Анна Шиман
Draft translation. This text was translated automatically and has not been proofread yet — if something reads oddly, it does.
“Nowhere does the uniqueness of a personality show itself more than in the fruits of its imagination.”
A person strives to “be someone”, and yet often becomes a hostage of their ego complex.
When the ego complex becomes the most important thing, the psyche loses its balance. The wholeness between the poles breaks down, and all kinds of extremes appear that affect a person’s state and behaviour.
This often shows in aspirations such as “doing it right” or “becoming the best student on the course”, and also in a constant drive to demand the very highest results of oneself — even in areas where one’s level of competence is not yet high.
Haste, constant high-speed forward movement with no chance to stop, has a very negative effect on the result of any activity.
In other words, the information you receive has to unpack and take root inside.
- The knowledge you gain has to be absorbed and grow into experience.
- Experience has to be reflected on and grow into a lesson.
- The past has to stay in the past and become simply a memory.
Creative self-exploration — getting to know yourself and the possibilities of your subconscious — takes time, energy and trust. Not everyone is ready for such journeys, often because of deep fears and a great many inner prohibitions.
Getting in touch with themselves and their soul’s needs for the first time in a long while, a person feels anxiety and fear. After all, they have almost lost the ability to be in contact with their most important needs.
Over time the connection comes back, thanks to active work on developing imagination and creative thinking.
Imagination holds enormous potential for personal development.
To restore a whole picture of perception, we use metaphorical associative cards and other art-practice methods, which you can get to know on our courses and programmes.
Being able to see your life as a whole system brings a person into natural rhythms and makes their state steady and balanced.
It opens the way to a happy, meaningful, harmonious life.
Everything in the world is made of opposites. And the psyche is no exception!
That is why we very often meet people who believe that creative methods and art practices are not serious and not worth the attention, effort or money.
“— you’ll never make money from that!” — says a voice inside your head, or someone around you.
A voice that suddenly makes you small and helpless and, for some reason, ashamed or guilty, just as in childhood.
It makes you feel how absurd your spontaneity is, and your wish to take up something wonderful, creative and completely useless, yet so longed for.
Then inner mechanisms come into play that strengthen doubts about how effective and useful this kind of activity is. As a rule, this leads to having no way to fix anything, to make the important and necessary changes in one’s inner and outer life. In this state one often feels doomed and apathetic.
This is how we deprive ourselves of the right to pleasure and to fulfilling ourselves as individuals.
The explanation for this should not be sought beyond the human mind or one’s inner beliefs.
- The habit of suffering, the fear of feeling helpless and vulnerable.
- A lack of control, and the anxiety that follows it.
- A conviction of one’s own unworthiness, which demands standing on tiptoe and getting what one wants through hard toil.
- The fear of being deceived, of making a mistake one has no right to make, because there is no inner permission and there is toxic guilt.
All these “bad” states, one way or another, demand a guaranteed result before spending time, of which there is already so little, on a “useless” activity.
Inner “tyrants”, fears and tension push you to hurry and to look for guarantees. To lose sight of your true desires. To keep ignoring your needs, dividing yourself more and more. And to make choices based on distortions in perception.
The psyche is a fine system for decoding signals, and it works on the principle of communicating vessels.
All kinds of distortions strongly affect the picture of the world a person perceives. And, at the same time, the picture of the world affects the person’s perception, creating their new reality.
For those who are interested in psychology and those who want to meet themselves.
If you would like to widen your picture of the world, develop your individuality, discover the boundless possibilities of imagination and develop a psychological vision, we invite you to our Centre!
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