Voice Dialogue in Short
Voice Dialogue is an approach to the psyche that enables us to to know and responsibly embrace all our inner parts/ selves/ voices.
Our inner selves include a wide range of fascinating ‘types’. Each self has needs, abilities, talents, desires, qualities and a unique character. Together they form a beautiful, rich and colourful web.
Having inner selves is natural and healthy, but we all have many inner selves that live in a state of war, survival, loneliness, despair and pain. That is why, instead of enjoying them, we usually experience their difficulties, fears, conflicts and confusions.
When our relationship with our inner selves becomes healthy, we feel more balanced and whole and become more creative, free, happy, flexible and empowered. Our ability to create, evolve, earn money, enjoy relationships, friendships, sexuality and everything else increases, to name only a few of the benefits.
When we work wisely, the entire system functions better and even those inner selves that caused us suffering or stopped us in our tracks gradually become gifts and treasures:
The desperate child can heal into a happy, playful child; the tough inner controller that has virtually strangled us, can become a useful advisor and the depressed teenager can become a spring of creation.
As this happens, an important and wondrous thing can evolve: ‘the Aware I’ – a state of consciousness from which we can learn, live, navigate, listen to inner selves and people, help inner selves and be helped by them and receive bountiful gifts from the richness within. This shift in consciousness and in our day to day life happens through getting to know the inner selves and accepting them without being identified with them or managed by them.
Voice Dialogue and the Spiritual Path
Everything there is must be spirit in various forms. Some of what we encounter in our life can be in what could be referred to as a ‘higher or lower vibration’. Some of what we and our world are comprised of might be dark and in despair, while other things may seem ethereal and emanate wisdom and love. Some might seem solid and dense matter, while other things may seem light and spiritual. And yet it is all spirit. Accepting one while judging and negating the other tears us apart from within and moves us away from embodied realisation of our transcendent self. Accepting all there is, whether it seems to be within or without us without judgement or denial, is always an important step towards healing and change.
People on the spiritual path often stumble into their own ingrained thought patterns, core beliefs, emotions. Sometimes these come up as self-doubt, resistance to change, fear, trauma, pain and more. If, for example, you feel called to speak with spiritual sources, you might discover, that your doubts about the truth of the material received stop you in your tracks. If Voice Dialogue is available to you, you can seek the source within you that is feeling the emotion, thinking the thought or having the belief by asking with love, openness and curiosity: who inside me is feeling this? Who within me is thinking this thought? Which inner self in me has this belief?
Allowing this self to speak to you and discovering not only what it says, feels, believes and wants but who it is, what character, desires, wishes and abilities it has, can be both fascinating and life changing. Doing so in ways that are safe and that work better can make it even more fun, joyful and consciousness-expanding.
Origins
Voice Dialogue was first created in the 1970’s by Dr. Hal Stone and Dr. Sidra Stone. Fifty years later and counting, there is ample experience clearly showing the extent of healing and transformation this approach offers in itself and in combination with other approaches to healing, transformation, spirituality, creativity, coaching etc.
You can find more information about Voice Dialogue on this site, in books and on the internet, and there are many facilitators that can be found around the world.
