ON GESTALT MY BELIEF (11 th installment, Part 2) However I believe, and it is my view and personal experience that there comes a time therapeutic process which is known as your ego or character, has already given the maximum fruit I could give. The benefit of this work could make to your life has reached its limit, and can not give much if. You can continue collecting pages of knowledge on you to write a huge encyclopedia titled "I'm like," and that knowledge will continue to be useful in dealing with others, but will not get to deposit a certain amount of suffering that are more in depth, within you.
is for this reason that, often, many people tell me they have been for years in personal and processes have improved, but still suffer from the same things ...
Why although changes to know your character and understand , I repeat, are succulent, the ego is always the ego, and "the goat always changes its spots." is where the spiritual teaching shows us a way to access to a more profound transformation , where once you experience it, feel or perceive it, you know it space deep healing.
The ego will "pull the hill", but little by little, stop guide your life will no longer take the same reactions as always, the same answers as usual, and gradually, pain or suffering will not be as important and will be fuzzy.
This is like, training us in the spiritual practice of being present , learn to live in a more profound and joyful . More full and happy. That has nothing to do with what happens outside, what happens to the ego, has to do with an inner state. 
Following this spin I write, the writing on the integration between Gestalt and Spirituality, "in my opinion" ... I take a thick thread of any color, no matter what ... I link it with another that I am on the road, and my hands tied, move, combine, link ... as moving alone ... keep writing ...
Another fundamental link between Gestalt and Spirituality is the "here and now." This is a job (in fact any personal work or otherwise) that you can only do now. Or not do, but it is now. The present moment is one of the keys.
is true that this profound truth, no one doubts that everyone is welcome, it has become or is becoming a buzzword. I've seen ads for soft drinks with statements that call the present moment and even a well-known colleague told me about the "presentism" as a concept being used in a somewhat light, in different areas ...
The human ego (though I could save the human, as there is no ego mineral, vegetable or animal) tries to take any experience and encapsulate, analyze, use, understand. There is nothing wrong, neither good nor personal. The mind is a wonderful tool and creates a lot of things with his talent. But the answers to how deep we are, who we really are, the answers to why things happen to me happen to me, are not in the mental plane. It is for this reason that the human mind is sick, overwhelmed, overloaded. It holds, sometimes obsessively, on its own behalf and what not. The present moment is a place, a space. Only you can know what it is through experience, not through understanding.
This is an area without thinking . Is where the only life that exists, and is much larger than the small cell with the contents of mental ideas about you. Differentiate know you're in that space by the internal state that makes you, joy subtle, accompanied by quiet, peace and tranquility, union with everything and everyone. practice to enter this place is really very simple , but the habit of not doing so is very strong and is well embedded in all of us. That's where we find the difficulty. In fact, we often live in the opposite state, trying to be somewhere else than this. Some people when they experience this to be in life, I say precious: is like coming home. is certainly true. When we are there, we know that this is the real place where there is life. And always there, here, now, in good times and bad times. There elsewhere basic linker between Gestalt therapy and philosophy and the spiritual path. And this is what is called in Gestalt ATTITUDE, and spiritual practice would simply BE . 
The Gestalt approach is put against the other in a certain way. Listen, look at him, serve, without trial or thought, no opinions or criteria. Following basically what is happening to me I while listening to the live that way. Difficult, at times, be well before the other with the domain of the mind in our lives and relationships, as it is always reviewing and judging on what is going on around them. At the same time, all these thoughts in my body arouse emotions, past or present, depending on what the person in front of you resonates in me.
Hard said, and this is what we train Gestalt therapists (Or we intend to do so). In front of the other get the cleanest possible , and not allowing those trials dyed too much intervention, the feed-back or the proposal we make to the person.
Obviously, we are dedicated to this office are human, with their egos and characters than the rest of us, with the same issues of life and heart. Thus, being in front of people we are passing things, and keep coming judgments, opinions, complaints and other delicatessen. But we learn to observe, to look at them within one or one yourself, be to feel them but not to follow, let us not guided by them. How is this done? Based on what happens to you inside the body. Maintaining a state of attention to what happens in you. And making room for it. Noting the momentum that often appears, and leaving time and space to see what happens if you do not follow. To me, when I'm working, I find, sometimes in amusement, see the trial appear, the momentum, the known, as usual, and look, give it space, and not follow, do not buy. If you practice it continuously, you can see as a response appears different, more creative, more clean, more accurate with what the person needs. We are again talking about a spiritual practice. offer another space wider backing to be, without thought or opinion ... this similar to what we feel when we are with a very young child or in contact with certain animals or nature ... recognize what I mean?
In any case, this letter serves and above to make clear that the path or spiritual practice is not unattainable , or rare, only a few who managed to dress in white, shaved their heads and chant mantras ... not at all. You do not need either go to any school, or converted to any religion, or read foreign books or belong to any sect ... spiritual practice is very simple, and the simpler, closer to the deeper truth is, says Eckhart Tolle .
spiritual practice is to be in touch with what you really are, with depth in you. With what you were before birth and what will still be when you die. is a way increasingly necessary and useful to hold in these times. Times when for many people, happiness is subject to the shape, material, is collapsing. The life and our own evolution of this practice need to move forward, at least that's what I think ... and I sincerely hope, contribute something to this "cause" at this writing and from the way I try to be in the world ...
feel the desire to name some of the people who have helped me most (and still do) on this path of integration between Gestalt and Spirituality , and more in particular, thank you for your contribution to that achieved capture something about it on paper (virtual, in this case). Thanks John Welwood , psychologist and American Buddhist practitioner who has worked and experiencing the importance of alternative and complement the way of integrating personal growth and spiritual psychotherapeutic work. He has given me a book called "Psychology of awakening" that is full of pearls. Take the concepts, made with honey, the recomposed, integrates, wraps and you give them away on each page. Highly recommended for anyone who wants to delve into this topic. Thanks Cristina Nadal, for your host and your client unconditionally me space on my hard to make me understand, sometimes. Thanks Ramon Ballester . At a meeting not long ago, I asked: How do I do when someone from the ego is altered before I plant, bounced and warrior? And he replied: "I, when something happens to me, I'm still managing to be." Thank you, dear Marina Borruso , for teaching me so deeply to be present and for being my teacher. I feel privileged and grateful to have the company of all ell @ s .
Finally comment ... truly believe that there are no better and worst ways forward. that each one finds his @ , and that's exactly the best for her or him at that time.
is not important the type of map you use to get to a place, it is important to carefully follow the signs and go.
As I mentioned before, we are in a time when many people are having for the first time the urgent need to evolve and expand that awareness. Because of this there are many proposals and options and each one @ know what is yours at that time. I would A couple of suggestions as the end of this article, with the aspiration that will be helpful. The first is a response the second is a question. The answer: Try to tell internally phrase "I am." In any moment of confusion, the impact of distress, when you perceive that suffering invades, when you consider that you need internally and waiting ... say it leaves room to experience what happens. Question: The issue needs basis, a ingredient. As a stock has solid ingredients, but the main and basic, without which there can not make it, is water in the path of evolution of consciousness, spiritual practice, the basic ingredient is intention. Without it, the way will be more difficult. With it, perhaps. But you will find more strength in the moments in which external situations are complicated. Therefore, the question to ask yourself whenever you need it: I want to be? which is my intention? Is be more aware really important to me?
The answer, at free will of each.
And my respects to each of these responses . Thanks and see you soon
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