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Read the rest of Replacing Bad Habits with Positive Rituals at my blog Edward E. Wilson.

Bad habits lead to what you don’t want, weaken you and reduce your options. Good habits lead to the results you want, strengthen you and increase the options available to you. We call good habits positive rituals because we establish them consciously, intentionally moving ourselves closer to our goals. 

Read the rest of The Moment at my blog Edward E. Wilson.

This moment is the only one in which we are truly alive. This moment is our life and by being present we live. The past is dead, the future unborn. To try and be in the future or past is to not be. Being present now is living. Being absent is being undead, shambling through the world eating our own brains. 

Read the rest of Seven Stages of Self Transformation at my blog Edward E. Wilson.

Throughout my life I’ve engaged in self transformative processes on several occasions, at times without understanding that this was what I was doing. Perhaps the best way to understand this process is to think about the transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly.

Jungian Typology, which was further developed into what is now referred to as the Myers-Briggs Typology Index, has been one of the more important tools for understanding people, including myself. The system has sixteen personality types derived from four binary distinctions. These distinctions are introversion vs. extraversion, sensing vs. intuitive, thinking vs. feeling and judging vs. perceiving. The types are named with a four letter code for example INTP stands for Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving and ESFJ stands for Extraverted Sensing Feeling Judging.

Read the rest of Understanding Jungian Typology at my blog Edward E. Wilson. 

Will is that portion of that libido or life energy under conscious control. As the source of libido is desire or the unconscious drives that fuel all of our actions increase in will is directly linked to the goal of understanding ourselves, the greater our understanding of our desires and drives the greater our ability to redirect that energy consciously. The technical term for investment of this energy is Cathexis. It is through examining what we are invested in and how we maintain, diminish or amplify those investments that we can learn to choose to redirect those investments into other avenues and so bring them under our will.

Read the rest of Emotional Investment and Will at my blog Edward E. Wilson. 

Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychoanalyst. Though he was an early associate of Freud he split off to form his own school of thought and is largely responsible for starting what is now known as depth psychology and brought us such concepts as introversion or synchronicity. The following is a brief introduction to some of the macro level concepts of his thought. I’ll be writing more about Jungian Psychological concepts in later articles and I’ve already touched on synchronicity.

Read the rest of my Brief Introduction to Jungian Psychology at my blog Edward E. Wilson. 

Reacting is when you allow your habits and unconscious processes to act in reaction to external stimulus. This is the level where we say that someone made us feel something or when we say we couldn’t help ourselves. It means we aren’t taking responsibility for our actions. Responsibility is the ability to choose our response. When we respond we bring conscious awareness to select an action or attitude that best suits the situation and where we want it to go. 

Read the rest of Choosing to Respond over at my re-launched blog Edward E. Wilson

Projection is one of the most common psychological quirks and one that greatly enhances our existence once we learn how it operates in our lives. Projection, simply put is when we see some aspect of our selves which we are not conscious of in the behaviour or character of other people, generally in an exaggerated manner. Most of the time these aspects of which we are unaware are negative as we generally have the most difficulty seeing our own faults. Of course, there are always some positives which are unconscious and projected. People with low self-esteem tend to project the most positives. Projection gives us an opportunity to discover missing parts of ourselves. Maybe you are saying to yourself, but I don’t want to discover bad things about myself. Well, you can’t correct a fault that you are unaware of. Many of these invisible faults can become strengths when we have conscious awareness enough to harness them.

Read the rest of Reclaiming our Projections over at my blog, Isle of Lyngvi.