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Discipline Problems Resolved by Understanding the Ego

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

Discipline Problems Resolved by Understanding the Ego

The ego is a compulsive thinker; about 98% of the thoughts in your head come from the ego. The only way for a thought to come from you is if you make an effort to think, like when you try to solve a problem, study or create something. You should be skeptical of the thoughts that come into your head.

The main reason for discipline problems in the classroom is the kids have no idea what their ego is about and how much control it exerts; the ego is always in their head with its concerns, worries and resentful thoughts. They have little or no awareness of the ego existence and no awareness of its abilities, and no knowledge of the simple abilities that can keep them in charge of the self. Kids need a heads up about what is going on inside their heads that is giving them grief.

Since the ego is the main cause of problems including epileptic seizures, Roger Sperry (1) successfully stopped grand mal epileptic seizures by severing the corpus callosum. It is the only connection you have with the ego, and it is the only pathway for the ego to put it thoughts into your head. Once this connection is lost the ego is no longer able to inundate the conscience self or brain with its stressful, anger and fears. The patient was not able to realize these terrible feelings where coming from the egos imagines, and took them seriously, until the brain would become overloaded and cause seizures to start. These split brain patients were given a release from all the emotional stresses created by ego.

In experiments, these patients were like two separate people in one body each with different memories, concepts, attitude, desires and wills. They would not respond to stimulation on their left side. If an object was placed in the left hand, they would deny it was there, even though it was being manipulated with the fingers of the left hand. During tests, they would watch their left hand move, answering questions restricted to the right brain. Their left hand would move seemingly on its own, as if it was possessed, or had a mind of its own, causing the patients to be perplexed and dumbfounded.

Since the two hands were no longer able to worked together, one patient was buttoning up a shirt with one hand, to go out socializing, and realized the left hand was unbuttoning the shirt to indicate a conflict, a disagreement he no longer was able to communicate and resolve via the corpus callosum.

Anger and fear cannot come from you, but they come from the insecurity of the ego; also worry, anxiety, hate, guilt and depression come from the ego. An emotionally immature child who is causing behavioral problems in the classroom is only immature to the degree that he allows the ego to be in charge of the self. When he learns the simple behaviors that allow his conscience self to be in charge, then he will suddenly appear to be fully mature. There are 4 brains, representing 4 selves within your head, but you are the only one conscious. When the limbic brain of the ego was destroyed, peace and calmness was experienced.

All the conflicts between the students and between the students and the teacher are caused by the ego. The ego will take personally, all negative looks, actions, and behaviors, taking them as personal attacks. This causes terrible feelings within, creating an urge to strike out at others or attack the self with feelings of guilt or shame. When the ego gets the upper hand in emotionally charged classroom situations, it can result in a very disruptive atmosphere.

The feelings of the ego are fragile. When you take things personally, it is not you, but the ego who is wounded. But the expression of the hurt feelings can be nipped in the bud if you are in charge of the self with the behavioral skills that can keep you in the moment. This will effectively stop the hurt feelings from being experienced. Then you will be successful in not taking things personally. Once you permit the ego to take things personally you allow the ego to dominate and cause personal conflicts.

It is foolish to take things personally, when you realize the battle is going on between the egos of people, and you should realize, it is the ego of somebody else who is attacking. When you can step back and see this, and understand what is going on, then you can avoid these conflicts, and see that it is really not something to take personally.

As long as you are in charge, then the ego will look to you for protection. If the ego sees you are not capable of that responsibility and unable to provide protection, then it will take over and use its own defenses, i.e., anger, blame, avoidance, lying, cheating, evasiveness, feelings of superiority, false bravura, escaping into a fantasy world, etc. So the ego will take over, if you do not take responsibility for the self!

The reason people get divorced and do not get along with each other, is because of the ego. An unruly classroom is like a dysfunctional family in that its members have no understanding of the ego, and how the its disruptive demands, influences and criticisms, create conflicts. By teaching kids at an early age to understand the ego, and arm them with the simple behavioral tools of control that will allow them to remain in charge, they will be able to use these skills the rest of their lives. http://www.egoandyou.com

(1) Sperry, R.W. Hemisphere deconnection and unity of conscious awareness. American Psychologist, 1968, 23, 723-733.

The ego is very powerful and is a compulsive thinker. It’s ideas are constantly in your head. The only way for a thought to come from you is if you make an effort to think, like when you try to solve a problem, study or create something.

