Tag: ego psychology
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Our Universe Aligned…
Inspirational Quote But strange that I was not told That the brain can hold In a tiny ivory cell God’s heaven and hell. ~Oscar Wilde A Depth Psychology Perspective How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? This age-old question that so perplexed the human mind for centuries now finds foundational awareness…
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Health, Wealth, and Happiness – To Long Life and Honey in the Heart
Inspirational Quotes Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Confucius You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Albert Camus A Father’s Guide to Wisdom Got happiness? That is a genuinely…
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To Realize Self… A Journey of a Thousand Miles
Inspiration It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. Confucius The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Lao Tzu A Father’s Guide to Wisdom To give gratitude for what is, allows for doors to open of what can be. From this perspective, the act of…
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A Day in the Life… To Realize Self
Inspiration Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and our ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning, for what was great in the morning…
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Inspiration: The Private Door of Faith
Daily Inspiration Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson God enters by a private door into every individual. Ralph Waldo Emerson The Philosopher’s Corner I am not a skeptic in the true power that the simple act of listening can do for the giver and the receive…
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Archetypal Themes of Middle Life Development: Siddhartha and The Middle Path
An psychoanalysis of Siddhartha’s middle-life development and the plight to achieve personal aspirations As I began the process of recollecting the reveries of middle-life and my associations to it, I realized that I had undergone a shift within my thought process. While I have primarily focused on my past in the reverie sections up to…
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Depth Psychology: Monistic & Dualistic Theories of Consciousness (Part 2)
In this series of essays, I will explore the tenets of consciousness from Eastern and Western perspectives. It is imperative for a researcher to identify the core concepts that drive his or her work. Because this study focuses on models of consciousness from Eastern and Western viewpoints, it is imperative to offer a definition of…
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Echo and Narcissus: Towards an Ecological Understanding of the Narcissism and Healthy Ego Development
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. (Carl Gustav Jung) Narcissism has recently become a booming topic of discussion both amongst professionals in the psychological community and the public at large. The well known psychological publication, Psychology Today, offers a myriad of information, advice, and even tests to find out if you are dating a…
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Practical Parenting: Fight, Flight, and Handling Childhood Emotions
Has your child ever tested boundaries? Has your child ever walked away from you, and out of the corner of your eye, you still see that they are viewing to see if your are in eye sight. Has your child ever bolted from your vision, in a store, a public place, or worse yet, near…
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Siddhartha: Archetypal Themes of Healthy Psychological Adolescent Development
Adolescence emerges from an array of bio-psychosocial factors. While puberty occurs during adolescence, social factors also place increased pressure on children to become more oriented to adult capacities. It is common for adolescents to question the lessons they were taught during early childhood life; cognitively, independent thought comes online in conjunction with the physiological maturation…
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Siddhartha and Archetypal Themes of Early Childhood Development
The story Siddhartha written by the Nobel Laureate author Herman Hesse has differences from the true life of Siddhartha Gautama, the prince that would eventually become the Buddha. Hesse presents Siddhartha as born to the Brahman caste, and having grew up in an intact family who lived near a riverbank situated by a forest. In…