THOUGHTS AND COMMENTARY
A Book Excerpt From
The Road to Neuroplasticity and Change to Heal Trauma, Improve Cognitive Capacity and Maximize Performance
ABOUT THE BOOK
See Also:
Thoughts and Awareness of Self
Anatomy Of the Self: Part 1 ~ Part 2 ~ Glossary
Your Memory Holds the Secrets
The Power of Positive Thought - Neuroplasticity
Practice Positive Self Affirmations Thoughts, Perceptions and Delusions Complexity of Human Emotion
Thoughts and Awareness of Self
Anatomy Of the Self: Part 1 ~ Part 2 ~ Glossary
Your Memory Holds the Secrets
The Power of Positive Thought - Neuroplasticity
Practice Positive Self Affirmations Thoughts, Perceptions and Delusions Complexity of Human Emotion
Anatomy of the Self
GLOSSARY
Analytical psychology (sometimes analytic psychology), also called Jungian psychology: is a school of psychotherapy which originated in the ideas of Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist. It emphasizes the importance of the individual psyche and the personal quest for wholeness.
Archetypes: are universal, archaic patterns and images that derive from the collective unconscious and are the psychic counterpart of instinct. They are inherited potentials which are actualized when they enter consciousness as images or manifest in behavior on interaction with the outside world.
Awareness: is the ability to directly know and perceive, to feel, or to be cognizant of events. More broadly, it is the state of being conscious of something.
Cognition: is "the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses". It encompasses many aspects of intellectual functions and processes such as attention, the formation of knowledge, memory and working memory, judgment and evaluation, reasoning and "computation", problem solving and decision making, comprehension and production of language. Cognitive processes use existing knowledge and generate new knowledge.
Cognitive bias: is a systematic pattern of deviation from normor rationality in judgment. Individuals create their own "subjective social reality" from their perception of the input. An individual's construction of social reality, not the objectiveinput, may dictate their behavior in the social world.
Collective unconscious: refers to structures of the unconscious mind which are shared among beings of the same species. It is a term coined by Carl Jung. According to Jung, the human collective unconscious is populated by instincts, as well as by archetypes: universal symbols such as The Great Mother, the Wise Old Man, the Shadow, the Tower, Water, and the Tree of Life.
Consciousness: is the state or quality of sentience or awareness of internal or external existence. It has been defined variously in terms of qualia, subjectivity, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood or soul, the fact that there is something 'that it is like' to 'have' or 'be' it, and the executive control system of the mind.
Deindividuation: is a concept in social psychology that is generally thought of as the loss of self-awareness in groups.
Ego: is the organized part of the personality structure that includes defensive, perceptual, intellectual-cognitive, and executive functions. Conscious awareness resides in the ego, although not all of the operations of the ego are conscious. Originally, Freud used the word ego to mean a sense of self, but later revised it to mean a set of psychic functions such as judgment, tolerance, reality testing, control, planning, defense, synthesis of information, intellectual functioning, and memory. The ego separates out what is real. It helps us to organize our thoughts and make sense of them and the world around us. The ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world. The ego represents what may be called reason and common sense, in contrast to the id, which contains the passions.
Epiphany: is an experience of a sudden and striking realization.
Higher consciousness: is the consciousness of a higher Self, transcendental reality, or God. It is the part of the human being that is capable of transcending animal instincts.
Human self-reflection: is the capacity of humans to exercise introspection and the willingness to learn more about their fundamental nature, purpose and essence.
Identity: is the qualities, beliefs, personality, looks and/or expressions that make a person (self-identity) or group (particular social category or social group). Categorizing identity can be positive or destructive. A psychological identityrelates to self-image (one's mental model of oneself), self-esteem, and individuality.
Individuality: (selfhood): state or quality of being an individual; particularly of being a person separate from other persons and possessing his or her own needs or goals, rights and responsibilities.
Individuation: is the process where the individual self develops out of an undifferentiated unconscious– seen as a developmental psychic process during which innate elements of personality, the components of the immature psyche, and the experiences of the person's life become, if the process is more or less successful, integrated over time into a well-functioning whole.
Insight: is the understanding of a specific cause and effect within a specific context. In psychology, insight occurs when a solution to a problem presents itself quickly and without warning. It is the sudden discovery of the correct solution following incorrect attempts based on trial and error. Solutions via Insight have been proven to be more accurate than non-insight solutions.
Introspection: is the examination of one's own conscious thoughts and feelings. In psychology, the process of introspection relies exclusively on observation of one's mental state, while in a spiritual context it may refer to the examination of one's soul. Introspection is closely related to human self-reflection and is contrasted with external observation.
