Bruce Tift – ALREADY FREE

There are different paths and different strengths.

Buddhism and modern psychotherapy differ in their approach to freedom from unnecessary suffering. Bruce Tift says buddhist practice helps us awaken to a well-being that is independent of our circumstances, while Western psychotherapy helps us bring our disowned experience into awareness in order to live in a more skillful and satisfying way.

On. It is already free. The therapist and Buddhist practitioners talk about how each provides us with essential keys to experiencing full presence and aliveness.

There are practical tools and wisdom from the Eastern and Western traditions.

Buddhism gives us powerful tools for breaking free of our own identity drama and our fascination with day-to-day problems, but it does not address how early childhood experience shapes our adult lives. Western psychotherapy provides a wide range of proven techniques for understanding and untangling the development of our neurotic patterns, but it is only beginning to recognize the powerful impact of exploring awareness itself.

Tift explains that the two approaches sometimes support each other. They can help us open to all of life in its richness, its disturbances, and its inherent completeness.

Bruce Tift has a keen understanding of the wisdom of East and West, as well as a special focus on working with intimate relationships as a pathway to spiritual awakening.