When sick people come to see me, our first work together is to follow their symptoms inwardly. A striking number of symptoms take us back to the middle of the Second World War. They do not yet ‘know’ that peace exists. Now, in the safety of the present, they can find peace.
Clearly, it is not a matter of eagerly forcing disabled people into an unquestioned ‘normality’, of mothering them in every way and encouraging them to the point of exhaustion. Rather, it is about recognising their achievements in life and treating them as people with a special function.
My symptom is not just a malfunction that I have to fight and get rid of, it is also an inner guide acting on behalf of my soul. So it’s not just resistance, but surrender; not fighting, but following. How can that work?
