Hi Don. I have to say I don’t see any kind of issue with that, but that might be because I just see it as a tool/tools not as a doctrine.
That said, I also think there is an opposite problem to what people call spiritual bypassing which you might call ‘psychological bypassing’:
Getting wrapped up in a particular psychological paradigm and tearing it as doctrine is as limiting/problematic as getting caught up in any specific spiritual paradigm and treating it as doctrine.
To answer your last question - I’m not sure what you mean exactly by the term ‘emotional integration’ but I have worked with a lot of self-development paradigms over the years and have found that contradictions usually only appear at the surface level. Things that work have to be working with the nature of things, and the nature of things cannot contradict itself.
I will also say that I am most certainly not an ‘everyone needs therapy’ adherent. Some therapies could be said to encourage a focus that itself becomes pathological if mismanaged or over-rehearsed.
Anyhows, there’s a fair bit I could say on that so it might be an episode itself.
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Hi Don. I have to say I don’t see any kind of issue with that, but that might be because I just see it as a tool/tools not as a doctrine.
That said, I also think there is an opposite problem to what people call spiritual bypassing which you might call ‘psychological bypassing’:
Getting wrapped up in a particular psychological paradigm and tearing it as doctrine is as limiting/problematic as getting caught up in any specific spiritual paradigm and treating it as doctrine.
To answer your last question - I’m not sure what you mean exactly by the term ‘emotional integration’ but I have worked with a lot of self-development paradigms over the years and have found that contradictions usually only appear at the surface level. Things that work have to be working with the nature of things, and the nature of things cannot contradict itself.
I will also say that I am most certainly not an ‘everyone needs therapy’ adherent. Some therapies could be said to encourage a focus that itself becomes pathological if mismanaged or over-rehearsed.
Anyhows, there’s a fair bit I could say on that so it might be an episode itself.