If one of the most respected financial newspapers - The Wall Street Journal - publish an article on the latest development in cognitive therapy, it must be worth to read. And it is, as it gives tips on how to create a new response to arising fears and self-manage them effectively when needed. In essence, the new response is about creating distance and observing your fears, judgments, and negative feelings through the practice of non-judgment. This involves "mindfulness" which gets you to "to recognize that these critical thoughts are really stories you have created about yourself."
According to Zindel V. Segal, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto who was interviewed for this article and who devised Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy to help depressed patients, "if you can get some distance from them [negative thoughts], you can see that there are choices about how to respond."
His recently published study (in the Archives of General Psychiatry) found that using mindfulness-based cognitive therapy to treat 160 patients with major depression was as effective as anti-depressants against preventing relapses of depression. Dozens of randomized-controlled trials in the past decade have shown that it can be effective in managing depression, panic disorders, social phobias, sleep problems and even borderline personality disorder.
But it's interesting that the article talks about "the Voice", the "inner child", and that the negative thoughts we have "are not necessarily true, but they can have self-fulfilling consequences". In mindfulness, you acknowledge all of them without judgment as to diffuse their power and to generate a new, constructive response to them.
In Multi-Dimensional VortexHealing® Therapy, we take them out. We find that "the Voice" is a creation in consciousness that belongs to various "inner children" that exist within our issues and make them alive. The reason why they're called a child is because that's usually where we regress in time when dealing with our deepest issues. As this regression happens, we come in contact with consciousness that got stuck to a particular time period in our history (child), so it feels like there's a child living within us. But if we look at this carefully, we'll find that the child is different when dealing with different issues and is of different age too, simply because the issues happened to us at a different age. Thus we'll hear a different voice and experience different thoughts, feelings, and even physical sensations.
It's true that mindfulness will help cope with these inner experiences because it helps us create distance to the problem. But that's only part of what's happening. The other part is in doing so (creating the distance) we are getting closer to living the fact that we are not our issues. We are not the inner child, the wounded person, this issue, or that illness. Yet, when our consciousness is stuck at that level, it's very easy to believe that's the case. That's why it's so hard to heal our issues.
So when we go after these issues with Multi-Dimensional VortexHealing®, we go ahead and wake up the illusion that keeps us stuck in those places. We also remove the conditioning from the body within which the consciousness was imprisoned. These are the places that are affected by the issue, such as organs, chakras, and other specific parts of your body, such as your heart, chest, neck, back, shoulders, stomach, etc. Aside from the disappearance of your different specific negative thoughts, action patterns, and painful bodily symptoms related to the issue, you'll find that the inner child or the voice you heard will be gone. It means that the person you thought you were is no longer trapped in the details of the issue. You'll also find that there's no one within you that has that issue any more. You'll be able to live a life without the issue and the new-born freedom that comes with it.