我们继续来默想耶稣的教导，八福中的第六福：「清心的人有福了！因为他们必得见神。」当中所使用的「清」字，到底有何深意？我在研究这主题时发现，希腊文的「清」，与「净化」，是源自同一个词根，净化的意思是使之得以洁净或纯洁。

在心理学上，「净化」这词语，是用来描述一个人在信任的朋友或辅导员面前，倾出很多被压抑的感受或思想时，那种释放和洁净的感觉。在合适的处境和情况下，经常这样做的人常会感到洁净、更新和释放。我在辅导工作中时常见到这种情况。求助的人总是带着内心很深的伤害到来，当他们能够确定坐在他们面前的人，是明白他们以及是可以信任的时候，他们便会放开那些压抑的情绪，然后舒适地坐下来说：「我的感觉完全不同了，就好像进入了我自己内心的深处，把里面刮得干干净净。」

是什么东西产生这种洁净和释放的感觉？这很难解释。因为个人感到的内在释放，不是单靠分享就能得到，牠是来自彼此之间一种互相信任的氛围。当辅导员显出了不接纳或震惊时，接受辅导的人便不会有释放（净化）的经验。如果真的如精神健康专家所说的那样，只有当辅导员温和接纳，而不是严厉和审判的时候，别人才能有净化的经历，那么很明显地，在耶稣这位了不起的辅导员面前，我们肯定能够有可能经历到内心最深层的净化了。

We continue meditating on the word "pure" as used by Jesus in His sixth Beatitude. I discovered when researching this theme that the word "catharsis" - meaning to cleanse or make pure - is derived from the same Greek root as the word "pure".

In psychology, the word "catharsis" is used to describe the feeling of release and cleansing a person experiences in the presence of a trusted friend or counsellor when they empty out many of their repressed feelings or ideas. In the right circumstances and under the right conditions, a person who does this often feels purged, renewed and released. I have seen this happen myself on countless occasions when counselling. A person comes with deep hurts, and when they are sure they are in the presence of someone who understands them, someone they can trust, they open up their repressed feelings in such a way that afterwards they sit back and say: "I feel so different. It's like someone has reached deep down inside me and scraped my insides clean."

What produces this feeling of purging and release? It is difficult to explain because the inner release a person feels is not obtained simply by sharing; it comes only in the atmosphere of mutual confidence and trust. When a counsellor shows signs of disapproval or shock, then no release (catharsis) is experienced. If, as mental health experts claim, this only happens when a counsellor is warm and accepting, as opposed to harsh and judgmental, then it becomes immediately obvious that in the presence of Jesus, the Wonderful Counsellor, we have the possibility of experiencing the deepest catharsis it is possible to know