The illusion of separation

Posted on by Steel City Counselling
This might sound like a strange, or even insensitive statement in the current climate, but one risk of the current pandemic is that it reinforces the idea that we are separate from one another – a perception that #einstein referred to as ‘the optical illusion of consciousness.’ @noahlevine108 refers to the Tibetan idea that everyone has been our mother in a previous life. While this idea might seem extraordinary to some, if we can appreciate at a conceptual level, it makes it difficult to see any of our fellow humans as ‘other’.
Thanks to @drshaunashapiro  for the two quotes included here from #goodmorningiloveyou .
#buddhismandpsychotherapy #connection #contemplativepractice #compassion #compassionfocusedtherapy #counselorsofinstagram #counselling #psychotherapy #bacp #ukcp #heartoftherevolution

Published by Steel City Counselling

I am a person centred counsellor and psychotherapist, having qualified at the Sherwood Psychotherapy Training Institute with an MSc. I am accredited with the UKCP and a member of the BACP. I had 28 years continuous experience as a psychiatric nurse within the NHS before retiring in 2019.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s