trance
This, from Tara Brach, via www.nicabm.com, The National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine
Compassion might be the most crucial element in healing.
What’s really going on therapy: The therapist is simply mirroring someone’s goodness to free him or her from the trance of unworthiness.
I have never heard it expressed that way, and I like it. The trance. The presumption that there’s nothing wrong with someone, except their belief that there’s something wrong. And then, one day, they wake up.
David Levingston
Like everyone, I have different sides. Counselor, photographer, writer, cooker of food – both spicy and plain, and seeker of truth and happiness. I have always taken an interest in the unassuming things that pass us by – both heard and seen, both ordinary and not so ordinary. They are all sacred and beautiful in some way.