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“Through scientific understanding, our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos. He is no longer involved in nature and has lost his emotional participation in natural events, which hitherto had a symbolic meaning for him. Thunder is no longer the voice of a God, nor is lightning his avenging missile. No river contains a spirit, no tree makes a man’s life, no snake is the embodiment of wisdom and no mountain still harbours a great demon. Neither do things speak to him nor can he speak to things, like stones, springs, plants and animals. His immediate communication with nature is gone forever, and the emotional energy it generated has sunk into the unconscious”. (Jung, Man and his symbols, 1964, p. 92).
After 10 years of a rigorous academic education on the clinical area and an enriched experience on the psychotherapeutic field, I’ve concluded, under my understanding, that illnesses and disease have their origin on the disconnection and lack of communion people have with themselves and their environment. When the sacred dialog, sustaining identity, which we have with our inner voice and nature around us, is lost, we lose our fundamental and transcendental guide. When this synchronic connection is vanished an alarm is activated, a warning. This manifests through different symptoms including something as little insignificant as constant preoccupation and anxiety, to irritability, doubt and existential crisis and even physical pain or somatoform, anxiety, mood, sleep or personality disorders.
Everything that happens communicates: our body, dreams, reactions, words, behavior, casual events and encounters, etc. Everything happens following a pattern, a story that entails our truth. Through the interpretation of all of these symbols, psychotherapy can disentangle this spiritual message, the warning calling on us to get connected and be aware, awake.
When inner truth rises it’s very difficult to ignore. This way starts a transcendental transformation making life blossom in a place where there is no room for stagnation and where new challenges arise to awake the “Hero” waiting to play the role of the only story we are destined to play: our life.
This process happens in daily scenery, our house, our environment, a place containing the scars and the memories of our entire story. This is why it is so important to transform and heal our place during these processes of inner change, because our house is the immediate reflection of ourselves, our story, our truth, and above all, our aspirations, it’s the nest that nourishes us while we accomplish our transcendental mission.
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