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| self transformation: The Process of Self-Transformation Vicente Hao Chin, 2015-06-01 “From time immemorial,” says the author, “sages from diverse cultures have passed on enduring solutions to the dilemmas of living. Yet their insights are not as known to the world as they ought to be.” This deep, wise, and practical guide intends to make them more so. It is the harvest of the popular seminars developed and led by Vic Hao Chin, former president of the Theosophical Society in the Philippines and a worldwide teacher and presenter. He gives time-proven approaches for eliminating fear, resentment, worry, depression, and the stress of daily living in order to deepen spiritual practice. And he includes sections on overcoming negative conditioning, developing relationships, and optimizing physical health. To help readers in the process of self-actualization, he also provides helpful illustrations, case studies, and step-by-step instructions for meditation and breathing exercises. |
| self transformation: A Twelve Step Journey to Self Transformation Mark H., Floyd Henderson, 2004 A Twelve Step Journey to SELF-transformation is the true story of two men whose paths crossed and whose lives were changed forever after. The authors reveal how they reached all four levels of healing that Bill W. spoke of: spiritual sobriety, mental sobriety, physical sobriety, and emotional sobriety. |
| self transformation: The Pathwork of Self-Transformation Eva Pierrakos, 2013-06-19 “The gift of Eva Pierrakos’s Pathwork has been with me for twenty years. It is the deepest and most effective spiritual work I have found, and it has helped me realize my dreams. Each time I read it, I am amazed at the depth and breadth of wisdom and love it teaches. It is a practical way of truth that will change your life.”—Barbara Ann Brennan, author of Hands of Light For more than twenty years, Eva Pierrakos was the channel for a spirit entity known only as the Guide. Combining rare psychological insight with an inspiring ision of human possibility, the Guide's teachings, known as the Pathwork, have influenced many key New Age thinkers who have studied at Pathwork centers in the United States and abroad. Now, the core teachings of the guide have been collected in one volume synthesizing the essential wisdom of the Pathwork. Under such headings as “The Idealized Self-Image,” “The Forces of Love, Eros, and Sex,” “Emotional Growth and Its Function,” “Real and False Needs,” and “The Spiritual Meaning of Crisis,” the Pathwork outlines the entire process of personal spiritual development. Unlike many over-idealized philosophies, the Pathwork confronts our devils as well as our anges, our all-too-human failings and petty ego concerns as well as our divine strengths. It shows us how to accept ourselves fully as we are now, and then ot move beyond the negativity, or “lower self,” that blocks our personal and spiritual evolution. It offers a practical, rational, and honest way to reach our deepest creative identity. “I would advise that this book be read with a willingness to take time to digest what the Guide says. This is not ‘light’ reading, thought it is Light reading, I assure you. I find an enormous compatibility between these lectures and Emmanuel's teachings. What a wonderful gift to a wonderful world.”—Pat Rodegast, author of Emmanuel’s Book |
| self transformation: Be Your Future Self Now Dr. Benjamin Hardy, 2022-06-14 This isn’t a book about BECOMING it’s about BEING: noted psychologist Dr. Benjamin Hardy shows how to imagine the person you want to be, then BE that person now. When you do this, your imagined FUTURE directs your behavior, rather than your past. Who is your Future-Self? That question may seem trite. But it’s literally the answer to all of your life’s questions. It’s the answer to what you’re going to do today. It’s the answer to how motivated you are, and how you feel about yourself. It’s the answer to whether you’ll distract yourself on social media for hours, whether you’ll eat junk food, and what time you get up in the morning. Your imagined Future-Self is the driver of your current reality. It is up to you to develop the ability to imagine better and more expansive visions of your Future-Self. Your current view of your Future-Self is very limited. If you seek learning, growth, and new experiences, you’ll be able to imagine a different and better Future-Self than you currently can. It’s not only useful to see your Future-Self as a different person from who you are today, but it is also completely accurate. Your Future-Self will not be the same person you are today. They will see the world differently. They’ll have had experiences, challenges, and growth you currently don’t have. They’ll have different goals and priorities. They’ll have different habits. They’ll also be in a different world—a world with different cultural values, different technologies, and different challenges. |
