Posted by Dinah on November 2, 2010, at 1:15:23
In reply to Re: Wordlessness, posted by Daisym on November 1, 2010, at 23:41:48
I don't think wordlessness has ever been an issue in my therapy. I don't tolerate silence in the therapy room well.
But I have my own ways of pulling back and not connecting.
Have you tried radical acceptance? Instead of fighting the wordlessness, embrace it as what *is* at this moment, while recognizing that this moment will not last forever? I'm not terribly good at it myself, since I have trouble seeing that this moment is not eternity. But it's something my therapist tries to get me to do.
Alternately, we had a practice during the period where neither of us were at our best of sitting in deliberate silence for a few minutes at the beginning of the session. As a way of bringing ourselves fully to the room. It always seemed to me to be something between meditation and prayer.
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