”Because a good personal psychosynthesis is all that we can look for in many of our patients the idea which is of capital importance, and around which the entire personal psychosynthesis revolves, is that of a personal self, of a point of consciousness and self-awareness, coupled with its realization and the use of its directing […]
Chapter 6 The Will – the Way to Power
“The will is the central power of our individuality, the innermost essence of our self; therefore, in a certain sense, the discovery of the will means the discovery of our true being” (Assagioli, Undated 12) Assagioli’s third core concept is the will: ”The aspects of the fully developed human will are the strong will, the […]
Chapter 7 The Ideal Model – the Way to Focus
”Individual psychosynthesis can be said to consist essentially in the actualization of one’s own ideal model” (Assagioli, 1974, p. 185) Let’s take a closer look at Assagioli’s fourth core concept, the Ideal Model, which we discussed briefly in Chapter I. Here we will attempt an overview and examine a few practical applications. We may wonder […]
Chapter 8 Synthesis – the Way to Flow
“Possess thyself and Transform thyself. All psychosynthetic techniques have this as their goal” (Assagioli, 1983c) Synthesis is clearly one of the key concepts in Psychosynthesis. We have defined it as a philosophy that sees life as evolving towards unity through the evolution of consciousness. There is an underlying spiritual force behind all that exists, ”uniting […]
Chapter 9 The Superconscious – the Way to Abundance
“What distinguishes Psychosynthesis from many other attempts at psychological understanding is the position that we take as to the existence of a spiritual Self and of a superconscious, which are as basic as the instinctive energies described so well by Freud.” (Assagioli, 1975, p. 193) The Superconscious, or the Higher Unconscious, is Assagioli’s 6th core […]
Chapter 10 The Transpersonal Self – the Way to Love
The Transpersonal Self of each is in intimate union with the Transpersonal Self of all other individuals, however unconscious they may be of this. All Transpersonal Selves can be considered as “points” within the Universal Self. ” (Assagioli, 1974, p. 260) The Transpersonal Self is the last of Assagioli’s seven core concepts; it is also […]
How to work with the conscious “I”, or “observer”, in counselling
In my ongoing reflections on the core concepts of psychosynthesis, we have reached the question of how to work with the conscious “I”, or “observer”, in counseling (see previous post at www.facebook.com/theseventypes/ ). One of the prominent goals of psychosynthesis counseling is to train the client to lovingly observe the contents of their consciousness and […]
Maslow’s Theory of Self-Actualization
In these quotes by Roberto Assagioli, we shall see how Assagioli understood Maslow’s theory of Self-actualization and how it differs from Self-realization. (From Psychosynthesis, p. 37-39) “First of all, it is well to have a clear idea of what self-realization is. The term has been used to indicate two kinds of growth in awareness, of […]
The Will in Counselling: Developing the will to wake up, grow up, clean up and show up
By Kenneth Sørensen. This is an edited version of a webinar I gave for the Association for the Advancement of Psychosynthesis (AAP). You can watch the webinar by joining AAP here. Today we are going to dive into the will. My previous webinar was focused on the question of how to define awareness and work with […]
Spiritual Development and Nervous Diseases
Man’s spiritual development is a long and arduous adventure a journey through strange lands full of surprises, difficulties and even; dangers. In reality it is no less than the passing from the human to the spiritual kingdom.