Anger and fear cannot come from you, but they come from the insecurity of the ego. Whenever you experience worry, anxiety, hate, guilt and depression they come from the ego. There are four brains and four entities within your head, but you are the only one who is conscious. When the ego’s brain was destroyed, peace and calmness was experienced.

The ego controls by default, because of your lack of awareness of its existence, of its abilities, and not knowing the abilities within you that can keep you in charge, as there are over two dozen, practical, ‘hands on,’ type behavioral tools that can keep you in charge to overcome fear and anger!

The reason people get divorced and don’t get along is because of the ego. A dysfunctional family is created when its members have no understanding of the ego, and how the it’s disruptive demands, influences and criticisms, create conflicts. By teaching kids at an early age to understand the ego, and arm them with the behavioral tools of control, they will be able to use these skills the rest of their lives.

Affectively-Based Attitude

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Attitude is a lasting evaluation of people, objects, or ideas which may be positive or not. The concept of attitude is composed of three components which include cognitively-based attitudes, affectively-based attitude, and behaviorally-based attitude. An example of my cognitively-based attitude is the attitude of disallowing my seatmates in school to copy my assignments so that I will remain one of the best students in school. Besides, I believe that I am more wise and intelligent than other students. An example of affectively-based attitude is my feelings regarding the way Barack Obama handled the government despite the economic crisis wherein he is not afraid of the on-going problems as effects of poverty nowadays. Barack Obama is indeed resolute in playing as the elected President of the country. Lastly, an example of behaviorally-based attitude is my disgust of poor people for I believe that they are too lazy to work for their own good. Those people who are loitering in the streets do not deserve help from the government and non-governmental organizations if it was proven that they do not work hard to earn a living. I cannot just tolerate these kinds of people especially that I worked hard for my success in life.

Attitude accessibility corresponds on how rapidly an attitude is activated by memory. There are many reasons why it is necessary to access attitude through memory processes of a person. First, attitudes that are apparently accessible from memory are more predictive of behavior. Second, it is easy to figure out the influences of any behavior messages. Third, knowing how messages being processed are also possible through attitude accessibility. And that attitude accessibility is more stable as time goes by. In order to understand the concept of attitude accessibility, consider a neighbor who sees a big snake in the lawn. The immediate response of your neighbor will be a shout due to fear of the snake. The immediate fear response upon seeing a big snake indicates an accessible attitude towards big snakes which are apparently dangerous if venomous in kind. In other words, there is already an attitude of fear in the memory of your neighbor and was shown when a big snake appears in the lawn. The idea that big snakes are dangerous is already stored in the memory of the person and quickly activated upon experiencing a real situation. Hence, activation of attitude through the memory of a person is the primary basis of understanding attitude accessibility.

Subjective norms are a concept based on the theory of planned behavior developed in the year 1985 by Ajzen. The concept of subjective norms is founded on the idea that normative beliefs result in subjective norms. In addition, our motivation to complete with the collection of normative beliefs forms our subjective norm with respect to the behavior. For example, we consider the hard work our parents did when they raised us in this life. We even believe that we owe our life to our parents because without them, we would not be given the opportunity to enjoy everything we have. Hence, their example gave us the will to work hard and reap success in life. All our actions are geared towards this normative belief that we have for our parents. In the example given, we also consider working hard to earn good grades in school based on the hard work our parents did in supporting our studies. During the time that we spent many hours in studying our lessons in school, we may know that our will to get a higher grade in every school examination determines our consistency in following our goal. Attitude-behavior consistency can also be determined by means of knowing the motive why a student showed diligence in preparing for school.

Yes. There are kinds of attitudes that people are likely to act consistently or inconsistently with. Basically, there are three kinds of attitudes which could help in knowing the attitude-behavior consistency of a person, and these are positive attitude, negative attitude, and neutral attitude. However, positive attitude is a kind of attitude that people are likely to act consistently with. On the other hand, negative attitude is a kind of attitude wherein people act inconsistently with. With respect to positive attitude, people may become receptive to the said attitude and tend to understand every situation which corresponds to it. Having a positive attitude makes a person happy so that it is undeniable that he would collect data, studies every detail, organizes thoughts, and integrates all knowledge of the same as a proof that he understood it best. Hence, the next step for a person is to apply in his daily life the value of having a positive attitude which reflects to attitude-behavior consistency concept. However, when a person comes across of a negative attitude, he would shun and reject its influence in his mind. Besides, his acts will not be consistent due to the distortion he wanted to accomplish by going back to having a positive attitude.

