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The field of psychology encompasses many aspects that must be dealt with on a daily basis. Psychologists and others working in the field are often faced with moral dilemmas that may cause them to question the place of morals and spirituality in psychology. Those who practice some form of religion may use their specific values and morals when it comes to finding resolutions in these situations. There still lies the question of whether religion has a place in the day-to-day practice of psychology and if so, where to draw the line.

In part, psychology is considered a science. Though it is not exact in all situations, it does carry with it various similarities to science where theories and decision making are concerned. Ethics play a big role in psychology for both the roles of the psychologist or psychological professional conducting evaluations and providing treatment and the client or patient receiving the services or treatment. The code of ethics was put into place to protect both parties involved. Ethics is based on right and wrong and, can therefore be closely related to morality in many instances. Because of this, it can be argued that religion plays a role in the ethical decisions that are made everyday. Though the code of ethics does not specifically site religion as a part of what is contained there in, various aspects of morality and common values are found.

Spirituality as a whole has become even more prevalent in the field of psychology over the past several years as evidenced by the number of Christian counseling centers that have opened around the country. The professionals working in these settings offer what some say is the perfect combination of treatment, psychology based on Christian values and beliefs. Here the psychological principles and ethics are used with various aspects of religious values and beliefs interwoven into the treatment plans. Patients are often counseled on how spirituality can help them through their difficult situations. In these settings, professionals strive to find a balance between psychology and religion, a challenging task at times. Psychology is based on various principles, theories and ethics while religion is based mostly on faith. Psychological issues are proven in a scientific way while a good part of religion is based on belief in the unseen. While many people don’t question their faith, it can be difficult to intermingle what can be physically seen with what cannot. This causes many people to question the place of spirituality in psychology.

Because faith is often questioned, it has become necessary to receive proof. This proof often comes in the form of answers that are a direct result of the testing of ideas (Myers). When ideas are tested and found to be correct, faith is easier to maintain; however, then they do not survive the test, faith can become a very shaky prospect. When this principle is applied to psychology, the outcome can change on a regular basis. Different situations call for different ideas which may or may not prove to work. Also, what works in one situation may prove impossible in another. The key to understanding where spirituality fits in is knowing how to apply it to each individual situation and idea and make determinations and assessments based on the information that is gathered and the particular values that are relevant to the end result.

To better understand where religion fits into the psychological realm, let’s take a closer look at the human attributes that make up each. Where religion is concerned there is the theological wisdom. This deals with the acceptance of divine love in order to enable individuals to accept themselves. Psychological wisdom, however, deals with self-esteem, optimism and personal control (Myers). The ability to use the two together to make important decisions will provide the freedom to use what we know, admit what we don’t and search for the answers. Because we are both the creatures and creators of our own social world, people and situations matter (Myers). While ultimate control lies beyond us, we carry responsibility for making important decisions that have a lasting effect on us as well as others.

Psychologists face these dilemmas everyday. They must make important decisions that will directly effect their patients. Each decision is made on an individual basis and is dependent on each specific situation and its own set of circumstances. Each decision will carry with it a separate set of ethical issues and dilemmas and the solution will remain unique to each. Religion is said to heal people while medicine was designed to do the same. The two often work in different contexts, but it can be argued that medicine was discovered because of ideas and values based on religious beliefs. Because of this, it is believed in many situations the two are used together to come up with treatment plans that will be both effective and long lasting.

In many ways, people who have great faith have found the insights and critical analyses of psychology to be supportive of the understanding they possess of human nature. Their assumption that religion is conducive to happiness and good health is also attributed in great part to psychology. The science of psychology offers principles that can be applied to the construction of messages that will prove both memorable and persuasive. Here the tasks of peacemaking and reconciliation are promoted in a way that offers solutions that will provide the means by which others can achieve happiness by establishing healthy relationships (Myers). While the science may challenge our way of thinking, the same can be said of religion. Faith is often questioned in an effort to find answers. This has proven to be helpful in many situations where the answer wasn’t clearly defined. Here, the science of psychology is used along with the religious beliefs to find solutions to problems that seemingly have no immediate or clear resolution. Still, faith is not always a negative aspect of psychology.

A strong value and belief system can help a psychologist working as a professional in the field deal with situations where the traditional psychological theories aren’t showing a definite answer. Here the process is reversed because religion is used to clarify a particular set of circumstances based on the lack of information that can be gathered at a given time. There are also times where one can support the other. Religious beliefs are often used to support the reasoning behind many ethical situations whereas psychology is often used to prove various religion based ideas. This is where the two can be used in tandem to come up with a truly unique solution that will work.

It has also been argued that faith plays an important role in a psychologist’s ability to use the information found in the code of ethics and psychological practices that are present everyday. This is based on the belief that people who possess strong faith are better able to understand the science of psychology because they can use the two together to come up with answers that are suited to each new set of circumstances. Here psychologists are not heavily relying on either faith or science, but instead are using them both to gain a better understanding of the situation as a whole. Those who believe in the contents of the code of ethics understand its importance and why it must play a role in psychology on a daily basis (Kafka). Those who possess strong religious beliefs usually strive to use them everyday when making ethical decisions and are often working toward an outcome built on both science and faith. Still there is a very important line between when to use the science of psychology and when to rely on the beliefs and values that often assist many in making daily life decisions.

When it comes to the co-mingling of psychology and spirituality, each has its own place. The scientific aspects of psychology are necessary in order to solve a wide range of problems and provide successful treatment to those in need. Still, spirituality can play a very important role in the rehabilitation of patients by making it easier to understand the psychological ramifications and why they exist. Spirituality and science can be used both during and after treatment. During treatment, religious beliefs may guide both the psychologist and patient toward making the right decisions and understanding difficult situations along the way. After treatment, religion can continue to help the patient as he or she moves onward through life while the scientific aspect may still remain present in the form of ongoing counseling or use of medication.

Psychologists can use both in their profession to make difficult decisions and deal with hard to solve problems. Aspects of each can be relied upon to provide the means by which to draw important conclusions that may help throughout the entire treatment process. Evidence has also shown that psychologists who know their profession but also possess strong religious beliefs are able to help their patients throughout treatment by passing on various virtues that promote positive thinking (Myers).

The end results of melding together both science and spirituality have been studied for a number of years. Some argue psychology should remain only a science while others feel the intertwining of science with religion can only serve to improve the overall outcome of treatment situations. The argument is also made that science as a whole has strong ties to religion and the two often give cause for the questioning of each other. Science can often prove what religion cannot and religion was the basis for the need to know, thus people began studying the how and why of scientific matters (Myers).

Some have explained the boundaries between psychology and religion by bringing up a few points that express how one relates to the other. One point is the correlation of scientific ideas presented in everyday human nature to religion and being able to site the information to show how it is all related. Another important point is the link between religion, prejudice, altruism and overall well-being (Myers).

When dealing with various psychological situations, it is just as important to realize the importance of the science as it is the religion. This is often difficult to do because of the differing beliefs and values possessed by each professional working in the field. Because of this, it is necessary for each to make decisions based on the psychological code of ethics along with the specific circumstances of each given situation. For those who are religious, spirituality will most likely play a role in the decision making process in a professional setting because it very likely does in any other. Those who utilize spirituality in day-to-day situations often rely on it to guide them in their professions. Though the psychological code of ethics may not have been created based specifically around the religious beliefs and values directly associated with spirituality, there are many similarities between ethical dilemmas and resolutions and those of a moral nature.

