It may not be possible to directly experience what is going on within someone else because that person has his or her own subjective-experience. You are left therefore to imagine what may be going on within that person, or how he or she experiences their self. You are only left to imagine what may be going on. So, when you are with someone, sitting across from them, like a therapist might, you may get images that come up for you, and each image may have its own energetic-intuitive feel for you in the presence of any particular other person, sitting across from you. If you think of the word imagination, it has the word image in it. Therefore, your imagination may become active, and this is what Carl Jung called the process of active-imagination. You can then share with the person, in a very skill-full, empathic, and explorative way the images and the energies that arise around the images. You may say something like, I get this image of an ocean at night, and the texture of it feels kind of you let me know, but I feel this kind of ______ feel or energy to this image, and I just wanted to put that out there. What you will find is that when you tune into the person you are with that - something about the field of consciousness created between you actually invites images to come up. Your imagination will become active. Imagination is a creative-energy. Artists are those who heed the call of the imaginative. Your intuition will also guide you, and the persons own experience of whatever is going on within them, if they are anxious, or upset, or exploring a part of themselves, they will feel the energy opening up for them, and they are then able to explore the energy. You may even say to them, I get the color yellow or you may get another color. Its an open explorative, artistic-process. To me, therapy is more of an art, not a science, because subjective-experience is what is explored in the psychotherapeutic process. Subjectivity, cannot be reduced to objectivity (science). The philosopher Kierkegaard was known to say that Truth is Subjectivity. Osho then went on to expand this and pointed out that the subject of your experience is an ever-present, silent-yet-alert witnessing awareness. This kind of exploration is an example of integrating Jungian, Psychoanalytic, Existential, and Osho approaches to therapy together - which is part of my personal exploration as a developing psychologist.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 05:01:21 +0000