The character of a person may affect conformity to normative social influence. Normative social influence is the ability to conform to the rules, common beliefs, values, attitudes and behaviors of other people. This is founded on the belief that prosperity and survival may be attained by belonging to social groups. However, personal traits affect how a person conforms to the rules of a certain group of which he is a member. These personal traits may include being full of pride and as well as deceitful. It may be noticed that said traits are basically negative attitudes which makes us think that it will surely affect conformity to normative social influence. If a person is a member of a social group and meets another member who is strict, the former would surely get angry and show anger through pride and envy. That act leads to inability to follow rules and regulations of the social group. In addition, the relationship between personality traits and conforming behavior is not always clear-cut. The reason behind this idea is the fact that we cannot predict what is on the mind of a person. Either way, a person may or may not conform to any rules or regulations depending on his personality traits and personal judgment at a given time.

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Theory of Therapy and Clinical Supervision

Monday, April 12th, 2010

In my more than twenty years of working in the psychotherapy field, I have developed my own eclectic approach that was first based in the psychodynamic perspective, then transpersonal, then systems theory. Then there came years of working in hospitals fully immersed in the medical model utilizing the cognitive behavioral interventions favored there. In the last few years I have become increasingly enamored of Solution Focused and other brief therapies and have received additional training in these modalities.

The tenets of Solution Focused therapy that I agree with are that small changes will ultimately have major impact on the system, that minimal historic exploration is required in most cases, that the therapist helps by the encouragement and validation of small changes and by the identification and amplification of exceptions, the presupposition of good intentions, and the use of the client’s own language. I disagree with the strong stance against the importance of insight.

I believe that it takes a variety of viewpoints and skills to be a good therapist. Although I do not particularly ascribe to the medical model I find it useful, as I find CBT effective with some patients, postmodern interventions with others, and long term psychodynamic therapy with others. I believe that the more tools we have in our therapeutic toolbox, the more likely we are to be helpful, and just as a great painter such as Van Gogh studied all the artists who had come before him before he developed his own style, so must a future master therapist.

My theory of supervision is similarly eclectic. The supervisor inhabits a variety of roles: that of teacher, counselor, collegial peer, and gatekeeper of the profession. We also must think beyond teaching what we do, and focus on preparing supervisees for today’s world. It is a way to give back and to ensure that well trained people are entering the profession. My model of therapy differs from that of supervision in that I see myself as more of a teacher when acting as a supervisor than I do as a therapist.

For a novice stage supervisee, I see the task of the supervisor as to find the positive for the supervisee as she has greater narcissistic vulnerability, lower tolerance for ambiguity, and greater dependence needs than will a later stage student. It is good to point out what the supervisee is doing well, to compliment that and act as a cheerleader.

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Catherine Auman, MFT is a CAMFT Certified Supervisor and psychotherapist with over 25 years experience based in Los Angeles, Calfornia. She has advanced training in both traditional and alternative methodologies based on ancient traditions and wisdom teachings. Visit her online at http://www.catherineauman.com

Social Cognition – An Overview

Sunday, April 4th, 2010

Social cognition theory is based on two fundamental assumptions. One assumption is that humans learn from the behavior of other humans. The second is that it is important to understand the thought process of a human in order to make a valid and reliable psychological assessment.

Social cognitive theory uses key ideas from two main branches of psychology: cognitive psychology and social psychology. It places emphasis on the cognitive stages of information processing in the presence of social stimuli. Particularly, it assesses the impact of the “actual, imagined, or implied presence of others” on the” thoughts, feelings and behavior of individuals.”

Social cognition theory uses an amalgam of personal factors, environmental factors and behavior in order to produce its model. In the first stage of social cognition, the individual must receives and perceives a stimulus. After that, the individual encodes the perceived stimulus, using prior knowledge (such as stereotypes) to make additional decisions, judgments or inferences. During this process, a person simultaneously stores and retrieves information from memory. After the main processing of information has occurred, a behavioral response is the outcome.

Social cognition is important in many aspects of our daily lives, particularly when interacting with others. However, when we are observing or receiving information (such as an advertisement), the theory is applicable. An advertisement represents a social stimulus. A person begins processing the images and messages within the advertisement and judges the desirability of the product or message. Whether the individual had a good experience with that product or company affects how the individual perceives the advertisement (prior knowledge/ memory).

