From a psychological perspective, the ultimate
challenge of life is to feel fully alive. Only
you know how alive you really feel. You may feel
fully alive or you may feel quite dead inside.
You may just be going through the motions of living,
more dead than alive, and not really enjoying
life. Helping people feel fully alive is the ultimate
goal of psychotherapy.
A significant reason why you may not feel fully
alive is because you may be stuck in one or more
negative emotional states, such as depression,
anger, fear, shame, guilt, loneliness, self-hate,
inferiority, jealousy, shyness, or confusion.
Feelings have histories. Troubling feelings that
you experience have a unique meaning for you because
of your unique family and life history.
Feelings are the language of personal meaning.
By exploring the meaning of your feelings in the
context of your unique developmental and relational
history and most importantly, in the context of
the therapeutic relationship, you will come to
understand how you got stuck in these feelings
and why you remain stuck.
As you come to understand the deeper meaning
of your feelings, you will begin to understand
yourself and your life in a way you’ve never
understood them before. With this new self-awareness,
fresh emotional horizons and possibilities will
begin to open-up for you. You will see yourself,
others, and the world in a new way which will
free you from your old patterns of thinking, feeling,
and behaving and you will feel more alive.
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