Tag: spirituality
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Violational Experience & State-Control
This is a synthesis of two previous entries. One article was titled “Experience that Violates Expectation” and made the claim that true change occurs when one has a meaningfully different experience than what was expected—that resists being absorbed back into the current belief system, thereby forcing an inner reorganization. The second article was titled “State-Control”…
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Experience That Violates Expectation
I was considering a client I am working with, and while considering something about them I wrote perhaps the most important line in my work as a therapist yet. The absolute best way to break conscious/unconscious sets, ingrained beliefs, life rules, organizing/governing principles—is to contradict them and to experience something different than what’s expected. This…