Social cognition is important in the media because the media is a fulcrum of information and communication. For example, individuals must process news, advertising and multimedia programs. The media, particularly visual media, normally use a range of stimuli to facilitate communication. Awareness of how viewers or readers perceive and process information is critical to effectively presenting and communicating social data.

Understanding the social cognitive processes of individuals is important to media personnel such as producers and advertisers. Media workers, particularly journalists and editors, use their understanding of human perception to write attention-grabbing headlines or produce popular programs. For example, producers are concerned about the appearance, voice and delivery of presenters based on how viewers might perceive them.

Social cognition is pertinent to communication and education- apart from being a core theory in social psychology. Social cognition is also critical to applied psychology as well, and is also useful in understanding stereotypes and biases that occur in information processing.

Personality Development – The Real Scoop

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

Contrary to medical opinion, each of the key factors that influence personality development is in place and operative before a baby leaves his or her mother’s womb.

Psychiatric theories claim that a person’s personality develops in “specific progressive stages” after we are born; they are purely speculative and not grounded in reality. Those stages do not exist or occur as psychiatrists claim.

The alleged personality stages supposedly occur in ways similar to physical stages of development (crawling, walking, running). Our physical development stages appear valid; however, that is not the case for the development of our individual personalities or our basic psychological abilities.

Beginnings

Personality starts evolving while we are in the womb. The important factors that influence personality are well reinforced by the time a person reaches early childhood.

Every individual intention, choice, attitude, thought, feeling, action, and reaction affects personality development in either negative or positive ways. Essentially, a person’s individual personality develops in one of two ways: 1. with mostly right choices, or, 2. with mostly wrong choices.

Extremely selfish people develop dysfunctional (toxic) personalities over time with many ongoing, selfish, wrong, dishonest, irresponsible choices.

Positive and healthy personalities are built with a majority of ongoing, unselfish, right, loving, truthful, lovingly responsible choices.

All of us selfish humans have chosen to approach life in either a basically angry or basically fearful way. The particular way becomes the fundamental way that we selfishly control as we attempt to get what we want, or to avoid what we do not want in situations and relationships. Whether a person is basically angry or basically fearful is another key factor in how a personality will reveal itself.

Every fetus has subconsciously made his or her similar disposition parent his or her “favored-parent.” Then, the fetus will proceed to subconsciously take-on (download) that particular parent’s major “selfish behavior patterns and pattern-ideas. The enactment of those behavior patterns and pattern-ideas, makes the child behave and react in ways that are similar as his or her favored-parent. Enacting selfish behavior patterns is another factor that influences personality and personality development.

Unless we choose to make a core-level shift in how we are approaching life, we will continue to control our personality and behavior with ideas that are related to our basic selfish disposition, parent-related negative agreements, and selfish behavior patterns. As we grow older, personality is also affected by personal life experiences and beliefs acquired throughout childhood, teen, and adult years.

Learning

Many theorists stress “learning” as a major factor in personality development and behavior. No one doubts there are numerous mental and physical tasks that require learning and the acquisition of specific data in incremental learning stages. For example, to do algebra correctly, we must have acquired prior understanding of other math skills such as addition, subtraction, and multiplication. Moreover, if a person wishes to build a computer or a skyscraper, there is much technical knowledge that he or she must first learn. The same is true of learning and practicing specific skills to become expert at a sport. Nevertheless, that does not apply to a person’s character and personality development. They are entirely different issues.

Personality traits do not depend on learning. Personality traits are also not innate or preset at conception. Again, personality develops during very early life from a series of freely made positive or negative choices.

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Alfred Adler’s Inferiority Complex and Carl Jung’s Method of Dream Interpretation

Sunday, March 28th, 2010

Alfred Adler cared about the human tendency to pursue superiority, and the ego’s desires. He discovered that this tendency provokes an inferiority complex to the individual who sees himself in an inferior position, because the desires of his ego remain unfulfilled.

While for Sigmund Freud the person’s sexual instincts and immoral desires were always considered as the hidden reasons that would cause mental illnesses, for Alfred Adler these hidden reasons were always related to their ego’s permanent desire to prevail in their social environment, having a superior position, and being admired by everyone.

