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It dims
As I strip it of veneers
That were never mine.
Then in the darkness of being nothing
My freedom makes its own light. My own poem
(Very thought provoking)
Carl Rogers - my threefold redirection My personal journey was first impacted by the attempt to understand why I did not naturally possess “the self actualizing tendency” why my consistent self destructive path? Where was my innate drive to develop and grow like the hardy Rogerian potato? I was never in an attic in a bleak winter. I needed to use the three core conditions of congruence, empathy and unconditional positive regard on myself.
“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.” 1 In my effort at redirection, I have attempted to do three things,
1. Rid myself as far as possible, of ego defensiveness, so I can get closer to “an increasing openness to …show more content…
Living more and more in the moment, I continue to discard “preconceived self structure” and revel in the “experience of my life”.
3. I try and identify who I am, just the way I am, sans cover-ups. I need to experience, to feel my feelings, not think them. 2
(Three good resolutions here)
This has actually allowed self healing to occur. I felt a strong sense of self. If I can empower myself, surely other people have within themselves the same ability! I can help empower others. The journey has commenced!
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1 and 2 Carl Rogers On becoming a Person THE FITTING GAME” –the trick of holding on tight to a theory, then trying to make my experience fit it.3 Gestalt Theory so excited me, was so akin to the sensorial tendency in me, that I took to it. In my initial excitement however, I missed the point altogether, by intellectualizing it like a mathematics tutor, over assimilating just theory, denying the evidence of my senses. Naturally I could not apply it to my clients. Consequently I had to shed the theory, find the blockage in my understanding, (that I was trying to mould my practice to imposed theoretical
As I strip it of veneers
That were never mine.
Then in the darkness of being nothing
My freedom makes its own light. My own poem
(Very thought provoking)
Carl Rogers - my threefold redirection My personal journey was first impacted by the attempt to understand why I did not naturally possess “the self actualizing tendency” why my consistent self destructive path? Where was my innate drive to develop and grow like the hardy Rogerian potato? I was never in an attic in a bleak winter. I needed to use the three core conditions of congruence, empathy and unconditional positive regard on myself.
“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.” 1 In my effort at redirection, I have attempted to do three things,
1. Rid myself as far as possible, of ego defensiveness, so I can get closer to “an increasing openness to …show more content…
Living more and more in the moment, I continue to discard “preconceived self structure” and revel in the “experience of my life”.
3. I try and identify who I am, just the way I am, sans cover-ups. I need to experience, to feel my feelings, not think them. 2
(Three good resolutions here)
This has actually allowed self healing to occur. I felt a strong sense of self. If I can empower myself, surely other people have within themselves the same ability! I can help empower others. The journey has commenced!
__________________________________________________________
1 and 2 Carl Rogers On becoming a Person THE FITTING GAME” –the trick of holding on tight to a theory, then trying to make my experience fit it.3 Gestalt Theory so excited me, was so akin to the sensorial tendency in me, that I took to it. In my initial excitement however, I missed the point altogether, by intellectualizing it like a mathematics tutor, over assimilating just theory, denying the evidence of my senses. Naturally I could not apply it to my clients. Consequently I had to shed the theory, find the blockage in my understanding, (that I was trying to mould my practice to imposed theoretical