Looking back at the past 2 months of this blog's life and the counseling process during this period, it is apparent that the steps as they happen in getting from the perceived life currently being lived to the one envisioned may not seem obvious.
An example comes to mind with someone who was afraid of dogs. Steps in therapy came for this person in identifying the thoughts and feelings evoked during the moments of terror experienced in the presence of a dog, identifying a time when there was not enough time to react and a dog was benign, years of being around dogs in friends' and relatives' homes, and suddenly one day an impulse to pet a dog.
This is a significant event because it is significant for the person in reducing the resources the person spent on worrying about dogs and in trying to protect self from dogs which were not harmful. It is also significant in letting a small piece of life just happen with no major attention to it other than a moment of connection, joy and even relaxation in what used to be an anxiety producing event which at that time was limiting life for this person.
Such is often the story of breakthroughs in therapy. They are simply ordinary life lived without need for extraordinary attention paid to it by being in the moment and living that moment.
An example comes to mind with someone who was afraid of dogs. Steps in therapy came for this person in identifying the thoughts and feelings evoked during the moments of terror experienced in the presence of a dog, identifying a time when there was not enough time to react and a dog was benign, years of being around dogs in friends' and relatives' homes, and suddenly one day an impulse to pet a dog.
This is a significant event because it is significant for the person in reducing the resources the person spent on worrying about dogs and in trying to protect self from dogs which were not harmful. It is also significant in letting a small piece of life just happen with no major attention to it other than a moment of connection, joy and even relaxation in what used to be an anxiety producing event which at that time was limiting life for this person.
Such is often the story of breakthroughs in therapy. They are simply ordinary life lived without need for extraordinary attention paid to it by being in the moment and living that moment.
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