Turning to the subconscious and psychotherapy, it has always been thought that there's only one "true path" to change and self-improvement, delving into a patient's past and finding those key turning points in one's younger self to make one's present self whole.
Turning to the subconscious and psychotherapy, it has always been thought that there's only one "true path" to change and self-improvement, delving into a patient's past and finding those key turning points in one's younger self to make one's present self whole.
As authors Phil Stutz and Barry Michels show in their groundbreaking work "The Tools: Transform Your Problems into Courage, Confidence, and Creativity" it's probably a great thing to find out the key turning points in one's life, but, how can you apply them today and will they work?
The conventional wisdom is that the only true path to enlightenment and change is an understanding of the road that brought you to this point in your life. However, as challenged by Stutz and Michels, so what? So, you know the cause of your issues and you're 45 years old, what good is it going to do for your life today?
That's the problem with conventional therapy, they see, what good does this knowledge do? Isn't life more about getting through today and on to tomorrow successfully? So, they ask, what good is it? Isn't it better to have real tools to get through the day? Aren't real tools going to do more for you than knowing the long-buried issues that standard psychotherapy have dug up? What, ultimately, they ask can you do with them?
They also point to successful programs like Alcoholics Anonymous or similar programs that tell you all you have to do is get through today and let tomorrow worry about itself. Why you became an alcoholic in the first place isn't really important, is it? Is it keeping away from the first drink that will lead you back down the ugly path you have just climbed out of? That's the benefit of the tools, the point out.
The purists in the world of psychotherapy are apt to call these tools superficial or maybe just band-aids but here's the point they never ask: If the tools work and keep you from going back down the slippery slope, aren't they worth it?
And, Stutz and Michels don't disregard the more traditional because they do discuss your past with you and then they look at the chest of issues you have brought up and they try to find that one lever or tool that will help you deal with your issues.
Stutz and Michels agree, getting your subconscious working for you and using it and the issues it reveals to jump over the blocks so that you can use your own methods of dealing with the blocks. That's the basis of their tools and the basis of their work.
They don't believe that just focusing on the past in session after session is the only way to self-fulfillment and acknowledgment. Instead, they believe that when you begin peeling away the layers by using the tools you have within your reach, you will heal yourself much more quickly and that healing will make you happy.
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