Correlations have also been reported between faith and subjective well-being. One example of this can be found in a National Opinion Research Center survey of 42,00 Americans that was conducted after 1972. Here 26 percent who never attended religious services reported being very happy while 47 percent of those participating in spiritual services on a regular basis, sometimes more than weekly reported also being very happy (Myers). Though this does not sho3w a direct link between religion and well-being, it does indicate that many people seek spirituality in various aspects of their lives. Whether the science of psychology and spirituality should be co-mingled in a professional setting can be a bit subjective as it is dependent upon the differing situations and those directly involved in the treatment processes. While there are correlations between the ethical code used by psychological professionals everywhere and the morality associated with religion, the two remain separate and can be called upon in any given situation where they may be deemed necessary or important. The code of ethics is used every day in the psychological setting, but whether or not spirituality is involved may be up to each professional working in the field.

REFERENCES

Code of Ethics: Understanding the Professional Conduct of Psychologists. Taken from http://clinical-psychology.suite101.com/article.cfm/psychologist_as_professional

Myers, David G. Psychological Science Meets the World of Faith. Taken from http://psychologicalscience.org/observer/getArticle.cfm?id=1861.

For more information, please contact Dr. Joseph Coleman at jcoleman05@bellsouth.net or via phone at (504) 621-0966 (504) 621-0966

The pain and sadness was evident on the face of 72 year old Ruth. After years and years of struggling, she had finally been seen by a professional who recognized her symptoms as DID and healing had progressed in an astounding way every since. “So much of my life was wasted. What do you need to know so that others do not have to wait to get the help they need?” she asked our therapists’ group. Like Ruth many suffer in silence, their condition exacerbated by inappropriate medications, professionals that don’t understand or believe them, and a constant fear that they are really ‘crazy’.

As a reaction to repeated abuse some children begin to create imaginary characters to hold the brunt of the trauma. Thus begins a lifetime of assigning pain and memories to ‘others’ so the ‘host’ no longer has to feel. An entire system of alters is created and the ‘craziness’ begins as the adult switches or dissociates. This compartmentalization helps the person survive the brutality of their experience.

Virtual group work is no surprise to those of us who have worked with DID clients. They bring with them a whole group, in their heads, made up of different ages and genders and even different mental health issues! At some point these ‘individual’ participants begin to interact with each other and then group dynamics takes on a whole new meaning!

But let me back up a bit for those of you who may be skeptical. We have all had clients who have experienced childhood abuse or trauma. As adults their symptoms are very much like PTSD and we comfortably begin to help them with their memories, hyper vigilance and anxiety. After awhile we may notice that our usual tools are not working as well and relief is temporary for the client. Medications are not helpful. Suicidal thoughts or self-injury behaviors seem to come out of nowhere and then suddenly disappear.

Strangely these clients are honest about substance abuse describing it as a means to “shut myself up” or “explain my quirky behavior”. Some clients can seem completely functional and professional in certain areas like work. Their ability to focus is often exceptional. Still, at other times there will be an outburst of radically different behavior that is out of character. Some of these behaviors might involve cruising for sexual partners, child like behavior such as climbing a tree or suddenly exhibiting an expertise or talent they are unable to demonstrate at other times.

Another clue that DID is present is a very high tolerance of pain. A client was in a car accident but only went to the doctor days later because the lawyer requested the consultation. The doctor was astonished to find my client’s chest severely bruised and she refused painkillers. She didn’t understand what the fuss was about. This is tied to the client’s excellent ability to compartmentalize thoughts and feelings. You might also notice headaches or a sense of dizziness proceeds behavior changes or panic attacks. Your client may be switching to another alter.

Here are some clues that you are dealing with a ‘group’. Clients will talk about constant chatter, running commentary or arguments in their heads. Journal entries may have noticeable changes in handwriting. E-mails or phone messages may have different vocabulary or tone. Stories of abuse will be shared one week and completely denied the next even apologizing for wasting your time.

It is true you cannot safely diagnose DID until you have witnessed an alternate personality. It helps to use the DES questionnaire for more indicators. Unofficially, when my client politely leans towards me and with a sweep of her hand circles her face and asks me “Are you telling me there is really nothing going on in your head?” and they are astonished that I live with such ‘emptiness’, I have a good clue that this client has been dealing with a life long, complicated and busy system of alters. Then I can begin the ‘group’ work that will lead to the empty contentment I so enjoy myself!

Jane Parker is a licensed mental health therapist in Bradenton, Florida who has a special interest in Dissociative Identity Disorder. Together with Sue Mackey she is co-owner of New View Counseling providing opportunities for a fresh perspective for clients ready to make a change in their lives and relationships.
http://www.newviewcounseling.com

Many people will say “well I never dream” and of course this statement is totally wrong, we all do every night end up in Neptune’s world. One of the best ways to *remember your dreams is to stimulate your subconscious to recall them as you awake.

Depending on your UCI *Unique Celestial Identity, you will have only a few seconds to recall your latest dream, while if you inherited a Mercury *the Mind, in Pisces *dreams, chance are you will dream in color and enjoy every minutes of your second busy dreamy life.

Dreams have a lot to offer, again that is if you can differentiate the different meanings and state. We are all at our deepest state when REM *Rapid Eye Movement takes place. Again depending on your natal UCI and Neptune Lord of dreams aspects and placement by house and sign chances are your dream life will be either non-existent or very active. Of course the use or abuses of legal or illegal drugs/chemicals *Neptune tools, will indeed stimulate more of your imagination or dream state and could create awful nightmares. But as a rule once you have learned to differentiate what type of dream you had there are great benefits, even warnings in your dreams. Now if you have had any of these dreams, either wonderful or terrible, they may also reflect inner fears than could easily turn into a blockage and any and all ailments are coming from a *blockage. The flux of life travels through you and any short circuit can be very detrimental to your physical or spiritual health. While using Feng shui location and orientation of your bed can also help dreaming and accelerate the process of healing.

Of course such old Chinese methodology or Nostradamus rare Divine astrology may be taboo practices for the logical scientist but there are tremendous values in these old practices. Let me tell you one of my many dreams that gave me a better understanding on how to use of dream state constructively and your subconscious’ message properly. In any dream always notice the general environment as it depicts the positive or negative energy displayed. In this dream I was by my window and I saw three huge black crows hawking loudly directly at me. I noticed a few tenacious black clouds above and heard the far away sound of thunder as I walked out to the garden. Then the birds became very aggressive towards me and in fear I picked up a rock and throw it at them. To my surprise the three of them were hit *this can only happen in a dream of course, and they fell dead in front of my feet. Then I woke up wondering what was this all about. During these days I was working on the US base in Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as a heavy equipment operator.

The *Chief in charge of the job and two others inspectors were watching me trying to cut and climb a steep slope with a heavy Caterpillar loader. After a few trials, wondering for my safety and the expansive machine, I came down the loader and asked if I could use a bulldozer instead. I thought the heavy steady tracks would be much more safe than the huge tires and explained this to them. Their ego got over them and told me they had no dozer available just now and to keep trying. I refused and got fired on the spot. I was terribly upset but there were nothing I could do to convince them to keep my job and went back home. They called on another worker and he began to work as I drove off the base. About one hour later or so I received a call from the top job Superintendent asking me to return to the job site. He also told me the mechanic who witnessed everything earlier had only good words to say about me and only a few minutes after the argument the driver miraculously escaped with his life as the loader flipped upside down on the slope.

