Non-Duality & PsychoTherapy - How they Conflict, Interrelate, and Co-Operate

http://www.free-awareness.com - Debs Malki (Psychotherapist with an experiential interest in Non-Duality) and Bentinho Massaro (Free Awareness) speak on how NonDuality - or the science of Enlightenment (freedom from suffering) - and Psycho Therapy conflict, interrelate and possibly work together.

Debs Malki practices Schema Therapy, which is a combination of several forms of Psychotherapy, among which CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) Psychodynamic Therapy, and Gestalt, and she has an increased interest in other approaches such as some forms of Non-Duality, which in general suggest a more direct approach to freedom.

Bentinho Massaro, author and founder of www.free-awareness.com specializes in practical and accessible approaches to experiencing one's already present perfection as a direct way to derive well-being and freedom from, rather than to dig into the story of things from the premise of being imperfect, flawed or needing to get rid of certain emotions. Free Awareness is all about relaxing into the stories, as to experientially recognize that there is effortless and perfect freedom, ever-available to us simply be deciding to relax into the experience as it is, rather than trying to define and categorize it.

Much Gratitude to Debs Malki for suggesting this topic and contributing to the content. I hope she will inspire many established therapists to look into their own premise of the client, form which they start coaching, and how they could integrate non-duality, or Free Awareness, in their own practice.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Psychotherapy
• Psychology
• cognitive behavioral therapy
• CBT
• Schema Therapy
• Psychodynamic Therapy
• Gestalt
• Mindfulness
• Non-Duality
• Satsang
• Freedom from Suffering
• Free Awareness
• Bentinho Massaro
• Debs Malki

[fuckgegg]

The joy of finding someone to talk to who wasn't caught up in the 'role' and who could embrace you as being perfect would be wonderful. I'd like to find someone in San Diego like this.

[BentinhoMassaro]

@fuckgegg You can be that person for yourself! You can be that love and know that you are perfect no matter what! <3

[perceptionsevrything]

Two "people" talking about non duality? Hmm. Interesting. But this video did not exist in "my" reality until " I " looked for it. Insert paradox.

[claudelebel55]

@telemicus75 Show me one snowflake which is not perfect and I will show you that this is simply a thought in your own mind.

[claudelebel55]

@telemicus75 Your comment is also a jugment in your mind and one with which I disagree. Tell me what is wrong with a beautiful sunset or an innocent and happy child. I also had a very direct experience of perfection which cannot be so easily expressed in words but you, your true non-egoic self, is perfect because it is in the image of God .... but you have to see it to believe it. It is not a jugment, it is a recognition just as awakening is a recognition.

[telemicus75]

@claudelebel55 there is no such thing as perfection, that is a judgement in your mind.

[telemicus75]

@theinnercreative Until you really know yourself and your story on deeper and deeper levels you will never be free from pain.

[claudelebel55]

Seems that if the therapist has not found his own perfection or freedom he cannot energetically treat his patient as anything other than flawed .... to a greater or lesser extent (?)

[claudelebel55]

I was raised to believe that I was terribly inadequate and 3 months ago at the age of 62 while I was moving around in my living room, a light went on inside of me and I said out loud to myself "Fxxx, there is nothing wrong with me. The is nothing wrong with me." and I couldn't believe it. I had been running this program unconsciously for decades and suddenly I was free of it. I will not say that the program is completely disolved but that was a huge and very sudden step.

[willC801]

fag

[livingcircle]

@BentinhoMassaro "You can discover that Presence as yourself". I only nit pick because the person to person perspective is so tramelled along the lines of getting something amidst a mind already trained to differentiate and identify personally. When we meet truly - we open in and as presence.

If that's helpful - I am grateful to be with you. If it isnt, I am grateful to be in the willingness to be with you.