The Zen of Advaita - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

which keep re-enforcing theillusion that somehow things canbe different from the way theyare.Reframing-Renaming-Relabeling:this “deadly” illusion, filledwith a resistance to what is, is ahallmark of most of the new PostModern Therapies.The belief here is two-fold.First that by changing the wordsor language used to describesomething, somehow it changesthe underlying experience. Forexample, rather than “I havefear”, it is renamed to “I havean internal motivator”. Thisrenaming or reframing adds anotherlayer of self-deception. In thisscenario, the subtext of fear isimagined to be bad and thereforeunwanted, rather than appreciatingit as an experience of sensationwhich was/is automaticallylabeled as, in this case, bad orunwanted. Spiritual reframingwhich adds another layer of selfdeceptionis when pain is labeledas an opportunity, or a growthexperience, or a lesson to be82