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Existential Review Part 21, TRANSCEND YOUR EGO 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.
GROW; EXPAND AND TRANSCEND YOUR SELF-DEFINITION (Ideal 18)
Growth is your-consciousness recognizing, synergizing and transcending itself by recognizing its oneness with its apparent other. "My life is an endless process of growing, emerging, and reaching out For me, to live is to grow. My concern is ... process and movement in my life. The meaning of my life is found in continual growth - in education, in human relationships, in occupational progress, in creativity, in building." [ibid., pp 371-380]
* I expanded my self-concept and grew when I ... (Finish)
* I’m now growing by ... (complete).
* I can grow more by ... (outline your growth program.).
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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 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.
GROW; EXPAND AND TRANSCEND YOUR SELF-DEFINITION (Ideal 18)
Growth is your-consciousness recognizing, synergizing and transcending itself by recognizing its oneness with its apparent other. "My life is an endless process of growing, emerging, and reaching out For me, to live is to grow. My concern is ... process and movement in my life. The meaning of my life is found in continual growth - in education, in human relationships, in occupational progress, in creativity, in building." [ibid., pp 371-380]
* I expanded my self-concept and grew when I ... (Finish)
* I’m now growing by ... (complete).
* I can grow more by ... (outline your growth program.).
***
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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