If you feel that you have a psychological problem, should you find a spiritual healer and use traditional cultural methods to cure it, or should you find a psychological counselor and use modern psychology methods to cure it? Have you ever thought that that is the ultimate method that can completely eradicate your psychological problems? I have also thought about the above question, and I will share my insights below, hoping it will be helpful to you in your choice.
Let’s talk about spiritual healing first.
When it comes to spiritual healing, most people will probably think of metaphysics. It is true that some spiritual healing methods use some Xuan (Zong) learning (teaching) methods to solve psychological problems. Of course, some of them draw on practical methods from Xuan (Zong) learning (teaching), such as those developed from meditation. out of meditation. The method of meditation has been recognized by the West, where Vipassana meditation is more popular. This involves a very large system, which I will share with you later.
Vipassana meditation, or mindfulness meditation, is popular in the West.
However, it must be solemnly stated here that "traditional culture" is by no means metaphysics. There is essentially no difference between the methods used by the ancients and the research methods of modern science. They studied individual appearances, group appearances, and natural appearances, and looked for connections among them. After repeated verification, they came to conclusions and gradually formed various "classics." Therefore, it is not metaphysics, but simple science. However, people in later generations misinterpreted and used the true meaning for different purposes and standpoints, and evolved various Xuan (Zong) learning (teaching) contents. If this evolution is removed, the conclusion drawn is still a scientific theory at present. Moreover, even the orthodox Xuanxue (teaching) that has evolved leads people to be good and has a positive effect on the spiritual level.
When choosing a spiritual healing method, it is important to accept a complete set of values. Therefore, a true spiritual healer will not dwell on the specific problems you encounter. He will definitely help you sort out "your relationship with the world." When you clarify "your relationship with the world" according to this new value, the specific problems you encounter will naturally be resolved.
Let’s talk about modern psychology.
As mentioned above, the research methods of modern psychology are essentially the same as those of the ancients. However, due to the development of science and technology, modern research methods and technical means are very rich, and some psychological phenomena can be explained in a more microscopic way. Just like the two books I read some time ago, "Insight" and "Self-driven Growth", both mentioned genetics , brain science , etc. They directly link people's emotions and motivations to genetic selection and chemical reactions. It can be said that they are trying to unify the spiritual world with the material world.
But if you think about it carefully, if they can be unified, what is the difference between humans and computers?
Due to the increase in research methods and methods, modern psychology has broken down human psychological problems in too detailed a way. Each theory seems to have a basis but is not comprehensive. In order to make one's own theory able to explain all the problems that arise, the more and more Will study in depth on "minutiae", which results in the system becoming more and more complex and consuming more and more. Although it can solve various problems that have been discovered, it is only for a specific problem. If you encounter a similar problem, you will most likely have to go over it again to provide a solution.
Just like Buddha said that there are 84,000 Dharma doors in the world. It is scientific to study all these Dharma doors thoroughly using modern scientific methods, and then to correspond to all the psychological problems that arise one by one. However, such a huge project would be difficult to complete with the human brain.
To sum up, spiritual healing follows the path of traditional culture from macro to micro and then to macro, taking the path from greatness to simplicity; psychological counselors follow the path of modern psychology from macro to micro and then to micro, although the more they go, the more they go. Fine, but it will also get narrower and narrower.
Of course, spiritual healing and psychological counseling solve psychological problems in the same way, which is to make you achieve logical self-consistency.
The way modern psychology achieves self-consistency is to look for objective factors.For example, family of origin, social pressure, brain structure, genetic drive, etc. If you read the book "Mr. Toad Goes to a Psychologist", you can easily understand it. In this book, the psychological counselor has been helping Mr. Toad look for external influences on himself and analyze whether this influence brings help or harm. When it is discovered that this kind of influence is causing harm, the counselor will give Mr. Toad a self-adaptive plan to solve this kind of influence, allowing you to "cross" this psychological barrier.
With the help of a counselor, Mr. Toad saw the psychological harm caused to him by his native family and social environment, and then solved the problems he encountered with a growth personality mentality.
The method of spiritual healing is to return people to their natural state. Of course, this natural state is not idealism . Compared with modern psychology, we can call it natural idealism. It looks for reasons subjectively (it cannot be expanded due to platform restrictions, otherwise it will not pass the review), but it can extract some familiar words to describe it, such as the world is for the common good, selflessness and altruism, compassion and compassion. The essence of this method can be understood as allowing people to find the goodness of human nature and use the logic of this "goodness" to completely solve psychological problems.
From the above analysis, we can see that the difference between the two healing methods is that one is external harmony, which is the relationship between the world and me; the other is internal harmony, which is the relationship between me and the world. Therefore, if you truly understand the relationship between me and the world, you will also understand the difference between the two.
A person's life is like a journey, in which it is rarely smooth sailing. When you encounter a psychological problem, it's like a stone appears on the road. Sometimes the stone is very big and blocks your way. No matter what method you use, you can bypass the rocks that hinder your progress. If from this perspective, the two are the same.
It’s just that if you accept the spiritual healing method, you can avoid many similar stones, and you can also use psychological counseling to avoid the stone in front of you, but this method may not work next time a similar stone appears. .
In the end, which way is more suitable for you, it is everyone's freedom to choose, or you have combined the two through this article, then congratulations, you may have found the key to the door to happiness.
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