I was laughing my head off driving back to the base and up a sudden realized what my dream was all about. The three black birds were nothing else than these three workers who had no experience with the operation of heavy equipment screaming at me and me *shooting them (the birds) to death after I proved my claim. Thus this is how I learned to *read or interpret a prophetic dream.

I wonder how a traditionally educated psychologist’s would react to my explanation. Listening to some of these people on national radio can be very rewarding where the character of the soul himself and his expertise *natal UCI or *Unique Celestial Identity, will act in full force verbally. Some of them are quite interesting reflecting a totally robotic expression on how they perceive their own reality. It amazes me how many of these schooled psychologist professionals are so much into themselves and totally blind to whom they really are.

Traditionally educated famous radio host psychologists are all over the air wave and some on television but rest assured, they do not possess any Cosmic Consciousness and are the perfect examples of typical blind souls. In reality, they are adept on working other people’s problems using extreme logic and general psychology. But what about the depth of rare information coming from Astropsychology, involving the subject’s direct relationship to the Superconscious and the Cosmic Code” This is what creates the robotic response to life and designed the complex psyche of all human beings. But all they can do is to give you logical, plausible answers to something so mysterious, so complex and so mystical that without the proper training they will never ever realize.

One can only reflect his own UCI and in the case of some religious famous syndicated radio hosts, 99% of the *counseling will strongly reflects and involves a deep encrusted dutiful beliefs. Trying to explain the Cosmic Code jurisdictions to any of these talking heads *or any religious person, is like trying to teach a fish to speak Chinese because of the firm unmovable attitude of the accepted belief system. Of course as mentioned many times in my work souls born in January and October are prone to fall for the codification of thoughts. The soul fed on books showing absolutely no commons sense but a rigid know it all, puritanical, dutiful reasoning where anything out of the ordinary of the accepted scriptures should not be endorsed, trusted or taught. They are also born professional students where traditional schooling is a priority over any form of formidable opportunity. But what a schooled person must realize it that; “there is a BIG difference between education and intelligence”.

It amazes me that this type of logical down to earth religious righteous type of thinking runs the US radio waves where these pe4rceived as intellectual elites are very sarcastic and as blind as can be. Incidentally these are the ones trying to guide others. The spiritual pride, religious rectitude and coldness blasted daily from their radio broadcasts are not only wasteful but also detrimental to the listeners.

Anyone raised in such a bully, strict religious environment forced to eat the bible before any meal since birth can only display serious sign of mental instability. And you expect these Doctors on the air to help you or your kids with your problems? One can only see his own reality through his education, intelligence, experiences but most of all through his inherited UCI. Thus asking for someone who shares a very different down to earth *UCI may bring logic to where its needed while the real spiritual manifesto where all the real reasons and answers truly are is non existing.

So this is what it comes down to – Some human beings simply think they know better and believe their particular *wisdom is better than true geniuses who have made history. i.e. Einstein – Simply call their show and ask any of these famous psychologists what they think of Nostradamus, UFO, Edgar Cayce, astrology or even Astropsychology on the air? To them it’s all pseudo science because they never honored the word science to master the subject. Chances are the protective delay in place in all radio stations will take care of that question before it could ever be asked! You probably will get lectured and asked to pray for your sin because you dealt with the occult.

“A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.” Einstein

Blessings to All

D. Turi

http://cosmiccode7.ning.com/
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The Source of All Good Healing

Psychology and fundamentalism at best have been polite opponents. In recent history, say the last 50 years, this opposition has become vigorous and often less than polite. Many churches, such as Calvary, completely eschew all mental health practitioners (whether social workers, psychiatrists or counselors) and staunchly maintain that all healing comes directly from God or prayer and that all you need in order to develop and maintain a robust mental health may be found in Scripture or a prayer session.

This rejection of psychotherapy may have been a reaction to the “I’m okay, you’re okay” generation of therapists who did very little for most people except to allay the anxieties of narcissists and sociopaths by telling them “if it feels good, it is good.” In the eyes of both Orthodox Jews and Christians, the field of humanistic psychology took the whole program of self-improvement one giant step too far, putting man in the center of the universe, particularly his own.

Their objections were not wrong. And I say this as a holistic psychotherapist with almost 25 years of experience in the field.

I have seen far too many well-meaning therapists do little more for their patients than make them feel better about being sick. They are loath to challenge or confront negative behavior or unhealthy thinking because they fear being seen as judgmental. As a result of their tentative relationships with the truth, they fail in their relationships with their patients. They do not see what needs to be healed so the patient is left unhealed. This is truly a disservice to the patient because what it ultimately does is feed the pathology and starve the essence of the person.

I think all good and true healing flows from the same Source which means that there can be an alliance-and an important one-between the Biblical and Mental Health communities. But only if we have an understanding of our terms and are actually seeking the same results.

What is Healthy? What is Unhealthy?

According to Samuel Hahnemann, M.D., after whom dozens of medical colleges around the world have been named, physical health presents with a very clear picture which is eternally derived from a healthy spiritual state.

“In the healthy human state, the spirit-like life force (autocracy) that enlivens the material organism as dynamis, governs without restriction and keeps all parts of the organism in admirable, harmonious, vital operation, as regards both feelings and functions, so that our indwelling, rational spirit can freely avail itself of this living, healthy instrument for the higher purposes of our existence.”

He goes on:

“The material organism, thought of without life force, is capable of no sensibility, no activity, no self-preservation. It derives all sensibility and produces its life functions solely by means of the immaterial wesen (the life principle, the life force) that enlivens the material organism in health and in disease.”

Therefore…health depends on a healthy wesen or life force or spirit. It is a process that proceeds from above down, from the inside out. This is also the philosophical underpinning of a proper holistic psychotherapy and the pivot point of all Scripture on the subject of good health.

Biblical Healing

Let us start with basics. What has the Bible been saying about health (whether mental, emotional or physical) for the past several thousand years? The following is a small sample of references:

“Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear and respect the Lord and shun evil. This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones.” Proverbs, 3:7-8

“Hope deferred makes the heart sick; but when hopes are realized at last, there is life and joy.” Proverbs, 13:12

“Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. And are you not worth much more than they?” Matthew, 6:26

“This is what the Lord says: ‘Your wound is incurable, your injury is beyond healing. There is no one to plead your cause, no remedy for your sore, no healing for you. All your allies have forgotten you; they care nothing for you…. But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds…’” Jeremiah, 30:12-14, 17

“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” John, 14:27

Even in this cursory perusal, it’s easy to see that the biblical concepts of health are the same as those taught to graduate students in counseling: Hope, faith and an acceptance of reality, an understanding that we are not the center of the universe, peace of heart (a release of worry), generosity, service, humility, joy, and love. I am sure there is more, but I believe this is a good core to start with.

Clinical Healing

I have worked with individuals, families, couples and adolescents for almost 25 years. They have been both mandated to see me under duress and crawled in desperate for help. I have seen a wide enough range of people to ask a few pointed questions and hopefully seen enough recovery and healing to offer a couple of observations.

