{"id":22608,"date":"2025-01-22T15:12:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T14:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/?p=22608"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:28:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:28:00","slug":"ordered-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethsorensen.dk\/en\/ordered-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Ordered Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Assagioli’s outline for an ordered life \u2014 a comprehensive program across body, emotion, mind, will, and human relationships, with rhythms keyed to the day, the month, and the year<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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By Roberto Assagioli<\/strong>
From Psychosynthesis in Action<\/em>
Assagioli Archives, Florence, Docs. #23920 and #23921 [i]<\/span><\/span><\/a>
Translated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm [ii]<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editorial Note<\/strong>
The abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition have been added by the editor, Kenneth Sorensen, to support readability, navigation, and archival consistency. This edition combines the content of two archive documents (#23920 and #23921), since #23920 appears to have been edited to remove esoteric references while #23921 carries the official heading of the Institute. Some discrepancies between the two are noted in the editor’s footnotes. The original wording has not been altered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Abstract<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In this outline, Roberto Assagioli sets out a complete program for an ordered life as the disciplined cultivation of every dimension of human being. He organises the work under five headings. Physical life rests on disidentification from the body and the practical disciplines of breath, gymnastics, rhythmic walking, communion with the elements, and nourishment taken as ritual. Emotional life cultivates joy, peace, and aesthetic appreciation, raising personal feeling into spiritual love and compassion. Mental and spiritual life draws on study, concentration exercises, meditation on a seed thought, contemplation of inner truth, and inspiration through affirmation. Voluntary life develops strong will, creative work, education, the irradiation of inner qualities into one’s surroundings, and conscious participation in national and world service. He closes with rhythms keyed to the day, the week, the lunar month, and the solar year, and with a section on right human relations across family, social groups, nation, and humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. PHYSICAL LIFE.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Disidentification from the body; it is the body that is hungry, thirsty, tired, etc.;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    not the \u201cI.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/em> The Body is the “temple of God” \u2014 Permeated with spirit \u2014 its disciplined and rhythmic activity.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    MEANS:<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. Breathing<\/span><\/span><\/em> : slow, deep and regular breaths (10-12 at an hour \u2014 2 or 3 times a day, including walking)<\/span><\/span>\n
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      1. Gymnastics<\/span><\/span><\/em> : its great value as a discipline \u2014 helps us to feel the body as our “instrument,” to distinguish ourselves from it, to use it. This should be done with attention and <\/span><\/span>mental<\/span><\/span><\/em> concentration. Precise movements, \u201cwith style;\u201d each movement firm and quick, but with pauses in between.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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        1. Walks<\/span><\/span><\/em> : rhythmic walking without tension. They help us learn “calm rapidity” (start slowly, then gradually speed up).<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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          1. Happy<\/span><\/span><\/em> (\u201cFranciscan\u201d) <\/span><\/span>communion<\/span><\/span><\/em> with the elements: water, air, earth and fire.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n
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            1. Nourishment<\/span><\/span><\/em> : taking food as a \u201critual.\u201d Blessing food. Eating slowly, chewing well, savoring.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n