Counselling and Creativity : An Approach to Individuation: Moving On From Narcissism

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Moving On From Narcissism

May I take this opportunity to congratulate myself for passing my Major Theory Essay. Well if this is not a casing example of 'self admiration', the very thing I have been researching and writing about for the past six months, I don't quite know what is. Would it surprise you if I said I was s....... myself waiting for my assessment results? Joking aside, it does really matter having two papers to prepare this year to move on to some interesting work in the community in mental health, wellbeing and safeguarding vulnerable individuals. This is a 'far cry' from where I was a year ago taking volumeous calls in a call-centre that almost drove 'me' mad.

So, where am I now? I guess on the road to finding my true potential. With the view that the average person only uses around 5% of their potential in their life time and presumably if one uses near to 25% one is a genius it seems like I may have some work to do. I must say though, that knowing an ideal percentage gives me a guide and has somehow inspired me to aim higher. Interestingly I have taken an interest in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) lately. Well as far as the programming bit, I am turning into a bit of a human computer, that is, garbage in, garbage out, listening to CDs for hours on end, taking in the valuable instructions of how to master the various techniques and interventions to model people like Grinder and Bandler and those that they modelled like Pavlov, Satir, Erickson and Pearls.

Well there is not anything that can prevent me from additional research, so I have been reading up on Erickson and Pearls and I have been thorougly entertained with their stories in the form of anecdotes, metaphors and drama with an empty chair. As this is all preparatory work, I am quite looking forward to my visit to Hunton Park at the Devere Hotel, a late home of Queen Anne, to actually do the course to perfect the modelling of these collective experts.

From what I understand NLP is an excellent tool in the world of business, especially in building rapport and matching the needs of the client in negotiations through the use of sensory atuitory, that is, our 5 senses; hearing, visual eye patterns, smell, taste and feelings. After a month of intensive revision the theory is starting to make sense.

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Dear Readers,

You may be wondering when am I going to finish editing my book, I have been talking about. The thing is, it’s such a precious autobiography account of a story I want to share as interesting, educational and practical for lovers of poetry and psychology, it's been quite a special project of creating a kind of a fusion of the two disciplines in a creative way. I had parked the project temporarily to finish my Continuing Professional Development for 2010 and having achieved this, I will now resume my passion for writing. I hope now to be placing the manuscript safetly in the hands of someone who can tell me not just "it's a facinating read..." but will also direct me to a publisher, even though I have not ruled out self-publishing! I guess this takes us onto how my reading went on Freud’s Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality 1905? Fascinating to say the least and I dare say, postulations probably amounting to the impossible to those in the 18th Century who thought it preposterous that a child could ever have a sex life. It seems though,this was the very investigation that Freud started to uncover from both the light and dark side, which may have later influenced him to change some of his theories, maybe to avoid fierce debate and/or being unpopular, who really knows (Freud 1905). Nevertheless, his neurological and later psychotherapy approaches to discovery does seem to lend itself to a linear explanation to how innocent and precious child development is and how much it needs to be preserved for normal and social development. I guess when he talks of “repression”, that is, burying unwanted thoughts or feelings, he does have a point about humans doing this as a coping mechanism when confronted with unpleasant earlier memories.

Moving on to the next point, now will I get to read his full psychological works in 2011! That’s the challenge. However, I have set myself and even more challenging goal for 2011, that of reviewing at a more researched level, Carl G. Jung, probably Freud's earliest contemporary. I am excited already knowing that Carl saw the unconscious as a repository of unpleasantness too and also one for “positivity”. Maybe that’s how we know that all learnings are unconscious. Thank goodness we have the power to change or dispose of unpleasantness by responding differently to problems. A modern practical application, in this recession I would say, is it’s time to be resilient about our pasts and maintain this consistency for our futures, by empowering ourselves now to deal artfully with problems, because we know there will always be a new one, don’t we.

Ladies and gentlemen,

As you think about going into the New Year, you can let go of all the unpleasantness that you may be holding on to, because it’s not worth the energy is it. Yes, time is precious and so are you and you are so much more precious than problems aren’t you. So as you focus here on yourself and what you want to achieve in 2011, it feels good doesn’t it to know that you can fill your unconscious with “positivity”, good learnings, thoughts and feelings to take you through probably another tough year. And you will get through it won’t you, and you will remember that there will always be another problem that you can blow away. So now you will concentrate on becoming skillful, confident and ready to take the challenge to remain mentally strong for yourself and your loved ones for the next 365 days and beyond. Good. Now that you are ready, take a deep breath in and then out and and as you blow out, blow all those old problems out into the universe and enjoy your life. 123,WIDE AWAKE, WIDE AWAKE ... I do have a pet bird I need to chat to now, whilst all the fireworks are going off... (c) Jennifer Hooper 2010. 31.12.10 at midnight.

Counselling and Creativity : An Approach to Individuation

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Moving On From Narcissism

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