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A NEW WAY Fortunately, you have an effective way to change your
ways of seeing, and that is through your Inner Thera-
pist. What I call the Inner Therapist is also known as the
OF SEEING Holy Spirit, your Higher Mind, or your Inner Teacher.
You can call it whatever you like. I capitalize terms like
these when I am referring to concepts beyond this world
THE WORLD of form. Your Inner Therapist is not separate from or
external to you, but it is outside fear.
Our Inner Therapist holds the key to inner peace
because it knows what really makes us happy. It is that
Author Corinne Zupko undertook her study of psychology out of neces- small, quiet Voice inside that always tells us that we are
sity when debilitating anxiety threatened to derail her life. As Corinne loved, that we are safe, and that we have done nothing
healed her own mental anguish, she compiled the perception-shifting wrong. It does not analyze or judge us: it simply sees
process she describes in From Anxiety to Love: A Radical New Approach
for Letting Go of Fear and Finding Lasting Peace. This is an excerpt. our inner light.
We hold many false perceptions in our mind. These You won’t hear this Voice if you are regretting the past
false perceptions are purposeful blocks to our peace or worrying about the future; your Inner Therapist is
always heard in the present moment. The feeling of
of mind. Paradoxical though it may seem, we hold connection with your Inner Therapist is deeply gratifying
on to mistaken ways of seeing because they make and enormously comforting. It engenders pure joy. It is
us unhappy. We’re all addicted, to some degree, to like coming home.
being afraid and miserable. But we’re not usually aware of
this addiction, and that’s what can make the world seem cruel But this happy, carefree childhood feeling can be easily
or scary. We think our problems or enemies are “out there” in drowned out by busyness, worry, and all the distractions
the world, but in fact they’re mostly within our own habitual, of the world. When you learn to stay consistently in
unproductive ways of seeing. And they are hard to undo with- touch with your Inner Therapist, however, you can liter-
out extraordinary help. ally be a miracle worker.
My perspective on healing anxiety through the Inner
Therapist is chiefly inspired by A Course in Miracles,
which is a unique psychospiritual system for changing
the way we look at the world.
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