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This is a new job for him, we are going to present a book, his first book. We are now
talking about Jaume Campos as a writer. I have had the privilige of reading the book already and
I can tell you that it is a book to give as a gift to someone and it is one of the best presents that
we could give to someone, not as an object but more precisely for it´s knowledge, what it says
and how it says it. I would underline the clarity and bluntness on how it deals with the subject matter.
First of all, I would like to talk about the author. We all know that Jaume Campos is a child,
I think that it the best way to describe him, a child in the sense that he believes in love, he is
all about love and he believes in it. He is also a child because of his sensibility, he is sensitive
to others, he is sensitive to the scent of others, and that, at a detemined age, is no mean
achievement because all of us tend to desensitize ourselves. Also as he is such a good child,
he is also caprichous, as an adult, he allows himself things that maybe he couldn´t have
when he was a child and therefore it is good that people spoil themselves sometimes,
they spoil themselves and they learn to do it. There is where I think that Jaume can teach us
a lesson that we should do it, that it is neccesary, it is fundamental. It is all a symptom of
the person that wasn´t a spoilt child and has learnt to reconsider things and give themself
what they couldn´t give themself at a determined stage in their life and I believe that
it is a lesson and a road to follow when doing things. The most practical definition is that
of the therapist because he dedicates himself to helping, he tries to help. He speaks
about tools that can help us and how we can find them, the pieces are ours, the puzzle is
ours, he tells us this using these words. But it is us who has to put the pieces together and
sometimes we need help, knowing how to ask for help when we need it is fundamental.
I think that the best therapists are those that know not to feed necessity, dependency,
etc, and I think that Jaume Campos would also be a good example of this. A therapist
of what? He himself asks this on the cover. He talks about being an emotional therapist,
healing the soul to heal the body, which is now fashionable. But of course, he explains
the relationship between the two things in the book and this way a person can understand
that wounds in the soul, the emotions, they provoke physical damage and therefore make
people go along the path in the wrong direction. We can go straight to the physical problem
which ends up sending you to an emotional problem and treating everything together,
in this realtionship, some things take you to others and vice versa.
In the case of an improvement, and if some doors open up, then a person can satisfactory
get out. Evidently, talking about the techniques as a therapist, because he himself says
it in the book, it is therefore the a therapist´s experience as a result of working with
thousands of patients. The book hasn´t got even one wasted sentence, I didn´t say
this but I am saying it now, I think that it is the best book that I have ever presented,
however, I am no saying that it is the best presentaton that I have done.
It comes from knowledge and knowledge is accumulated experience.
With regards to the features of the book, it is an enjoyable book, an essential book
and as I have already said, it comes from experience. It is a clear and direct book.
The subject matter is of course, love, love has many forms, love is relationships
with others. And the booked is aimed at partner relationships above all,
everything gets to boiling point and can explode at any time.
For example, if we read the dedication at the beginning it says:
"Life isn´t permanent", it is a definition of what life is and the answer says:
"to all those people with whom I have had the privilege of sharing some of
my remote corners and have helped me to learn that life isn´t permanent".
The book is entitled "Two suitcases for one sole voyage".
I think that the suitcase which are our burdens right? It makes us difficult
to think of a voyage without it,no? It seems like the journey is already prepared,
meaning that we carry a burden along the journey that tries to control where
the voyage takes us, where we are going, fear makes us carry a series of suitcases,
but of course, if you carry a heavy load, in the end you cannot move, where are
you going to go with some much baggage, you won´t be able to go even three meters.
Or there is a lot of energy along the journey or you stop and they are blockades. Consider,
for example, what you need on one leg of the journey, you may not need on another.
What I want to say is that in any given moment, those that do triathlons and those sort of things,
they get on the bike and ride, but to jump in the sea with the bike could be very complicated
when they need to swim, no? What are you going to do with the bike when you are in the sea?
In the book, he also talks about mirrors. There are tough phrases, which of course are great for
my taste, the tougher, the better: "For a partner relationship to work, both have to individually
work on themself, everything can improve". We straight away believe that it is the other person
that has to do something, we all say: "I have to do it but you don´t" and things like that.
Another phrase from the book: "infidelity is usually commited by the most inmature person in
the relationship" which is another gem right? "It is fine to see other people´s values, but without
underestimating oneself, without believeing that our own qualities are worse or ridiculous.
The idealized person may boost that relationship of superiority or to the contrary, not desire
or bring about this situation, and therefore isn´t always responsable for the other
person´s dependency. If the cause of this is due to low self esteem in one of the partners and
not due to the intransigence of the other then the only person responsable is he/she that annuls it".
"In fact, the couple make a mirrored image of the situation of each one of them.
The type of partner that we have reflects us, it is us". And I think,
that for me, I would leave things here so that he can speak and tell us
that the best parts are of course, those that I haven´t yet read.