As head of the Sufi Order in the West, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan has been conducting workshops and giving personal counseling for over thirty years. Introducing Spirituality into Counseling and Therapy sums up Pir Vilayat's experience in applying spiritual principles to everyday life situations, problem solving, and personal growth. Among the topics explored are spiritualizing emotion, personality and the divine inheritance, relationship, creativity, awakening and cause and purpose. Pir Vilayat gives detailed instructions for many meditation practices that can be used to bring fresh insights to bear on specific problems. Everyone concerned with human growth, whether professionally or on a more personal level, will find inspiration in this book.
This is a marvelous book! I know of nothing else like it, in the field of psychotherapy. This great Sufi Master introduces a topic which is virtually never discussed in psychotherapy training (whether at an MD, PhD, MSW, or Master's level) -- in a way which is clear, meaningful, moving, and subtle. It has given me the courage to be the therapist I always knew I was meant to be -- but never could quite find the way(even reading the great Jung's work)-- until I found Pir Vilayat's books and teachings. Your patients will be truly grateful to you for integrating spirituality in your work. Over the past 16 years, since studying Pir's works, I have found that, ultimately, patients are seeking their reason for living, their reason for "being". This small gem of a book will help you know how to get started.
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