Psychotherapy and past-life regression healing can be compared to being bothered because you are slow at multiplication. You discover that, when you were in school, you skipped your math classes to play ball. You then believe that remembering this is going to change you now into someone who can multiply. But it won't. You still have to learn the multiplication table.
The same applies to a present mental affliction. Finding out where it came from is not the same thing as developing the capacity that is presently missing. Remembering the cause may explain the impediment, but an explanation is not the correction. Even using a crutch—a calculator, asking someone else for the answer, or relying on some external means—may get you past the immediate problem without making you capable of doing the multiplication yourself.
There is another problem, though. Even if you do learn multiplication and thereby remove the present impediment, you have not necessarily changed the attitude or habit that caused you to skip the math classes in the first place. You may simply encounter another impediment later, in another form.
So there are two different things being confused. One is fixing the particular symptom. The other is developing the person so that the same kind of failure to do what is necessary for their own growth does not keep producing new symptoms.
Remembering that you skipped math classes does not teach you multiplication. Learning multiplication does not necessarily teach you to stop skipping what you need to learn. And neither one, by itself, removes the potholes from the road.
The point is not to discover why there is a particular pothole. The point is to become capable of traveling the road without continually creating new ones.
The same applies to a present mental affliction. Finding out where it came from is not the same thing as developing the capacity that is presently missing. Remembering the cause may explain the impediment, but an explanation is not the correction. Even using a crutch—a calculator, asking someone else for the answer, or relying on some external means—may get you past the immediate problem without making you capable of doing the multiplication yourself.
There is another problem, though. Even if you do learn multiplication and thereby remove the present impediment, you have not necessarily changed the attitude or habit that caused you to skip the math classes in the first place. You may simply encounter another impediment later, in another form.
So there are two different things being confused. One is fixing the particular symptom. The other is developing the person so that the same kind of failure to do what is necessary for their own growth does not keep producing new symptoms.
Remembering that you skipped math classes does not teach you multiplication. Learning multiplication does not necessarily teach you to stop skipping what you need to learn. And neither one, by itself, removes the potholes from the road.
The point is not to discover why there is a particular pothole. The point is to become capable of traveling the road without continually creating new ones.