The Comparison Of Transpersonal Psychotherapy And Laozhuang's Psychology Thinking Of Life Preserving

Transpersonal Psychotherapy inherits a lot of ancient cultural traditions, especially the eastern religion and philosophy, and it absorbs a lot from Laozi and Zhuangzi. There are so many similarities among Transpersonal Psychotherapy and Laozhuang's Psychology Thinking of Life Preserving.In their opinions, human nature is natural. Transpersonal Psychotherapists thought that person is a unity of body, mind and spirit. The spirit's role is the commander. It provides support for the self. Human's nature is spiritual. Laozhuang believed that people should maintain and develop natural nature. The nature is the most important part in their life. The meaning and value of life is natural growth. Harmony is their common ideal model.Transpersonal psychotherapists believe that the highest level of human development, awareness, and transpersonal consciousness is back to nature, agree to universe. That is to achieve harmony. In Laozhuang's opinion, people should be in harmony with nature, and things are as a whole. This is a kind of ultimate transcendence. Both of them thought that the principle of psychotherapy is natural. Transpersonal psychotherapists confirm that the thinking of natural plays a positive role in personality development. Laozhuang believe that man and nature should develop coordinately. Then the nature and people conforms a whole. People could live better if they understand themselves better. In psychological treatment methods, the meditation is similar to Zhixushoujing. The meditation is an important mean to self-cultivation and to change one's state of consciousness. It's an important method to deal with psychogenic disorder. The meditation is a main method to reach higher mind experience. It is characterized by paying attention to mind and body simultaneously. Laozhuang believe that, people should be freed from the interference of outside and weaken control of one's sense in order to combine the objective world with the subjective world. The way to Zhixushoujing includes Xinzhai, Zuowang and Chichou. They both thought that we should not desire for material things, but to seek to achieve a higher level of significance. One target of Transpersonal Psychotherapy is leading people to concern the existence significance rather than the external material conditions. Laozhuang thought that person have had desire since he was born. Rather than try to meet desires, one should reduce them. Both of them attach great importance to the ideal personality shaping. The ideal personality model of Transpersonal Psychotherapy is transcendent personality. The ideal personality model of Laozhuang is Shengren, Zhenren and Zhiren. The character, experience and way to reach it of transcendent personality are similar to Shengren. Transpersonal Psychotherapists believe that people have unlimited development potential. Laozhuang believe that people should go beyond the narrow self-space and dilute the pursuit of fame and fortune, and cultivate lofty broad-minded, to pursuit a higher level of mental state. As to life and death, both of them hold open-minded attitude. Transpersonal Psychotherapists believe that everyone have birth trauma when he was born. One gets the experience of the birth, while he gets the experience of the death simultaneously. The correct guidance of near-death experience will make people take a positive attitude on death. Laozhuang believe that death is inevitable. In addition, both of life and death are good. People can go beyond life and death , and access eternal. Both of them are good at using physical therapy. Transpersonal psychotherapy had many methods: physical training, respiratory training and so on. Laozhuang advocate that one can preserve life by Tuna and Yangsheng. They also hold similar views on the naming issue. The naming of one's own emotional experience is the key step in the focusing therapy. People should pay close attention to their own experience before naming. Laozhuang believe that words are inevitable and inappropriate. Therefore, one should name carefully. It is worth noting that they are similar but not exactly the same.Transpersonal Psychotherapy and Laozhuang's Psychology Thinking of Life Preserving developed under different social background and rooted in different cultural traditions. There is a huge inevitable difference. Firstly, their philosophical thinking is in different ways. Transpersonal Psychotherapy is based on the analysis of psychology and social development. The whole of this process contained rational knowledge. Laozhuang's Psychology Thinking of Life Preserving is not logical thinking, but come from intuitive understanding. Secondly, the two subjects are different in nature. The structure of Transpersonal Psychotherapy is strict .It also has a strict clinical steps and requirements. Laozhuang's Psychology Thinking of Life Preserving is more of a philosophy of life. It's not a strict sense of Psychological Science although the Laozhuang contains the essence of psychology thinking. Thirdly, they are different in psychological treatment methods and technology. Transpersonal Psychotherapy includes psychedelic and hypnosis, etc. There were no similar elaborations in Laozhuang's thought. Fourth, both in the treatment of operable degree are not the same. The language of Transpersonal Psychotherapy is clearly and easy to understand. The steps are more specifically. The psychological indicators are easier to master. The language of Laozhuang's Psychology Thinking of Life Preserving is penetrating. It is brief and to the point. The description of the method is vague. So it is not easy to operate.In short, Transpersonal Psychotherapy associated with Laozhuang's Psychology Thinking of Life Preserving closely. The comparison of them is a dialogue across time and space by Eastern and Western spiritual explorers friendly and intimately. When treasures the traditional Chinese culture of psychology we should pay attention to the development of Transpersonal Psychotherapy at the same time. Only in this way can we develop the local community psychology of China.