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demeanour and energy shifted. I strongly working of Grace. This constant reminder “of
sensed, in that moment, that the fear that trust in the grace of the One and Divine” and
had possessed him for over a year had lifted. the surrender to that knowing, appears to me,
I no longer felt compelled to have Andrew to be at the core and the source of the healing.
continue focusing on the story of the zombies Andrew’s progress appeared remarkably
but rather allowed the conversation to move deep and swift. We had started working on
to a light and playful place. Subsequent September 19th and by October 19th at our
progress confirmed this intuitive knowing. third and last session the gripping fear that
had possessed him for over a year appeared
Reliance on the Presence and Power of Grace to have lifted.

With every encounter in the consulting-room, To be reassured that the shift continued, on
one knows that the deep and sustaining work December 12, 2016, I again followed up with
is being done through Grace and that our Andrew’s father. He gladly reported that
work at hand is to surrender to that Grace. Andrew continues to sleep throughout the
night in his own bed and continues to show
As Sri Aurobindo advises in Letters on Yoga: no signs of regression.

“Put your trust in the grace of the One and References
Divine which has already touched you and
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come (2).” 18. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust;
1970, p. 69.
In entering the realm of deep therapeutic soul
work, one is reminded that one is entering a 2. Sri Aurobindo. SABCL, Volume 23. 1970, p. 897.
sacred space, entering a sacred relationship
with the other and that even the multiple 3. Harvey A. A Year of Rumi. [Online] Available
therapeutic modalities that parade in one’s from: http://www.dailyom.com/mycourses
mind and that one is drawn to apply are a [Accessed 27th January 2017].

Dorathea Thompson is an integrative psychoanalyst in private practice at
New York City.

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