This means that when an individual is despised by their social environment, he starts developing an inferiority complex that relates everything that happens in his life to his feeling of inferiority, interpreting the intentions of the people around him, and all their actions, as if they were attacks against him.

The individual with the complex feels that everything is done on purpose, to make him feel inferior, supposing that everyone has always bad intentions.

On the other hand, he starts making absurd projects in order to attain the superiority he desires, pursuing a superior position with so much obsession that it becomes a mania. He cannot think or care about anything else.

This sick psychical condition provokes him many behavioral abnormalities, besides provoking many sad situations to his daily life, and many conflicts in his relationships.

Adler’s theories and psychotherapy are very interesting and helpful, but they seem to be incomplete when we compare them to Carl Jung’s analytical psychology.

Jung discovered the right method of dream interpretation, which exactly translates the meaning of dreams, respecting the unconscious logic, and I continued his research, discovering the meaning of many dream symbols, besides finding all the answers for the questions that he could not explain.

The best psychiatrist you can find when you feel you are losing your mind or you are depressed, is the wise unconscious mind that produces your dreams, without a doubt.

The accurate and instant translation of the dream messages will put you into contact with your wise natural doctor, and you’ll be able to better analyze your inferiority complex, or your obsessive tendency to have a superior social position.

I had to delay too much until I could simplify Carl Jung’s method of dream interpretation for you, translating thousands of dreams for many people during 19 years, but today you can have a global vision of your psychical content and your psychological problems reflected in your own dreams thanks to the accurate translation of all dream symbols, based on Jung’s discoveries, and on my own discoveries by following his method.

You’ll become a psychologist yourself, acquiring a third eye that can see everyone’s psychical content only by observing their behavior, besides being able to build the most confident and original personality of the history of mankind.

Christina Sponias continued Carl Jung’s research into the human psyche, discovering the cure for all mental illnesses, and simplifying the scientific method of dream interpretation that teaches you how to exactly translate the meaning of your dreams, so that you can find health, wisdom and happiness.

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Representations and Behavior – How Representations Direct the Actions We Take

Friday, March 19th, 2010

As information is always something that has a value in the sense that there cannot be any content free information in order for it to be information, we also adjust our behavior and behave in relations with the values that are emerging information from the sub-conscious has. In other words, when the content of information, given through conscious valuations and by the sub-consciousness causes behavior, it is in relativity with the given content, including when we willingly choose freely not to do something. Of course, by this definition, the information-relative behavior includes the value systems.

If for example a person perceives a red light when he is about to cross the street, because of value-relative behavior, he stops and waits for the green light. If for example a law has set to walk on the left side of the street in relations to the direction one is headed, if one adjusts his behavior so that he walks in the left side of the street, it is because of information-relative behavior. If for example the value system has values concerning being polite, when one adjusts his behavior in accordance with such values, it is information-relative behavior. If for example a person perceives a smile in another persons face and responds by smiling, it is information-relative behavior. If for example a person adjusts his/her behavior in relations to Christian values, it is information-relative behavior. In short, if you consider that values in the value systems such as the ethics belonging or conducted from the Universal Human Rights, it is in accordance with them the behavior is adjusted with.

Now, a phenomenon does not need to have a physical manifestation in physical level to affect behavior. As a representation is inevitably a part of the sense of reality one exists in, they can cause behavioral adjustments. One might enjoy his time in relations with fantasies by visualizing phenomena such as new age religious energy giving beings of light, and one feels of being connected with them, it can cause such physical responses as feeling more energetic. Another might in the same time and place visualize an infinite space around him, being in the constant middle of everlasting time and feel the sensations caused by them, and as in the mean time another lives with the psychological aspects of the reality observing their behavior as psychological phenomena. In a more daily example when one listens to music, a representation of an angry neighbor might appear to consciousness and one shifts the music to lower setting because of information-relative behavior, even as the angry neighbor were not in the same country. This is also something that is related to the fear of God or conscience, and the consequences of these phenomena aren’t hard to perceive. Such a representational phenomenon as God that has the quality of valuating people through the actions they take, causes with certainty effects to the behavior in accordance with values of what is good, and when for example a number of thousand people alter their behavior similarly, it causes an inevitable mass behavior however sparsely separated the individuals are from each other.