The first question: What are the things that lead to poor health, whether physical or mental/emotional?

In my experience, they are the same things the Bible warns us about over and over and over: Pride, Sloth, Greed, Gluttony, Envy, Lust and Wrath.

Almost every single patient I have ever had was doing battle with pride in some way. Some were engaged in battle with nearly all of them at once. And I admit openly that almost every pain I have ever suffered myself had something to do with at least one of those sins or as some people call them, “character defects.”

One woman whom we shall call Sonia came to my office about 15 years ago. She was addicted to pain killers. She had some physical symptoms, but they were not the reason for the prescription or the solution for the pain she needed to heal. She complained about her mother, even though she had not spoken to her in many years and was enormously indignant (a combination of pride and wrath) about how she had been wronged. As she spoke of all the things her mother had done to her, she clenched her jaw and her hands.

When later in treatment I offered up the possibility that her continued rage (wrath) at what had been done to her those many years ago was actually only hurting her and that perhaps it was time for her to accept the fact that her mother had failed her and begin to consider forgiveness, she became outraged (pride). In her mind, accepting the reality of her mother’s inadequacies (without making them her own) was unthinkable. Her mother had to be shown who was right and who was wrong. Sonia equated acceptance with excuse and could not, would not see it any other way. The end result? She stayed in pain and addicted to pain killers. Her pride would have it no other way. When the choice between being “right” or happy was presented to her, she chose to be right.

The second and perhaps more pertinent question: How do we treat these problems in the modern world? What is a psychotherapist to do if the purpose is to facilitate true healing and he or she is not a priest, pastor, or rabbi? We are not preachers. Our job is slightly different and the people who come to us are not always ready for (or necessarily interested in) an extreme spiritual make-over. People who may not be ready to go to a church or synagogue may need to someone objective who will just listen to them and hear their suffering. Many people need to talk before they can learn to pray. And the therapeutic relationship-if it is handled properly-can be the training ground for having other relationships, including one with God.

There is a difference between preaching and manifesting. It is good to inspire others with great thoughts about God. It is also good to manifest God’s love through presence and compassion. There are times that a patient may be too angry at God to hear someone say, “God loves you,” but not too angry to have God’s love quietly demonstrated through patience, understanding, and honest integrity. And this may be the first time he or she has ever experienced it.

In my experience, what we have to do to be healing in psychotherapy is not all that different than scripture prescribes even if it is presented and packaged a little differently.

After working with patients for these 20+ years, I have broken it into five segments or stages, all of which I believe are biblically supported although none of these are dependent on one particular faith or point of view. All the seven deadly sins (or character defects) may be individually or collectively addressed at any point along these five stages. These stages are only clinical observations, not rules and shouldn’t be approached legalistically.

I: Hope

All recovery-whether from drugs, depravity, or desperate fear-begins with a promise of hope, that there is “another way” to be, to live, to feel, to love and be loved. This hope is offered in different ways by different people, but I have found it best received by my patients in the form of personal and true stories of redemption (mine or others), of living examples of other people’s recoveries, of their emotional, mental and spiritual salvations.

When we see the pain of the other person’s struggles, feel the roller coaster of his unfolding temptations and challenges, identify with her frustrations and longings and then witness her release and deliverance…we can begin to hope. If it happened for them, perhaps it can happen for me…? All a good psychotherapist needs is one good perhaps and the work can at least get started.

Most of my initial work with patients is an infusion of hope. Some are so habituated to sadness, to pain, to loss, to deprivation, that they simply cannot imagine anything but the way they’ve always been. “But you are here in my office, so there must be some small ember still burning,” I tell them. But many need quite a bit of tender care-a very careful fanning-for that flame to begin to burn again. So I pace them. (Pacing (*1) is a clinical term meaning that I am walking with the patient rather than running in front of him or dragging behind him.)

II: Surrender

Surrender is a word that gives moderns the shudders. What we are told to want for ourselves is power and control. We are carefully and consistently taught in graduate school to nurture in our patients their “self-empowerment” and imbue in them a solid sense of control. This can be important and necessary in very measured doses, particularly when a person has been abused and even the most personal controls have been denied them. But it can go too far and be endowed too freely.

Even some evangelists have done that with “prosperity gospel.” In that philosophy you can tell where a person is spiritually by what he owns and how well his career is doing. Ask and ye shall receive, they remind us. But instead of its focus on the spiritual it has become a modern, media spin on the Doctrine of the Elect and Predestination: How do we know you have found God’s favor? Because you’re successful. How do you get to be successful? By God’s favor. So, the goal is to acquire wealth, prestige, and power. Somewhere along the line even the ministers have forgotten, “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”

In the beginning of my own rebirth into sanity, the idea of surrender terrified me. I know from my own experience that surrender is at the very least an uncomfortable concept for most people. And some are not just tentative about it, they are panic-stricken, which is only reasonable since they have not yet come to trust that the universe is purposeful, creative, and meaningful. (For me that is God and, again, my surrender only came when I came to believe that God actually loved me.) For many of those just coming into therapy, the universe has been a hurtful, oft-meaningless, chaotic, unfair place. We cannot surrender to the abyss, to a vast darkness, to a deist blob that couldn’t care less whether we existed or not, to a universe without love or meaning. I certainly can’t imagine doing that. And I didn’t. I couldn’t. So, I present it in the way it was successfully presented to me-with great care and in small steps: Initial surrender means to accept reality. That’s it. Not to like it or excuse it. Just to accept it as real.

Accepting reality is something people can consider even when reality is harsh, even when they are scared, hurt, or confused. Accepting reality is the underpinning of sanity. Denial is the basis for all insanity. When surrender is presented initially in this way, it becomes manageable.

So, what can they surrender to? I keep it simple. They can surrender to the fact that their lives are not working, or the unhappiness they live with at home, or the way they feel and make other people feel when they’re drinking. They surrender to the facts first.

Why? We surrender first to reality because as we’ve been told: “The truth shall set you free.

Surrender in this way, taken in these gentle, baby steps, is what gets us strong enough to make the fuller, sweeter surrender, to take the leap into the love-both human and Divine-that is, as C.S. Lewis and Peter Kreeft call it, our heart’s deepest longing.

III: Honesty

If truth is what we need, then honesty is what we must give. Why isn’t my life working? Why is my spouse always angry? Why am I so easily offended? Why do I have trouble stepping out of the house? What do I feel? What do I need? What do I stumble over myself again and again and again?

This is a coming-clean, a venting, an admission of wrong-doing, a confession of mistakes and a map of wrong turns. It is what Alcoholics Anonymous has called a Fourth Step, what the Church calls a moral reckoning or examination of conscience, and the Jews a “tikun” or correcting. And it is absolutely necessary, whether one is an alcoholic or not, whether one is in a 12-step program or not, whether one belongs to a religion or not.

It is a brave step, this one. It takes courage to say “I really loused up that relationship,” or “I was a coward when it came to my career,” or “I was as abusive as she said I was.”

Interestingly, it is at this point that the need for hope returns. It is very painful to look at all we’ve done wrong and terribly hard to imagine that it can ever be any different. In my work, this is a good time to remind someone of what is possible, returning again to the stories-the true stories-of redemption and the view from the top of the mountain.

