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Existential Review Part 7 ANXIETY AS EXCITEMENT
DEFINE ANXIETY AS EXCITEMENT OF BROADENING SELF-CONSTITUTION BY 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 6 lessons,
continue the exploration of the existential model of being starting with Ideal 7
DEFINE ANXIETY AS EXCITEMENT OF BROADENING SELF-CONSTITUTION BY SELF-DISCLOSURE
[Based on Koestenbaum, P., op.cit., 1978, pages 218-225; Wilber, K., op.cit., 1977, pages 124, 204-205, 290-291 and 1981, page 156.]
You experience healthy excitement, or anxiety, at each level of awareness. Your anxiety’s a sign you are learning more of who you are. It’s also a sign of the pain and death of your narrower sense of who you are and the simultaneous rebirth of your wider sense of self. Your anxiety’s part of your knowledge that you are growing and will never be the same old you as you broaden your outlook.
You experience anxiety when you realize the mutual interdependence of your self-definition and your definition of non-self. You feel anxiety when you experience the dissolution of the line you drew separating you from the part of yourself which you denied (and projected onto others.) You’re anxious when you end your denial of your repressed potentials. You feel anxious when you experience freedom from being emotionally reactive to manifestations of your potential in others. You experience new anxiety as you encounter hitherto background separations on your new level of functioning. Your anxiety’s your path to dissolution of contraries into ever-broadening unities.
At your personality level, you experience anxiety as panic, which you generate from your own repressed excitement, interest, anger or pain. At your bodymind level, you experience anxiety as "a cold, almost paralyzing cramp" when you truly face the fact of your physical nonbeing and bodily death. On the higher transpersonal level, you experience anxiety when you realize that the last vestiges of your sense of a separate self that resists unity consciousness is ending.
Koestenbaum distinguishes the healthy existential anxiety you have been exploring from neurotic anxiety. Neurotic anxiety is your fear of experiencing your exciting, life-changing (existential) anxiety. Koestenbaum notes seven types of healthy, existential anxieties. You generate these anxieties when you break your mind-set, when you go beyond conventional answers and when you see your projections as discomfort with your own inner voices.
To experience healthy anxiety, writes Koestenbaum, grapple with the following existential ideals:
birth, risk and growth,
evil, morality and reverence,
God, centering and the pervasive ground of existence (unity
consciousness),
denial and acceptance of freedom of choice, timidity, death and limits,
individuality and conformity, and
guilt, depression or improvement.
Koestenbaum suggests you deliberately seek, welcome and crank-up these
anxieties to a level which is optimal for you to discover the meaning of your life.
* Today, I'll use my pain, suffering and anxiety by ... (Complete.)
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
DEFINE ANXIETY AS EXCITEMENT OF BROADENING SELF-CONSTITUTION BY 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 6 lessons,
continue the exploration of the existential model of being starting with Ideal 7
DEFINE ANXIETY AS EXCITEMENT OF BROADENING SELF-CONSTITUTION BY SELF-DISCLOSURE
[Based on Koestenbaum, P., op.cit., 1978, pages 218-225; Wilber, K., op.cit., 1977, pages 124, 204-205, 290-291 and 1981, page 156.]
You experience healthy excitement, or anxiety, at each level of awareness. Your anxiety’s a sign you are learning more of who you are. It’s also a sign of the pain and death of your narrower sense of who you are and the simultaneous rebirth of your wider sense of self. Your anxiety’s part of your knowledge that you are growing and will never be the same old you as you broaden your outlook.
You experience anxiety when you realize the mutual interdependence of your self-definition and your definition of non-self. You feel anxiety when you experience the dissolution of the line you drew separating you from the part of yourself which you denied (and projected onto others.) You’re anxious when you end your denial of your repressed potentials. You feel anxious when you experience freedom from being emotionally reactive to manifestations of your potential in others. You experience new anxiety as you encounter hitherto background separations on your new level of functioning. Your anxiety’s your path to dissolution of contraries into ever-broadening unities.
At your personality level, you experience anxiety as panic, which you generate from your own repressed excitement, interest, anger or pain. At your bodymind level, you experience anxiety as "a cold, almost paralyzing cramp" when you truly face the fact of your physical nonbeing and bodily death. On the higher transpersonal level, you experience anxiety when you realize that the last vestiges of your sense of a separate self that resists unity consciousness is ending.
Koestenbaum distinguishes the healthy existential anxiety you have been exploring from neurotic anxiety. Neurotic anxiety is your fear of experiencing your exciting, life-changing (existential) anxiety. Koestenbaum notes seven types of healthy, existential anxieties. You generate these anxieties when you break your mind-set, when you go beyond conventional answers and when you see your projections as discomfort with your own inner voices.
To experience healthy anxiety, writes Koestenbaum, grapple with the following existential ideals:
birth, risk and growth,
evil, morality and reverence,
God, centering and the pervasive ground of existence (unity
consciousness),
denial and acceptance of freedom of choice, timidity, death and limits,
individuality and conformity, and
guilt, depression or improvement.
Koestenbaum suggests you deliberately seek, welcome and crank-up these
anxieties to a level which is optimal for you to discover the meaning of your life.
* Today, I'll use my pain, suffering and anxiety by ... (Complete.)
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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