{"id":18446,"date":"2023-01-27T12:51:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T11:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/?p=18446"},"modified":"2026-04-21T09:35:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T08:35:58","slug":"disidentification-from-the-emotions-and-the-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/en\/disidentification-from-the-emotions-and-the-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Disidentification From the Emotions and the Body"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Identifying with our emotions and body is a major obstacle to spiritual development. It creates a veil that distorts the reality of who we are as a pure center of self-awareness and will.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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By Roberto Assagioli<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong>, Unrevised notes of Lesson XI, March 29, 1931, and Year IV Lecture X – March 22, 1931, From the Assagioli Archives in Florence, Doc. #23250, #2872. Translated by Jan Kuniholm <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>

(Editor’s note: I have put together two documents in this text. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Disidentification from the emotions<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em> and <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Disidentification from the body<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em>. The latter is only an extract of the original document, which can be viewed in full in the archive. Read the article Disidentification – the way to freedom for the broader Psychosynthesis framework of disidentification<\/a>. KS)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In past meetings we have seen that in order to awaken spiritual consciousness, to ascend to the luminous regions of superconsciousness, it is necessary to do a twofold inner work:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. A direct and positive one, of elevation and expansion of ordinary consciousness.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. A negative one, of detachment, liberation, and disidentification from everything by which the consciousness is absorbed, seized and enslaved; that is, from almost everything that constitutes our ordinary personality.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    We have already talked about the first liberation to be attained, that from identification with the body. We have shown that we are not our body, that we have to regard it as a tool that we use but that is not part of our true being. Today we are going to talk about another liberation, another more subtle and more arduous disidentification: that from our emotions and feelings.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Man generally is completely identified with his emotions; in fact, he derives his sense of living and being from them. When he “vibrates in a contrary way” and does not feel, he does not even seem to live or to exist. He prefers to feel pain rather than not feeling at all. This explains so many facts of life.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n