To me, solitude suggests rest and contemplation, and an opportunity to spend time in a safe, calm place where I can think about the meaning of life or simply enjoy the natural world. Solitude enables me to consolidate what I…
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When thinking of widespread influence, one of often thinks of flamboyance or fame. In the case of Lawrence Kohlberg, the work itself has rippled out far more strongly than his persona. He was born on October 25, 1927 and grew…
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Psychoanalysis is defined as “a form of psychotherapy used by qualified psychotherapists to treat patients who have a range of mild to moderate chronic life problems”. This psychological theory was founded by Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist. He is regarded as…
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Dreams Years ago, while sleeping in my own bed, I had a nightmare about my dad falling into the campfire when we were out camping on the island. We were camping out on an island on the Mississippi River and…
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PEACE OF MIND It leaves us contemplating where we have come from, what we have achieved and where we need to go, without solitude we would surely be lost and overwhelmed by the furious pace of our societies and life’s…
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Archetypes For Jung, the archetypes are complexes in the form of “symbolic images” residing in the collective unconscious. (The “collective unconscious” is Jung’s formal term for intersubjective, primordial, ancestral elements of the personal unconsciousness common throughout all times and cultures)….
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A few days ago I went to Assertive Communication training. I thought this was one of the mandatory trainings that my job requires us to take on a yearly basis. It turned out that it was elective, but sure glad…
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Those of us that have religious faith will pretend that we do not fear death. We practice our religions and we say we believe in the After Life, Life Eternal, and Heaven. We tell ourselves that we believe in God…
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Chaos and Ennui Why do I feel more alive in the midst of a crisis? When my life is full of chaos-disordered and disjointed-most of my energy is devoted to putting life in order. Such chaos engenders the new and…
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Awareness is DigitalThe universe is a blob of constantly moving energy, it is analog, there are no gaps anywhere, the universe is uniformly energy. The energy within the visible spectrum entering our eyes is an analog flow. But our eyes…
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