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Peter Spinogatti continued, “Think deeply about the
following universal fictions: Fiction: The goal of therapy is to raise
consciousness. Dissolution: Start by not putting yourself down, and your
consciousness will have been raised in every way that matters. Fiction:
Learning how to cope is the touchstone of successful therapy. Dissolution:
Learning how to cope can only happen when we start to feel better about what
troubles us. The interesting question is why feeling only better and not feeling
good? Isn’t that because better is necessarily perceived as good, but good is
not perceived as better? Fiction: What we learned to believe in the past
enabled us to be unhappy in the present. Dissolution: That is only half the
story. What we learned was originally designed to do the opposite. It was
learned at that earlier time to protect us from the future which has now become
the present.”
His message, “Believe that there is nothing wrong with
you. We really are children of God. You can believe this literally or
metaphorically - the psychological result will be the same.”
Peter’s closing words, “Talking to unhappy
people for thirty years as a therapist has taught me that all unhappiness is
reducible to self-loathing which is, as it turns out, to be a demonstrable
paradox and paradoxes cannot be solved by anything we do. It can only be
dissolved.”
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