Self Transformation

Author : Vicente Hao Chin
Publisher : Quest Books
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780835631488

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The Process of Self-Transformation by Vicente Hao Chin Pdf

“From time immemorial,” says the author, “sages from diverse cultures have passed on enduring solutions to the dilemmas of living. Yet their insights are not as known to the world as they ought to be.” This deep, wise, and practical guide intends to make them more so. It is the harvest of the popular seminars developed and led by Vic Hao Chin, former president of the Theosophical Society in the Philippines and a worldwide teacher and presenter. He gives time-proven approaches for eliminating fear, resentment, worry, depression, and the stress of daily living in order to deepen spiritual practice. And he includes sections on overcoming negative conditioning, developing relationships, and optimizing physical health. To help readers in the process of self-actualization, he also provides helpful illustrations, case studies, and step-by-step instructions for meditation and breathing exercises.

Author : Eva Pierrakos
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780307830470

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The Pathwork of Self-Transformation by Eva Pierrakos Pdf

“The gift of Eva Pierrakos’s Pathwork has been with me for twenty years. It is the deepest and most effective spiritual work I have found, and it has helped me realize my dreams. Each time I read it, I am amazed at the depth and breadth of wisdom and love it teaches. It is a practical way of truth that will change your life.”—Barbara Ann Brennan, author of Hands of Light For more than twenty years, Eva Pierrakos was the channel for a spirit entity known only as the Guide. Combining rare psychological insight with an inspiring ision of human possibility, the Guide's teachings, known as the Pathwork, have influenced many key New Age thinkers who have studied at Pathwork centers in the United States and abroad. Now, the core teachings of the guide have been collected in one volume synthesizing the essential wisdom of the Pathwork. Under such headings as “The Idealized Self-Image,” “The Forces of Love, Eros, and Sex,” “Emotional Growth and Its Function,” “Real and False Needs,” and “The Spiritual Meaning of Crisis,” the Pathwork outlines the entire process of personal spiritual development. Unlike many over-idealized philosophies, the Pathwork confronts our devils as well as our anges, our all-too-human failings and petty ego concerns as well as our divine strengths. It shows us how to accept ourselves fully as we are now, and then ot move beyond the negativity, or “lower self,” that blocks our personal and spiritual evolution. It offers a practical, rational, and honest way to reach our deepest creative identity. “I would advise that this book be read with a willingness to take time to digest what the Guide says. This is not ‘light’ reading, thought it is Light reading, I assure you. I find an enormous compatibility between these lectures and Emmanuel's teachings. What a wonderful gift to a wonderful world.”—Pat Rodegast, author of Emmanuel’s Book

Author : Hester McFarland Solomon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429922152

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The Self in Transformation by Hester McFarland Solomon Pdf

This book brings together into one volume a number of articles that the author has written over the past 20 years, and includes a new extended essay written especially for this volume. The chapters, organized into sections, explore theoretical and clinical matters within a Jungian analytical framework, making carefully considered links to a number of psychoanalytical themes and concepts. The book also includes a section on ethics in the consulting room. In her new essay, the author discusses pivotal themes in depth psychology: psychic transformation, synchronicity, and the emergence of complex adaptive systems in relation to the evolution of Jungs theory of the psychoid. She draws from fields of study such as anthropology, neuropsychology, the arts and religion to develop her themes. This is a reasoned integration and demonstration of the developing thought and clinical practice of an established Jungian analyst.

Author : Herbert Fingarette
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Psychoanalysis
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005366450

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The Self in Transformation by Herbert Fingarette Pdf

Author : Nancy M. Casey
Publisher : New Leaf Distribution
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780692856390

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Self-Transformation: Thriving Through Transition by Nancy M. Casey Pdf

Author : Raul Llanos MD
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781504381420

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The Art of Our Conscious Self-Transformation by Raul Llanos MD Pdf

We all have the capacity to self-transform. We all have the capacity to attain better realities. It is our right, and it is part of our infinite choices. Self-transformation is a normal process in our life and in our nature. We are different from any one of the natural kingdoms in the sense that we have conscious awareness. If we take advantage of our uniqueness and our ability to consciously transform ourselves, we will be able to accelerate the journey to higher states of well-being in our self-transformation. Through amplifications and deeper understanding of ourselves, we will be able to recognize who we are and how we can self-transform. In this book, you will find tools, techniques, and a sense of care for yourself to help you become the one you always wanted to be. Now is the time to self-transform in accordance with our individuality and free will. As in his previous books, Dr. Llanos offers a concise and unique way to satisfy your deep need for more well-being through the art of self-transformation. The more we transform ourselves, the more joy, security, love, and fascination will be available on our journeys.