Mind: set of cognitive faculties including consciousness, imagination, perception, thinking, judgement, language and memory, which is housed in the brain (sometimes including the central nervous system). It is usually defined as the faculty of an entity's thoughts and consciousness. It holds the power of imagination, recognition, and appreciation, and is responsible for processing feelings and emotions, resulting in attitudes and actions.
Nature versus nurture: this debate involves whether human behavior is determined by the environment, either prenatalor during a person's life, or by a person's genes.
Objective self-awareness: is attention focused on the self as a socially evaluable object.
Openness: involves five facets, or dimensions, including active imagination (fantasy), aesthetic sensitivity, attentiveness to inner feelings, preference for variety, and intellectual curiosity.
Person: being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility.
Personal unconscious: is Carl Jung's term for the Freudian unconscious, as contrasted with the Jungian concept of the collective unconscious. Often referred to by him as "No man’s land," the personal unconscious is located at the fringe of consciousness, between two worlds: "the exterior or spatial world and the interior or psychic objective world."
Personality: is defined as the characteristic set of behaviors, cognitions, and emotional patterns that evolve from biological and environmental factors. While there is no generally agreed upon definition of personality, most theories focus on motivation and psychological I nteractions with one's environment.
Personality Traits: habitual patterns of behavior, thought, and emotion. According to this perspective, traits are aspects of personality that are relatively stable over time, differ across individuals (e.g. some people are outgoing whereas others are not), are relatively consistent over situations, and influence behavior. Traits are in contrast to states, which are more transitory dispositions.
Perspective-taking: is the act of perceiving a situation or understanding a concept from an alternative point of view, such as that of another individual.
Philosophy of self: defines, among other things, the conditions of identity that make one subject of experience distinct from all others.
Private self-consciousness: is a tendency to introspect and examine one's inner self and feelings.
Psyche: the totality of the human mind, conscious and unconscious. Psychology is the scientific or objective study of the psyche. In psychoanalysis and other forms of depth psychology, the psyche refers to the forces in an individual that influence thought, behaviorand personality.
Psychology of self: is the study of either the cognitive, or affective representation of one's identity, or the subject of experience. The earliest formulation of the self in modern psychology derived from the distinction between the self as I,the subjective knower, and the self as Me, the object that is known.
Public self-consciousness: is an awareness of the self as it is viewed by others.
Self in Jungian psychology: is one of the Jungian archetypes, signifying the unification of consciousness and unconsciousness in a person, and representing the psyche as a whole. The Self, according to Carl Jung, is realized as the product of individuation, which in his view is the process of integrating one's personality. For Jung, the Self is symbolized by the circle (especially when divided in four quadrants, called quaternity), the square, or the mandala.
Self-compassion: is extending compassion to one's self in instances of perceived inadequacy, failure, or general suffering. It is composed of three main components – self-kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness.
Self-concept (also called self-construction, self-identity, self-perspectiveor self-structure): is a collection of beliefs about oneself. Generally, self-concept embodies the answer to "Who am I?".
Self-esteem: is an individual's subjective evaluation of their own worth. Self-esteem encompasses beliefs about oneself (for example, "I am unloved", "I am worthy") as well as emotional states, such as triumph, despair, pride, and shame.
Self-image: is the mental picture, generally of a kind that is quite resistant to change, that depicts not only details that are potentially available to objective investigation by others (height, weight, hair color, etc.), but also items that have been learned by persons about themselves, either from personal experiences or by internalizingthe judgments of others.
Self-knowledge: is a term used in psychology to describe the information that an individual draws upon when finding an answer to the question "What am I like?". While seeking to develop the answer to this question, self-knowledge requires ongoing self-awareness and self-consciousness (which is not to be confused with consciousness).
Self-perception theory(SPT): asserts that people develop their attitudes (when there is no previous attitude due to a lack of experience, etc.—and the emotional response is ambiguous) by observing their own behavior and concluding what attitudes must have caused it.
Self-realization: is fulfillment by oneself of the possibilities of one's character or personality.
Self-schema: refers to a long lasting and stable set of memories that summarize a person's beliefs, experiencesand generalizations about the self, in specific behavioral domains. A person may have a self-schema based on any aspect of himself or herself as a person, including physical characteristics, personality traits and interests, as long as they consider that aspect of their self important to their own self-definition.
Self-transcendence: is a personality trait that involves the expansion of personal boundaries, including, potentially, experiencing spiritual ideas such as considering oneself an integral part of the universe.
Sentience: is the capacity to feel, perceiveor experience subjectively. Eighteenth-century philosophers used the concept to distinguish the ability to think (reason) from the ability to feel (sentience).
Soul: is in many religious, philosophical, and mythological traditions, the incorporeal essence of a living being. Soul comprises the mental abilities of a living being: reason, character, feeling, consciousness, memory, perception, thinking, etc.
