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Awareness Meaning Therapy (AMT)

HOW AMT CAN HELP YOU:

Awareness Meaning Therapy (AMT) emphasises the following fundamental principles and skills:

  1. Motivating and empowering clients in their struggle with personal problems and in the pursuit of meaning and happiness
  2. Tapping into clients’ capacity for seeking meaning and creating meaning in order to help them restore purpose, faith and hope in their predicaments
  3. Providing the necessary tools for clients to overcome personal difficulties and anxieties to make life worth living

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Meaning in Life

A number of psychological and contemporary spiritual theories claim that finding your purpose in life, whilst finding meaning in each and every moment, is the greatest motivator and provides fulfilling and joyful life experiences. The distinction between surviving life and living life is quite simple: it is based on your awareness of the purpose of your life. This is not a collective purpose which accommodates all human beings; it is your personal meaning which makes you see the world in a completely different way. Most of us live without this precious knowledge and therefore create a process that starts with boredom, increases to nagging feelings of missed opportunities and finally ends in a painful sense of meaninglessness. Many feel that life has no purpose, no challenge, no obligation, no hope, and no escape from boredom and pain. They try to fill this vacuum with material objects, hedonistic pursuits, addiction and blind ambitions for power or wealth and fame. But such misguided efforts only lead to frustration and despair. If you are honest with yourself you can easily detect these feelings within yourself. When you become aware of your life’s meaning, of your own purpose, an immediate wave of passion for life moves through you and accompanies every choice you make. Every moment becomes meaningful and your entire life experience changes.

AMT – Psychological and Spiritual Processes

AMT removes all unconscious blocks to allow you to reach your primary human motive – the will to meaning. This process is both cognitive and spiritual. The cognitive (psychological mind processes) is based upon recognizing, observing, and letting go of the patterns which prevent you from attaining meaning. The spiritual focuses on your responsibility to live meaningfully and purposefully in every situation on a daily basis in order to become what you are meant to be. AMT encourages your capacity to tap into the spiritual dimension in order to transcend the effects of stressful situations, chronic illness, painful experiences, or burdens of the past. The human spirit is the most important resource in therapy, because it is the basis for recovery and resilience. AMT sessions involve clients’ goals, directions, values, aspirations, and objectives, while realising what is right, finding the right solutions, making mends, and taking actions that are congruent with highest values. This is being done while assessing levels of satisfaction or dissatisfaction with your situation or with life as a whole.

Questions which are asked within AMT sessions:

Awareness Meaning Therapy Sessions with Dr. Itai Ivtzan

Choosing a 1-on-1 Awareness Therapy session would accelerate your journey towards freedom. Itai views each client – not himself – as the expert on his or her life. His role is to reflect and guide you, the client, towards discoveries of your own experiences and the origins of your individual beliefs. This allows transformational work which guides you towards finding your own meaning and purpose. Itai values the therapeutic relationship and strives to establish a collaborative environment, free of labels and blame where clients are empowered to change and grow. You will find that this process takes you closer to understanding your purpose in life. At the same time it will make you appreciate each moment as meaningful which in itself creates a true change in your life. Skype & Phone Sessions I also offer online therapy sessions via the video call service, Skype – a free and easy to install programme that enables free Video Internet calls between two computers. I have chosen Skype for its reliability and its private, secure online communication. Similarly, phone therapy is an option as well. Sessions run for 50 minutes and normal fees (below) apply. Fees: £40 Per Session (A number of £30 concession time-slots are available for Full-Time Students/Unemployed – Please ask, when you first contact me, whether any of those are available). Session time is 50 minutes. Location: North London – East Finchley – 2 minutes walk from “East Finchley” underground station (Northern Line). There are plenty of free parking spaces if you are travelling by car. Awareness Meaning Therapy helps people increasingly act in accord with their values instead of reacting with escape and avoidance behaviors that typically make problem worse.

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