Author : Abhaya Nath Tiwari
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-27
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781646508891

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Self-Knowledge: A Critical Factor for Self-Transformation by Abhaya Nath Tiwari Pdf

Self-knowledge: Why it matters to transform ourselves. What makes us who we are? Is it our intelligence, talent, or something else in life? Not as much as we think. Abhaya Tiwari argues - our vision of life is fogged by superficiality. It yearns granularity about our core constituents of self by plowing deeper into our inner self. Self–knowledge plays a critical role in accessing our true self that plays a far greater role in our understanding of our true self, purpose, success and happiness, untangling us from the vicissitudes of life. It matters even more in a disrupted world that is fragmented in our contemporary times, where self-knowledge and its application provide a distinctive edge for exponential growth. Self-knowledge is critical for self-transformation. It provides deeper understanding of self, viz; what it is and what it does, how it regulates and provides common-sense wisdom for its practical application in life. It provides much needed clarity about our true self, evaluation of world around our self, our purpose and competencies requiring mastery to achieve self-transformation. This book will also touch upon deeper understanding of neuropsychology of self and its true nature for high performance and happiness giving insights into human nature and its behavior. Abhaya Tiwari provides insights and guidance to parents, students, teachers, and working professionals to achieve what we set out to be in life and to be content and happy.

Author : David Shulman Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies,Guy S. Stroumsa Martin Buber Professor of Comparative Religion both at Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002-03-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199760848

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Self and Self-Transformation in the History of Religions by David Shulman Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies,Guy S. Stroumsa Martin Buber Professor of Comparative Religion both at Hebrew University of Jerusalem Pdf

This book brings together scholars of a variety of the world's major civilizations to focus on the universal theme of inner transformation. The idea of the "self" is a cultural formation like any other, and models and conceptions of the inner world of the person vary widely from one civilization to another. Nonetheless, all the world's great religions insist on the need to transform this inner world. Such transformations, often ritually enacted, reveal the primary intuitions, drives, and conflicts active within the culture. The individual essays study dramatic examples of these processes in a wide range of cultures, including China, India, Tibet, Greece and Rome, Late Antiquity, Islam, Judaism, and medieval and early-modern Christian Europe.

Author : David Dean Shulman,Guy G. Stroumsa
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780195148169

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Self and Self-transformation in the History of Religions by David Dean Shulman,Guy G. Stroumsa Pdf

This book brings together scholars of a variety of the world's major civilizations to focus on the universal theme of inner transformation. The idea of the "self" is a cultural formation like any other, and models and conceptions of the inner world of the person vary widely from one civilization to another. Nonetheless, all the world's great religions insist on the need to transform this inner world. Such transformations, often ritually enacted, reveal the primary intuitions, drives, and conflicts active within the culture. The individual essays study dramatic examples of these processes in a wide range of cultures, including China, India, Tibet, Greece and Rome, Late Antiquity, Islam, Judaism, and medieval and early-modern Christian Europe.

Author : Peter G. Stromberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521031362

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Language and Self-Transformation by Peter G. Stromberg Pdf

Using the Christian conversion narrative as a primary example, this book examines how people deal with emotional conflict through language.

Author : Dr. Max Hammer,Dr. Barry J. Hammer,Dr. Alan C. Butler
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781628570755

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Psychological Healing Through Creative Self-Understanding and Self-Transformation by Dr. Max Hammer,Dr. Barry J. Hammer,Dr. Alan C. Butler Pdf

This book focuses on the development of psychological self-understanding, healing psychologically painful inner conflicts, and the basis of psychological and spiritual fulfillment.Readers will discover a new understanding of effective psychotherapy, groundbreaking diagnostic psychological testing research, and the distinction between the ego self-concept, the experiential self, and the transpersonal self (the real self, the relational self, or the holistic self). It also clarifies aspects of optimal psychological health, such as authenticity, sincerity, integrity, creativity, intuition, empathy, courage, strength of character, inspiration, unselfish love (or warmhearted caring), emotional security, inner wholeness, vitality, and fulfillment Principles of psychological healing and self-transformation can enhance the development of interpersonal relationships, as well as facilitate effective and fulfilling ways of living in society. The authors deeply explored their own psychological pain and experiential truth to write this book, so readers can achieve greater self-understanding, fulfillment, and liberation from psychological pain.

