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Existential Review Pt 10 INDEPENDENCE - Sasha Lessin, Ph.D., sashalessinphd@aol.com 808 244-4103
[Based on Koestenbaum, P., The New Image of the Person: The Theory
and Practice of Clinical Psychology, Connecticut: Greenwood Press,
1978.]
Now that you have familiarized yourself with the ideals in the first 9 lessons,
continue the exploration Ideal 8:
BE INDEPENDENT, SELF-RELIANT, AND SUBJECTIVE (TO BALANCE LOVE AND COMMITMENT) (Ideal 8)
Recognize and respect your own strengths and abilities and feel confident, assertive and able to risk loving and committing yourself to other people. Koestenbaum explains this existential ideal as follows: "I am an adult consciousness that exists alone: I choose to be independent and self- reliant. l have outgrown childish forms of dependency. I can be comfortable being alone. I can go through life on my own two feet. I can take care of myself--and others if necessary. I feel that this independence and my self-reliance is an attitude that I voluntary choose and not one that is imposed upon me from the outside." He goes on to point out that you need your independence and individuality to authenticate your commitments to others.
CONTEMPLATE & FUTURE-PACE SELF-RELIANCE
* I was self-reliant when ... (complete).
* My model of a self-reliant person is , because s/he ....
Review: The Existential Principles:
Realize the reciprocal INTERPLAY between you and what you experience; learn of field theory, intentionality.
Experience yourself at several LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
Acknowledge that you are responsible; CHOOSE your attitudes and reactions.
Consciously experience your ever-developing sense of yourself as an individual and as humanity (phenomenologically SELF-DISCLOSE.)
Value PAIN and ANXIETY as opportunities to learn.
Use limits to make your life meaningful; reflect upon NEGATION, FINITUDE and DEATH.
Live and reflect using phenomenological bracketing (EPOCHE)
Be INDEPENDENT, SELF-RELIANT and SUBJECTIVE (to balance out love and commitment.)
Realize your own unique, creative INDIVIDUALITY.
Experience TRANSCENDENTAL SUBJECTIVITY; revere this core self of each and all consciousness.
Realize you are free to CHOOSE your own values and self-concepts
Accept GUILT for your choices as signals to do better.
Say YES to life. COMMIT yourself. Be REALISTIC.
LOVE and encounter others. Be FLEXIBLE and adaptable
Experience time living now, using the past, focused on your future.
GROW; expand and transcend your self-definition.
Use contradictions, polarities, paradoxes and ambiguities as opportunities to establish dialogues and DIALECTICS leading to further growth.
sashalessinphd@aol.com
LIVE AND REFLECT: USE PHENOMENOLOGICAL BRACKETING (EPOCHE) (Ideal 7)
Successive contemplation and deliberate awareness of the consciousness doing the contemplation reveals (as you learned in the second existential ideal) the hierarchy of self-consciousness. When you think about, picture and sense your self as an object, you enlarge your self-concept from a preself to a public facade, and then to an integrated orchestra of subselves. Reflection reveals you next as a unified mental/physiological organism, a coupled, intersubjective consciousness and a vessel through which flow social, ecological, cosmic and eternal consciousness. The existential ideal of reflection involves becoming aware of your presuppositions so you can avoid distorting the object you observe, including the structure of your own consciousness, by your presuppositions. You create a first-hand, experiential description of your observations.
When you reflected upon your death anxiety, you discovered your archetypal decision to be an individual bodymind, differentiated from the other contents of time and space. You also reflected on the time and space dimensions of nature from the perspective of the infinite, unchanging, supra- individual ground of your existence. This ground is your consciousness beyond time and space that flows through you and lasts forever, in which your bodymind is forever a unique event--unity consciousness.
For you to live a full and authentic life, choose continually the levels of consciousness from which to respond. Alternate between active, outgoing engagement with apparent non-self entities and reflective withdrawal from narrower self-perspectives using meditation, prayer, artistic endeavor, confrontational encounter, yoga, Tai Chi, meditative athletics, nature appreciation, introspection, church-going and detachment from what you are doing to gain full benefits of both living and reflecting.
* Reflect upon and describe your existence.
Review: THE EXISTENTIAL PRINCIPLES (See each on this site):
Realize the reciprocal INTERPLAY between you and what you experience; learn of field theory, intentionality.
Experience yourself at several LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
Acknowledge that you are responsible; CHOOSE your attitudes and reactions.
Consciously experience your ever-developing sense of yourself as an individual and as humanity (phenomenologically SELF-DISCLOSE.)
Value PAIN and ANXIETY as opportunities to learn.
Use limits to make your life meaningful; reflect upon NEGATION, FINITUDE and DEATH.
Live and reflect using phenomenological bracketing (EPOCHE)
Be INDEPENDENT, SELF-RELIANT and SUBJECTIVE (to balance out love and commitment.)
Realize your own unique, creative INDIVIDUALITY.
Experience TRANSCENDENTAL SUBJECTIVITY; revere this core self of each and all consciousness.
Realize you are free to CHOOSE your own values and self-concepts
Accept GUILT for your choices as signals to do better.
Say YES to life. COMMIT yourself. Be REALISTIC.
LOVE and encounter others. Be FLEXIBLE and adaptable
Experience time living now, using the past, focused on your future.
GROW; expand and transcend your self-definition.
