Meditative dialogue offers a simple way to cultivate sacred space in psychotherapy and in one's life. Through mindfulness and meditation practices, client and therapist together develop the capacity to enliven their embodied experience of living truths and to deeply invite life into their lives. This article offers a review of theoretical and conceptual literature on spirituality, intersubjectivity, relational practice, and meditation and mindfulness practices as applied to psychotherapy. It offers a discussion of meditative dialogue as a method through which sacred space can be accessed as therapist and client engage collaboratively in the quest for transformation through psychotherapy.Truth makes little sense and has no real impact if it is merely a collection of abstract ideas. Truth that is living experience, on the other hand, is challenging, threatening, and transforming. The first kind of truth consists of information collected and added, from a safe distance, to our mental inventory. The second kind involves risking our familiar and coherent interpretation of the world-it is an act of surrender, of complete and embodied cognition that is seeing, feeling, intuiting, and comprehending
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