Awareness + Support
= LiberationThe school of Radical Therapy in the USA in the fifties and sixties introduced the concept of self-help therapy for people who financially could not afford traditional therapy. Radical Therapy dropped all psychiatric definitions, because they considered these "labels" de-humanizing, creating distance between the therapist and the client. The term they used was "isolation", which everybody can identify with.
All mental ilness is based on denial of reality, resistance, saying NO. Psychologists have built an elaborate system of labels to categorize people: defense mechanisms, abnormal behaviour, psychopathology.
Your right to say "no"
gets categorized
into a personality type.They make up all these systems, and then they tell you what is wrong with you. When you believe them, you start behaving according to the label.
Why do you say NO? You say NO because your experience of life is too painful. You can block it out with dope, with alcohol, by working all the time, or by overeating - whatever your way is.
There is nothing wrong with you. You have your favourite way of hanging on to your NO. When you want to let your NO go, a YES happens. It is like a light switch, on and off.
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You play with your genitals as a little child, and your parents stop you. It feels good and you get the strong message that it is bad. There is PRESSURE, and you don't understand why. This is called MYSTERY. You start to deny a part of yourself, which creates a split. You hold your breath, tighten your little ass and you space out. You withdraw into your own fantasy world.
This is the beginning of ISOLATION. You experience too much pain, and the only protection you have is to cut it off. You say NO, and you isolate.
AWARENESS needs to replace the mystery. "It does feel good. My parents have a problem with it, but it feels good." REBELLION happens. The more you become aware, you start to see that your life is not going the way you want it to go, and eventually you try to change it.
When you become AWARE, you need other people SUPPORTING you. It is difficult to do it all by yourself. With the support of other people, you go to the state of LIBERATION inside, and finally live your life pursuing what fulfills you.
VEERESH D. YUSON-SANCHEZ
Founder and President of the Humaniversity
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