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“your new life is going to cost you your old one”

“Practicing compassion goes hand-in-hand with practicing realisation. On your cushions in the dojo, you learn first of all to be compassionate towards yourself. …we vow to save all beings, but how do you save the roughnecks in your own mind? Treat them as neighbors who come to the door when you were meditating. Take a moment to acknowledge them. They are closer than neighbours after all.

There are far too many predisposed interpretations of the word "therapy" that are commonly related to an attempt of fixing an illness or infirmity. I hope to emphasise therapy as a means toward complete physical, mental and social wellbeing. Gestalt therapy avails the quest towards this harmonious balance, as opposed to a traditional embarkment for a cure. The point here is not to learn, or to understand, but rather experiment. Perls proposed that gestalt psychology/theory/therapy is too good to only be reserved for the ill or the odd, and spoke of the philosophy as a therapy for "normal" people too. Gestalt therapy encourages one to get to know oneself better, and ultimately reach self acceptance; rather than to change in order to confirm to some (individual, societal, internal, external, moral, religious or political) norm.