Wellness Calendar: Saturday 22 November

Presence

“There is [a] very subtle factor in the healing relationship which I have experienced and that I would call presence. When I am at my best as a group facilitator, or a therapist, I discover this characteristic. I find that when I am closest to my inner intuitive self, when I am somehow in touch with the unknown in me, when perhaps I am in a slightly altered state of consciousness, then whatever I do seems to be full of healing. Then simply my presence is releasing and helpful. There is nothing I can do to force this experience. But when I can relax and be close to the transcendental core of me, then I may behave in strange and impulsive ways in the relationship, ways which I can’t justify rationally which have nothing to do with my thought processes. But these strange behaviours turn out to be right in some odd way. At those moments it seems that my inner spirit has reached out and touched the inner spirit of the other. Our relationship transcends itself and has become part of something larger. Profound growth and healing and energy are present.”
Carl Rogers

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