Our lives can be likened to songs. They are recognizable for certain tones, tendencies, and patterns.
When the feeling of life is agreeable we hum along happily. But when troubling issues arise, we may feel "not this again!" However disconcerting, these issues that arise (often chronically) are beacons. They signal to us ways we need to grow in order to become more our whole selves.
For example, a person may have a lifelong pattern of conflicting with powerful figures. They may be bosses, lovers, or they may at times be represented by a powerful force such as an illness. If we consider this theme, we could think that this person is simply fated to have problems with those who are more powerful. Alternately we may see that these troubling figures are precisely what this person needs to become more whole. These troubling people and events are like messengers inviting our friend to explore the nature of power.
In this manner, life issues, especially chronic or recurrent ones, are avenues to deeper and richer life. Life issues are tailored to fit us. They have an uncanny logic that defies our protests and notions to the contrary. Seeing this "fit" creates a deeper level of acceptance for our lives and for the particular struggles we encounter. Beyond this there is the task of integrating what the issues bring to us. In the above example it was power. For others it may be: love, rejection, sexuality, belonging, standing alone, being in truth, sovereignty, transcendence, or trust. Our issues and problems can be opportunities to find the Way of our deepest purpose in life.
Two approaches:
Core Energetics is the energy and consciousness approach to human evolution developed by John Pierrakos, MD. Core Energetics utilizes a deep understanding of how energy and consciousness affects relationships, body symptoms, and direction in life.
Process Work is a multi-disciplinary approach to individual and collective change developed by Dr. Arnold Mindell. It integrates principles of Jungian psychology, quantum physics, Shamanism, and Taoism to create a science of following and unfolding life processes. Whether the process is relational, physically symptomatic, or organizational, it works to reveal Nature wanting to fulfill itself.
