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Why Therapists Should Pay Attention to Dreams
Our Blind Spots Obscure Our Ability to Help Others
Jungians call them “shadow aspects.” Kabbalists call them “klippot.” Truckers call them the bugs that fog up your windshield after too many miles on the road.
What am I talking about?
I’m talking about the emotional blind spots that obscure our vision as we try to expand our consciousness, increase our psychic development, or simply work towards being more loving and stable human beings.
Depending on your framework, these blind spots go by different names, but all of us, often, suffer from an automatic way of being that keeps us from truly knowing ourselves, authentically relating to others, and connecting with the current moment and our immediate environment. We move about our lives on auto-pilot, over-identify with a false sense of self, or act in response to the behavior or criticism of others rather than out of a genuine desire or intention of our own.
If you are a healing professional, I would hope that you have spent a lot of time working on your own wounding, your own reactivity, your own conditioning, and your own blind spots. It’s my belief this work never ends. Therefore, if we are working with clients on a regular basis — whether it’s in conventional or alternative…
