When someone engages in both psychotherapy and meditation practice, it can become difficult for them to delineate between the two lenses of view. A “mixing of minds” occurs; or, more accurately, we can notice that experience does not neatly sort itself into one category or the other. Our experience lends itself equally well to interpretation within both of these narrative contexts (and many others).
We could say that the mind is always itself, exactly as it is in any particular moment; and yet never the same in any one moment and the next. A constant stream of “minding” in process.
It is exactly as Heraclitus famously said: no man steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.