Nothing new here, but a meeting I was at a couple of days ago reminded me of it.
There are two basic – and often complimentary – orientations to healing:
(a) Removing or changing the apparent problem, such as an illness or situation in life. (Most medicine and some psychology.)
(b) Changing how we relate to it. (Some psychology, and practices such as yoga, Breema, meditation, inquiry etc.)
And there are – crudely speaking – three levels of healing:
(a) Treating symptoms.
(b) Treating intermediate causes. (Most psychology and medicine is here.)
(c) Inquiry into the dynamics and nature of the mind, eventually allowing identifications with parts of the content of awareness (images, thoughts) to release. (Some forms of meditation and inquiry.)