Authenticity
Self-Reflection
This article covers the science behind the practice of self-reflection. Each theoretical model that supports the practice is teased out.
Active Imagination
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.
Awareness Integration Theory
Self-Awareness
Self-awareness is the conscious recognition and understanding of one’s own thoughts, emotions, behaviours, and their underlying patterns, often serving as the foundation for personal growth and therapeutic interventions like Awareness Integration Theory
Actualising Tendency
Metacognitive Integration: The key to Self-Actualisation?
Metacognitive Integration is a dynamic process of exploration, identification, connection AND reconnection of the organismic self with it’s systemwide functions. It is a process that allows the individual to actualise themselves. This optimises the integration of their organism, to allow them to better thrive in the local environment.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
The Developmental Truth of Childhood
Almost all children suffer a sustained and often targeted string of traumatic micro, and macro-aggressions, from the moment they are born.
Adaptive Coping
The Antipsychotic Medication Paradox: A cause of systematic Gaslighting in the NHS?
Recent research has uncovered a potentially systematic gaslighting mechanism within the NHS, the National Health Service in the UK. This appears to show that NHS may be in breach of the Mental Capacity Act, and is, as such, showing itself to be a potentially narcissistic organisation.
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.
Active Imagination
The Coping Paradox: A Theory of Masked Coping and Cognitive Overload
In the Coping Paradox, the paradox lies in the fact that coping is both necessary for resilience and, when unmanaged, a source of vulnerability.
Behavioural Game Theory
The Blame Game and the Scapegoat Game
The “Blame Game” is a pattern of behaviour where people avoid taking responsibility for problems, mistakes, or bad feelings by finding someone else to blame. This often happens when something goes wrong and, instead of working together to solve the issue or learn, people start pointing fingers; sometimes to escape punishment, sometimes to protect their ego, or just because that’s the pattern they learned from others.
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.