| self transformation: Self-Transformations Cressida J. Heyes, 2007-08-16 Heyes' monograph in feminist philosophy is on the connection between the idea of normalization--which per Foucault is a mode or force of control that homogenizes a population--and the gendered body. Drawing on Foucault and Wittgenstein, she argues that the predominant picture of the self--a picture that presupposes an inner core of the self that is expressed, accurately or not, by the outer body--obscures the connection between contemporary discourses and practices of self-transformation and the forces of normalization. In other words, pictures of the self can hold us captive when they are being read from the outer self--the body--rather than the inner self, and we can express our inner self by working on our outer body to conform. Articulating this idea with a mix of the theoretical and the practical, she looks at case studies involving transgender people, weight-loss dieting, and cosmetic surgery. Her concluding chapters look at the difficult issue of how to distinguish non-normalizing practices of the self from normalizing ones, and makes suggestions about how feminists might conceive of subjects as embodied and enmeshed in power relations yet also capable of self-transformation. The subject of normalization and its relationship to sex/gender is a major one in feminist theory; Heyes' book is unique in her masterful use of Foucault; its clarity, and its sophisticated mix of the theoretical and the anecdotal. It will appeal to feminist philosophers and theorists. |
| self transformation: Imagining the Course of Life Nancy Eberhardt, 2006-01-01 Imagining the Course of Life offers a rich portrait of rural life in contemporary Southeast Asia and an accessible introduction to the complexities of Theravada Buddhism as it is actually lived and experienced. It is both an ethnography of indigenous views of human development and a theoretical consideration of how any ethnopsychology is embedded in society and culture. Drawing on long-term fieldwork in a Shan village in northern Thailand, Nancy Eberhardt illustrates how indigenous theories of the life course are connected to local constructions of self and personhood. In the process, she draws our attention to contrasting models in the Euro-American tradition and invites us to reconsider how we think about the trajectory of a human life. Moving beyond the entrenched categories that can hamper our understanding of other views, Imagining the Course of Life demonstrates the real-life connections between the religious and the psychological. Eberhardt shows how such beliefs and practices are used, sometimes strategically, in people's constructions of themselves, in their interpretations of others' behavior, and in their attempts at social positioning. Individual chapters explore Shan ideas about the overall course of human development, from infancy to old age and beyond, and show how these ideas inform people's understanding of personhood and maturity, gender and social inequality, illness and well-being, emotions and mental health. |
| self transformation: Self-Improvement Mark Coeckelbergh, 2022-07-29 We are obsessed with self-improvement; it’s a billion-dollar industry. But apps, workshops, speakers, retreats, and life hacks have not made us happier. Obsessed with the endless task of perfecting ourselves, we have become restless, anxious, and desperate. We are improving ourselves to death. The culture of self-improvement stems from philosophical classics, perfectionist religions, and a ruthless strain of capitalism—but today, new technologies shape what it means to improve the self. The old humanist culture has given way to artificial intelligence, social media, and big data: powerful tools that do not only inform us but also measure, compare, and perhaps change us forever. This book shows how self-improvement culture became so toxic—and why we need both a new concept of the self and a mission of social change in order to escape it. Mark Coeckelbergh delves into the history of the ideas that shaped this culture, critically analyzes the role of technology, and explores surprising paths out of the self-improvement trap. Digital detox is no longer a viable option and advice based on ancient wisdom sounds like yet more self-help memes: The only way out is to transform our social and technological environment. Coeckelbergh advocates new “narrative technologies” that help us tell different and better stories about ourselves. However, he cautions, there is no shortcut that avoids the ancient philosophical quest to know yourself, or the obligation to cultivate the good life and the good society. |
