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Spiritual Discernment (Continued)
It is the power to increasingly become oneself, the self we are meant to become through our realization of and association with the “beyond self”; that unbounded and unfailing resource that we can with, at times, such confidence tap into … Continue reading
“O DEATH, WHERE IS THY STING…?” Cont’d from prev. blog)
Some years ago now, I was afforded a rare and invaluable opportunity to gain a glimpse into one man’s final journey and his attempted answers to question posed in the immediately preceding blog paragraph. I had known him as a … Continue reading
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The Make-up of Mind: The Conscious and Unconscious mind. (Cont’d from previous blog).
Having briefly considered those key elements arising out og the concept of consciousness, the question now arises; what do we mean by the unconscious and how do we know anything about it at all if – as the question implies … Continue reading
The Makeup of mind: Personality. (Continued from previous blog).
Over time – it might be argued – the most popular use of the word has come to refer to desirable and positive attributes and qualities of social skill and competence: hence the perceived need for “personality training” or the … Continue reading
The Makeup of mind: Personality. (Continued from previous blog).
Piece by piece, the picture is emerging of a self that is physical, neural, psychological, social, moral, aesthetic and – as future blogs will be at pains to show – spiritual. To live under any circumstances or conditions we require … Continue reading
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The Makeup of mind: Emotion and Motivation. (Continued on directly from previous blog).
Nor – as already stated above – can we separate and in that sense distinguish emotion entirely from cognition (or feeling from thinking) since both are so evidently linked and bound up inextricably with physical and physiological as well as … Continue reading
The Makeup of mind. Emotion & Motivation. (Continued from previous blog).
We, all of us, have emotions and, at different times and for widely differing reasons, can experience feelings of happiness; at other times, sadness, relaxation, tension etc. We love and we hate; can sometimes sympathize or empathize with those about … Continue reading
The Makeup of mind: Cognition. (Cont’d from previous blog).
In posting this particular blog, I am well aware that its contents may very well possess only limited interest and in consequence may not be to your own personal and particular ‘taste’. However, I have decided to include what I … Continue reading
Thinking your way out of trouble. (Cont’d from prev.)
I am writing this letter with the intention of, at this stage, no more than informally introducing a nevertheless exciting and – in the right hands and subject to appropriate guidance – readily applied approach in the pursuit of psychological … Continue reading
Parts of the whole. (continued from previous blog.)
The power to visualize then, is the ability to harness the creative and therapeutic power of the imagination. This we do whenever we employ and further develop such already on-board skills, in order to ‘paint’ or portray a relaxing and … Continue reading