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Universal Values and the Representational Perception of Ethics

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

As the ethical values must be considered to be universal in content to every human with relative asymmetric differences, it should be noted that as we experience the reality in the form of different representations in our consciousness, we use representational perception in our consciousness to perceive ethical values, beyond the mere physical environment.

The ethical values are produced of information that exists in the category of behavioral representations. The representational perception means in this context perceiving and receiving values from behavioral representations as units of information that combine as a whole the ethical value, since representations are the sum of their parts, i.e. that the information in representations such as these are not build of one unit, but of many. There might for example be ethical motifs on why the ethical behavior must be conducted value-relatively, there might be manners that are related to it and there might be bodily movements that are also related to it. This is to say that ethical behavior can be build of information from different category and type, but which non-the-less produce the ethical value such as a gentleman opening a door and bowing to an elderly person as a sign of respecting the mounted experience and knowledge.

The need for representational perception of ethics is obvious also in case when we come in relation to a situation where we must humanely valuate ethical behavior. Without being able to perceive any ethical values, we would function fully in relations to our innate responses, thus not exceeding the boundary of human animal with the sentient sublimity developed throughout generations. This is important note when we consider the possibilities on how the range of our being can be heightened in relativity with knowledge. In other terms, the ethical values, existing not in the environment as physical things, are fully artificial, and can be said of extending virtually the innate nature in the human animal and replaces/extends that nature with ethical behavior. But why are ethical values artificial?

It is because information as it is, is virtual, but has its physical correlates in the neurology of human brains, when they for example compose a representation of our environment. The perception of colors in our environment is due to the qualities in our receptors that receive the light and send it to individual neurons as impulses, who again send them forward to be assembled through multiple different areas of the brains to be a part of the complete representation of the environment that is send to consciousness, and the layer of information they produce as our conscious perception of the environment has the content generated by them.

The image is only in our conscious mind with the content generated by our sub-conscious brain functions and is therefore an artificial representation of the environment, composed of multiple and simultaneously emerging types of information (sound is not a color, position of the body is not a sound, ethical value is not a smell, emotion is not a semantic sentence, ect.). And the ethical values are no different from this. But are they then beyond our nature? No. But they have the quality of us being able to extend the scope of our innate behavior of the human animal into ethical behavior, but which require non-the-less the understanding of the ethical values in our micro-level brain functions in order to produce meaningful representations.

Henry M. Piironen is a contemporary philosopher and a humanist who considers religious values to be universal and invaluable for generations of ethical development. He has also studied closely the representational sense of reality, human brain anatomy, complex adaptive systems, memetics, existentialism and is the creator of the philosophy of cultural continuums, published for free through EzineArticles.com. To learn the universal and deeply rooted wisdom from 1361 quotations, collected from Buddhism: The Dhammapada, The Diamond Sutra, The Lankavatara Sutra; Christianity: The New Testament; Confucianism: Confucian Analects, The Doctrine of the Mean, The Great Learning; Hinduism: The Bhagavad Gita; Taoism: Tao Te Ching, purchase his latest book Divinity the Amazon bookstore now.

The Bathroom in Dreams – The Difference Between Gender Identity Disorder and Homosexuality

Monday, March 15th, 2010

The bathroom in dreams represents the dreamer’s sexuality. This means that we can predict and correct possible abnormalities that may provoke them gender identity disorder if we analyze the meaning of dreams where the bathroom frequently appears.

Dreams where someone dies in the bathroom indicate that an important part of the dreamer’s personality starts controlling their behavior and provoking sexual abnormalities. Dead people in dreams represent parts of the dreamer’s personality that cannot serve as examples to be avoided, because the dreamer has already adopted the negative behavior that characterizes them.

The bathroom in dreams can have a positive meaning when it is big and clean, because it indicates sexual balance. If it is dirty though, it indicates immorality.

In case it is not white, but has another color, this means that the dreamer’s sexuality is being influenced by emotions that come from the wild side of their conscience, like anger in case the bathroom is red, or absurdity, in case it is purple or violet.

When the bathroom has no walls and no door, but it is open, and everyone can see the dreamer inside it in a dream, this means that the dreamer’s sexuality is exposed to the external world, because they don’t respect their moral principals, or they are in danger of losing their morality.

Concerning the activities done in the bathroom, each have a different meaning, independently of the general meaning of the bathroom.

When the dreamer is brushing his or her teeth, this means that he or she is taking care of their psychical power, which is represented by the teeth.

