal dimension I can help you find will very likely involve growth- related practices performed apart from the world, along with counseling and spiritually related initiatives for problems you’re having in the world. Of course, what these practices, teachings, and guidelines are will vary from case to case.

MEDITATIVE INSIGHT

COUNSELING

My system involves regular effort at well-known practices which can help anybody. They require some discipline, however, and don’t produce solutions right away. For example, if you suffer from anxiety symptoms, there are specific strategies within CBT or other counseling systems that will likely help you within a short time. The practices here take longer, but they will also help. However, they will also change you in a more comprehensive, holistic, and permanent way, so that you experience greater integration and harmony in whatever you do, all the time. This brings lasting happiness into someone’s life in a way that specific psychological techniques often fail to do. If you would like to find greater contentment in this way, you might be looking for the kind of structure, discipline and guidance that I can provide. We would determine the type and intensity of the practices that are right for you, and be sure that they fit in what whatever similar things you may already be doing. (We will do some of both) YOUR JOURNEY COULD INVOLVE…

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