Thanks Sue
I’m struggling to find a word to
describe the impact your comment is having on me. It does the thing of making
me think “I agree with that” but, of course, it also makes me think
“I’m one of those people who are making a career out of the
business of interpreting”.
Perhaps the search for a word is not that
important. Perhaps its the impact on my behaviour that reading the comments on
the list can have, that’s more important.
Your comment has had an impact on me.
Cheers
Carl
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Maybe the comment
reflected disillusionment with the system. Even psychotherapy and
counselling of all kinds can only work if material needs of the client are
being met. Or maybe he didn't mean it the wa it came out.
anyway, my view on this:
I have been through all the kinds
of insecurities mentioned in the course outline, and I am beginning to see now
that some of the therapy I received years ago was from people who probably
didn't have much of a comprehension of the way the world works. One still needs
family support, or a community, or at least a few people to recognize one's
worth or none of one's efforts are going to come to anything. Patients/clients
gaining mindfulness of their own self is only part of what is needed.
Youg women, it seems to me, have
to be preparred to use their sexual attributes if they want to get ahead, or
already be married to the right person. The way it is in today's world, we
have people who have the careers in such topics as "mindfulness"
interpreting the lives of those without the careers. That's what the world
seems to have boiled down to, in my view. I guess I've just met too many people
who perhaps shouldn't be doing what they do and I wonder how they get their
jobs.
I am also concerned with the
wording of the program of the course. It seems to suggest that if the
client doesn't make it in life it is their fault. The idea that we can be
at ease with ourselves and the life experience in this world is surely related
to middle class-ness.
I'm wondering if people who
take the course have a sense of their own self before they take the
course. Hopefully they are coming to it with other kinds of
understanding of the world. And are not taking it just for the money it
will bring in for them.
yours,
Sue McPherson
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> Hmm...Craig. I'm not so sure
about that. Financial interest is not the
> only kind of interest. I'm interested in academic breakthroughs and new
> understandings that bring us to a new plain of ability and know-how.
> This is what I think new developments in Mindfulness could do. I'd be
> happy to do that for no financial gain. In mindful philosophies I think
> the why and the what are inextricably intertwined. That's another party
> of what makes in so interesting.
>
> Best,
>
> Henry
>
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> >Well, of course you are interested in a "growing area". It
pays. Some
> >of us
> >have been interested in what grows, and why, for many years. The why
> >is
> >invariably more interesting than the what. If you want to get ahead,
> >develop a
> >mindfulness programme for any disorders begining with a C or D. The
> >drug
> >companies are moving on to these letters having exhausted A and B
> >(Autism,
> >Asperger's, ADHD, BPD, Bi-polar). C and D are the future
> >Craig
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