Selected passages from "Facing Death" by Robert Kavanagh (1974). Kavanagh emphasizes the need for us to truly and honestly confront our real feelings and emotions about death. Only when we know and acknowledge our true feelings will we no longer need to pummel and smash our emotional selves behind artificial defences. This message has particular importance for dealing with the death of a parent.
This document is a Haiku Deck presentation that features 12 stock photos with captions crediting the photographers. The presentation encourages the viewer to be inspired by the photos and create their own Haiku Deck presentation on SlideShare.
Most often, human beings view themselves as consisting of that small conscious part of themselves known as the ego. Yet the ego is only a small part of the entirity of what we are, most of which is unconscious. Often, it's only when the ego is depleted, and at the end of its resources that we begin to get some sense of the capacities and life-giving potential of the greater Self. This awareness is increasingly grounded in the discoveries of neuroscience and evolutionary psychology.
The document is a collection of 12 photos from Flickr shared under various Creative Commons licenses. The photos depict a range of subjects including people, landscapes, cities and more. In summary, it is a set of royalty-free stock photos from Flickr for reuse or sharing.
But what are the gifts of summer, the gifts that the kind of consciousness represented by the summer solstice may potentially bring?
Not Cole's "lazy, hazy crazy days of summer"... may provide some opportunity for leisure, to reflect and to contemplate things, in a way that the rest of the year might not as easily allow, enables us to experience some aspects of the self that don't appear in the regular routine.
Perhaps this ia a chance to connect with the depths of soul, and to really feel the importance of self-awareness, as we travel the journey of the rest of the year.
Holiday depression and stress have a variety of causes, many of them rooted in memories and experiences of holiday seasons in the past, both in experience in the family of origin and in other major life events that have occurred. The question posed by these events is, how can we dela creatively with holiday depression and stress?
Selected passages from "Facing Death" by Robert Kavanagh (1974). Kavanagh emphasizes the need for us to truly and honestly confront our real feelings and emotions about death. Only when we know and acknowledge our true feelings will we no longer need to pummel and smash our emotional selves behind artificial defences. This message has particular importance for dealing with the death of a parent.
This document is a Haiku Deck presentation that features 12 stock photos with captions crediting the photographers. The presentation encourages the viewer to be inspired by the photos and create their own Haiku Deck presentation on SlideShare.
Most often, human beings view themselves as consisting of that small conscious part of themselves known as the ego. Yet the ego is only a small part of the entirity of what we are, most of which is unconscious. Often, it's only when the ego is depleted, and at the end of its resources that we begin to get some sense of the capacities and life-giving potential of the greater Self. This awareness is increasingly grounded in the discoveries of neuroscience and evolutionary psychology.
The document is a collection of 12 photos from Flickr shared under various Creative Commons licenses. The photos depict a range of subjects including people, landscapes, cities and more. In summary, it is a set of royalty-free stock photos from Flickr for reuse or sharing.
But what are the gifts of summer, the gifts that the kind of consciousness represented by the summer solstice may potentially bring?
Not Cole's "lazy, hazy crazy days of summer"... may provide some opportunity for leisure, to reflect and to contemplate things, in a way that the rest of the year might not as easily allow, enables us to experience some aspects of the self that don't appear in the regular routine.
Perhaps this ia a chance to connect with the depths of soul, and to really feel the importance of self-awareness, as we travel the journey of the rest of the year.
Holiday depression and stress have a variety of causes, many of them rooted in memories and experiences of holiday seasons in the past, both in experience in the family of origin and in other major life events that have occurred. The question posed by these events is, how can we dela creatively with holiday depression and stress?
This document contains a collection of photos credited to different photographers and ends by encouraging the reader to create their own presentation using Haiku Deck on SlideShare. The photos are from various sources and cover different subjects without any clear connection between them.
Anxiety and the future are major themes of modern life. In an age when religion and the dominant myths of the society are in decline, and there is extremely rapid change, there is a sense that things cannot be adequately predicted or controlled, and anxiety about the future is rampant. However, there is a difference between healthy anxiety, and it's unhealthy counterpart. Being adequately grounded in the self is a key requirement to keep anxiety healthy and manageable.
Feeling stuck in a relationship can be a major life transitionBrian Collinson
The document discusses how feeling stuck in a relationship can be part of a major life transition involving three stages: 1) a symbolic death of one's former projection or view of the relationship, 2) a liminal stage of disorientation and uncertainty, and 3) rebirth or resolution through forming a new attitude toward the relationship. This process of moving beyond stuckness asks deep questions and often requires gaining insight into oneself and one's contributions to the stuck feelings.
