Explore Your Multifaceted Mind--an Invitation to Personal Healing and
Spiritual Awakening
Inside each of us, there are many distinct selves. Though we've been
raised to believe that healthy people have a single 'self, ' explains
Dr. Richard C. Schwartz, acknowledging our multiplicity gives a far
deeper awareness of how our minds actually work. Dr. Schwartz's
pioneering Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy has become renowned in
psychotherapy for its power to help us connect with and heal the many
distinct facets--or parts--of our psyche. With Greater Than the Sum of
Our Parts, he brings you a practical training course for using this
method for your growth, well-being, and especially your spiritual
journey.
Embracing Your Inner Diversity as a Path to Wholeness
One of the key lessons of IFS therapy is that there are no bad parts.
Trauma or life experience can cause our parts to take on burdens, says
Dr. Schwartz. Yet when we bring the spiritual values of curiosity,
gratitude, and kindness to these burdened parts, we discover incredible
opportunities for healing and awakening. Through instruction and guided
meditations, Dr. Schwartz shows us how to engage even the most
disturbing or unwanted parts of our psyche with openness and love--so we
may unlock the hidden gifts and wisdom each part contains.
Many forms of therapy and even spiritual practice inadvertently put us
in conflict with ourselves as we try to transcend or reject our parts.
With Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts, Dr. Schwartz invites you to
embrace each of your many parts with self-compassion--and discover the
inclusive greater Self that is your true, divine nature.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Guided meditations to help you meet, dialogue with, and heal your
parts
- Parts as sacred beings--self-love, wholeness, and the spiritual
dimension of IFS
- How parts are formed and why they can become distorted by trauma and
burdens
- Why denigrating the ego, false self, and monkey mind undermines inner
harmony
- Becoming a wise and trusted leader of your many parts
- How working with your exiled parts awakens your capacity for
compassion, presence, and unconditional love