Dr. Keith and Corey explore some critical strategies to help support ongoing growth to increasing wholeness in ourselves and in other people: by Dr. Keith Witt In any given session, change workers look for confusion, conflict, and yearning and intersubjectively press those points, searching for more compassionate perspectives and adaptive behaviors. In Theravada Buddhism, Right View and Right Conduct are essentially more compassionate understanding and more adaptive behaviors. The six other parts of the 8-fold path, Right Speech, Right Resolve, Right Livelihood, Right Intent, Right Mindfulness, and Right Samadhi can all be subsumed under Right View and Right Conduct. Cognitive behavioral therapy is essentially reinterpretations of Right View (cognitive) and Right Conduct (behavioral). Dynamic systems like individual consciousnesses and relationships are composed of groups of linked parts, capable of chaotic behavior, energized, arranged hierarchically, and not lost in rigidity or chaos. These systems produce repeating fractal patterns of change, that eventually create a new organization that appears simpler but are actually more complex and energy efficient. This results in a phase change to the system, which in people is generally vertical development, often experienced as a form of transcendence. Change workers go to the fractal interfaces, often marked by yearning, conflict, or confusion, and intersubjectively help generate new fractal patterns until a phase shift occurs and the client shifts into more compassionate understanding and more energy efficient behaviors—which appear simpler but are actually more complex. Post-issue relationships are highly complex dynamical systems that appear simple and are enormously energy efficient.
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