ExAnima
I totally agree with you that sufferers depend too much on professionals. To learn to depend on yourself for your own healing is a great gift to yourself.
Personally, I don't trust a professional with my mind in a session that has not been thoroughly prepared with my request. I have also learnt that psychologists and NLP counsellors can be very beneficial when they are willing to do exactly what I ask them to do, as long as they don't agree with something destructive I request. Sufferers pay thousands, we deserve the exact service we request, not some agenda of the psychologist themselves. Some psychologists and counsellors jump to it when you make a very specific request...I think it makes them feel great because then they feel they have more purpose. I think the less humble and less skilled the psychologist the less likely they are to be willing to deal with your exact request. I went to a NLP counsellor once and he said "Please can you make a more general request", I think he loved all he was thinking about my problems.
So if I ever go to any psychologist or NLP counsellor again, I will find out exactly what skills they have, exactly what skills they like using, exactly what their forte is, and then I will ask them to prepare sessions using the skills I want them to use to achieve exactly the goals I want. It is like swimming in hogwash to have to sit and listen to the psychologists agenda for their goals for me.
The new paradigm of a coach suits me far better, it is directly working with what the client wants and the clients goals.
What I fear is that psychologists take the glory for my hardwork, and I feel that I have been the one to suffer for their glory.
Humility is what I need from such professionals.
Photoreading is unlimited, using it for "Direct Learning" is even better. You don't need to use the Direct Learning activation put forward by Paul Scheele. Photoreading material on a topic with a specific purpose of achieving some goal in your life is enough. If you aren't sure after that put emphasis on the goal with a paraliminal after photoreading.
Vita-man
It may look as though I'm doing a great job of loving myself through what you see of my work on myself on this forum, there are areas of my life however that you cannot see and I'm afraid to mention them on this forum. I choose not to talk too negatively about my situation. Most people I think are afraid to show their dark sides too much in public, for fear of what people might think. It's not that not mentioning this on this forum is being dishonest, it's very difficult (as you know from the meta-model) and inappropriate to bring the whole truth into every interaction situation. I don't think you need to fear me loving myself too much I get too much of that from my own conscience.
[This message has been edited by Grant (edited January 10, 2006).]