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This book explores the ways that therapists express, through their feeling attitudes, their fundamental beliefs about life. These attitudes permeate and shape all…apparent techniques.
—Amy Mindell, Metaskills #book
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…we manifest our deepest beliefs in the living and flowing reality of everyday life.
—Amy Mindell, Metaskills
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This [felt sense] subtle background, whether conscious or not, carries great significance. … Often these most significant beliefs and feelings are not clearly defined, yet strongly influence…interactions. They loom like a hidden mist which colors and pervades…techniques.
—Amy Mindell, Metaskills
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They [metaskills] are the vehicles that animate our normal techniques and allow our deepest beliefs to take root. As skills and metaskills merge, the fabric of…work is woven with…deepest beliefs.
—Amy Mindell, Metaskills #metaskills
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…embrace the disavowed aspects of our experiences…
—Amy Mindell, Metaskills #metaskills
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…my task is to hint at the existence and significance of metaskills… They can be described only through analogies.
—Amy Mindell, Metaskills #metaskills #book
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Techniques can never really fully describe what we do. … Students…sometimes look quite mechanical because they attempt to apply techniques in a neutral fashion. It is as though they have picked the flower out of the earth and used it without reference to its roots and origin.
—Amy Mindell, Metaskills #techniques #attitudes #metaskills
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The study of metaskills suggests viewing…work…in a new way. … There is too little focus on the actual, momentary attitudes…
—Amy Mindell, Metaskills #techniques #attitudes #metaskills