Question:
I am doing a counselling course and have been told we need to come up with an 'ending' for our final session. Our tutor has told us about 2 examples ie everyone blowing bubbles and then popping them - each bubble popped represents a problem/anxiety dissipating; and the other was everyone writing a message/problem/worry on a small piece of paper and taping it onto a helium balloon, then everyone holding the string of the balloon and then letting it go outside, watching it until it disappeared from sight and then leaving without saying goodbye to each other. I am stuck for ideas to compete with these - can anyone give me any ideas what I could do?
Hi FBW,
Just read your posting. Something I read in a book about ten years ago suggested writing down the problem and expressing every feeling (anger or whatever) you felt about it, for example, towards another person who had "wronged" you in some way. You then had to affirm that the problem/person wasn't going to affect your life or have a "hold" of you in any way. I then remember the book said to rip the paper up into pieces, and set fire to it, symbolically watching the anguish "go up in smoke." The book suggested burying the ashes. At that time I tried this method for something which is too complicated to go into, but really did have an ENORMOUS hold of me psychologically to the point my whole life revolved around the feelings I had. I can honestly say that following the advice, although thinking at the time it was mad and "off the wall" achieved a complete severing mentally for me. I felt I could begin afresh. The burning and burying of the problem was even more therapeutic than writing it down. I am ashamed (being Library staff and a former buyer when I ran such sections in Waterstones) that I can't remember what the book's title or author was, sorry.[sm=confused-smiley-012.gif]
Anyway, hope this helps[sm=1syellow1.gif]
Good Luck with it anyway!
Best wishes,
Crystal Spirit x
Answers:
Hi FBW,
Just read your posting. Something I read in a book about ten years ago suggested writing down the problem and expressing every feeling (anger or whatever) you felt about it, for example, towards another person who had "wronged" you in some way. You then had to affirm that the problem/person wasn't going to affect your life or have a "hold" of you in any way. I then remember the book said to rip the paper up into pieces, and set fire to it, symbolically watching the anguish "go up in smoke." The book suggested burying the ashes. At that time I tried this method for something which is too complicated to go into, but really did have an ENORMOUS hold of me psychologically to the point my whole life revolved around the feelings I had. I can honestly say that following the advice, although thinking at the time it was mad and "off the wall" achieved a complete severing mentally for me. I felt I could begin afresh. The burning and burying of the problem was even more therapeutic than writing it down. I am ashamed (being Library staff and a former buyer when I ran such sections in Waterstones) that I can't remember what the book's title or author was, sorry.[sm=confused-smiley-012.gif]
Anyway, hope this helps[sm=1syellow1.gif]
Good Luck with it anyway!
Best wishes,
Crystal Spirit x
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