The Depressive State Is Necessary for the Creation of Individuality Here are a few more clarifications about the place of depression in our psychic life and spiritual development, and how to “use” it properly. They are especially valuable for people who have noticed that in their lives they often swing between extremes. At one moment […]
Mental health
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- Ego and the Soul
- Family Constellations
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- Kundalini Awakening
- Liz Greene
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- Marie-Louise von Franz
- Mental Health Continuum
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- Viktor Frankl
This is a story from the Vedas, retold in the book “The Dynamics of the Unconscious” by Howard Sasportas and Liz Greene—leading authors in the psychological branch of astrology. “There was once a serpent that struck terror into a village. It bit and killed people. A sage arrived there, preaching his philosophy of love and […]
26.10.2011
The Mental Health of Organizations
Not only individuals have different levels of mental health; organizations do as well. This is very important to know for a certain type of people who have difficulty adapting to the environment in which they work. Individuals with higher levels of mental health cannot adapt to a work environment if it has a lower level […]
14.10.2011
Overcoming Learned Helplessness
There is an experiment I remember from my student years – the one through which the phenomenon of “learned helplessness” was discovered. It was conducted with dogs that were subjected to a series of electric shocks under the condition that they could not control them. Whatever they did, they always received the dose of the […]
This is one of my favorite stories by Gianni Rodari. I have remembered it in moments when things were difficult, and it has helped me. To me, it is a truly healing tale, which I now share with pleasure. *”Once upon a time, in a distant city, a transparent child was born. One could see […]
06.09.2011
The Four Stages of Spiritual Development
There is a vast difference between spirituality and religiosity. This is crucial for those who have lost the ability to connect with the Whole through religious faith, yet still feel a deep, living longing for something not of this world. The severed connection with the Divine hurts, and the open wound drives them to […]
19.07.2011
Kathryn Schulz On Being Wrong
This is an eye-opening seventeen-minute presentation that is worth watching. If you choose to set aside the time and reach the image of the man walking in the air having just run off a cliff, I invite you also to read how life appears when it is not lived from the inner side of the […]
23.06.2011
The existential vacuum and the boredom
“The existential vacuum manifests itself primarily in a state of boredom. We can now understand Schopenhauer when he says that mankind is apparently condemned forever to vacillate between the two extremes of excitement and boredom. It is a fact that today boredom causes, and certainly confronts psychiatrists with, more problems to solve than excitement. These […]
17.05.2011
Your Salvation Comes From Within
“Your salvation comes not in the action of another, but in your own reaction.” Neale Donald Walsch Taking responsibility for our lives is the only place where true and deep changes begin. These are changes that we first implement within ourselves, and only then do we see them reflected in external circumstances. Until we realize—not […]
It is often said that crying helps us feel better. However, this does not apply to crying born of a secondary feeling—the so-called self-pity. While the primary form of this emotion relates to a feeling of deep pain and grief caused by loss, its pseudo-version manifests differently. Instead of feeling the depth of the pain, […]
M. Scott Peck: “In my practice as a psychotherapist, I regularly told my patients: Psychotherapy is not about happiness, but about power. If you go the whole way, I cannot guarantee that you will leave here even one iota happier. What I can promise you is that you will leave here more competent.” And I […]
03.03.2011
The Psychology of Fear-Based Conformity
Yesterday I was visiting some friends, and the hostess was talking about how every week acquaintances called her to ask whether she could help them find a job. She is very compassionate, and I could sense how she worried about them and suffered because she could not help them. At the same time, I saw […]
