Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Our Wounds are a Portal to God Part 4

by Andy Drymalski, EdD |
A man dreamed, “I see a soft bluish light emitted from wounds and sores on someone’s body. I’m to understand that there is a luminescent component to all wounds and to the organs of the inner body. Fascinated, I show this to my children.”
One of the things that make this dream [...]

Keeping Focused in a Changing World

by Dr. June Milligan, M.Ed., CCHt |
It is sometimes difficult to maintain your focus on what you want to accomplish when everyone around you is talking about how bad things are. The only way to do this is to develop the habit of controlling your own thoughts. This is easier to do than you [...]

Our Wounds are a Portal to God Part III

“Hello darkness my old friend, I’ve come to talk with you again.”– Simon and Garfunkel, The Sounds of Silence
by Andy Drymalski, EdD |
It is sometimes said that we are creatures of habit. This is no less true of our thoughts than of our behaviors. We can become so accustomed to a certain identity and self-concept, [...]

Our Wounds are a Portal to God

by Andy Drymalski, EdD |
“If it is a tight band around your head, do you limit yourself through your thinking and beliefs in some way?”
Last month’s article introduced readers to the work of Arnold Mindell, a Jungian-trained psychologist who developed ways of working with body symptoms for personality growth. This article discusses two of Dr. [...]

Our Wounds are a Portal to God, Part One

“A terrifying symptom is usually your greatest dream trying to come through.”—Arnold Mindell, PhD
When people draw a connection between their wounds/illnesses and God, it is often by viewing their physical ailments as a form of punishment for real or imagined sins and failings. Much more rarely are wounds and illnesses seen as constructive events that [...]

Blessed are the Cracked

by Andy Drymalski, EdD |
“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.” – Carl Jung
Last month’s article pointed out that the developmental goal of youth and early adulthood is the maturation of the ego and its adaptation to the demands of outer life. During the “first half” of life, family, peers, [...]

Life’s Second Half: The Adventure Inward

by Andy Drymalski, EdD |
“..we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life’s morning–for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening become a lie.” Carl Jung.
Midlife is an important period of transition in most people’s lives. In [...]

Living Abundantly. Making Radical Manifestation a Reality in Your Life

by Dinny Evans |
The practice of Radical Manifestation is about developing a full understanding of how you see yourself in the world and how to move forward, raising your vibration, your awareness and having clarity about how to align with your intention and desires.
If we believe that abundance is the natural condition of the Universe, [...]

Jungian Psychology Series: Psychology’s New God

by Andy Drymalski, EdD |
Although cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) has been around for several decades, its exalted status within the fields of psychology, medicine and healthcare insurance has reached a fever-pitch the past few years. One of the most researched and popular forms of psychotherapy, CBT is increasingly hailed as the “gold standard” of treatment for [...]

Ego, God, and Destiny

by Andy Drymalski, EdD |
“Why do these philosophers pretend that God is an idea, a kind of arbitrary assumption which they engender, when its perfectly plain that he exists, as plain as a brick that falls on your head? Suddenly I understood that God was, for me at least, one of the most certain and [...]

Jungian Psychology Series: The Importance of Instincts in Spirituality

by Andy Drymalski, EdD |
“Anyone who overlooks the instincts will be ambuscaded by them.”— Carl Jung
The human brain is among the most developed and complex of any creature. Its evolution and refinement has helped us to attain a level of consciousness and a mastery over our environment, which far exceeds that of any other animal. But [...]

Holiday Blues

by Dana Anderson |
Holiday Blues refers to depression that occurs during the Holiday season, usually from Thanksgiving and into the New Year. Generally, holidays are a time when we come together with our families and friends to celebrate each other and the occasion. For many, it can be the only time of the year [...]