Nondual Therapy can be used as a way to support people in dealing with fear, conflicts, and stress in all forms, including mental disorders.
The insight behind this is that the existential, healing qualities of true nature, such as peace, compassion, or curiosity are sourced from the wider circle, from the depth of ourselves, not from the personality. This means that these aspects of true nature are available even when there is intense personal suffering. There is a deep honor in this toward the one who is experiencing mental distress.
For example, when our consciousness meets their consciousness, there no longer needs to be shame, stigmatization, humiliation or existential danger in the condition of mental crisis. A disordered mind does not make a disordered consciousness. Consciousness is witnessing (together with the therapist) what the body/mind is experiencing. This witnessing position, (to meet the client there and affirm it) is very important in mental distress. It brings time and space to allow a calming of the physiology, and keeps the one that is suffering in safe connection, even while the suffering is happening.
Each person is unique in their central themes, but the Nondual Qualities to work with, in ‘Schizophrenia’, could include:
- Insight (Duality of Insanity – Sanity)
- Manifestation (Duality of Creation – Destruction)
- Discernment (Duality of Good – Evil)
- Power (Duality of Victim – Perpetrator)
- Peace (Duality of War – Surrender)
- Genius (Duality of Stupid – Smart)
- Curiosity (Duality of Expectation – Disappointment)
- Stillness (Duality of Active – Receptive)
- Silence (Duality of Noise – Quiet)
- Sovereignty (Duality of Narcissism – Sycophancy)
- Honor (Duality of Pride – Humiliation)
- Equality (Duality of Inferior – Superior)
- Consciousness (Duality of Subject – Object)
- Naturalness (Duality of Trauma – Shock)
I hope this is helpful!