| self transformation: Encountering the Self Hermann Koepke, 1989-12 Addresses, Essays, Discussions, and Reports, 1920 -1924 (CW 217a) Young people today turn away from older people not because the latter have grown old but because they have remained young--that is, because they don't understand how to grow old in the right way. Older people today lack this self-knowledge. Growing old in the right way means allowing the spirit to unfold in our souls as befits an aging body. When we do this, we show young people not only what time has done to the body, but also what eternity reveals through the spirit. Young people will find their way to older people who seriously attempt to experience spirit. To say that we must act young when we are with young people is just an empty phrase. As older people, we must understand--and demonstrate to young people--how to be old in the right way. --Rudolf Steiner (Mar. 9, 1924) Youth and the Etheric Heart, which comes to twenty-first-century readers in the somewhat deceptive wrapping of a historical document of Rudolf Stiener's addresses to young people during 1920 to 1924, is (at least for those concerned with the future of Anthroposophy or with the future of spiritual life in general) one of the most extraordinary and prophetic volumes in the collected works. This book is intended by its editors to be supplementary to the central turning point of the movement, the 1922 Pedagogical Youth Course, published as Becoming the Archangel Michael's Companions.Together, they present Steiner's vision for Anthroposophy as he hoped it would permeate culture through young people able to take it up as a spiritual, intellectual, and socially transforming path. The task, which underlies the whole volume and to which we, too, are called by service to the Archangel Michael, is to open to the etheric heart in humanity. This becomes clear in Rudolf Steiner's final address to the young people attending a teachers' conference in Arnheim on July 20, 1924: What is needed is not thinking about what should happen. People should feel that the spirit outside of us speaks in the flames of nature. The sunrise has changed. But also our heart has changed; we no longer bear the same heart in our chest. Our physical heart has grown harder, and our etheric heart more mobile. We must find access to our suprasensory hearts. This is the way we must understand spiritual science. In this respect, young people have hearts ideally suited to feeling when something is right. It simply requires courage to really think it. It is in the light of our suprasensory heart that we should approach this volume, and indeed Anthroposophy as a whole. Youth and the Etheric Heart is a great companion volume to Becoming the Archangel Michael's Companions (CW> 217). During the early 1920s, following the disaster of World War I, the youth of Europe faced many hardships and questions about their destiny in the world. The situation today is certainly different, but the questions are no less urgent. This volume is the first complete English translation from the German of Die Erkenntnis-Aufgabe der Jugend (GA 217a). |
| self transformation: The Secret of Self-transformation Rohit Mehta, 1987 The central theme of dicussion in this monograph revolves round the problem of man`s self-transformation in the midst of an artificial and soulless civilization. According to the author, the solution to the problem lies in a synthesis between `the rwo principal tradition of India`- Yoga and Tantra which he defines as philosophy and practice. The secret of self-Transformation is at once an indictment of all sorts of monstrosities that under the banner of modern dcience and a call for revolutionary change within man himself. |
| self transformation: Wellbeing and Self-Transformation in Natural Landscapes Rebecca Crowther, 2018-09-20 This book explores how natural landscapes are linked to positive mental wellbeing. While natural landscapes have long been represented and portrayed as transformative, the link to mental wellbeing is an area that researchers are still aiming to comprehend. Accompanying five groups of people to rural Scotland, the author considers individual, external and group motivations for journeying from urban environments, examining in what ways these excursions are personally and socially transformative. Far more than traversing mere physical boundaries, this book illustrates the new challenges, experiences, territories and cultures provided by these excursions, firmly anchored in the Scottish countryside. In doing so, the author questions the extent to which people’s own narratives link to the perception that the outdoors are positively transformative – and what indeed does have the power to influence transformation. Grounded in extensive qualitative research, this contemplative and ethnographic book will be of interest and value to students and scholars of the outdoors and its connection to wellbeing. |
| self transformation: Personal Alchemy Amber Wolfe, 1993 Participate in the creation of your own personal and powerful system of healing magick. Contains the secrets of using color and light Rays combined with the art of active imagery to personally experience the alchemy of positive self-transformation and empowerment. Explore the alchemical properties of 21 different healing Rays in depth while actively participating in life-changing exercises. |
| self transformation: Personal Transformation Kiril Sokoloff, 2005 This is the story of a prominent executive who, after becoming a wildly successful investment guru, begins a decline into near-total deafness. His struggle with loss and loneliness, his discovery of joy and transformation, and his immediate writing style make this a classic spiritual book. |
