Including the spiritual in the inquiry
CHANGING OUR LIVES BY PAYING ATTENTION TO SUBTLE EXPERIENCES.
The form of Buddhist Psychotherapy that I practice is called Core Process Psychotherapy, developed by Maura Sills at the Karuna Institute in England.
As a contemplative approach to psycho-spiritual psychotherapy, Core Process Psychotherapy explores how we are in our present experience and how this expresses our past conditioning, including our pre- and perinatal experiences. The inquiry into our inner processes is explored through a depth awareness of what is happening in the present moment. This includes an awareness of our feelings, sensations, subtle energies, mental processes and their expressions in our physical body.
The goal of the work is not to change our experience, but to understand how we relate to it and how that can lead to suffering. With such awareness, a deeper wisdom emerges that naturally moves toward healing.
