Bert Hellinger’s Systemic Therapy

Bert Hellinger has created a startling and deeply healing way to explore and understand the limitations we impose on our success and health in life, professionally and personally. He has provided a way which allows us to see our agreement to conditions which both constrain us and, often, have little to do with us.

Hellinger discovered that the fates of those earlier in our families influence those who come later. Bert Hellinger noticed the presence and observed the actions of the family conscience which guards the integrity of the family system. What Hellinger has articulated are hidden orders supporting the flow of systemic energy in the service of bonding. In families, this energy is love; when these orders are ignored, love is harmed and family members, usually children, come under systemic pressure to balance the harm. Bert Hellinger’s systemic therapy provides a way of restoring balance to the system and alignment with what is. Because of the focus on the individual, family and greater consciences, or souls, this work is said to explore the movements of the soul.

extracted from Bert Hellinger's site

Awareness and Thinking

There are many ways to approach truth. I myself pursue one course that I know well but many others run alongside it. It’s curious however that, though there are many composers, no two have discovered the same melody. Each has his own insight. Every melody is different and each, in its own way, beautiful.

No two people can have the same insight about the same thing. If they both have an insight about the same thing, that of one differs slightly from that of the other. Fullness cannot be confined to one course.

Some people shirk awareness in that they make an assertion or raise an objection that they have thought up without any deeper understanding of what it is they are asserting. Making such assertions is cheap. Anyone can do it, even a fool. But when awareness meets awareness both are enhanced by the encounter.

Thinking without awareness always revolves around the same thing - whatever is familiar. From thinking alone insight cannot arise. Insight emerges from awareness. Then thinking ensues. Insight begins with awareness and is developed through the process of thinking.

by Bert Hellinger