Super-ego: reflects the internalization of cultural rules, mainly taught by parents applying their guidance and influence. Freud developed his concept of the super-ego from an earlier combination of the ego ideal and the special needs from the ego ideal are met.
Unconscious mind (or the unconscious): consists of the processes in the mind which occur automatically and are not available to introspection, and include thought processes, memories, interests, and motivations.
Virtue: characteristic of a person which supports individual moral excellence and collective well being. Such characteristics are valued as a principle and recognized as a good way to be.
Archetypes: are universal, archaic patterns and images that derive from the collective unconscious and are the psychic counterpart of instinct. They are inherited potentials which are actualized when they enter consciousness as images or manifest in behavior on interaction with the outside world.
Awareness: is the ability to directly know and perceive, to feel, or to be cognizant of events. More broadly, it is the state of being conscious of something.
Cognition: is "the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses". It encompasses many aspects of intellectual functions and processes such as attention, the formation of knowledge, memory and working memory, judgment and evaluation, reasoning and "computation", problem solving and decision making, comprehension and production of language. Cognitive processes use existing knowledge and generate new knowledge.
Cognitive bias: is a systematic pattern of deviation from normor rationality in judgment. Individuals create their own "subjective social reality" from their perception of the input. An individual's construction of social reality, not the objectiveinput, may dictate their behavior in the social world.
Collective unconscious: refers to structures of the unconscious mind which are shared among beings of the same species. It is a term coined by Carl Jung. According to Jung, the human collective unconscious is populated by instincts, as well as by archetypes: universal symbols such as The Great Mother, the Wise Old Man, the Shadow, the Tower, Water, and the Tree of Life.
Consciousness: is the state or quality of sentience or awareness of internal or external existence. It has been defined variously in terms of qualia, subjectivity, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood or soul, the fact that there is something 'that it is like' to 'have' or 'be' it, and the executive control system of the mind.
Deindividuation: is a concept in social psychology that is generally thought of as the loss of self-awareness in groups.
Ego: is the organized part of the personality structure that includes defensive, perceptual, intellectual-cognitive, and executive functions. Conscious awareness resides in the ego, although not all of the operations of the ego are conscious. Originally, Freud used the word ego to mean a sense of self, but later revised it to mean a set of psychic functions such as judgment, tolerance, reality testing, control, planning, defense, synthesis of information, intellectual functioning, and memory. The ego separates out what is real. It helps us to organize our thoughts and make sense of them and the world around us. The ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world. The ego represents what may be called reason and common sense, in contrast to the id, which contains the passions.
Epiphany: is an experience of a sudden and striking realization.
Higher consciousness: is the consciousness of a higher Self, transcendental reality, or God. It is the part of the human being that is capable of transcending animal instincts.
Human self-reflection: is the capacity of humans to exercise introspection and the willingness to learn more about their fundamental nature, purpose and essence.
Identity: is the qualities, beliefs, personality, looks and/or expressions that make a person (self-identity) or group (particular social category or social group). Categorizing identity can be positive or destructive. A psychological identityrelates to self-image (one's mental model of oneself), self-esteem, and individuality.
Individuality: (selfhood): state or quality of being an individual; particularly of being a person separate from other persons and possessing his or her own needs or goals, rights and responsibilities.
Individuation: is the process where the individual self develops out of an undifferentiated unconscious– seen as a developmental psychic process during which innate elements of personality, the components of the immature psyche, and the experiences of the person's life become, if the process is more or less successful, integrated over time into a well-functioning whole.
Insight: is the understanding of a specific cause and effect within a specific context. In psychology, insight occurs when a solution to a problem presents itself quickly and without warning. It is the sudden discovery of the correct solution following incorrect attempts based on trial and error. Solutions via Insight have been proven to be more accurate than non-insight solutions.
Introspection: is the examination of one's own conscious thoughts and feelings. In psychology, the process of introspection relies exclusively on observation of one's mental state, while in a spiritual context it may refer to the examination of one's soul. Introspection is closely related to human self-reflection and is contrasted with external observation.
Mind: set of cognitive faculties including consciousness, imagination, perception, thinking, judgement, language and memory, which is housed in the brain (sometimes including the central nervous system). It is usually defined as the faculty of an entity's thoughts and consciousness. It holds the power of imagination, recognition, and appreciation, and is responsible for processing feelings and emotions, resulting in attitudes and actions.
Nature versus nurture: this debate involves whether human behavior is determined by the environment, either prenatalor during a person's life, or by a person's genes.
Objective self-awareness: is attention focused on the self as a socially evaluable object.
Openness: involves five facets, or dimensions, including active imagination (fantasy), aesthetic sensitivity, attentiveness to inner feelings, preference for variety, and intellectual curiosity.
