I was talking with my spouse last night and something came up that made her suggest that I ask you. For context, she's pretty much my opposite: very intuitive about people's emotions, loves to talk, not much into non-fiction reading. She's a doctor of psychosomatic medicine and psychoanalyst and did years of therapy as part of her training.
She is, however, quite anxious and has many exaggerated fears, especially concerning the health of our children. Therapy has helped her recognize at least a possible source (parental incompetence in her early childhood) but that recognition hasn't helped her outgrow those fears.
I mentioned your comment that magic has been used to change consciousness for thousands of years while psychology is only a hundred years old and still in its infancy. From there we wondered how to work on her anxiety with magic.
So my questions:
1) Do you think the OSA work could be helpful here, even after extensive therapy? She's a pretty much done talking about her childhood so starting anew in writing doesn't seem very attractive.
2) I've started working with the DMH but there has been very little time without small kids in the house, so progress has been slow. Given more experience, what would be the best way to approach this? Me simply banishing her anxieties seems like a candidate for serious blowback, given that there probably are (or have been) good reasons for them. Doing a working to help her trust in the gods or in life seems too remote, however.
3) I won't attempt this without a lot more experience, this is more a theoretical question about the process of healing other people's emotional imbalances (on their request and with their consent). Is that inadvisable anyway and the only way would be for my wife to take up magic herself?
Changing consciousness
I was talking with my spouse last night and something came up that made her suggest that I ask you. For context, she's pretty much my opposite: very intuitive about people's emotions, loves to talk, not much into non-fiction reading. She's a doctor of psychosomatic medicine and psychoanalyst and did years of therapy as part of her training.
She is, however, quite anxious and has many exaggerated fears, especially concerning the health of our children. Therapy has helped her recognize at least a possible source (parental incompetence in her early childhood) but that recognition hasn't helped her outgrow those fears.
I mentioned your comment that magic has been used to change consciousness for thousands of years while psychology is only a hundred years old and still in its infancy. From there we wondered how to work on her anxiety with magic.
So my questions:
1) Do you think the OSA work could be helpful here, even after extensive therapy? She's a pretty much done talking about her childhood so starting anew in writing doesn't seem very attractive.
2) I've started working with the DMH but there has been very little time without small kids in the house, so progress has been slow. Given more experience, what would be the best way to approach this? Me simply banishing her anxieties seems like a candidate for serious blowback, given that there probably are (or have been) good reasons for them. Doing a working to help her trust in the gods or in life seems too remote, however.
3) I won't attempt this without a lot more experience, this is more a theoretical question about the process of healing other people's emotional imbalances (on their request and with their consent). Is that inadvisable anyway and the only way would be for my wife to take up magic herself?
Thank you in advance for your opinion!