ABSTRACT
The surfacing of awareness is in itself a developmental achievement, though it is not sufficient in itself to bring about significant change, we need to ‘metabolize new experience to the point of making it truly part of oneself’ (Miller, 2011b: 111). Such development takes place at any point in life when a person meets with a new situation, whether that is a toddler reaching up for a table and discovering they can stand, an infant reacting to his mothers soothing or an adult adapting to a new life situation. Development is arrested when outdated fixed gestalts are brought into the new situation, the past embodied beliefs being brought into the present.