| self transformation: Bloom Rose Moten, 2012-01-15 The BLOOM 7-step Process promotes personal transformation utilizing an integration of psychological and metaphysical concepts. The 7-step process challenges faulty thinking and behaviors that perpetuate a state of discontent. Through practical, easily understood techniques, BLOOM empowers the reader to embark upon a life of fulfilling success. The 7-steps: 1. Rediscovering you -- 2. CALMS: living in the now -- 3. Making sense of your senses -- 4. Visualization -- 5. Affirmations -- 6. Stillness -- 7. Connectedness.--Page [4] of cover. |
| self transformation: Self-Transformation through Music Joanne Crandall, 1986-09-01 What is it that makes sound become music? ....sound, in and of itself, has no meaning; it is simply sound. It is descriptive or evocative of nothing more than what is present in the heart and mind of the listener. But for those who are open to it, able to respond to it, the power of music to influence us is extraordinary. And this mysterious quality of harmony reacts alike on the composer, the musician, and the listener. In this self-help book of theory and practical exercises, the author explains how we can put music to good use in our daily life; make it a part of our living experience; let it penetrate our soul so that we truly become One with the tones, rhythm, harmonics, the cadence of the music. |
| self transformation: Self-Transformation Nancy M. Casey, 2017-08 Are you feeling overcome by excessive or unexpected change? Do you desire to release fear and grow through adversity to discover your own strength and wisdom? Nancy Casey’s heart-centered book, Self-Transformation, offers strategies for transforming depression, stress, illness, aging, and difficult life transitions into emotional and spiritual growth. Guided by some of the world’s greatest teachers, you will explore how to create positive change, step-by-step, through personal stories and interactive exercises. These demonstrate how to shift from feeling stuck into uncovering hidden opportunities. |
| self transformation: Transformation Murray Stein, 1998 In Transformation: Emergence of the Self, noted analyst and author Murray Stein explains what this process is and what it means for an individual to experience it. Transformation usually occurs at midlife but is much more complicated than what we colloquially call a midlife crisis. Consciously working through this life stage can lead people to become who they have always potentially been. Indeed, Stein suggests, transformation is the essential human task. |
| self transformation: The Art of Our Conscious Self-Transformation Raul Llanos MD, 2017-07-11 We all have the capacity to self-transform. We all have the capacity to attain better realities. It is our right, and it is part of our infinite choices. Self-transformation is a normal process in our life and in our nature. We are different from any one of the natural kingdoms in the sense that we have conscious awareness. If we take advantage of our uniqueness and our ability to consciously transform ourselves, we will be able to accelerate the journey to higher states of well-being in our self-transformation. Through amplifications and deeper understanding of ourselves, we will be able to recognize who we are and how we can self-transform. In this book, you will find tools, techniques, and a sense of care for yourself to help you become the one you always wanted to be. Now is the time to self-transform in accordance with our individuality and free will. As in his previous books, Dr. Llanos offers a concise and unique way to satisfy your deep need for more well-being through the art of self-transformation. The more we transform ourselves, the more joy, security, love, and fascination will be available on our journeys. |
| self transformation: The Power of Self-Transformation: A Guide to Empowering Personal Change Pasquale De Marco, 2025-03-17 Embark on a transformative journey of self-discovery and personal growth with this comprehensive guide to self-transformation. Unlock your true potential and live a life of purpose, meaning, and fulfillment. Within these pages, you'll discover a wealth of insights, practical tools, and real-life examples that empower you to take charge of your personal narrative and create a life that aligns with your deepest values and aspirations. Through the principles of self-modification, you'll learn to cultivate self-awareness, overcome limiting beliefs, and develop a mindset that embraces challenges and propels you toward success. With expert guidance, you'll craft SMART goals, build resilience, and navigate life's obstacles with newfound strength and determination. Explore the art of building strong and fulfilling relationships, fostering meaningful connections with others, and creating a supportive network that nurtures your well-being. Discover the power of effective communication, empathy, and active listening, and learn to resolve conflicts constructively, deepen intimacy, and cultivate lasting bonds. This transformative guide is your companion on the path to personal growth and self-actualization. With its engaging narratives, thought-provoking exercises, and actionable advice, you'll gain the knowledge, skills, and motivation to create lasting change in your life and achieve your full potential. Embrace the journey of self-transformation and embark on a path of self-discovery, personal growth, and fulfillment. Let this guide be your beacon, illuminating the way toward a life lived with purpose, meaning, and joy. If you like this book, write a review! |
