What this blog is about

Most people long for love. Many live their whole lives seeking but never finding it.

Very very few people long for meditation.

Yet love and meditation are integrally one. When we rest deeply inside ourselves, love arises – from within. When we find a love partner outside ourselves, challenges will arise which can only be resolved within ourselves.

Without meditation (whatever that means) you cannot have deep love. Without love (whatever that means), you cannot have deep inner conection with yourself.

If that doesn’t make much sense, don’t worry – this whole blog is to explain it more. And to explain how I see therapy, as poised between love and meditation.

For most people this whole world of therapy, meditation, personal transformation is blanked off. It’s wierd, it’s irrelevant, “for others not for me”. Which is a pity, because the great majority of people (yes, the great majority) are living lives of misery, lovelessness and joylessness. We don’t notice because the situation is simply so universal that we think it’s normal.

People mostly only wake up and start to change their lives when the pain becomes acute in a crisis such as a divorce or depression. Then, reluctantly, they seek some kind of professional help. So the purpose of the blog is also to explain what brief therapy can and can’t do, and to overview the whole world of personal development.

In particular I want to discuss in detail therapy advertising, what’s real and what’s not. That will include both what is possible and what’s not in personal development, and also very concrete things like claims for success of quit-smoking work. One of the joys of this work is the vast range of issues which people bring.

I hope that in time the blog will grow into a creative person’s  guide to personal development. One topic will be the severe limitations of all talking therapies.

I welcome constructive comments whether agreeing or disagreeing. Life is too short for unconstructive ones, so they will get moderated out.