Category: Psychology and Relationships
These are very personal questions: What is spiritual to you? When and where do you feel spiritual? How do these spiritual feelings get blocked or expanded?
We can carry these questions throughout our lives. Spiritual practice aims to refine and deepen our understanding of them.
I will focus on three specific spiritual practices: psychological relationships, meditation, and psychedelic plant medicines, including cannabis.
Spiritual practice is about psychological relationships because if our spiritual practice doesn’t improve our relationships with others, what’s the point?
The practice of psychological relationships with others and with one’s inner life is a personal experience with spiritual meaning. This involves experiences of vulnerability, hurt, and confusion that teach us the depth of human love and kindness.
Spiritual practice is not only personal but also universal and objective. We need to look at our minds as they are, our human instincts as they are, and our relationship with the natural world. We are born, go through all the developmental stages, and then die. Life is both precious and painful. We cannot change most of life, but we can learn to connect with it gracefully, little by little.
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Psychotherapy, How It Works In One’s Self
What is psychotherapy? Psychotherapy is a gradual experience and understanding of ones inner life and it’s relationship to the outer world. The therapist’s job is to help illuminate this process. This illumination is physical and mental. A person feels things, experiences things and learns how to relate to all of it, and in fact use…
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Psychotherapy, In The Culture
What role does psychotherapy play in the culture? We are all watching how psychotherapy evolves in the culture. We hear more people talking about their personal experiences with psychotherapy. There are more books written about psychology in the self-help world. It is even appearing more in movies and TV. It has a place in our…
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Relationship Counseling, The Real Work
Relationship counseling Relationship counseling can be with an individual, a couple, a family, or any combination of people in relationship. The purpose of relationship counseling is to make life easier and more meaningful. Even in solitude there is a relationship with yourself plus a relationship with the thoughts of those you have been with or…