Author : Roland Reichenbach,Duck-Joo Kwak
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030400781

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Confucian Perspectives on Learning and Self-Transformation by Roland Reichenbach,Duck-Joo Kwak Pdf

This book bridges the regions of East Asia and the West by offering a detailed and critical inquiry of educational concepts of the East Asian tradition. It provides educational thinkers and practitioners with alternative resources and perspectives for their educational thinking, to enrich their educational languages and to promote the recognition of educational thoughts from different cultures and traditions across a global world. The key notions of Confucian and Neo-Confucian philosophy directly concern the ideals, processes and challenges of learning, education and self-transformation, which can be seen as the western equivalences of liberal education, including the German concept of Bildung. All the topics in the book are of fundamental interest across diverse cultures, giving a voice to a set of long-lasting and yet differentiated cultural traditions of learning and education, and thereby creating a common space for critical philosophical reflection of one's own educational tradition and practice. The book is especially timely, given that the vocabularies in educational discourse today have been dominantly “West centred” for a long time, even while the whole world has become more and more diverse across races, religions and cultures. It offers a great opportunity to philosophers of education for their cross-cultural understanding and self-understanding of educational ideas and practices on both personal and institutional levels.

Author : Rebecca Crowther
Publisher : Springer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319976730

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Wellbeing and Self-Transformation in Natural Landscapes by Rebecca Crowther Pdf

This book explores how natural landscapes are linked to positive mental wellbeing. While natural landscapes have long been represented and portrayed as transformative, the link to mental wellbeing is an area that researchers are still aiming to comprehend. Accompanying five groups of people to rural Scotland, the author considers individual, external and group motivations for journeying from urban environments, examining in what ways these excursions are personally and socially transformative. Far more than traversing mere physical boundaries, this book illustrates the new challenges, experiences, territories and cultures provided by these excursions, firmly anchored in the Scottish countryside. In doing so, the author questions the extent to which people’s own narratives link to the perception that the outdoors are positively transformative – and what indeed does have the power to influence transformation. Grounded in extensive qualitative research, this contemplative and ethnographic book will be of interest and value to students and scholars of the outdoors and its connection to wellbeing.

Author : Duck-Joo Kwak
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9400724012

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Education for Self-transformation by Duck-Joo Kwak Pdf

Exemplifying what it advocates, this book is an innovative attempt to retrieve the essay form from its degenerate condition in academic writing. Its purpose is to create pedagogical space in which the inner struggle of ‘lived experience’ can articulate itself in the first person. Working through essays, the modern, ‘post-secular’ self can guide, understand, and express its own transformation. This is not merely a book about writing methods: it has a sharp existential edge. Beginning by defining key terms such as ‘self-transformation’, Kwak sketches the contemporary debates between Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor on the status of religious language in the public domain, and its relationship to secular language. This allows her to contextualize her book’s central questions: how can philosophical practice reduce the experiential rift between knowledge and wisdom? How can the essay form be developed so that it facilitates, as praxis, pedagogical self-transformation? Kwak develops her answers by working through ideas of George Lukács and Stanley Cavell, of Hans Blumenberg and Søren Kierkegaard, whose work is much less familiar in this context than it deserves to be. Kwak’s work provides templates for new forms of educational writing, new approaches to teaching educators, and new ways of writing methodology for educational researchers. Yet the importance of her ideas extends far beyond teaching academies to classroom teachers, curriculum developers – and to anyone engaged in the quest to lead a reflective life of one’s own.

Author : Victor L. Schermer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429916137

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Meaning, Mind, and Self-Transformation by Victor L. Schermer Pdf

Interpretation is the primary intervention of psychoanalysis. Until now it has been discussed almost exclusively from a technical standpoint, rather than its relationship to the mind, human life, and how it affects the personality. This book explores the intrinsic nature of interpretation in psychoanalysis. For that purpose, two streams of thought are brought into dialogue with one another: Anglo-American psychoanalysis and Continental European philosophical hermeneutics, the study of meaning and interpretation. This book celebrates and makes explicit the value of interchanges between the paradigm of science and philosophical hermeneutics. It is divided into three sections, preceded by a discussion of the relationship between psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, and the sciences, with psychoanalysis at a crossroads seeking a new path. Part 1 starts with a consideration of Freud's methodology in The Interpretation of Dreams, moving to a review of ancient, romantic, and modern theories of interpretation as they relate to psychoanalysis.