Posted by Dinah on November 18, 2009, at 9:34:32
In reply to Magic..., posted by workinprogress on November 16, 2009, at 1:35:17
I like how Pegasus divided it into two types of magic.
There's the magic in the room that I always compare to Harry Potter, book 4, where Harry's wand and Voldemort's wand meet, and a golden net of energy forms singing the phoenix song. My therapist says that when each of us are fully present, and each of us puts our own energy into the encounter, then what comes of that can be so much greater than the sum of its parts. He's not likely to label it magic, but it amounts to the same thing.
Then there is the more global magic. I'm not the same person I was when I entered therapy. I don't think the same way. I cope so much better than I did. I can't say I'm all better, because my biochemistry is still what it is, and that won't change. But I'm so much better at not layering "stuff" onto the biochemistry issues, and building super-issues that shred me into bits and pieces. And yet, I can't point at anything specific my therapist said or did. Nor do I understand the reason therapy works, since the studies on the neurochemical effects of therapy on the brain, or remapping of neural circuitry, or whatever it is, are way beyond my ken.
So for me, magic it will remain.
poster:Dinah
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