Essentialism is a concept with primary meanings in Philosophy and Personal Development: the view that objects or ideas possess unchanging, inherent core properties, or the disciplined practice of focusing strictly on what matters most while eliminating non-essentials
James Hillman’s archetypal psychology presents the psyche as fundamentally plural, or or of multiple minds. Human beings do not possess only one psychological voice, value system or centre of intelligence.
Objectivity, in this landscape, usually means not a “view from nowhere,” but “as independent of any one person’s quirks as we can practically make it.”
Listening to your body means paying attention to the signals your whole organism is sending, taking them seriously, and responding in a way that keeps you healthy and steady over time
