Transpersonal Psychotherapy & Counselling Approach
Article Writer: Christina Manfredi
“Beyond right and wrong
There is a field
I meet you there.”
Rumi
At heart, Transpersonal Psychotherapy & Counselling is a scientific Field and Non-local Consciousness model of practice that speaks to the truth of the multidimensional aspects of our Being and the connection with our soul, and spirit as the seat of conscious intention and action in this world. All therapies and services that we offer rest upon this fundamental premise.
“We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.”
Brian Cox
A central understanding of this therapy is an acknowledgement that there is a creative living force and Conscious Presence within the cosmos that permeates all of Life. This creative living force and Presence also lives within us. Some may refer to this inner force as Spirit, Soul, Inner Witness, God, Universal Source, The Dreaming Field, Consciousness, and Interactive and Interconnected Chemical Compounds that are imbued with information.
Transpersonal Psychotherapy & Counselling approach regards Consciousness as the primary and fundamental basis for all life, our personal lives and all life existing in the Universe. As such, a fundamental premise of Transpersonal Psychotherapy & Counselling is that everything we experience, is only possible because of personal consciousness that is an inseparable part of a boundless dimension of a Conscious and Aware Universe. Our personal consciousness and Universal Consciousness are in-fact one and the same. We are never separated from the vast ocean of Consciousness. Separation is an illusion.
“Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities.”
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
“The highest force in existence is consciousness, and you are that.”
Sadhguru
We are not conscious because we think, but because we have an internal Witness and Presence (personal consciousness) that is awareness of our thoughts, our feelings, our behaviours, and our very existence.
Consciousness has the unfailing and ever-pervading capacity to manifest all that we can know and imagine and beyond. As a result of us being simultaneously in partnership and at one with Universal Conscious, we have the ability to set our intentions to co-create and manifest our aspirations and desires. As Sadhguru states, what we intensely focus on will in-fact manifest in our lives and in the world.
“I regard Consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything we talk about, everything that we postulate as existing, requires consciousness.”
Max Planck
A final key feature of Transpersonal Psychotherapy & Counselling is the exploration of the development of authentic personal power. Personal power has nothing to do with misusing power over others. Completely the contrary. Personal power is a quality of attentive Internal Aware Presence with a wise compassion, an immediacy of the here & now, with a capacity of receptivity, responsiveness, clear boundary, conscious intention and action in the world arising out of seat of the authentic Self. Our intentions and aspirations are like the arrows of our personal power aiming into the great ocean of Universal Consciousness to call forward all we wish to create.
It is when we come to an acceptance of our deeper authenticity, the power of Consciousness, and All that we already are within our multi-dimensional resourceful nature, and a re-membering that we are Love and One with all of creation, that we deepen into the reservoir of self-healing possibilities.
The Future has an Ancient Heart
Undeniably pain, suffering and uncertainty within life is at times unavoidable. Life can be hard and when faced with difficult situations within ourselves, or in our relationships, and a rapidly changing and confusing world facing wars and climate change. It may seem that we have little choice or capacity to change our situation or what may feel like our ‘fate’. During these times we can often resort to old automatic conditioned ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving that no longer serve us or the situation at hand.
Simultaneously we may feel that we do not have the skills or resources to respond any differently. These are tough times, the dark night of the soul, feelings of a psychic vacuum, and what the Buddhists refer to as ‘the realms of the hungry ghosts’. These are times to hold for hope, for where there is hope there is always life. One thing I have learnt is that life whilst filled with joy through to despair, it is miraculous. It can change in an instance with one choice, and it is up to us if we are willing to embrace the unique choice before us that grows life. Sometimes that takes great courage and a continued compassion towards ourselves.
There are those of us who have also had experiences that are not adequately understood by conventional psychological approaches. Some of these experiences may include pre-cognitions, visionary intuitions, seeing spirit or ghosts, feeling presences, psychic or clairvoyant experiences and many more. Or it may be that you have an interest in learning how to connect with your deeper intuition, to connect with the broader field of Consciousness, or learn how to relax and mediate and received spiritual guidance. Transpersonal Psychotherapy & Counselling offers a safe space that you can beginning to explore the possible meanings of these experiences and received skilled assistance to negotiating or deepening these experiences.
At times we may all need the assistance from another in a professional, private and confidential manner. The therapy that is offered respects that our body-mind-heart—spirit/consciousness holds an intelligence and magnificent orientation towards health and healing. We just need to be supported to re-member how to listen inward to what really matters to us and allow and trust the instinctual intuitive direction and ultimate source of that healing.
“Self-healing, transformation, and manifestation are possible when we become aware of our inseparable interconnection with the creative conscious life force that lives within and around us, the Eternal Spirit of Life/Consciousness that is always available ”
Christina Manfredi
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