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Since ultimately people heal themselves with or without the tool of psychotherapy, why is it that so few do and so many do not?

Since the path of spiritual growth, albeit difficult,

is open to all, why do so few choose to travel it? It was to this question that Christ was

addressing himself when he said, many are called, but few are chosen. No matter the current state of our life or the problems we face, we all have the capacity

for self-transformation, the ability to overcome our problems, and to move towards the ideal

of peak psychological health.

Yet most of us do not exercise this capacity, rather we leave our personal problems unsolved and

stay stuck in a mediocrity that situates us far below our potential and places us at risk

of mental illness.

Why is this limiting life path the norm?

In this video, drawing from the insights of the psychiatrist M. Scott Peck, we examine this question

and explore how we can be one of the few who proceeds upon the path of personal growth, which Peck called the Road Less Travelled.

Life is difficult. This is a great truth.

One of the greatest truths writes Pe Peck in the road less traveled.

Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy,

as if life should be easy. Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them?

One of the primary marks of wisdom is the capacity to accept that life is difficult, problems inevitable, and suffering

inescapable. A second mark of wisdom is the understanding that if we confront our problems

and work to solve them, we will suffer, but it will be the type of suffering that is

meaningful and promotive of personal growth. Many of us do not possess these marks of wisdom.

Rather, we cling to the illusory hope that if only we can make enough money,

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