Therapy With Aaron

03/13/2025

Humility is key to connecting with your true self. Discover how it opens new doors to understanding in our latest blog post. Read more here: https://wix.to/LUO0859

Humility is a really nice attribute; it’s the most useful one in connecting to our true self. It's through humility that we open ourselves up to insight, which helps reap benefit quickly in our self-study to become truly skilled and congruent and enhance our ability to be vulnerable. Insight in li...

12/15/2020

It takes courage, but talking to a friend can help; talking to a skilled therapist can help more. Do it for yourself and your family because all it really is is finding the strength to share yourself with someone who wants to listen.

11/12/2020

05/05/2017

Small Miracles in the Therapeutic Practice

I believe Gd is one and that everything is unified. To reveal that hidden reality, we must rectify our limited ego and elevate our consciousness to a higher ego, the ego that includes all else. This is unity with the world and its Creator.

Some people are higher up on the ladder of doing this than others and often they are found in the most simple places. The Baal Shem Tov came into this world, for at least this one thing, to teach the idea that a scholar without the quality of including others (humility) is lacking.

Moses was called the most humble man that walked the Earth and he was also the greatest prophet. Humility is not just a really nice attribute; it’s the most useful one in connecting to heaven, or our true ego. It's through humility that we open ourselves up to insight, which helps reap benefit quickly in our study and practice to become truly skilled. Insight can be through experience, or often not. With humility, the insight can come to us beyond our preparations.

When a therapist embodies humility, their office is a sacred space. The therapeutic process becomes much more than a conversation and small miracles, those dressed in nature, can happen. Though both technique and personal character virtues are used in tandem, a provider’s simple sincere intent with little technique can facilitate a greater emotional learning experience for the client than plentiful scientifically based methods. Humility is just as much an accomplishment, achievement, a credit, to the person, as learned technique. It is to the person’s credit to house such a powerful characteristic.

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Aaron, LMSW

10/30/2016

Doing It Right.

I don't believe that most people will do things that they think or know are wrong. I think the problem starts when they think those things are okay. They reason to themselves that the physical world can lie, can obscure, can trick, but 'spirit' is true. They think that as soon as they experience a 'spirit' about what they want to do, that's where they need to go. The problem is that wrong stuff doesn't start and end with the phsyical. There exists evil in spirit as well- that's misguidance.

It's obvious from this that though it may be your fault, it's really hard to get it right sometimes. It's like a door to a door to door that has the good way. And with all those choices, one decision along the path may be a mistake.

If not simply from a spirit, what are supposed to live by? How do we make decisions? What do we have within us that can be our compass?

It's complex.

I think that sometimes this spirit sense is what many sufferes of mental illness are living with. They are either told they are experiencing delusions and given medication, or they make far reaching choices based on the sense without fully understanding what they are acting upon.

Someone suffering from Bipolar Disorder with psychotic symptoms needs guidance, not just a pill. They need to learn what thoughts to ignore and which to allow themselves to think about and pursue. Because some of those ideas are worth pursuing. There are ideas that are not in the proximity of most of us but when they start to sort it out, the symptoms may resolve themselves. The sufferer needs a strong guide who is well grounded so many possibile paths can be trimmed and focused.

09/12/2016

There's tremendous awareness in the average person. The therapist does not have exclusive license to the subconscious. If the therapist does think they see something the client does not, their duty is to thoughtfully and kindly point to it at the right time and ask if the client sees it the same way. Maybe the therapist is wrong. So they must listen to the response genuinely and the two continue on the journey from there.

09/12/2016

It doesn't have to be avoidance, sometimes we just get distracted.

09/12/2016

As with any medical illness, mental illness, such as bipolar, should be addressed early with professional help. Early intervention, addressing the intensity of the symptoms and confusion as soon as possible, reduces the damage done to oneself and one's family providing for an easier time in restoring one's sense of self.