Some ways back I knew a young woman (details disguised to protect identity) who had been seen by numerous therapists. She’d been diagnosed with PTSD, Bipolar disorder, and borderline personality disorder. She’d been medicated, treated with a dozen techniques, restrained for cutting, and finally written off as hopeless.

We spoke about her life, current and past. After about a month of piecing together her history, we landed on the issue of an abortion she’d had when she was 15. She had been so afraid: the boy who had father the child had abandoned her, her parents were busy with work and a very high-level social life, and she had no older or wiser siblings to guide her. Her life with the family’s church had been cut off earlier because everyone had been simply too busy to bother with it. (She had been raised and baptized Catholic.) Ultimately her support and direction came from the media and from the information available at school.

I asked her about the abortion and how she felt about it. She answered with honest curiosity, “Why are you asking?”

“Because it’s a big event, especially for a little girl,” I said.

“No one else seemed to think so.”

“What do you mean?”

“Everyone else seemed to think it was no big deal. You just go and do it.”

“Did you see it as no big deal?” I asked.

She started to cry.

It took some time and many tears, but she was neither borderline, bipolar, nor hopeless. She was guilt-ridden, not by my accounting but her own. In an effort to be what her surrounding culture believed she was supposed to be, she had to lie about how she felt, what she wanted, and what she really needed. Telling the truth was her first step out of the pain and the pathology.

This accountability is a way of owning our mistakes so we can move forward to owning our achievements. If everything is everyone else’s fault, then we are the victims of happenstance and there truly is no hope. People are awfully skittish about being accountable because they have been shamed and blamed to excess, but this is not about shame. This is the yellow brick road to freedom.

IV: Service

What does it take to make it better once we know what we’ve been doing wrong?

This is actually a more controversial question than one may imagine because according to many people in the field one must always focus on the positive. And by in large, they make a convincing point. Noticing what works often works. For some patients, I am the first one in their entire lives to say, “I see you. I see what is good in you. Let us look further to see what else you have that is good and can get better.”

However, I think going fully in either direction-focusing only on the positive or focusing only on all the wrongdoing-is a mistake. There must be a balance, an acknowledgment of both aspects or inclinations of our natures. As the first story of Adam and Eve illustrates, we are not wholly good or wholly evil. We have capacities in either direction and to become good or to continue to be good, it takes a conscious effort and awareness of both those inclinations. We must nurture the one and starve the other.

How is that best done?

First and foremost, through service and good works, even when we don’t feel like it. There’s nothing better for someone full of self-pity and hypochondria than to get out and volunteer. I had one young woman volunteer at an old age home. I had another at a soup kitchen. It doesn’t matter how we give, but in order to grow, we must start somewhere.
Through humility even when we feel boastful or proud or angry or indignant. We must do for others, like say we are sorry, even when we want to dig in our heels.
Through patience and generosity even when we feel deprived and impatient.

Service to others is seen by many as a healing of a higher order, which is why it comes later in the 12-Steps of A.A.-we can only offer what we have learned or gained. “If you want to keep it [recovery], give it away,” recovering addicts and alcoholics are told. The meaning there is clear-you must first have it to give it.

There is another side to this, though. Some of us call it “Act as if” and contend we only learn what we teach and only get what we give away. I think it works both ways and it is up to a good clinical team (meaning the patient and the therapist) to determine when and how to go about this. I am no Solomon. What I know, though, is that service-at any time it seems possible and right-is beneficial to the mind, the heart, the body, and the soul.

V: Forgiveness

Without forgiveness, we are stuck in the wrongdoing and don’t get to move forward into our new lives. My feeling is that pride is usually the blockage on this. We won’t forgive because we’re right, damn it! And we want to be vindicated even more than we want to be free or happy.

Forgiveness never denies the wrongdoing (Romans 3:10,23). But it forgives the doer, who clearly knows no better or is too sick to ever see the difference.

Forgiveness doesn’t mean we need to open our door to thieves. It doesn’t ask us to be fools. The irony is that the less one forgives, the more hardhearted, vengeful and angry one becomes and therefore the less one is able to see the truth of any kind. Hatred does not only reject joy, it rejects truth and can’t recognize a real threat when it’s there.

Forgiveness is often the last step in this small ladder to emotional and spiritual freedom.

As Corrie Ten Boom, a Christian woman who survived a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust, said, “Forgiveness is to set a prisoner free, and to realize the prisoner was you.”

One of the best examples of forgiveness is the story of Joseph and his brothers, who had collectively betrayed him and left him to die because of their own envy and greed. He crawled to survive, then was enslaved and thrown in prison. Many years passed. Still, when his brothers came to Egypt many years later, he not only forgave them after he saw that they had changed (and showed true repentance), he rejoiced in them.

Suffering: Is it Necessary?

There is one last issue I’d like to briefly address and that is the notion of suffering. I haven’t allotted it its own stage of recovery because it involves all of them.

The worst part of modern psychotherapy is that it does not allow for the existence of suffering. It insists on happiness as a human “right” and promotes its open-throttled pursuit along with everyone else in mass media and entertainment. This is the parting of ways between what is ordinary psychotherapy (and even those preaching the Prosperity Gospel I mentioned earlier who believe they can petition God for whatever worldly goods or emotional rewards they desire, quoting “ask and ye shall receive” as if it offered proof of God as the Great Pez Dispenser) and a holistic psychotherapy that is based in traditional Biblical values.

Part of the problem is that the modern age of psychotherapists see happiness-which is defined as the attainment of some desired goal-as the end goal of healing.

Orthodox Jews and Christians have a different take on this subject. While it is seen as normal to want to be happy, to be healthy, even to have material comfort it is not seen as the purpose of our existence. It is not even seen as terribly important. It is considered far more critical to be good than to get what you [think you] want. Happy is fine. Goodness and purposefulness and joy-they are far better and reach in far deeper.

What is even more troubling to me is that I see people wanting the rewards of happiness without even the minimum of self-sacrifice. Americans particularly believe it is their “right.” We have been told so repeatedly by the media and psychologists, and even a whole generation of “hip” preachers. Do what makes you happy. It’s all that counts.

The philosophical pinnacle of this thinking is in New Age theology, where sickness, injury and tragedies are defined as self-inflicted manifestations of poor core programming. In that epistemology, Mystery is abolished and we are responsible for everything that happens to us and around us. If abundant health and wealth and beauty are our birthrights, then suffering means we have either done something wrong to deserve it or written bad scripts for our lives.

Given this mental and emotional mulch we are planted in, it is no wonder that we are so worried about our bodies, our bank accounts, and our images. We fret about face lifts more than we do about whether we have a neighbor that needs our help because she has been bed-ridden for a week.

Denying suffering has a price that is incomprehensibly enormous. Because when we deny suffering (which as Buddha said is inevitable in this life), we must also deny death. And to deny death, we must deny life.

Why should it be included in psychotherapy, though? Shouldn’t we want to banish it forever? Why shouldn’t we want to avoid it altogether? What’s in it for us, anyway?

This is the answer I came up with: By being present for suffering, we become present for the whole of life, for the wholeness of another person. And the reward is nothing less than the ability to love-and be loved-fully. We suffer because we love and want to continue loving. It is a poignant irony, I think. In our attempt to avoid suffering, we cut ourselves off from the one thing that can mitigate it: each other.

