The End of Process Oriented Therapy.
I am declaring today, 5.30.08, to mark the official death of humanistic, process oriented, psycho-emotional healing for all those who have reached a world-centric level of development.
And thus we have the birth of a new medicine for a new humanity stepping forward from here……
This just in! A friend and student of mine named Sarah Van Hoy, L. Ac. is on the faculty of Health Arts at Goddard College. I just received this note from her:
“A little note from evolution – I was at my faculty retreat yesterday and we collectively decided that “process” in healing was done and that, as faculty, we would hold something else – step into the One Consciousness that is always there and move the world forward. This is the new mandate of Health Arts at Goddard.” -Sarah
Isn’t this fantastic? It’s a big part of what I’ve been working for these last 6 years. We are witnessing the end of the “therapeutic” process where healing at the level of the heart and mind is thought to take time. Simply put, the part of us that needs more time to heal emotionally IS the disease itself in people who have reached a world centric level of development. Clinical practice, as well as life, have taught me that there are two sources of motivation competing for our attention. The ego is that wounded, traumatized part of ourselves that loves the process of healing but has no intention of ever being healed. Its sole motivation is to preserve the past. The authentic self, the spirit, doesn’t need healing because nothing ever happened there. It’s only interest is living with more integrity RIGHT NOW. And that’s what holistic and integral healing is about-moving from a relatively divided state to increasing states of wholeness and integration.
From this perspective any modality that requires “process” is seen as strengthening the presence of the disease by reinforcing a dysfunctional relationship to time, thought, and feeling. It is my estimation that the minimum requirement for anyone to be considered a healer is that he or she has to have renounced the right to take any more time for healing past “wounds and traumas”. Of course, this renunciation could only meaningfully come from having fully discovered, and given one’s self to, that part of one’s self that is always more interested in creating the future than on overcoming one’s past. This is a sign of maturity that suggests the person is truly more focused on living for the sake of the whole than on being self absorbed. And this means the practitioner is actually living the implications of the five-element model, or any holistic model, beyond a mere theoretical understanding.
I’m just giving notice that a new core value system is arising in culture that obsoletes the “process” oriented, humanistic, values focused on the patient as being a victim who needs time to heal from his or her past. Just as the humanistic leanings of new age healing have supplanted the materialism of biomedicine these last 40 years, so too will this new core value system wash over and erase the new age values of the sensitive self, humanistic, psycho-emotional approach so rampant in the alternative medical field.
It’s not a question of “if” this transition will happen because it is happening right now as evidenced by Sarah’s letter. Of course, what I’m pointing to is the leading edge of medicine. Emotional healing is dead. Realization of the Self beyond the ego’s emotional tides, right now, is the rising star in what may be the first truly spiritually based medicine to have appeared on the planet.
Submitted for consideration.
Lonny Jarrett