Person: being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility.
Personal unconscious: is Carl Jung's term for the Freudian unconscious, as contrasted with the Jungian concept of the collective unconscious. Often referred to by him as "No man’s land," the personal unconscious is located at the fringe of consciousness, between two worlds: "the exterior or spatial world and the interior or psychic objective world."
Personality: is defined as the characteristic set of behaviors, cognitions, and emotional patterns that evolve from biological and environmental factors. While there is no generally agreed upon definition of personality, most theories focus on motivation and psychological I nteractions with one's environment.
Personality Traits: habitual patterns of behavior, thought, and emotion. According to this perspective, traits are aspects of personality that are relatively stable over time, differ across individuals (e.g. some people are outgoing whereas others are not), are relatively consistent over situations, and influence behavior. Traits are in contrast to states, which are more transitory dispositions.
Perspective-taking: is the act of perceiving a situation or understanding a concept from an alternative point of view, such as that of another individual.
Philosophy of self: defines, among other things, the conditions of identity that make one subject of experience distinct from all others.
Private self-consciousness: is a tendency to introspect and examine one's inner self and feelings.
Psyche: the totality of the human mind, conscious and unconscious. Psychology is the scientific or objective study of the psyche. In psychoanalysis and other forms of depth psychology, the psyche refers to the forces in an individual that influence thought, behaviorand personality.
Psychology of self: is the study of either the cognitive, or affective representation of one's identity, or the subject of experience. The earliest formulation of the self in modern psychology derived from the distinction between the self as I,the subjective knower, and the self as Me, the object that is known.
Public self-consciousness: is an awareness of the self as it is viewed by others.
Self in Jungian psychology: is one of the Jungian archetypes, signifying the unification of consciousness and unconsciousness in a person, and representing the psyche as a whole. The Self, according to Carl Jung, is realized as the product of individuation, which in his view is the process of integrating one's personality. For Jung, the Self is symbolized by the circle (especially when divided in four quadrants, called quaternity), the square, or the mandala.
Self-compassion: is extending compassion to one's self in instances of perceived inadequacy, failure, or general suffering. It is composed of three main components – self-kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness.
Self-concept (also called self-construction, self-identity, self-perspectiveor self-structure): is a collection of beliefs about oneself. Generally, self-concept embodies the answer to "Who am I?".
Self-esteem: is an individual's subjective evaluation of their own worth. Self-esteem encompasses beliefs about oneself (for example, "I am unloved", "I am worthy") as well as emotional states, such as triumph, despair, pride, and shame.
Self-image: is the mental picture, generally of a kind that is quite resistant to change, that depicts not only details that are potentially available to objective investigation by others (height, weight, hair color, etc.), but also items that have been learned by persons about themselves, either from personal experiences or by internalizingthe judgments of others.
Self-knowledge: is a term used in psychology to describe the information that an individual draws upon when finding an answer to the question "What am I like?". While seeking to develop the answer to this question, self-knowledge requires ongoing self-awareness and self-consciousness (which is not to be confused with consciousness).
Self-perception theory(SPT): asserts that people develop their attitudes (when there is no previous attitude due to a lack of experience, etc.—and the emotional response is ambiguous) by observing their own behavior and concluding what attitudes must have caused it.
Self-realization: is fulfillment by oneself of the possibilities of one's character or personality.
Self-schema: refers to a long lasting and stable set of memories that summarize a person's beliefs, experiencesand generalizations about the self, in specific behavioral domains. A person may have a self-schema based on any aspect of himself or herself as a person, including physical characteristics, personality traits and interests, as long as they consider that aspect of their self important to their own self-definition.
Self-transcendence: is a personality trait that involves the expansion of personal boundaries, including, potentially, experiencing spiritual ideas such as considering oneself an integral part of the universe.
Sentience: is the capacity to feel, perceiveor experience subjectively. Eighteenth-century philosophers used the concept to distinguish the ability to think (reason) from the ability to feel (sentience).
Soul: is in many religious, philosophical, and mythological traditions, the incorporeal essence of a living being. Soul comprises the mental abilities of a living being: reason, character, feeling, consciousness, memory, perception, thinking, etc.
Super-ego: reflects the internalization of cultural rules, mainly taught by parents applying their guidance and influence. Freud developed his concept of the super-ego from an earlier combination of the ego ideal and the special needs from the ego ideal are met.
Unconscious mind (or the unconscious): consists of the processes in the mind which occur automatically and are not available to introspection, and include thought processes, memories, interests, and motivations.
Virtue: characteristic of a person which supports individual moral excellence and collective well being. Such characteristics are valued as a principle and recognized as a good way to be.
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