People come to therapy when there is a mismatch between their willpower and subconscious mind (or their imagination, their gut feelings, their intuition, the back of their mind, or however you choose to call the elements of us outside of conscious awareness).
When that happens, you freeze, you can’t make progress, you take one step forward and one step back.
In therapy, or at least in the types of therapy I have experienced, we endeavour to bypass the conscious “captain” of our ship, and try, by some means, to gain access to the other elements and find a way for the ship to navigate the conflict.
For me, the best kinds of therapies are the ones that allow us, for however brief a moment, to place the conscious, critical, all-knowing captain of our ship in the passenger seat so that we can see what else might be there. To get out of our brains and into our feeling sense, into our bodies. Freud came up with free association as an attempt to do that, having previously abandoned hypnotherapy. And the end result, hopefully, is that things come up.
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