Ying Yang Therapy

The key approach that I employ in my therapeutic work is Psychosynthesis.

Psychosynthesis is a therapeutic approach and holistic psychology that integrates psychological, spiritual, and experiential techniques. Through the use of models such as the Subpersonality model, individuals are guided to recognise, accept, and integrate their subpersonalities into a unified centre of authenticity. This facilitates self-healing and self-realisation, helping individuals to discover their deepest callings and directions in life.

Its goal is to to enable individuals find greater fulfilment by reorienting their lives towards meaning, purpose and values. By holding the concept of a Higher Self or Universal Self, Psychosynthesis sees an individual’s trials, tribulations, obstacles and struggles as soul lessons which, if fully embraced and worked through, will enable him/her to achieve the highest potential expression of them as an individual. Through doing this work, an individual experiences a sense of unity with themselves and others , and also perhaps a sense of belonging to a larger whole.

I am also influenced by Eastern philosophies such as Daoism and Tantra.

Yin Yang is perhaps the most famous symbol of Daoism. It can be conceptualised as two halves that together make up wholeness. Yin Yang is the concept of duality forming a whole. We encounter examples of Yin and Yang every day. As examples: night (Yin) and day (Yang), female (Yin) and male (Yang). It can be illustrated as follows:

When people see things as beautiful,
ugliness is created.
When people see things as good,
evil is created.

Being and non-being produce each other.
Difficult and easy complement each other.
Long and short define each other.
High and low oppose each other.
Fore and aft follow each other.

TAO TE CHING, CHAPTER 2

Tantra is such a misunderstood word and concept. When people hear the word Tantra, they think of neo-tantra and all that it symbolises – Sting, tantric sex etc etc. Without claiming to be an expert, my understanding of Tantra is that at its very essence and core it is about an all-encompassing acceptance of each and every aspect of life, including sex and death.

In Tantra there are no taboos. Everything is welcome. The so-called lower states are but gateways to higher states, through the processes of transmutation and sublimation. Indeed, there is no life without death in the sense that our lives are given meaning and purpose precisely because we will all die one day. I loved reading about how the earliest Tantrikas in India lived and celebrated their lives in cemeteries!

“Tantra acceptance is total; it doesn’t split you… Nothing can be killed out of existence; nothing can be destroyed. Tantra says a transformation is possible, but destruction, no! And a transformation comes when you accept your total being. Then suddenly everything falls in line, then everything takes its own place; then anger is also absorbed, then greed is also absorbed. Then without trying to cut anything out of your being, your whole being rearranges itself. If you accept and say yes, a rearrangement happens, and whereas before there was a noisy clamour inside, now a melody – music is born, a harmony comes in.”

BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH A.K.A. OSHO
TANTRA: THE SUPREME UNDERSTANDING