The hidden key

As a counsellor our training plays a confusing game that positions us to 'help' people at the same time as warning us NOT to 'fix'. This philosophy serves to remove the therapist's agenda from the interaction, so that they can simply be there, without any desire or need to change the client. It has became clear to me that to say we CANNOT fix and we should not attempt to interfere and be concerned with transformation, is missing the paradoxical point.

If we stay with people and sit with them and their story and manage to soften our own story back, for long enough to really encounter this other person, this other soul - if we attend closely and listen and listen and become still and soften ourselves and drop in, drop in to now, to being right here, with another, then we may just catch 'out of the corner of our eye' the glint of something precious and shining.

It is a key with which to unlock a door. Strangely and magically you, all of a sudden, are holding the key to that door in your hand. Because the time is now right and the key has been found, you have the gift and permission, to offer the key to unlock that door so the other person can walk through.