What is Compassionate Inquiry?
One of the tools that I use, is compassionate Inquiry, and one of the most asked questions I get, is “what is compassionate inquiry”, and “how can compassionate inquiry help me”?
Compassionate Inquiry® is a psychotherapeutic approach developed by Dr. Gabor Maté over several decades while working with both patients and retreat participants. This approach gently uncovers and releases the layers of childhood trauma, constriction and suppressed emotion embedded in the body, that are at the root of mental and physical illness and addiction.
How can compassionate inquiry help me?
Using Compassionate Inquiry, both the individual and therapist unveil the level of consciousness, mental climate, hidden assumptions, implicit memories and body states that form the real message that words both express and conceal.
Compassionate Inquiry reveals what lies beneath the appearance to the world. It exposes and shows the masks that we wear and unconsciously hide behind. If we can identify and understand these masks that are inauthentic to who we are, we can move in a direction closer to our truth and embrace who we truly are underneath. Compassionate Inquiry is a method of guided inquiry that looks at the essence of trauma, which is the disconnection from the authentic self.
Heal limiting core beliefs with compassionate inquiry
To heal, we must not only look at the past but learn to reconnect with ourselves in the present. With guidance, through Compassionate Inquiry, one is able to identify and heal limiting core belief systems, and coping mechanisms that were created in childhood. One will learn how to recognize and reconnect with their authentic self, and also understand the parts within that are inauthentic but have become apart from the personality. This cultivates a new awareness within, understanding triggers, healing trauma, addictions, and the stories that keep us looping in the same patterns. Compassion, self-love and embracing the authentic self, ignites the way for true transformation and healing.
This work is direct and quick to get to the root issues that are blocking you from experiencing the life you really want.
