Reach, Relevance of Transpersonal Psychology

Fortunately transpersonal psychology has emerged in favor of working with our growth, get into our interactions with the environment and provide answers to many questions that traditional psychology offers them to us yet.

inkarri.org in this regard gives us, that we present, Transpersonal psychology broadens the horizon of understanding of human consciousness traditionally covered by psychology: it incorporates the spiritual dimension. Appearance unfortunately traditional patterns of psychology did not think it is specifically to the mind and body.

The fact that current thinking and psychology originated in the 60's, among its founders are Stanislav Grof, Abraham Maslow and Gregory Bateson.

Transpersonal psychology is the psychological study of transpersonal experiences and their correlates, understanding these experiences as those in which the sense of identity - the self - extends beyond (trans) of the person, covering aspects of humanity, life, the psyche and the cosmos, which were previously experienced as alien.

In addition, it may be noted that transpersonal experiences are often accompanied by dramatic physiological changes, lasting and beneficial, as these experiences can provide a sense of meaning and purpose to our lives, can help us overcome existential crisis and awakening in us a vision compassion for humanity and the planet.

It is said, is also manifest evidence of the existence of a wide range of human possibilities that suggest that certain emotions, motivations, cognitive abilities and states of consciousness can be cultivated and refined to much higher degrees until now regarded as normal.

Moreover, the central focus of transpersonal psychology is the study of consciousness and altered states of consciousness, although it is a phenomenon difficult to express or define exactly through words, as it involves an experience that goes beyond the verbal categories and often daily experiences, it refers to a conscious mode that transcends the boundaries of individual identity and / or space and time, therefore, the ultimate nature of consciousness is intangible and inconceivable, it is an aspect of the Absolute, is not personal nor mental, but rather transpersonal transmental.

{Consid are, as it provides psicopag.galeon.com that Transpersonal psychology does not deny other schools of thought such as psychoanalysis is no question as opposed, say it right try to go further. For tranpersonal vision, Freud developments have been instrumental in the development value of psychological science to include the idea of ​​the unconscious in a discipline that was tied to the positivist rationalism. Certainly, psychoanalysis opened the possibilities of understanding the human psyche. Transpersonal psychology promotes other opening including the spiritual dimension of human beings. Psychoanalysis is an ideal way to approach different types of neurosis, hysteria and other psychopathology. We can not deny that Freud was a neurotic, brilliant but neurotic end. As such, he studied the neuroses and "evil" related, he devoted himself to what he saw up close.

Abraham Maslow was one of the first researchers interested in studying the psychology of beings more "advanced" than has been the history of mankind. What interested him was to examine more psychologically healthy beings, of course, a rare minority which included Christ and the mystics of other cultures. What I inferred, after thoroughly studying the lives of these men "enlightened" era that had no identity set and locked in his person, his ego, in its history. They had a wider sense of identity that went beyond his personality, an identity "transpersonal." His identity was extended to a communion with the totality of phenomena, with all beings. Something, of course, very difficult to understand for most of us, and therefore, psychologists, especially Westerners, tend to ignore this phenomenon or, qualify for this type of pathological mystical experiences.

Maslow became interested in the study which he called "peak experiences" suggesting that those experiences may be subnormal supernormal instead. Such experiences of fullness that many people have experienced if only for a moment, can be a sign of human potential.

One of the developments that Maslow precedent in promoting transpersonal psychology was his theory of "needs". In 1943 he published a work entitled "A Theory of Human Motivation" in exposing the existence of a hierarchy of needs . In the most basic point of the hierarchy lies the physiological needs (salt, sugar and protein in the bloodstream) that result in the need for food. People who are hungry are unable to conceive of any other need.

psicopag.galeon.com said also that Ken Wilber is perhaps the most learned of the theorists associated with the transpersonal. Its developments are too extensive to this paper and board with the expansion they deserve another chance. Suffice here to note that being an accomplished student of both Western and Eastern psychology, concludes that spirituality and religiosity are characteristic of the human psyche, but is concerned with differentiating the esoteric exoteric religion. "Religion is an exoteric or external mythical religion, a religion terribly concrete and literal, he believes, for example, that Moses parted the Red Sea, that Christ was born of a virgin, that the world was created in six days. .. that the earth rests on the back of an elephant and that this, in turn, rests on a turtle resting on a snake ... That's the exoteric religions, a set of belief systems that attempt to explain the mysteries the world in mythic terms rather than in terms of direct experience or evidence. " This is the religion that Freud and others have associated reasonably with fixings to mythical thinking. When it comes to psychology, religion and spirituality are considering this type of belief and rarely distinguishes between the exoteric and the esoteric.

It is noted that a useful tool in transpersonal psychology, is the Holotropic Breathwork, which is a form of experimental work created by Dr. Stan Grof and his wife Cristina, and has been tested since 1976 in many parts of the world with stunning therapeutic outcomes, personal development and expansion of consciousness.

Holotropic Breathwork is one of the most powerful and effective techniques of self-exploration and experiential psychotherapy in the existing deep Transpersonal Psychology.

It is based on the great healing and transformative power of non-ordinary states of consciousness (mystical experiences or states that occur with deep meditation, and rituals of different cultures, or spontaneously).

By rapid breathing and evocative music activate the psyche and into non-ordinary state of consciousness. This state has the amazing ability to select and bring to consciousness unconscious contents that have a strong emotional charge and, therefore, a great psychological importance, we can revive or connect not only with the biographical material (from the moment of birth to the present ) as is usually done in traditional psychotherapy, also have access to everything related to birth (perinatal matrices), sequences of psychological death and rebirth and the unlimited spectrum of transpersonal phenomena, enabling experiences and "insights" invaluable healing and personal development.

Finally, t {engase present, transpersonal psychologist detects the level of patient awareness and helps to overcome the conflicts of that level, being alert and ready to follow the patient into new experiential levels as they occur. "The transpersonal therapist is responsible for all the events that emerge during the therapeutic process, including the mundane, biographical data and existential problems. What really defines the transpersonal orientation is the model of the human psyche that recognizes the importance of spiritual or cosmic dimensions and evolutionary potential of consciousness. " (Stanislav Grof)

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