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Existential Review Pt 10 INDEPENDENCE - Sasha Lessin, Ph.D., sashalessinphd@aol
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
lessons, continue the exploration with 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: 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.) This lesson.
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
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
lessons, continue the exploration with 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: 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.) This lesson.
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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