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Re:Meditation in Psychotherapy & Meditation v EMDR
Meditator · 08/01/03 at 11:20 ET
Yes, I am familiar with Daniel Goleman. He's a prolific writer, and has been around for--decades. Perhaps his longevity alone has helped to shape the direction in psychology, if not popular culture at least. Ironically, it's Emotional Intelligence, a rather non-meditation focused book that is probably best known now. I notice that meditation is being used to teach relaxation or attention to emotions. All valid, but it does seem to me that the broader deep effects of meditation are for the most part ignored and not understood as widely. Perhaps that will come, but meditation is so difficult and requires committment and long-term practice to begin to experience this. Will therapists who study meditation in weekend workshops realize this? And, will therapists who are deeply unskilled attempt to teach meditation? Is any of this bad? I don't know. It's just something that I think about. Perhaps this is one of the reasons those within EMDR circles are so adverse to acknowledging that EMDR is and "alternative modality" and not something new. They aren't familiar with ancient spiritual and healing practices, and/or they wouldn't want to associate themselves with it for many reasons. Yet, to ignore this is to miss a deeper understanding of what they are doing. I am fresh back from an evening of healing. Although I don't consider myself a healer, I leave that to the people who do, I have practiced healing for many years. I am smack dap in the middle of an "alternative modality" and look at my skepticism for what's considered mainstream.
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