Judith Acosta, LISW, is a licensed psychotherapist, crisis counselor and classical homeopath in private practice in New Mexico. She is the co-author of The Worst Is Over: What To Say When Every Moment Counts, hailed as the “bible of crisis communications” and Verbal First Aid (Penguin, 2010), the new book on therapeutic communication with children. She lectures around the country on Verbal First Aid, trauma, stress, and animal-assisted therapy. She may be reached at her website: http://www.wordsaremedicine.com, where she has an interactive blog.

In addressing the history of counseling we want to divide the subject into two sections, secular and Christian.

Secular. The history of counseling had its origins, first in religion, later in philosophy, and later still in medicine. Religion and philosophy asked many of the same questions: “Where did I come from? Where am I going? Why am I here?” Medicine on the other hand tends to ask the question “Are you covered by insurance?” From time to time, the members of a community would suffer from the vicissitudes of life. At such times, they would seek help from their priest, wise man, or witch doctor. Often all three were offices were found in one person. Generally the problems they faced were of two kinds; grief over the loss of a loved one, or guilt related to the problem of wrong behavior, sometimes called sin.

There were other problems of course, ranging from love sickness, to anxiety, to madness. Such extraordinary problems called for extraordinary solutions. Love sickness had its potions, and anxiety its elixirs and counsel, while madmen were often considered to be touched by the gods, and if not honored they were at worse driven from their community. Hannibal, Alexander, and Caesar with their bouts of epilepsy are examples of the former, whereas King David (I Samuel 21:10-15) and the maniac of Gadara (Luke 8:26-39) are examples of the later.

Such was the order of things for millennia. However, as populations grew and religions changed, madness began to be looked upon with less tolerance. In time, “mad houses” came into existence to deal with the impatience and fear of society with such people.

It was about this time that psychiatry and psychology began to make their presence known. Both had their origins in 19th century Europe. However, of the two, psychology was far more a product of science than was psychiatry. However, both were founded in the secular humanism of a Europe turned cold to the gospel of Christ and thereby far outside the pale of orthodox Christianity.

Christian. Christian counseling has been a part of the work of ministry from the origin of the Church. “Every since apostolic times, counseling has occurred in the Church as a natural function of corporate spiritual life.” Paul made it clear that he considered the family of God competent to counsel one another when the need arose. He said, “I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, complete in knowledge and competent to instruct (counsel) one another” (Romans 15:14 NIV).

Like the helping mission of the pagans around them, Christianity also addressed the problems of grief and sin, although with considerably different counsel on how to deal with these problems.

The Reformation, and later the Puritan movement in England and American saw a significant return by Christianity to the authority of the bible as the only source of “life and godliness.” What characterized the Puritans in particular was a practical application of the Word to the problems of life. In this sense, Christian counseling began to take on new significance. Several works stand out as exceptional representatives of this flow of valuable counsel to the Church. They are, Richard Baxter’s A Christian Directory, Thomas Brooks’s Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices, Jonathan Edwards’s A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, and Ichabod Spencer’s A Pastor’s Sketches. Much of these writings are what we might call “case study” in style.

Nevertheless, in time, the message of the church grew dim, and the void created by a Church with few answers, was address by creative minds with humanistic convictions. Foremost among this crowd was Sigmund Freud a physician from Vienna, Austria. Operating not simply from unchristian, but actually anti-Christian premises, Freud postulated a humanity without sin, helpless victims of their parents’ failures. For a world struggling to free itself from a theological bondage of Reformed theology which made mankind totally responsible for their moral failures, the blame shifting of the new psychologists and psychiatrists did not prove to be resistible. Europe and America in the 19th and 20th centuries begin to flock to the answers of the questions of the dilemmas of life posited by these men.

In time, Christian ministers began to be aware that they were no longer looked to for answers on problems of living, as they once were. Indeed, the unspoken consensus was that Christianity did not have answers for these new problems. Not only did the humanists believe this; Christians themselves came to hold the same position. The liberals in the Church addressed these serious problems of living by Christians, either by “deferring and referring” to “those properly trained to deal with ‘real’ problems,” (psychologists or psychiatrist) or by obtaining the psychological training that would equip them to this task. The conservatives saw the problem as a lack of commitment, bible study, prayer, and faithful attendance of all the church services. In other words, they denied its existence.

In the ’60’s a new breed of evangelical, represented by Bruce Narramore, presented an alternative to the capitulation of liberalism on the one hand, and the denial of fundamentalism on the other. Their answer was the “Christianization” of psychiatry and psychology. Their rallying cry was “all truth is God’s truth.” With this banner held high, they boldly attacked the gates of neurosis, snatching brands from the mass of the depressed. Orthodox Christians flocked to read the new books harmonizing orthodox Christianity and the humanism of psychology and psychiatry.

This solution captured the imagination of the Church; it continues to do so to this day. However, in the early 70’s a new approach was pioneered by a professor of practical theology at Westminster Theological Seminary, Dr. Jay E. Adams. In response to the responsibilities given him to teach counseling to the students at Westminster, he developed a counseling method, which he dubbed nouthetic counseling. Essentially, he asserted that in scripture the Christian has everything he needs for “life and Godliness.” The problem with the Church, he stated, was that it had not made the scripture useful by means of proper exegesis, and functionally relevant with useful applications to the problems of life.

His writings started a quiet, slow growing, revolution in many conservative/orthodox churches. It is this return to the bible that has brought Christianity full circle in its application of scripture to the practical and difficult problems of life.

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My recent research on Freud’s theory of mind control shocked me, the techniques that are now used by advertising agencies, politicians and public relations for over 100 years to inject fear and pleasure as a psychological drug to create slave employees, increase massive traffic of consumerism in the world of so called democracy.

Mass Media Brain Washing Techniques

The Freudian theory about the unconscious mind, and the hidden starving zombie inside each of us, can be activated by repetition display of advertising, to drill the unconscious mind, the giant zombie within, currently known as ‘the genius within the consequences of both self help programming or media control programming depend on the kind of hot syntax and imagery used to unleash the genius, or if you are exposed to advertising propaganda and public relations programming, you don’t unleash your genius within, you submit your genius, your creativity, your intelligence to those in power.

Intelligence Bankruptcy

So, mind control agencies use similar and carefully crafted pieces of Freudian theory for specific function that benefit the governments, the military, insurance companies, and world banks. If the psychology of repetition is used to advance the evolution of mankind, so be it, because, the techniques are not all that bad, and it has many beneficial advantages. However, because the 97% of the world population are not even using 1% of their psychology to get the edge, the power is left to the rich and powerful to control the masses.

Inside each of us lie the hidden irrational forces of fear, or pain and pleasure. It is these two devices, that the propaganda policy makers, PR, Media, and advertising agencies take advantage of when there is new policy to be introduced, increase in prices and taxes. They use hot syntax to manipulate the unconscious mind, and once the hot syntax spread the semantics ( meaning) through fear and pleasure, designed to sedate the conscious mind, and then access the unconscious, so that you submit to new policies, new taxes, new prices, and more control of your privacy thus preventing campaign or riot, in other words suppressing freedom of speech, without your knowledge.

