Hal Stone: The Total Self (excerpt) -- A Thinking Allowed DVD w/ Jeffrey Mishlove

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What is the nature of the Self? In this intriguing program, Dr. Hal Stone proposes that we are not unitary beings, but that we consist of many autonomous sub-personalities and energy complexes. These express themselves as voices in our minds. Some of these voices are "primary personalities" which we normally consider ourselves. Other voices are "disowned" parts of ourselves which we typically project on to other people. Total self- understanding, says Dr. Stone, must include a detached awareness of both the primary and disowned parts of ourselves.
In Part II of the DVD he describes how he discovered the "Voice Dialogue" method of contacting his own sub-personalities. The process, as it has evolved, includes elements of gestalt therapy, psychosynthesis, psychodrama, transactional analysis and Jungian analysis. Dr. Stone describes various sub-personalities such as the "protector-controller," the "pusher" and the "critic." The Voice Dialogue technique is demonstrated with Jeffrey Mishlove and Dr. Stone each taking a turn as therapeutic subject.
Hal Stone, Ph.D., is author of Embracing Heaven and Earth and co-author, with his wife Dr. Sidra Winkelman, of Embracing Our Selves and Embracing Each Other. He and Dr. Winkelman are developers of the "Voice Dialogue" psychotherapeutic process.

[@AB-bt9eb]

VERY important work! Enormously important.

[@PeterFritzWalter]

This is definitely the most interesting and the most important Mishlove interview I have seen in my life. Thank you so much!

[@larahamilton2273]

Hal Stone passed away last night! Wonderful to listen to this in his memory.

[@PeterFritzWalter]

I have immensely profited from Hal & Sidra Stone's book 'Embracing Our Selves' during the time of my own psychotherapy back in the 1990s, and for drafting my own approach to Inner Child Recovery & Healing, and have reviewed the book in my review sampler 'The New Paradigm in Consciousness, Healing & Spirituality (2014)'. This interview is very important and shows me that, in just 9 minutes, Hal Stone is able to pinpoint the most important issues around our inner selves, and positively, about building our inner team. Thanks so much for this interview.

[@mortalclown3812]

Until listening to this particular interview, I thought I had a handle on, well, my 'self'. Since I tend to pay attention to those traits I most treasure in others, I find myself cringing a bit while pondering the opposite. My take on 'awful' personality types has been rather shallow: I just figure I've been those (negative) things in other lives. A broad example I'll use arises from those who exhibit extreme signs of the Dunning-Kruger effect. Yikes. To think my disowned self is an aggressively ignorant harpie who's a climate change denier, racist and, hell, probably a flat-earther is jarring to say the least. No sense in a door half opened, though. Now I'm curious about more of Stone's work and therapies to at least attempt integration.

[@charlieoverseaz]

“Life brings you whatever you disown.”

[@crissysnowhere]

That is an interesting answer to "who am I?": awareness, experiences and ego. I wonder though, if this next level of awareness of this whole process makes life so much more complicated... sometimes the amount of knowledge is not directly proportional to the happiness level I would say.

[@crissysnowhere]

@Life Matter I find myself stuck in overanalyzing and overcomplicating things. Letting go in a way sometimes is a release. And focus on simplicity to overcome fears and limitations as a general concept very attractive way to keep moving forward in life. So, I guess that, when the conscious knowledge becomes subconscious, and I integrate those inner parts more naturally in my being, as the tools to handle them. I could then 'lay back' a bit more allowing this process to continue with a proper foundation and more smoothly. The middle ground tends to be the right answer 😊

[@yanavandijk273]

great information and great questions! thank you

[@syalalaputri1802]

Beautiful.

[@jeaneen60andretta97]

Very true! His book is great

[@kidsmoked]

In modern day we have Eckhart Tolle, Byron Katie, Abraham Hicks and ACIM saying all the same things. And Don Miguel Ruiz, Neale Donald Walsch etc.

[@leearno]

refreshing...what every actor knows...

[@mortalclown3812]

The good ones. 🙋

[@4LovePeace]

"It's like a car being driven by 20 different people." Yup, and very hard to arrive at a nourishing, and healthy destination.

[@mortalclown3812]

Jeffrey mentioning Mother Teresa is interesting: what's come to light about her after this interview definitely points to a disowned self - one that ended up being painful for others to experience. This is one of those TA conversations that could have gone on much longer. Thanks, Jeffrey and rest in peace, Dr. Stone

[@megasound4961]

wisdom, wisdom, wisdom

[@shadadalshad2574]

Now this is an intelligent person

[@jackwheeler27]

This is good.

[@mustaffa1611]

wheres the rest of this

[@joannacolene9489]

🙏

[@uwefischer4595]

👍

[@andrewskater8813]

His idea of god loving sweat where his sweat sounds like a neurotic conflict between the person who likes children and the one who does not does not sound very useful to me. Rather than sweating and this being admired by God, if we have a conflict does it not make sense to integrate these selves? I thought that was the aim of the chair work/voice dialogue. Ie get a conversation going, round off the rough edges, become a more rounded more balanced person? Likewise a person who projects their bad self into the idea of the devil and likes the idea of being a good person is neurotic. When you bring God into this situation it seems to be allowable to be neurotic and this is loveable. Psychodynamically though these things are often the basis of unhappiness either for yourself or for those around you. Surely the idea here is to attempt to move beyond these limiting behaviours? God loves sweat??

[@mortalclown3812]

I'm think the word 'sweat' is a metaphor for expending the energy necessary to integrate these opposites.

[@myotherusername9224]

@ 6:00 embracing the opposite results in ... *sweat* ?! God loves _sweat_ ?! WTF ? does that mean?

[@Zeno7741]

FightClub MeetsHere take a shower and you will feel better

[@leylamoone6284]

@@Zeno7741 🤣😅🤷🏻‍♀️

[@msdukaaa]

It means it is hard to do. When you do it (think opposing thoughts, embrace different selves), you break a sweat.