Comments on: Using a Spiritual Teacher as a Therapist https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2020/09/using-a-spiritual-teacher-as-a-therapist.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=using-a-spiritual-teacher-as-a-therapist Stay as awareness Sun, 17 Dec 2023 23:27:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Jim Tolles https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2020/09/using-a-spiritual-teacher-as-a-therapist.html#comment-212 Mon, 29 Mar 2021 17:30:55 +0000 https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2020/09/28/using-a-spiritual-teacher-as-a-therapist/#comment-212 Thanks for the comment. I'd encourage you to investigate the term trauma. I use it pretty specifically for things like physical abuse, sexual abuse, repeated emotional manipulation, war experiences, and so forth. There are lots more upsetting experiences and attachments people have–like the bad break-up/divorce–that are upsetting but not really at the same level of horrible as watching someone be blown up by a landmine.

I say this because it is important to understand what we're all talking about so that people can get the right support.

]]> By: Jim Tolles https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2020/09/using-a-spiritual-teacher-as-a-therapist.html#comment-284 Sun, 04 Oct 2020 15:42:26 +0000 https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2020/09/28/using-a-spiritual-teacher-as-a-therapist/#comment-284 You're welcome. I'm glad that you're going to get the support you truly need.

]]> By: Syssn3ck https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2020/09/using-a-spiritual-teacher-as-a-therapist.html#comment-287 Sun, 04 Oct 2020 15:41:52 +0000 https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2020/09/28/using-a-spiritual-teacher-as-a-therapist/#comment-287 Hi Jim, thanks a lot for this post and it came just in time! I was about to decline an offer for a first psychotherapeutic session. I thought I don't need it. My ego thought I will get through everything with the spiritual tools I collected … I'm crying right now. For months, I fooled myself with yet another identification. Thank you!

]]> By: Anonymous https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2020/09/using-a-spiritual-teacher-as-a-therapist.html#comment-292 Tue, 29 Sep 2020 02:44:17 +0000 https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2020/09/28/using-a-spiritual-teacher-as-a-therapist/#comment-292 I'm so glad you shared this post, so so important! I've been personally starting to wonder though if this whole spiritual awakening business is not just all rooted in trauma. I think there is definitely trauma and then there is trauma and some cases absolutely require specialist, evidence-based approaches for recovery to be achieved. But ultimately I'm starting to feel that our ego is really just layers of self-protection against things that we felt/interpreted as being traumatic to us, most of which was picked up in childhood. And we only fear challenging social norms, because of rejection and abandonment wounds… which are also forms of trauma. I'm coming to see that spiritual awakening is in essence healing from trauma, just with a fancier name. As you say when we see it otherwise it just tends towards bypassing. How can we be present and at peace and connected to spiritual experiences when our nervous systems are stuck in fight/flight mode. Collectively we are a traumatised species and thankfully the age has arrived to collectively heal and learn how to treat each other with more love and kindness so we don't continue these patterns of trauma for countless future generations to come as well. xo

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