The answer to this question is always an important element in the process of self-healing of mental and emotional complaints. Only if we can read this foundation within ourselves, exactly as we wrote it there ourselves as a child, it becomes inclusive and self-healing is possible.
The foundation carries you, it carries who you think you are. We all need it because only on this our identity can grow. The sense of identity stands with both feet on this foundation, so to speak.
In the case of recurring emotional or mental complaints, there is something curious about this foundation because it is not trusted by the sense of identity. As if the concrete into which it is poured is of dubious quality and it could ‘fall through the basket’ at any moment.
To prevent this, our sense of identity lies in an unconscious split. On the one hand it is constantly negating its own foundation and on the other hand proving to itself that its foundation is there and the ground under its feet. What does this contradiction say? What does it say that evidence is needed to confirm your identity and what does it say that any evidence provided for this always evokes a feeling of dissatisfaction or a feeling of underlying fear. In that case, why can only a negative emotion prove your foundation? Why do you feel so bad if you think that this foundation can be seen openly for someone else? Is that a cruel joke of life? A design flaw by God?
Buddhism and other Eastern philosophies have a clear message about this form of emotional suffering. Here in practice the process of self-healing takes place from a Buddhist approach with a touch of Western psychology. This way you can discover why you think you need an emotional survival mechanism. What could be more beautiful than to be able to discover that the only thing life requires of you is to live and not to survive.
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