self empowerment Authentic happiness

Go to a self-improvement seminar, feel good. Read a book, get motivated. Get an attitude adjustment and start winning big in life. You know you can do it. You just need to get motivated and get into action. The only thing stopping you is yourself.

Yes, yes, yes. All very true and definitely temporarily inspiring. And you've heard it all before.

But unfortunately, that's not all there is to it.

Imagine never again getting upset when someone disagrees with you, tells you you're wrong, or contradicts you. Imagine enjoying and growing from this experience.

Is it possible? Yes, it is. All you have to do is follow these guidelines and practice the exercise below.

Understanding Therapy

Unless you have graduated from university with a degree in one of the helping professions there is a chance that you will have a confusion as to what therapy is. And, because of the diversity of the subject of therapy, even qualified practitioners are unaware of what their colleagues are doing.

To add to the confusion the word 'therapy' has become so generic we need clarification as to what therapy is being referred to. Generally though, when we refer to therapy without specifying what therapy e.g. electrotherapy, people mean Psychotherapy

In the past a negative label was put on anyone receiving therapy. "There's something wrong with you if you have therapy" was the usual response. Or "There's something wrong with you if you can't sort out your own life." Being labelled a 'patient' helped to cement in this idea, adding to the idea that there was something wrong with you if you saw a therapist.

While some people have serious psychoses or neuroses problems, more and more people are seeking the help of specialized therapists in order to become more aware and capable after they have handled their immediate 'issues'.

Unfortunately there are still many therapists who consider that their work is done when they have returned you to your 'normal' way of being simply because they are unaware of a 'higher' side of us and how to get us there. 

The good news is that there are a growing number of therapists who have developed their skills not only to fix what you wanted handled but to help you discover what you are truly capable of.

Hopefully over the next few years the general concept of therapy will change so that it will be considered that there is something wrong with us if we don't seek therapy. After all who really wants to be 'normal', as opposed to discovering our wonderful latent talents that lie buried within all of us?

To find these talents though we usually first have to iron out any unwanted wrinkles that life may have imposed upon us!

  The difference between Therapy, Counselling, Processing and Life coaching

I was shivering in a restaurant bar nearby the beach I had just surfed. As I absent-mindedly paged through a supermarket catalog, my partner told me the story of Milarepa, the great Tibetan monk.

Milarepa started out as a less than ethical sorcerer who spent 12 years in the Himalayas in “contemplative retreat” with just a cotton robe as atonement for his previous acts of “negative evolutionary momentum”. His growth from this long stint in the freezing mountains resulted in his being considered as the “first Tibetan to become a perfect Buddha within a single lifetime”.