Spontaneity in SAT
This touches on an important aspect of Sacred Attention Therapy (SAT). There is no preset way to do therapy; the therapy journey is unique and individual for each person. As we draw conclusions, make generalizations, and posit likelihoods, we are still left in a place of wonder, of mystery. Now this is how it is, this is how things are filled with wonder, shot through with mystery. Work with people this way and you will stay focused, energetic, authentic, and full of life. If you approach working with people carrying a weight of models, theories, new and old paradigms, pictures, and strategies, you may never see the person in front of you through the effort, through the haze, through the obstacle created by your theories and methodology.
You should always be ready for spontaneity, for paradox and contradiction, for the unexpected. Try not to get stuck in making the client conform, let go entirely of your model of how it should be. Your client after all is reeling from conditioning, has come to you for release from his habitual, anti-life patterning, from liberation from his complex strategies for survival.
Healing Presence
SAT is not a formatted therapy approach; you and the client do not know what to expect. This not-knowing is one of the most powerful gifts you have to offer. The only difference between you as the therapist and your client is that you have learned to sit easy with not-knowing. You don’t know; you have no need to predict, to feel secure, to pre-empt, to second guess. You simply reside in the moment, a healing presence; you breathe and don’t anticipate, neither do you consult the past – you are simply present.
This is a simple description of what it is like to not be unconsciously manoeuvred by a life statement. Thus you become, not merely present, but the healing that the client is seeking. You are a beacon, a light that shows her the way to freedom into a life beyond fear-based strategies, beyond the powerful hold of her life statements.
Excerpt from SAT Online Training, Level 1 lecture manuscript
https://www.centerforhumanawakening.com/SAT-Online-Training-Is-It-For-You.html
A man, that at times acts as a Mental Health & Addiction Specialist Acu-Stim Treatment & Training Provider at wellhere.org
7 年There is nothing to do but be ;-)
Serving your personal journey toward enlightenment
7 年One of the more interesting exchanges with clients in an introductory session is sharing with them how I do not work. I share with them that how I do not work is as important as, if not more important than, how I do work. In the sharing of how I do not work, I invite the client to consider that there is no set order or pattern to the healing process. I explain that while I have a set of tools I may use to invite healing, the client always leads the way; I merely accompany. When we accompany someone through their healing journey, being ready for anything is the operative state for the therapist / healer. Something can come from seemingly nothing. A word, a gesture, a look; everything can be revealed in an instant. There is nothing that can prepare either the therapist or therapee for the moment of revelation. There is no flashing marquee or talisman, or traffic officer or prophetic sign. It simply happens. There is little, if anything, we can do to facilitate its unfolding. We can simply wait, in graceful patience, for the moment when the client decides they want to heal. This impetus to healing is a mystery. We cannot know when the moment will unveil itself. We cannot know the process our client will take enroute to that instant. And we cannot know how it will present itself for the client. This unknown, this not knowing, is the ultimate leveler; the primordial act of humbleness and grace. Our not knowing allows us to simply ‘be’ with the client and the unfolding process. It is the allowing and being that enables the healing process to reveal itself to the client and therapist alike.