Psyche

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If you enjoyed this essay, you might enjoy Jacquelyn's exhaustive and fulfilling study of Psyche in her book, Psyche's Seeds-The 12 Principles of Soul-Based Psychology

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PSYCHE AS THE KEY TO OUR FUTURE. Remember, the psyche is a reflection of our Soul. It includes the entire collective human/spiritual unconscious mind. It must be allowed to bring us its gifts of true healing, which can be found only by withdrawing our obsessive focus on the outer, materialistic life, and going deep within. It's time now that we learn to honor the whole psyche, which is both our conscious and unconscious minds, our inner and outer lives, our bridge between the spiritual and material worlds.

Psyche speaks to us through dreams, meditations, and inner images, in the language of symbol, metaphor, and myth. When we consciously merge the mental constructs of "psyche" and "ego," we have created "the Self," which is the archetypal blueprint of the Human being.

The Self knows how to bring enthusiasm back into our work and our lives if we give Spirit a chance to make its ways known. And the Self knows how to walk this ordinary earth as a balanced and integrated personality–never claiming to be "special" or "highly evolved"; the Self melds into our ordinary human condition with absolutely no need to stand out. We become "high" by simply being our true selves in all our relations.

The basic tenets of new modes of psychotherapy exemplify a deep respect for our total nature. This of course includes the shadow self, those disowned and unrefined parts of us that have been relegated into unconsciousness. Until we recognize the fact that we are both shadow and light, we stay lost in lopsidedness–a state our psyches won't tolerate.

The psyche will always swing us to the denied side and bring us painful lessons until we "get" this. Trying to be positive only and to deny any real feelings we have creates more and more shadow. To deal with the awesome tasks of facing and integrating all our individual shadows and Humanity's collective Shadow too, the world sorely needs wellness programs that honor the whole being–and workers not afraid to face their own shadows!

Those taking a psychospiritual approach utilize states of consciousness that access the psyche's subjective levels of reality, to connect with our deepest spiritual life. In fact, this aspect of inner work represents its chief gift to the mainstream of addiction treatment and other health-related services. Having been in tune with the more conventional outer-directed problem-solving approaches, the people-helping fields are now opening up to the vast potential of the spiritual psychologies that deepen us into our own Source by accessing psyche's buried treasures.

Some of the inner work methods used in these newer programs are meditation, guided imagery, process hypnosis, dream interpretation, breathwork, invocation, ceremony and ritual, movement to music, various forms of artwork, and deep bodywork. As our consciousness is expanded by such methods, our whole Self takes part–our body, mind, and heart–and we access the universal superconscious mind which we perceive in the spiritual realms. This often results in spontaneous mystical experiences.

These numinous inner experiences have a profound healing impact upon the psyche because they give us intimate connections with our Source. One moment of being in touch with the True Self is worth a hundred therapy sessions! [excerpt from RISING TO THE CALL, Pg. 194-196]

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