Torture & Freedom Marketing Technique

Take for example, the history of tobacco, and how the PR agencies brain washed women into starting smoking, because they used the ‘hot syntax’ torture and freedom’ they have touched on the irrational factor of the human being, ‘desire and emotion, for women, ‘ cigarette was a symbol of equality, that just by smoking a cigarette, women felt equal to men, and that is how the tobacco industry is now a multi billion dollars industry. The unconscious mind can be trained to do anything despite your rational mind, but for those who are not training the mind to meet their full potential, are leaving their unconscious mind in the hand of their masters. If you think you are a free sovereign, think again.

Passive Consumers

We are no longer citizens living in a world of democracy, we are turned into consumers, consumers led to the creation of a stock market boom, and this gave massive opportunity for banks to get you into buying shares, applying for loans and credit cards. This is what I call, The Snow Ball Psychological Techniques of Mass Media Brain Washing Effect. This is how the masters treat citizens, not as active citizens, but as passive consumers, this is what PR agencies, particularly in America, “the key to control, in a mass democracy”

When you hear the media politicians talking about ‘people are in charge what they truly mean is that people’s desire is in control, that is the difference. As long as massive advertising, as long as the Spamming virus of television and giant billboards exist, people’s decision making power is hijacked by the irrational emotional desires that the media controls. The masses don’t make decision based on their intellectual power, but make decision based on their emotional reaction buried deep in the unconscious mind.

Why You Never Followed through that Business Concept?

If employer gets you to wake up so early in the morning, wearing that uniform you were told to wear, be at your desk at specific time, and work all the way to the graveyard, for what? for a little reward that your unconscious accepted as the only option or die. The only system you can change is your belief system, and that can only be done, when you commit to treating your unconscious mind as a baby who needs to learn how to walk the right way, as opposed to the way you are carried by the unconscious starving emotions, and this requires daily MindGym training to rid yourself of the software of sabotaged belief system polluted with fears, worries inject in you by media propaganda advertising, mass received opinions, religion and cults.

Get The Edge

Just think of how you would feel to face your fears, uncertainties, doubts, procrastination, laziness, hidden depression, and defy them all, when you step up with all your might, your true powerful hidden self, and arrive at the finish line of success to become a winner, the best you can be, super fit, healthier, happier, and richer beyond your wildest dreams.

Become a seeker of practical knowledge, a lover of wisdom, in order to attract luck and become a winner, as opposed to being at the mercy of your masters. As long as you remain a loyalist to your masters, you will always remain a slave, chained by your hijacked unconscious mind. The only way to convince you that your intelligence is being hijacked is when you look around the country, in every single country, there is not single MindGym for the unconscious programming, but there are millions of physical fitness centres around the world, and ignoring the most important organ and power of the universe, The mind.

Freud’s Theory of Mind Control

Please note that I have mentioned Freud’s theory that does not mean I am in favor of his theory. He spoke hotly about sexual energy should be controlled, but then, he counseled his daughter Anna Freud about her sexual fantasies, and for someone who never had a sexual life, the father is counseling her about something she never tried. Another point about Freud is that he smoked heavily, a tobacco addict, and has the audacity to speak about addictions. In my mind, he was an intellectual and not an emotionally intelligent being. I find most of his theories controlling rather than liberating. Anna Freud appears to be a cold-hearted woman, managed to promote her father’s work, and continued to practice psychoanalysis.

I would rather be brain washed by a program that allows me to make free choices, that allows me to overcome my irrational desires, and television addiction that sabotage the brain and the life of TV addicts. But, thanks to NLP, we are now witnessing a real shift in consciousness, freeing people to become their full potential. When clients come to see me about their struggles, my role is to inspire, motivate, empower individuals to take control of their thinking, and feeling, and to unleash their own master within, so that they become free sovereign. The role of a coach or a mentor is to demonstrate sensitivity to encouraging openness to diverse perspectives, and to leveraging diversity.

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Learn to advertise what you desire to become, what you desire to create, and what you desire to receive. This is your life, and you must live it as you see fit. May You Remain a Seeker of Practical Knowledge, The Lover of Wisdom, and a Free Sovereign, blessed and a blessing to mankind.

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From two Greek words: psyche, which means the mind or the soul and logos, which means study, the science of Psychology has been studied and defined by many people throughout the ages. Hilgard, Morgan, Silverman, and Schlesinger are just a few. A careful analysis of their foregoing definitions of psychology reveals common points: Psychology is the scientific study of the behaviors of living organisms; the term behavior must not be solely attributed to man’s physical reactions and observable behavior; and thoughts, feelings, and attitudes are also connected to the term behavior.

The primary goals of Psychology are mainly to describe, identify, understand and explain behavior, to know its factors, and to control or change behavior. Psychologists often apply their knowledge and understanding of human behavior to solve issues and help in our society. Different areas of specialization in Psychology are studied to provide better understandings of this science.

Among these are the traditional fields consisting mainly of: Clinical Psychology which deals with the diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of psychological problems. It also relates to Psychiatry which pertains to more serious problems; Counseling Psychology which deals with administering, storing, and interpreting psychological exams; Educational or School Psychology which deals with students’ learning and adjustment; Community Psychology which deals with problems of the aged, prisoners, and other problems in the community.

It also focuses on providing accessible care for these people; Social Psychology which deals with the behavior of man individually and in groups; Industrial or Organizational Psychology which deals with issues of people in the workplace; Personality Psychology which is concerned with the uniqueness of a person; Developmental Psychology which deals with factors affecting human groups; Experimental Psychology which focuses with the basis of scientific research; Physiological Psychology which is concerned with the functions of the brain; and Comparative Psychology which targets the differences of the species.

Aside from these, several branches of Psychology were discovered during the 70’s. Forensic Psychology deals with legal, judicial, and correctional systems. Environmental Psychology is primarily concerned about issues relating to the environment. Computer Science, on the other hand, uses computer programming for behavioral analysis. There is also Engineering Psychology which seeks to make the relationship between man and machines; and Psychopharmacology which deals with the relationship of behavior and drugs.

Furthermore, the latest fields of Psychology that were recently developed consist of: Health Psychology which focuses on multidimensional approaches that emphasize lifestyle and health care systems; Sports Psychology which applies psychological principles to improve performance and enjoy participation; Cross-culture Psychology which examines the role of culture in understanding behavior, thoughts, and emotions; and Women Psychology which emphasizes the importance of promoting research and study of women.

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Human race who face events with anxiety might be relatively wary of feeling the onset of disturbed or irritable emotions and beliefs. Most of the times, terror issues can meddle with the working of everyday life, creating disturbances in the office, within friendships, and throughout the humane experience. A vast number of humankind who grapple with terror and depended mental health concerns realize that they’d likely be gay and more personally profitable in the nonappearance of such thoughts and senses. Due to this, many turn to the favorable circumstances given by treatment.

Such therapy for anxiety sessions prepare the humankind to conquer these issues while undergoing attacks of agitation also when the affected are not agitated and also aide them to understand why the affected be in pain from massive tension and distress. People might become prone to attacks of distress either because they have experienced appalling or aggressive times or because they were exposed to similar sort of moral patterns displayed by their family members or human race who meant some sort to them. Although there can be several causes why humankind undergo bouts of panic, the outcome is generally the of similar nature.

