This book is in English. Self-discovery is a deliberate, courageousjourney and an important part of both psychotherapy and spiritualpractice. What is significant is that the mind is a virtualreality.

There are three main tasks for the therapist: thefirst is to provide a loving and supportive context for the wholeprocess. The second task is to understand enough about the client toassist in the self-discovery process. That means helping the clientreach and sustain mindfulness, and creat ing little experiments thatpromote new experiences and insights.

The third task of thetherapist is to evoke emotionally satisfying missing experiences thatmay have previously been unavailable because of the way the person was habitually organizing experience.

The client must be willing to embark on this journey of self-discovery with the courage that itentails. Tremendous vulnerability and openness are required to allowsuch discoveries to be made.

Hakomi is a simple yet powerfulway of using loving presence and embodied mindfulness for the journeyof self discovery and emotional healing.