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Existential Review Part 19 BE FLEXIBLE AND ADAPTABLE by 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’ve familiarized yourself with the ideals in earlier lessons, continue the exploration of the existential model of being starting with the next ideal; then share your results on this site.
BE FLEXIBLE AND ADAPTABLE (Ideal 16)
For this existential ideal, Koestenbaum suggests you decide to be adaptable and realistically flexible. Say, "I can be reflective and inward or active and outgoing, depending on my own choices and the circumstances in which I find myself. I can be self-reliant and independent if I want to and have to, but I also can be dependent and trusting if I choose that personality structure. I can be both a leader and a follower, as my decisions and the world's circumstances dictate."
* Relate specific times in your life when you are flexible.
* Whom do you think of a person who is a model, paragon or exemplar of flexibility.
* I can increase my flexibility by... (complete).
***
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
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
ice of Clinical Psychology, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1978.]
Now that you’ve familiarized yourself with the ideals in earlier lessons, continue the exploration of the existential model of being starting with the next ideal; then share your results on this site.
EXPERIENCE TIME LIVING NOW, USING THE PAST FOCUSED ON YOUR FUTURE (Ideal 17)
When you recognize time, you differentiate yourself from the eternal moment (nunc stanz) of unity consciousness and identify with the flowing moments (nunc fluenz) which arise and pass. When he experiences time as flowing this way, Koestenbaum says, "I experience my life as a continuous progressing. My sense of time is not fragmented. My focus is on the future. I live in the present and I realize that both past and future are connected to me in the present. The burdens of the past exist for me in the present. Hopes and opportunities for the future exist for me in the present. I experience the time of my life as a river that flows always and smoothly in the direction of the future."
Consider whether any past burdens exist in the present for you. What present consequences of your past are salient for you now? Be aware of your past in your present.
What is your present awareness? What are you aware of now? What about now? Remain in continuous present awareness for several minutes.
Imagine what opportunities, challenges and chances exist for you in the future.
Picture your fondest hopes and desires being realized. As you imagine the future, be aware that your hopes for the future now.
Be aware that the separation of consciousness into conceptual categories of past (dead), present and future (unborn) is a linguistic, analytic, conceptual, illusory bounding of atemporal unity consciousness.
***
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’ve familiarized yourself with the ideals in earlier lessons, continue the exploration of the existential model of being starting with the next ideal; then share your results on this site.
BE FLEXIBLE AND ADAPTABLE (Ideal 16)
For this existential ideal, Koestenbaum suggests you decide to be adaptable and realistically flexible. Say, "I can be reflective and inward or active and outgoing, depending on my own choices and the circumstances in which I find myself. I can be self-reliant and independent if I want to and have to, but I also can be dependent and trusting if I choose that personality structure. I can be both a leader and a follower, as my decisions and the world's circumstances dictate."
* Relate specific times in your life when you are flexible.
* Whom do you think of a person who is a model, paragon or exemplar of flexibility.
* I can increase my flexibility by... (complete).
***
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
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
ice of Clinical Psychology, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1978.]
Now that you’ve familiarized yourself with the ideals in earlier lessons, continue the exploration of the existential model of being starting with the next ideal; then share your results on this site.
EXPERIENCE TIME LIVING NOW, USING THE PAST FOCUSED ON YOUR FUTURE (Ideal 17)
When you recognize time, you differentiate yourself from the eternal moment (nunc stanz) of unity consciousness and identify with the flowing moments (nunc fluenz) which arise and pass. When he experiences time as flowing this way, Koestenbaum says, "I experience my life as a continuous progressing. My sense of time is not fragmented. My focus is on the future. I live in the present and I realize that both past and future are connected to me in the present. The burdens of the past exist for me in the present. Hopes and opportunities for the future exist for me in the present. I experience the time of my life as a river that flows always and smoothly in the direction of the future."
Consider whether any past burdens exist in the present for you. What present consequences of your past are salient for you now? Be aware of your past in your present.
What is your present awareness? What are you aware of now? What about now? Remain in continuous present awareness for several minutes.
Imagine what opportunities, challenges and chances exist for you in the future.
Picture your fondest hopes and desires being realized. As you imagine the future, be aware that your hopes for the future now.
Be aware that the separation of consciousness into conceptual categories of past (dead), present and future (unborn) is a linguistic, analytic, conceptual, illusory bounding of atemporal unity consciousness.
***
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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