When the dreamer is urinating, they are getting free of their fears, while when they are defecating, this means that they are getting rid of their mistakes.

When they are having a bath, this means that they are purifying their spirit.

Dreams where the bathroom of a man has a feminine aspect, or the bathroom of a woman has a masculine aspect, indicate gender identity disorder.

The unconscious mind will analyze the dreamer’s life, and all their fears, showing him or her why they have such feelings, and what they have to do in order to eliminate the abnormalities in their behavior, which induce them to prefer being like the opposite sex, instead of being the man or the woman they really are.

Many people wonder what the difference between gender identity disorder and homosexuality is, thinking that both are in fact the same thing.

The truth is that gender identity disorder is a psychical abnormality which indicates that the person cannot identify themselves with their gender, showing behavior that characterizes the opposite sex. In other words, a man behaves like a woman, or a woman behaves like a man.

Homosexuality is observed when the person who identifies themselves with the opposite gender, feels attracted by people who belong to their gender, instead of feeling sexual attraction for the opposite sex.

Gender identity is not homosexuality, but can be turned into it when the person who cannot identify themselves with their gender doesn’t pass through psychotherapy before it is too late.

Through scientific dream interpretation they can find their psychical and sexual balance, forever eliminating all behavioral abnormalities, besides permanently avoiding traumatic experiences and grave mental illnesses, even when they have a hormonal distortion, since the unconscious mind can cure the person’s body by curing their mind.

Christina Sponias continued Carl Jung’s research into the human psyche, discovering the cure for all mental illnesses, and simplifying the scientific method of dream interpretation that teaches you how to exactly translate the meaning of your dreams, so that you can find health, wisdom and happiness.
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Generations of Difference – Asymmetric Senses of Reality and the Cultural Continuums

Friday, March 12th, 2010

As the person is born to the state the world is in as it is, the knowledge she will begin to obtain to the blank slates of her awareness beyond the innate information is in relativity with such conditions. The nature as it is has nothing but the given values to them, as for example a lightning most certainly will not act in accordance by the consciously valuated values given to it, but in accordance with its own nature independent from the values given to it. Or if someone were to be afraid of the thunder storm, it is most certainly not the determination of the storm to cause to the sensations of being scared from it, but the emotions and content associated to the storm by the sub-conscious content generative cycle is what makes the thunder storm to be for example either a majestic sensation of power or something to be afraid of. Why? Just as when you listen to music, you are able to recognize human characteristics and parts of emotional life from the music itself even if it did not have lyrics of any kind, similarly the conscious mind receives interpreted content of the environment, constructed from the units of information in the memory systems and the innate units of information.

Now, as the nature is given values that represent the semantic content of them to enable the understanding of them as such as they are defined as, so are different types of behavior given different values. Just as everyone becomes conditioned through education to later intuitively know that it is because gravity that a feather falls to the ground, what will be intuitively associated to behavior through the conditioning properties of knowledge functions similarly, or as an example of more typical conditioning, the anger of mother or father will follow the action A, and thus the action B is conducted even if mother or father was not around.

As taking these factors to note, that how much a difference there is in a world between two decades of development as starting points for the natural conditioning process a part of adaptation to make its effect on the sense of reality, what opportunities it presents and how human characteristics are valuated as, the perception of the generation gap becomes more understandable. If we presented behavior that is in relativity with representations that in themselves are behavioral values, and named such conduction of actions as value-relative behavior, such values internalized two decades ago as natural and accepted human behavior would inevitably be different in semantic content. Thus, if there are differences in the semantic content of values, they are asymmetric, and the more difference there is between the two frames of values in internal complexity, the more asymmetric they are, thus associating intuitively different content to same observed behavior as parallel perceptions.

Henry M. Piironen is a contemporary philosopher and a humanist who considers religious values to be universal and invaluable for generations of ethical development. He has also studied closely the representational sense of reality, human brain anatomy, complex adaptive systems, memetics, existentialism and is the creator of the philosophy of cultural continuums, published for free through EzineArticles.com. To learn the universal and deeply rooted wisdom from 1361 quotations, collected from Buddhism: The Dhammapada, The Diamond Sutra, The Lankavatara Sutra; Christianity: The New Testament; Confucianism: Confucian Analects, The Doctrine of the Mean, The Great Learning; Hinduism: The Bhagavad Gita; Taoism: Tao Te Ching, purchase his latest book Divinity online now.