wanted to focus precisely on the way we practice therapy and what living practice reveals about our deepest beliefs.

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Hence, therapy becomes a spiritual task.

Secondly, it shows that a therapist’s ability to move fluidly between various feeling attitudes as they arise gives her access to the very basis of various schools of psychotherapy.

By metaskills, I do not mean that we should focus on the ideal feeling attitudes of the therapist but instead concentrate and study the actual feelings that a therapist has from moment to moment. The task is to make these attitudes conscious and useful in the therapeutic situation.

How can she hope that her client will become free if she herself is not?

“What kind of world do we want?” and “How do we manifest this world view in practice?”

Her deepest beliefs and feelings are the earth from which all techniques spring.

It is a matter of the therapist’s feelings for herself and others.