Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
Well as time went on and I continued to practice, my practice grew
to the point where I had so many patients that I just didn't have
time to do that preparation anymore. I felt guilty about it, and I
certainly tried to do the preparation, but it just go to the point
where logistically I couldn't put that time into it. And I was also
teaching full time at university level, and so I just had a lot going
on. I stopped with the intense preparation, and what I started
doing was going in, sitting down, and listening to my client. And it
just so happens that about this same time I had discovered the
practice of meditation, which is nothing probably more than just
intense listening to your own inner being.
So what I discovered was things were happening in the sessions
that had never happened before. I tried to understand that
because the ego wants to take credit for what's happening in that
session. But what's happening in that session is sacred, and you
can't control it, and if you'll just let it be it unfolds exactly the way
it needs to unfold. So over the years I came to understand that,
and practice it with intention, whereas I did it accidentally in the
beginning. I've trained many generations of interns, counseling
interns, and they'll come in all eager and sit down in supervision
and say, "Dr. Young, I've got this case, and this is what's
happening, and this is the situation, and here's what I anticipate in
the next session, and what should I say?" And I always give them
the same, in fact after they've been with me for a while they stop
asking those questions, because I always give the same answer. I
go, "Go into the session, sit down, shut up, and pay attention
[Laughing]. And if you will do that what you need to say will arise
naturally in the moment, and you can trust them". So what I tried
to teach them to do is to trust their own being, and to trust the
process, and to simply bring their presence to that moment, and
let it do what it does.
WIZARD: Beautiful.
TRIP: Beautiful, yeah. Well we're speaking with Richard Young,
an author, psychotherapist, and many other things, here on
Wisdom's Soft Whisper, I'm your host, Trip Overholt, and with me
606