| self transformation: The Learning Self Mark Tennant, 2012-02-03 The Learning Self This new book from the award-winning author of Psychology and Adult Learning puts the spotlight on the kind of learning that brings about significant personal change. Tennant explores the techniques, processes, and practices educators can use to promote learning that leads to change and examines assumptions about self and identity, how we are formed, and our capacity for change. The Learning Self addresses the different concepts of self and how they frame our understanding of personal transformation. The book opens with an exploration of the key concepts of self, identity, and subjectivity. The remaining chapters fall into two distinct groups. The first comprises chapters dealing with different versions of the self: The Authentic or Real Self, The Autonomous Self, The Repressed Self, The Socially Constructed Self, and The Storied Self. Tennant's aim in each case is to analyze the issues that each conception of the self presents and to comment on the implications for learning for personal change. The second group of chapters Knowing Oneself, Controlling Oneself, Caring for Oneself, and (Re)creating Oneself analyze general interventions to change the self. Although the focus in these chapters is on techniques and methods, the author highlights the versions of the self being promoted in their use. Throughout the book, Tennant posits that individuals can be agents in their own self-formation and change by understanding and acting on the circumstances and forces that surround and shape them.Educators, he argues, must be open to different theoretical ideas and practices while simultaneously valuing these practices and viewing them with a critical eye. |
| self transformation: The Power Within: A Guide to Self-Transformation Aayush Sharma, 2025-05-11 Unlock the potential that resides within you with The Power Within: A Guide to Self-Transformation. This transformative book offers a comprehensive and insightful journey into the realms of personal growth, self-awareness, and empowerment. Designed for anyone looking to improve their life, it presents practical tools, techniques, and wisdom to help you tap into your inner strength, overcome obstacles, and create the life you truly deserve. From discovering the importance of self-awareness to developing emotional intelligence and resilience, each chapter provides actionable steps to help you cultivate the mindset and habits necessary for profound change. Whether you're struggling with self-doubt, fear, or uncertainty, or simply seeking to reach new heights of personal success, this guide provides the inspiration and strategies you need to take charge of your future. You will learn to: Harness your inner power to overcome fear and doubts Cultivate positive habits and maintain a growth mindset Build resilience and navigate life's challenges with confidence Set meaningful goals and achieve them, step by step Embrace emotional intelligence and practice mindfulness in everyday life Develop self-compassion, kindness, and live with purpose The Power Within is more than just a guide to self-improvement—it's an invitation to awaken your true potential and live a life of fulfillment. It will inspire you to take consistent action, embrace continuous learning, and rise above the challenges that come your way. Whether you are just starting your journey of personal growth or are seeking to deepen your transformation, this book will empower you to embrace the best version of yourself. Embrace the power within and begin your journey of self-transformation today! |
| self transformation: The Self-Transforming School Brian J. Caldwell, Jim M. Spinks, 2013-07-18 The Self-Transforming School combines an insightful meta-analysis of factors contributing to the success of schools, and an examination of powerful mega-trends that are shaping developments in education, to offer the first mega-analysis in education policy and practice. The book spans fifty years, beginning with Caldwell and Spinks’ ground-breaking work The Self-Managing School which advocated innovative approaches that are now accepted as preferred practice, before offering a prognosis and plan for the future. The book argues that all schools in all settings can secure success for all students in an era where society and the economy are changing constantly and dramatically. Although schools find some support in local and global networks, externally designed re-structuring, re-staffing, or command-and-control direction isn’t sufficient to achieve transformation. Instead of replicating particular approaches to achieve modest improvement, leadership of the highest quality needs to be deeply embedded in schools and their systems. Caldwell and Spinks propose three important points that need to be taken into consideration: -schools are often at different stages of self-transformation -self-transformation requires a high level of professionalism, and must include teacher education and on-going professional development -funding is critically important, and efforts to build a capacity for self-transformation are constrained by what is available. The book gives particular attention to developments in Australia, Brazil, Canada, England, Finland, Hong Kong, India, New Zealand, Shanghai, Singapore and the United States. It will be of key interest to school leaders, policy makers, and academics and postgraduate students engaged in research on equity, student performance in highly disadvantaged settings and education policy. |
