Few now accept the tabula rasa view of human psychology. Within each infant is a life force, innate aspects, that guide motives and meaning making. Carl Jung called our innate guiding systems archetypes. Archetypes influence the unfolding of development. Jung postulated that humans, as an evolved species, inherit specific dispositions and that these predispositions serve to [Read More...]
posted on 12-13-10 at 7:50 am in Mindfulness
If we begin to get in touch with whatever we feel with some kind of kindness, our protective shells will melt and we’ll find that more areas of our lives are workable. - Pema Chodron Revealing Hidden Conversations Through the day, we regularly pass from personality to personality. We can go from Caretaker to Judge to [Read More...]
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posted on 11-02-10 at 7:02 am in Selfhood
It’s your choice. The key to becoming the person you want to be, first and foremost, is believing that you can. Think you’re messy? Plain? Shy? Forget the old notions you’ve had about yourself and uncover the real you. Stop that thought. The minute you hear yourself saying anything limiting about who you are or what [Read More...]
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posted on 10-19-10 at 7:20 am in Selfhood
I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. – Diane Ackerman In a previous entry (“Our Many Selves”), the many parts that exist within each of us was introduced. In addition [Read More...]
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posted on 05-04-10 at 7:26 am in Selfhood
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) ~ Walt Whitman Multiplicity It is the nature of the human mind to be subdivided into parts. We all have them. We are born with them. Carl Jung referred to them as archetypes. Others refer to them as subpersonalities, aspects, thoughts [Read More...]
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