{"id":12949,"date":"2019-10-25T09:25:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T08:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/?p=12949"},"modified":"2026-01-20T18:59:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:59:44","slug":"what-is-the-conscious-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/en\/what-is-the-conscious-i\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the conscious \u201cI\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Conscious “I” is the inner observer<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Who am I? This is one of the most important questions, and in answering it psychosynthesis has a unique point of view in comparison with other psychologies. According to psychosynthesis: I am not my thoughts, my emotions or my body, but consciousness itself. Let us explore this statement.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One of the first goals of psychosynthesis counseling \u2013 and a core concept in psychosynthesis \u2013 is to help the client to discover the conscious “I”, which is the permanent sense of selfhood and the true seat of identity.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The conscious \u201cI\u201d is an inner center of pure consciousness and will and the only center which provides a stable foundation of identity because it is not based on something that changes \u2013 it is the essential core of consciousness, awakeness, awareness of being aware, identification with consciousness itself.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The conscious “I”, the ego and personal self<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

Assagioli used different terms when referring to this center \u2013 the conscious \u201cI\u201d, the ego, the personal self \u2013 but his understanding of the concept never changed; according to Assagioli, the existence of this center is an experiential fact that anyone can verify through introspection.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In each of us, there is a center of pure consciousness and will, an observing and acting self that is able to witness from a distance whatever is happening in the inner dimensions, and which is able to act. This center is a peaceful, loving, stable, permanent and present eye or witness that stands apart from the chaotic and sometimes violent mind-stream of experience. According to Assagioli:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“A clear and full experience of the self gives, at first, such a strong sense of self-identity that it is felt as something sure, permanent, unchangeable, and indestructible. It is realized as such an essential reality that all other experiences and so-called realities appear, when compared to it, as changing, impermanent and of less value and significance. Such a realization is accompanied by a sense of inner independent, self-reliant security, which is deeply satisfying and gives rise to a feeling of peace, serenity and quiet joy.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Another characteristic belonging to the realization of the self is power. It is a sense of concentrated power at rest, yet ready to express itself dynamically either in the mastery over all elements and forces of the personality or expressed through creative activity.\u201d (1)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n