This document contains a series of photo credits from various photographers including garryknight, A. Pagliaricci, seanmcgrath, Cast a Line, Luz Adriana Villa A., lentina_x, Sebastià Giralt, and BobMical. It ends by encouraging the reader to create their own Haiku Deck presentation on SlideShare.
In the SlideShare presentation that follows, I look at some creative ways in which we can begin the essential soul work of finding the meaning of the second half of life.
This short document shares 5 photos from different photographers and encourages the reader to get inspired to create their own Haiku Deck presentation on SlideShare. It ends by providing a link to get started making a presentation.
The sense of being trapped in one's life is not uncommon. Many people have it. "I feel trapped in my life" is a particularly common feeling at midlife, and in the second half of life. THere are many different ways in which people can have the experience of feeling trapped in their lives. People may experience it in their work lives, in their experience of family, in their relationship with their significant other, or possible just in a general sense of "something missing in my life".
To get beyond this feeling often requires a journey into out inner life, into the unconscious.
In Jungian personality theory, people fall into a number of types. Firstly, individuals fall somewhere along the introversion-extroversion continuum, depending on whether they are primarily oriented to their own inner reality, or the outer world. In addition, everyone has a dominant function, one of: thinking; feeling; sensation or intuition.
But from a depth psychotherapy perspective, what is particularly important about Jungian personality theory is the orientation where the individual is weak. FOr it is those weak parts of the personality, that the person is seeking to develop and to come to wholeness or individualtion. So, we can learn a great deal about ourselves, if we can undersatnd our areas of inherent weakness, and where psyche is trying to work towards wholeness.
There is an unconscious impetus in the human psyche to find wholeness, and it manifests in the the form of symbols or images of wholeness. These appear in art, in dreams, sometimes in absent-minded doodling. These images are important, because they are mostly attractive, and they draw us towards experiencing a "felt sense" of wholeness.
This document contains a collection of photos credited to different photographers and ends by encouraging the reader to create their own presentation using Haiku Deck on SlideShare. The photos are from various sources and cover different subjects without any clear connection between them.
Anxiety and the future are major themes of modern life. In an age when religion and the dominant myths of the society are in decline, and there is extremely rapid change, there is a sense that things cannot be adequately predicted or controlled, and anxiety about the future is rampant. However, there is a difference between healthy anxiety, and it's unhealthy counterpart. Being adequately grounded in the self is a key requirement to keep anxiety healthy and manageable.
Feeling stuck in a relationship can be a major life transitionBrian Collinson
The document discusses how feeling stuck in a relationship can be part of a major life transition involving three stages: 1) a symbolic death of one's former projection or view of the relationship, 2) a liminal stage of disorientation and uncertainty, and 3) rebirth or resolution through forming a new attitude toward the relationship. This process of moving beyond stuckness asks deep questions and often requires gaining insight into oneself and one's contributions to the stuck feelings.
This document contains a series of photo credits from various photographers including garryknight, A. Pagliaricci, seanmcgrath, Cast a Line, Luz Adriana Villa A., lentina_x, Sebastià Giralt, and BobMical. It ends by encouraging the reader to create their own Haiku Deck presentation on SlideShare.
In the SlideShare presentation that follows, I look at some creative ways in which we can begin the essential soul work of finding the meaning of the second half of life.
This short document shares 5 photos from different photographers and encourages the reader to get inspired to create their own Haiku Deck presentation on SlideShare. It ends by providing a link to get started making a presentation.
The sense of being trapped in one's life is not uncommon. Many people have it. "I feel trapped in my life" is a particularly common feeling at midlife, and in the second half of life. THere are many different ways in which people can have the experience of feeling trapped in their lives. People may experience it in their work lives, in their experience of family, in their relationship with their significant other, or possible just in a general sense of "something missing in my life".
To get beyond this feeling often requires a journey into out inner life, into the unconscious.
In Jungian personality theory, people fall into a number of types. Firstly, individuals fall somewhere along the introversion-extroversion continuum, depending on whether they are primarily oriented to their own inner reality, or the outer world. In addition, everyone has a dominant function, one of: thinking; feeling; sensation or intuition.
But from a depth psychotherapy perspective, what is particularly important about Jungian personality theory is the orientation where the individual is weak. FOr it is those weak parts of the personality, that the person is seeking to develop and to come to wholeness or individualtion. So, we can learn a great deal about ourselves, if we can undersatnd our areas of inherent weakness, and where psyche is trying to work towards wholeness.
There is an unconscious impetus in the human psyche to find wholeness, and it manifests in the the form of symbols or images of wholeness. These appear in art, in dreams, sometimes in absent-minded doodling. These images are important, because they are mostly attractive, and they draw us towards experiencing a "felt sense" of wholeness.