| Titel: | Befriending Emotion: Self-Knowledge and Transformation |
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| Autor: | Welwood, Joh |
| Mediengruppe: | journal article |
| Herausgeber: | --- |
| Zeitschrift: | Journal of Transpersonal Psychology |
| Jahr: | 1979 |
| Band: | 11 |
| Heft: | 2 |
| Seiten: | 141-160 |
| Sprache: | English |
| Abstract: | Compares the psychotherapeutic and meditative approaches to understanding and dealing with emotions. Emotional energy is a pyramid in which basic aliveness and felt meaning underlie all feelings and specific emotions. Instead of being hostile to emotions individuals should befriend them and work through them, until a sense of basic aliveness is achieved. "Opening completely to emotion, no matter how painful, leads to a felt shift, and the emotional intensity eases." Such self-illumination is referred to as transmutation. By identifying with the emotions and becoming one with them through meditation, enslaving thought patterns are broken and emotional energy is felt as a manifestation of the individual's fundamental life force. (25 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved) |