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Personal growth uses a wide variety of approaches from psychotherapy and coaching, but goes far beyond most therapies.

I would like to describe this using the example of fear: First and foremost, fear is something very natural and has ensured survival in many situations.

Without fear and anxiety, humanity would have died out.

If fears become “self-perpetuating” or increase in ever more absurd loops, they can quickly be perceived as constricting. Psychologically, this fear is referred to as neurotic fear. Most of the fears I am confronted with are neurotic fears generated by my mind and its increasingly hot-running processor.

So in addition to anxiety, my system is increasingly overloaded and my defenses are becoming ever more tricky. In the worst cases, the anxiety affects the body and I develop all kinds of illnesses, of which constipation or diarrhea are still the most harmless.

Psychology and medicine say that I somatize.

The fear should go away.

But that would mean that neurotic anxiety has an existence, that it is something tangible, like an inflamed appendix. But that is not fear – fear has no form or existence, fear is only the absence of trust.

It’s like darkness – I can’t chase darkness away or get rid of it, I can only make light.

Classical psychotherapy, shows you where the light switch is, or where you can find candles – it gives you methods to find access to lost trust in situations of fear. She may also check when you have lost your confidence flashlight and provide you with the latest LED headlamp or charged batteries for your old one.

So far so good and, for the time being, all difficulties seem to have been resolved.

Personal growth and so-called “transpersonal” (reaching beyond the actual personality) therapeutic approaches go far beyond this.

As in classical psychotherapy, you will practically learn to make light – there is no difference here – the difference begins when all possibilities to illuminate the darkness fail. When you are trapped in a world of darkness.

That seems absurd at first, but look at the world around you: so much fear, so much lack, so much darkness.

In this case, the light of trust and love cannot lie outside of you, but you will have to find it within yourself. And because this does not always succeed, it is enough to know this inner light – not from the mind, but every cell in your body remembers – it is you.