What are Coping Responses?
Confirmation Bias
Confirmation bias is a psychological phenomenon where individuals tend to favour information that confirms their pre-existing beliefs.
Peak Growth
Peak Growth
This article describes a state of peak growth, or learning, which can be attained as part of an individual’s self-transcendent journey.
Human Thinking
Aspirational qualities
People who are self-transcendent tend to have aspirational qualities because they are motivated by values, goals, and ideals that transcend their own self-interest.
Core-Self Pruning
Self-integrity
This article discusses the concept of Self-Integrity, and how that relates to other concepts of personality and self-awareness.
Core-Self Pruning
Training the Ego
Welcome to Training the Ego. This is your simple guide to understanding and becoming the person you want to be – your true self. I’ve tried to make it simple, so that anyone can read and understand it, yet the concepts here are incredibly powerful. And if used correctly, can lead an individual to true self-transcendence, where they have complete mastery of self in all its guises.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Puppy-dog Syndrome and the Consequences of Avoidant Parents
This article looks into the basic family relationship, as driven by our genetic need for connection, support, nurturing and protection. We then propose a typical dysfunctional scenario, based on parents that are avoidant of that connection. It proposes that this scenario will result in children that will include a scapegoat, who may well develop C-PTSD based Stockholm Syndrome, before they are old enough to verbalise their long-term abuse. It also introduces a new term – Puppy-dog Syndrome, to describe one of the observable behaviours of children that have had this childhood.
Anxiety
SwitchStep Music Therapy
SwitchStep Music Therapy is a creative, accessible, and evidence-informed approach that helps children and adults connect with their authentic selves, build resilience, and develop self-regulation through intentional movement and rhythm.
Brainwashing
Critical Thinking
Critical thinking is an essential concept that refers to the self-guided, self-disciplined thinking that aims to reason at the highest level of quality in a fair-minded way. In this article we will look at the origins and influencers of the critical approach, and maps out the important foundations to this life changing system of thinking.
Artificial Intelligence
The Frankfurt School
The Frankfurt School refers to a group of scholars associated with the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany, founded in 1923.
Organismic Self
Hawkwind – Question the meaning of your sentence!
Calvert was proposing we should understand that this might be a “Prison” planet.