Use contradictions, polarities, paradoxes and ambiguities as opportunities to establish dialogues and DIALECTICS leading to further growth.
sashalessinphd@aol.com
[Based on Koestenbaum, P., The New Image of the Person: The Theory
and Practice of Clinical Psychology, Connecticut: Greenwood Press,
1978.]
Now that you have familiarized yourself with the ideals in the first 9 lessons,
continue the exploration Ideal 8:
BE INDEPENDENT, SELF-RELIANT, AND SUBJECTIVE (TO BALANCE LOVE AND COMMITMENT) (Ideal 8)
Recognize and respect your own strengths and abilities and feel confident, assertive and able to risk loving and committing yourself to other people. Koestenbaum explains this existential ideal as follows: "I am an adult consciousness that exists alone: I choose to be independent and self- reliant. l have outgrown childish forms of dependency. I can be comfortable being alone. I can go through life on my own two feet. I can take care of myself--and others if necessary. I feel that this independence and my self-reliance is an attitude that I voluntary choose and not one that is imposed upon me from the outside." He goes on to point out that you need your independence and individuality to authenticate your commitments to others.
CONTEMPLATE & FUTURE-PACE SELF-RELIANCE
* I was self-reliant when ... (complete).
* My model of a self-reliant person is , because s/he ....
Review: The Existential Principles:
Realize the reciprocal INTERPLAY between you and what you experience; learn of field theory, intentionality.
Experience yourself at several LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
Acknowledge that you are responsible; CHOOSE your attitudes and reactions.
Consciously experience your ever-developing sense of yourself as an individual and as humanity (phenomenologically SELF-DISCLOSE.)
Value PAIN and ANXIETY as opportunities to learn.
Use limits to make your life meaningful; reflect upon NEGATION, FINITUDE and DEATH.
Live and reflect using phenomenological bracketing (EPOCHE)
Be INDEPENDENT, SELF-RELIANT and SUBJECTIVE (to balance out love and commitment.)
Realize your own unique, creative INDIVIDUALITY.
Experience TRANSCENDENTAL SUBJECTIVITY; revere this core self of each and all consciousness.
Realize you are free to CHOOSE your own values and self-concepts
Accept GUILT for your choices as signals to do better.
Say YES to life. COMMIT yourself. Be REALISTIC.
LOVE and encounter others. Be FLEXIBLE and adaptable
Experience time living now, using the past, focused on your future.
GROW; expand and transcend your self-definition.
Use contradictions, polarities, paradoxes and ambiguities as opportunities to establish dialogues and DIALECTICS leading to further growth.
sashalessinphd@aol.com
LIVE AND REFLECT: USE PHENOMENOLOGICAL BRACKETING (EPOCHE) (Ideal 7)
Successive contemplation and deliberate awareness of the consciousness doing the contemplation reveals (as you learned in the second existential ideal) the hierarchy of self-consciousness. When you think about, picture and sense your self as an object, you enlarge your self-concept from a preself to a public facade, and then to an integrated orchestra of subselves. Reflection reveals you next as a unified mental/physiological organism, a coupled, intersubjective consciousness and a vessel through which flow social, ecological, cosmic and eternal consciousness. The existential ideal of reflection involves becoming aware of your presuppositions so you can avoid distorting the object you observe, including the structure of your own consciousness, by your presuppositions. You create a first-hand, experiential description of your observations.
When you reflected upon your death anxiety, you discovered your archetypal decision to be an individual bodymind, differentiated from the other contents of time and space. You also reflected on the time and space dimensions of nature from the perspective of the infinite, unchanging, supra- individual ground of your existence. This ground is your consciousness beyond time and space that flows through you and lasts forever, in which your bodymind is forever a unique event--unity consciousness.
For you to live a full and authentic life, choose continually the levels of consciousness from which to respond. Alternate between active, outgoing engagement with apparent non-self entities and reflective withdrawal from narrower self-perspectives using meditation, prayer, artistic endeavor, confrontational encounter, yoga, Tai Chi, meditative athletics, nature appreciation, introspection, church-going and detachment from what you are doing to gain full benefits of both living and reflecting.
* Reflect upon and describe your existence.
Review: THE EXISTENTIAL PRINCIPLES (See each on this site):
Realize the reciprocal INTERPLAY between you and what you experience; learn of field theory, intentionality.
Experience yourself at several LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
Acknowledge that you are responsible; CHOOSE your attitudes and reactions.
Consciously experience your ever-developing sense of yourself as an individual and as humanity (phenomenologically SELF-DISCLOSE.)
Value PAIN and ANXIETY as opportunities to learn.
Use limits to make your life meaningful; reflect upon NEGATION, FINITUDE and DEATH.
Live and reflect using phenomenological bracketing (EPOCHE)
Be INDEPENDENT, SELF-RELIANT and SUBJECTIVE (to balance out love and commitment.)
Realize your own unique, creative INDIVIDUALITY.
Experience TRANSCENDENTAL SUBJECTIVITY; revere this core self of each and all consciousness.
Realize you are free to CHOOSE your own values and self-concepts
Accept GUILT for your choices as signals to do better.
Say YES to life. COMMIT yourself. Be REALISTIC.
LOVE and encounter others. Be FLEXIBLE and adaptable
Experience time living now, using the past, focused on your future.
GROW; expand and transcend your self-definition.
Use contradictions, polarities, paradoxes and ambiguities as opportunities to establish dialogues and DIALECTICS leading to further growth.
sashalessinphd@aol.com
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