Inner Focus Therapy

05/01/2024

https://www.innerfocustherapy.com.au/blog/2018/11/12/on-emotions-therapy-and-the-psychedelic-experience

One of the ways I find best to look at emotions is to compare them to food and our digestive system. Like food, emotions are organic material that require processing (or digestion) by the body. Also like food, some emotions are more complex than others and subsequently require more effort and time t

25/06/2021

02/02/2021

Someday it could actually be done

The bulk of your pain, carried for so long... finally metabolised, digested, transmuted

No longer that weight burdening you, slowing you down, pulling you into yet another round of despair.

That pain is not endless.
It is not your cross to bear for this entire life.
It is not your sin to suffer on infinite repeat.

Sure there will still be challenges, there always are.
Your heart may still break, that's part of its design.

Yet *that* particular form of torment is finished.

The work you are doing, and have done, it's for something.

Someday it *will* make sense.

And you will look back and realise...

It was all worth it.

30/08/2020

Dangerous combo if not coupled with good psychotherapy.
Even with the aid of psychedelics, the body's innate intelligence can only release as much trauma/information as is tolerable at any one time.
Bombarding the system with these chemicals may cause an override to our control measures; leaving the client overloaded and incapable of processing everything that has been released.

It's thought the euphoria of ecstasy could help take the edge off an acid trip—making the combo a powerful therapeutic tool.

29/08/2020

Wise words

What if mental disorders like anxiety, depression or post-traumatic stress disorder aren’t mental disorders at all?

18/05/2020

We believe we are seeking happiness in love, but what we are really after is familiarity. We are looking to re-create with our adult relationship, the very feelings we knew so well in childhood - and which were rarely limited to just tenderness and care.

The love most of us will have tasted early on came entwined with other, more destructive dynamics: feelings of wanting to help an adult who was out of control, of being deprived of a parent's warmth or scared of his or her anger, or of not feeling secure enough to communicate our trickier wishes.

How logical, then, that we should as adults find ourselves rejecting certain candidates not because they are wrong but because they are a little to right - in the sense of seeming somehow excessively balanced, mature, understanding and reliable - given that, in our hearts, such rightness feels foreign and unearned.

We chase after more exciting others, not in the belief that life with them will be more harmonious, but out of an unconscious sense that it will be reassuringly familiar in its patterns of frustrations.

-Alain Botton

04/05/2020

Every single thing always works out even when you don’t understand it at the moment.
You can look back at past experiences and be grateful that certain things didn’t work out because you wouldn’t be where you are. Be grateful.
Whatever you’re going through now will pass.
You are a miracle.
Life is a miracle. Everything around you is all miraculous. Once you see things from this perspective you’ll feel a sense of peace that you don’t have to try so hard to control everything.
Let go and trust in the higher power to guide you. Surrender your worries. Give up your doubt.
Let yourself be free from resistance. Faith and fear can’t occupy the same space. Decide to believe in yourself and watch magical things start to happen in your life.

Stop overthinking, worrying, and stressing yourself out. Everything will be okay.
It might seem like it at the moment when you’re in the midst of everything, but when you let go and feel that sense of inner ease great things will begin to happen for you.
Ease is a state of trust and a powerful way of allowing. Your faith has to be strong in believing that you can manifest and receive what you want.
All your requests and deep desires has been received by the universe. You efforts, your visualizations, and your prayers have been heard.
You sent the signal out, now you just have to trust and be patient as your blessings begin to flow into your life.
Don't think about how it will happen, that's not for you to worry about. Put it out there and let it happen.
The universe picks up vibrations and those in gratitude, joy, and love for what they want to receive get them.
The grateful get showered in blessings.
Instead of overthinking, align your faith with divine timing and trust that everything that belongs in your life is making its way towards you right now.
Don't block what's coming by thinking negatively. What you want has been on the way, but your worry, doubt, and lack of trust has been slowing down the process.
Start releasing and start receiving. You've got this.~

~ Idil Ahmed