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Existential Review (Pt 5) PHENOMENOLOGICAL SELF-DISCLOSURE 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 have familiarized yourself with the ideals in the first 4 lessons,
continue the exploration of the existential model with Ideal 5. Share your reactions to the existential explorations and let others benefit from your explorations.
You, too, Mickey, could grow by doing these exercises.
EXPERIENCE PHENOMENOLOGICAL SELF-DISCLOSURE Experience Your Ever-developing Self-sense as an Individual & as Humanity (Ideal 4)
Become ever more aware of your personal truth by consciously experiencing and then suspending your prejudgments and assumptions by owning your experience as your creation and by reflecting on your life. Koestenbaum explains this ideal as follows, "I am excited at the thought of both therapy and philosophy. I look forward to exploring the person that I am. I anticipate with pleasure examining my feelings and attitudes. I want to study my personality and my body. I am also determined to understand the philosophical nature of man. I recognize the importance of questions regarding human destiny and about the meaning of life. I also appreciate the significance of morality. I consider these questions fundamental to a free and healthy life. [op cit, page 512]
The most profound thing I’m currently learning about my self is... Finish that thought for yourself right now. Your answer’s part of your confluent exploration of the existential proposition that self-disclosure is valuable to you.
Disclose Your Mission to Yourself [Based on Frankl, V., The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy, New York: Vintage, 1973.]
One form of self-disclosure is finding your lifework, your purpose in life. Victor Frankl says your "life is meant to be lived for a specific purpose" and your most burning desire "is to discover this purpose, this meaning," in your life. Frankl says your larger goals and commitments, the people and principles you live for (rather than just personal power, recognition and comfort) are what give you real fulfillment in life. When you keep your life purpose and your search for it in mind, you get the fulfilling sense of serving a larger cause. Focus on future goals in a way that allows you to put your present upheavals in perspective.
Your Higher Purpose
Have a large piece of paper and an assortment of crayons ready. Close your eyes. Center yourself.
Imagine you are able to look down on the landscape of your life history from the perspective of your internal logotherapist. See all the paths you have taken, road blocks, detours, adventures along the road. From your Olympian perspective, simultaneously contemplate the physical, emotional, intellectual, social, ecological and spiritual regions through which you as a pilgrim on the lifepath to your higher purpose have passed.
You have ascended the foothills and are now at the base of a great mountain, symbolizing your highest purpose. Notice the clearing in which you now stand--your present existence. Fully comprehend all your unique shaping, inspiring and conditioning experiences. See your experiences and movements in life as all preparing you to climb the mountain and fulfill your purpose, meaning, mission and destiny in life. Imagine that all factors in the past and present have brought you to this place in the clearing on the foothills at the base of the mountain.
Look at the sign marking your path up the mountain. The sign has your name on it. Imagine that there are a dozen or so great things waiting to be created by you as you climb. You are the only one who can make it up this path and achieve these creations. As you look up the path, receive visions of these creations.
Draw your lifepath (show: your past, present and projected future.) "Indicate the inputs leading to the clarity you now have about your path and the creations you will actualize in your upward journey. Label the regions, markers and travel conditions and destinations. Put your drawing on your wall at home or work for one week. Look at-it daily.
* What did you learn from making and contemplating this map?
* What specific creations did you imagine yourself manifesting?
* What’s your life purpose and meaning?
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
[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 4 lessons,
continue the exploration of the existential model with Ideal 5. Share your reactions to the existential explorations and let others benefit from your explorations.
You, too, Mickey, could grow by doing these exercises.
EXPERIENCE PHENOMENOLOGICAL SELF-DISCLOSURE Experience Your Ever-developing Self-sense as an Individual & as Humanity (Ideal 4)
Become ever more aware of your personal truth by consciously experiencing and then suspending your prejudgments and assumptions by owning your experience as your creation and by reflecting on your life. Koestenbaum explains this ideal as follows, "I am excited at the thought of both therapy and philosophy. I look forward to exploring the person that I am. I anticipate with pleasure examining my feelings and attitudes. I want to study my personality and my body. I am also determined to understand the philosophical nature of man. I recognize the importance of questions regarding human destiny and about the meaning of life. I also appreciate the significance of morality. I consider these questions fundamental to a free and healthy life. [op cit, page 512]
The most profound thing I’m currently learning about my self is... Finish that thought for yourself right now. Your answer’s part of your confluent exploration of the existential proposition that self-disclosure is valuable to you.
Disclose Your Mission to Yourself [Based on Frankl, V., The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy, New York: Vintage, 1973.]
One form of self-disclosure is finding your lifework, your purpose in life. Victor Frankl says your "life is meant to be lived for a specific purpose" and your most burning desire "is to discover this purpose, this meaning," in your life. Frankl says your larger goals and commitments, the people and principles you live for (rather than just personal power, recognition and comfort) are what give you real fulfillment in life. When you keep your life purpose and your search for it in mind, you get the fulfilling sense of serving a larger cause. Focus on future goals in a way that allows you to put your present upheavals in perspective.
Your Higher Purpose
Have a large piece of paper and an assortment of crayons ready. Close your eyes. Center yourself.
Imagine you are able to look down on the landscape of your life history from the perspective of your internal logotherapist. See all the paths you have taken, road blocks, detours, adventures along the road. From your Olympian perspective, simultaneously contemplate the physical, emotional, intellectual, social, ecological and spiritual regions through which you as a pilgrim on the lifepath to your higher purpose have passed.
You have ascended the foothills and are now at the base of a great mountain, symbolizing your highest purpose. Notice the clearing in which you now stand--your present existence. Fully comprehend all your unique shaping, inspiring and conditioning experiences. See your experiences and movements in life as all preparing you to climb the mountain and fulfill your purpose, meaning, mission and destiny in life. Imagine that all factors in the past and present have brought you to this place in the clearing on the foothills at the base of the mountain.
Look at the sign marking your path up the mountain. The sign has your name on it. Imagine that there are a dozen or so great things waiting to be created by you as you climb. You are the only one who can make it up this path and achieve these creations. As you look up the path, receive visions of these creations.
Draw your lifepath (show: your past, present and projected future.) "Indicate the inputs leading to the clarity you now have about your path and the creations you will actualize in your upward journey. Label the regions, markers and travel conditions and destinations. Put your drawing on your wall at home or work for one week. Look at-it daily.
* What did you learn from making and contemplating this map?
* What specific creations did you imagine yourself manifesting?
* What’s your life purpose and meaning?
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
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