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.We get back to life itself,rather than the judgments we are making about life.The act of judging can be subtle.Judging is not only a matter of criticizing; judging ariseswhenever we make a comparison.When we compare our experience to something else from ourmemories or anticipations it can take away from the immediate experience itself.We wind upreacting to our expectations about the experience, rather than to the experience itself.If we buyan apple pie thinking,  this looks as good as the ones my mother used to make, then when wetaste the pie we ll be tasting our memories and our wishes right along with the pie.If we see aclient and relate him to another case we ve seen or read about, we may start interacting with aprototypical  case rather than with the real person in front of us this moment.We need to make judgments in our clinical practice in order to choose our actions and decideon the best interventions we are capable of.If we are always making judgments, though, we runthe risk of not taking the time to just step back, see things as they are, and be guided by whatevercomes up.Psychotherapy often works best when we make a conscious effort to suspendjudgments for a period of time.Our judgments inherently edit our experience.When we widenour field of awareness, looking at whatever is happening without classifying it or criticizing it, justputting our bare attention on it without adding any opinions or old mental habits about what theexperience  should be, we have an opportunity to embrace all the experience which is actuallyoccurring, rather than picking and choosing based on our ideas about what is or should behappening.Judging takes us out of the real world of life as it is and into the conceptual world of  goodand  bad. When we start judging things are not as they  should be we stand a good chance ofstarting to feel annoyed, anxious, or upset.When we start judging things are going well, we standa good chance of starting to feel excited, wanting to hold on to what s happening or get more ofwhat feels good.Contrary to the teachings of capitalism, though, more is not necessarily better.If we grab overly eagerly at good things we re like the fish who, pursuing the worm, bitesdown on the hook: we get caught by our desires.Consumerist culture is full of such baited hooks,of promises that obtaining more material things will bring happiness.Pursuing happinessthrough accumulating possessions often serves only to ensnare us in debt, envy, and greed.Psychotherapy also has its share of advertisements, books, and workshops which promise if wejust accumulate more expertise our work with clients will become easy and successful.However,amassing a large collection of psychological knowledge may not make as much difference as asingle new awareness which gets translated into action.In psychotherapy more is not necessarilybetter: if a feeling of intimacy arises in a therapy session but we try to push too much for moreaffect, the feeling in the room can become forced and clients walls will go back up.Three new insights gained over many sessions will not necessarily be more helpful than a single deeplymoving session which provides a pivot on which a client can swivel to see the world in a new way. More and  less,  good and  bad are judgments.Judgments engender desires, hopes andfears which can lead to rejection and avoidance, avidity and agitation.During psychotherapy orzazen, whether we fear something negative will happen or yearn for something special to occurwe can wind up straining if we pursue or flee from the mirages of our ideas.Mindfulnessencourages us, instead, to relax into the current moment, whatever it may consist of.Workingwith what s  here rather than worrying about where we are going, we are less likely to strainovermuch.Avoiding straining in mindfulness doesn t mean not working hard; it simply meansthat instead of  trying to do something, we relax, forget our old ideas, and just do the best wecan [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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