The Internal Side of the Person-Centered Approach and Meditative Practice

As the Chinese energy arts have an outer dimension (Kung Fu, wing shu, Wushu) and an internal component (Tai Chi Chuan, Gi Gong), the Centered Approach to Person (ACP) presents itself as a similar expression. Its external aspect is within the relational quality that the therapist offers the client, living fabric whose fibers network over by a dynamic tension that chairs the six conditions set by Rogers including 3 nodal attitudes, own therapist, play a decisive role.

For the therapeutic process to occur, it must have:

• Two persons are in psychological contact.

• The first person, whom we will call the client, is in a state of internal disagreement, vulnerability or anxiety.

• The second person, whom we call the therapist, is in a state of internal agreement at least for the duration of the interview and in relation to the object of his relationship with the client.

• The therapist experiences feelings of unconditional positive regard towards the subject.

• The therapist experiences an empathic understanding of the client’s internal frame of reference. Read more................