It is powerful to use MTT to solve practical problems that prevent us from living as we wish. To get beyond anxieties, learning disabilities, self-doubt, destructive habits, or irrational fears is invaluable. All these things stop us cold from trying new experiences with confidence and allowing ourselves to be successful. MTT excels at promoting this kind of growth.

At a deeper level, we become concerned with how we are giving and receiving, with the quality of the love we offer to our friends. We may look at ourselves and begin to ask:

• How do I treat myself? Am I my own friend, or do I attack myself for my mistakes? Do I take care of myself as if I were my own child? Do I appreciate and care for my body?
• How is my ability to calmly observe my own behavior? Can I look at how well or badly I have behaved? Can I assume responsibility for my mistakes? Can I evaluate criticism, and act on it, without getting caught emotionally?
• How consistent am I? Can I rely on myself to do what I promise myself I will do?
• Do I have boundaries which are permeable enough to allow those I love to get close, but strong enough to protect and defend myself when necessary?
• Am I comfortable in solitude, or do I need the company of others?
• How do I treat others? Can I focus my attention completely on another person and put myself in their place, or is my own ego always in the picture?
• Can I discern who is worthy of trust? Can I relax into that trust, or am I always on guard?
• How judgmental am I? Can I accept others as they are without making them "bad" when I notice their shortcomings?
• How open is my mind? Am I intellectually and emotionally free to explore new ideas which may run counter to everything I have previously been taught? Do I have the courage to make my own decision about what to believe?
• How is my attention? Am I always multi-tasking on fast-forward? Do I know how to be present, to focus on one thing, and then the next, and then the next?
• How is my ability to keep order in my schedule, in my environment?
• Am I serene? Am I able to be contented minute to minute, even when the overall situation is difficult?

These are complex issues which can be the subjects of decades of psychotherapeutic and/or spiritual exploration. Nevertheless, these systems are held in place by beliefs about ourselves and about the world, by habits formed over time, and by traumatic life experiences— exactly the targets which MTT addresses so effectively. One of the biggest difficulties in development is the lack of self-acceptance. In order to develop we need to be able to observe ourselves. In order to observe ourselves, we have to be able to accept and value ourselves right where we are at this moment, with all our failures and faults. MTT addresses this core difficulty directly.

If you are willing to supplement MTT sessions with consistent work on your own as issues are identified, you will be surprised at the far-reaching results. Using MTT can accelerate whatever psychotherapeutic or spiritual work you are doing.

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