Bouts of agitation can head to loss of psychological equilibrium, excessive distresses, physiological disabilities like as searing ache in the head, deficit of breath and quick heart beat. Counseling aides clients face these signs not only through understanding why they’ve become a part of the patient’s life, but by developing tactics for functioning through terror as it when it occurs. people who suffer from fits of agitation in their office or during they are out seeing someone, might face other same kind of senses that flood prospect with terror. As this experience is disagreeable enough at house or in seclusion, it can be specially hard when it happens in the presence of others, an element which can at times make the symptoms bad.

Treatment helps the affected to be trained how to cool their own bodies and avoid fits of distress from taking place.Fits of anxiety and other like related feelings may be avoided by engaging in a specific strata of deducing process or by working out in a productive way. Counseling clients can be directed how to contemplate or take soothing time outs to help drive away over-active distress. To greaten the capability of the therapy, the actual approach is very often stitched for the client. The process by which the singular prospects control to restrain their fits of distress may be dissimilar but the result is always the identical, that is it aids the prospects to live a more fulfilling and calm lives.

For several human beings beating terror or related feelings is likely by not relying on or paying for in medical expenses. Your life can be greatly changed for the more desirable forever with the help of therapy for anxiety.

The term not-for-profit organization (NPOs) is an umbrella term which implies that all organizations whose main organizational objectives are not to be profitable. NPOs main organizational objectives will thus be that to improve the general welfare of mankind. The bulk of NPOs are that of charities and counseling organizations.

The two essential components that will enable the NPO to achieve their objectives will be the organizational culture and volunteers. For instance, the organizational culture of a sales-oriented company such as real estate will be that of a competitive and achievement-oriented culture. This is necessary because there is stiff competition and that the volunteers have to be able to meet quotas and deadlines in order to excel and achieve the organizational objective. Thus for a NPO, the organizational culture has to be a supportive and nurturing one.

The second important component is volunteers. The organizational culture is the indirect component that orientates the organization to its objective. The real estate organization’s culture is that of a competitive one, thus the culture instills values such as pragmatism and realism into the volunteers. For a sale transaction to be successful, the employee will need to be realistic with the prospect’s budget and time. Through such values, the employee will then be able to persuade the prospect and secure a deal which orientates the organization to its objective. Thus the volunteers are the direct component that orientates the organization to its objective. Similarly, the NPOs’ volunteers will need to have the required skills and be willing to be immersed into a supportive and nurturing culture, so that they can complete their tasks.

Jean Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development on NPOs

In the context of NPOs, the understanding of Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development will help NPOs to determine whether its volunteers’ adaptability in a social work environment in several specific aspects. The volunteer may have the basic prerequisites such as having a passion for volunteerism and a caring heart. However he is very capable of managing the accounts but he does not like it and he prefers to do front-line work such as nursing, which he is not good at. So using Piaget’s theory will determine that his adaptability in accounting is high but his adaptability in nursing is low in terms of performance. Thus, it is logical to transfer him to accounting so long he is still committed to volunteering and not work away due to being upset with the transfer.

For NPOs that deal with childcare and child education, Piaget’s theory is even more relevant. The caretaker can be sure of how to handle the child at the different ages. For example handling a child at 2-7 years old probably means that the child has a high tendency to throw tantrums and act in a very unruly manner since cognitively; the child has yet to develop a sense concrete logic and has ego-centrism. Thus, the caretaker must be prepared to be tolerant and be willing to explain to the child but not get personal with the child’s tendency to be unruly.

Carl Rogers’ Theory on Person Centered Therapy on NPOs

As NPOs, such as, counseling and social care deals mainly with people who may be emotionally vulnerable, it is important that values such as patience and genuineness are instilled into the volunteers. Since the patients are emotionally vulnerable, the volunteers need to be able to communicate to the patients that they genuinely care and are willing to help them.

In NPOs such as charities, an organizational culture that has strong influences of Person Centred Therapy (PCT) helps to promote transparency and accountability. It is vital that charities are transparent so that the public has faith in the charity’s management and usage of funds, so that the needy will benefit and the public will continue to donate. A strong influence of PCT into the culture means that the volunteers will be able to understand that the donors are what the NPOs are about. Misappropriating the funds will kill off donors’ faith and trust. A greater sense of responsibility will be achieved as the volunteers truly empathized with the fundamentals of the charity’s paradigm, which is to improve a certain form of human welfare. When most of the volunteers are imbued with such a value system, there will be a prevalent supporting and nurturing culture conducive for reaching the objectives of the NPO.

Conclusion

Most personality theories are useful to NPOs in indirect manners as they focus on the intangibles. They are best suited for understanding the volunteers’ motivations as well as creating a good supportive and nurturing organizational culture that is conducive for achieving the NPOs organizational objectives.

Most cognitive theories are useful to NPOs in a more direct manner as they focus on the person’s capacity to utilize his ability as well as understanding specifics. They are best suited for understanding the different volunteers’ abilities as well as certain aspects that may require a more systematic and logic way to understand. For example, a child’s personality tends to be unruly, but at which point of time there is a greater tendency to be more unruly? Cognitive theories perhaps will be able to further pin-point the exact spots that need to be examine in greater detail which personality theories can only offer a broader and wider perspective.

Therefore, both personality and cognitive theories have to be used in-tandem to achieve the optimum usefulness that is relevant in achieving the NPO’s organizational objectives.

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Dias Lu is an entrepreneur who specialises in self-empowerment, wealth mastery, and entrepreneurial leadership. Currently he is running his internet marketing business and doing part-time experiential coaching.

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A hidden problem of a significant number of teenagers is ADHD. This condition, known to occur in about 5-7% of the population makes it difficult to pay attention and concentrate. Equally, in the teenage years it plays havoc with planning ability. Teens with ADHD will have trouble listening in the classroom, planning and organizing their assignments and will be late with most deadlines. Unfortunately teachers often view these issues as signs of laziness or poor motivation and tend to stop offering help to the students who need it the most.

ADHD is not a benign condition. Often diagnosed in childhood, but not always, it lasts a lifetime. The symptom profile changes over time, with the initial symptom (in boys) of hyperactivity diminishing during the teen years. Remaining behind after the high levels of activity go away is the exceptionally poor attention and concentration skills and, in some boys, impulse control problems. These teens are caught in a cycle of difficulty, negative labels, failure, rejection and protective withdrawal from achievement striving.

There are a significant number of adolescents with ADHD who have slipped through the net because they didn’t present as children with high energy levels, behavior difficulties and excitable emotions. This group of teens is typically more girls than boys and the absence of any positive symptoms causes them to go unnoticed until they enter secondary school. Catching the hidden cause of their difficulties can be problematic because so often these teenagers become reluctant learners who avoid school as often as they can.

There is a lot we can do to help these teenagers with ADHD. Certain medications may be necessary in some cases. In most instances short bursts of counseling that is directive and goal-focused can be enormously helpful. The main point is to notice that these teens don’t want to be the way they are; they are simply trapped in a cycle of cognitive and behavioral difficulties caused by the way their brain functions.

If you suspect your teenager has ADHD contact your GP immediately. You can also find useful information at: www.hadd.ie

David J. Carey, Psy.D.
297 Beechwood Court
Stillorgan
Dublin, Ireland
http://www.davidjcarey.com