| self transformation: The Four Elements of Transformation: How to Create Radical and Sustainable Change Dr. Janet Lapp, 2015-03-10 CREATE RADICAL AND SUSTAINABLE PERSONAL CHANGE Have you read books that advise you to “transform” your life, but fail to lay out the steps you can take that actually work? This book lays out tested steps that actually work to create the results that you want. Begin by developing your base, then learn to focus and self-discipline, keep your energy high and your emotions in check, and finally, expand your work into where you know it could go. The Four Elements system explains how to discover and develop the Elements in their correct order. Complete exercises are given in the Four Elements Journal that stamp in changes. By following this system, change can be radical and sustainable. |
| self transformation: Mindset Mastery: Unlocking the Power of Self-Transformation with Psycho-Cybernetics Chandra Zuniga, 2025-03-30 Harness the transformative power of Psycho-Cybernetics with this comprehensive guide to mindset mastery. Discover the profound principles that govern your subconscious and unlock the potential for profound self-improvement. Drawing on decades of scientific research and practical application, this book provides a step-by-step framework for reprogramming your mindset and creating lasting change. Explore the concepts of self-image, self-talk, and goal-setting, and gain invaluable tools to: Overcome limiting beliefs and self-sabotaging behaviors Cultivate a positive self-concept and unshakeable confidence Achieve your full potential in all areas of life Experience greater happiness, fulfillment, and success Written in an accessible and engaging style, this book is an essential resource for anyone seeking to transform their mindset and unlock the power of self-transformation. Whether you're a seasoned professional, aspiring entrepreneur, or simply seeking personal growth, this guide will empower you with the knowledge and tools to achieve lasting success and well-being. |
| self transformation: Organisational Identity and Self-transformation David Seidl, 2005 David Seidl brings together two important issues in organization and management studies in this volume: the concept and related theory of organizational identity, and autopoietic organization theory (as originally developed by Niklas Luhmann). The contribution of the book is twofold: it provides an introduction to autopoietic organization theory and it provides a new perspective on organizational identity and self-transformation. Thus the book is relevant to both organization theorists interested in new approaches to organization and to researchers of organizational identity. The themes are reflected in the structure of the book. Chapters one and two provide an introduction to Niklas Luhmann's organization theory. Based on this, chapter three develops a new concept of organizational identity. In chapters four and five a theory of organizational self-transformation (i.e. change of identity) is developed. |
| self transformation: Metanoia Adam Ellwanger, 2020-02-25 Western culture is in a moment when wholly new kinds of personal transformations are possible, but authentic transformation requires both personal testimony and public recognition. In this book, Adam Ellwanger takes a distinctly rhetorical approach to analyzing how the personal and the public relate to an individual’s transformation and develops a new vocabulary that enables a critical assessment of the concept of authenticity. The concept of metanoia is central to this project. Charting the history of metanoia from its original use in the classical tradition to its adoption by early Christians as a term for religious conversion, Ellwanger shows that metanoia involves a change within a person that results in a truer version of him- or herself—a change in character or ethos. He then applies this theory to our contemporary moment, finding that metanoia provides unique insight into modern forms of self-transformation. Drawing on ancient and medieval sources, including Thucydides, Plato, Paul the Apostle, and Augustine, as well as contemporary discourses of self-transformation, such as the public testimonies of Caitlyn Jenner and Rachel Dolezal, Ellwanger elucidates the role of language in signifying and authenticating identity. Timely and original, Ellwanger’s study formulates a transhistorical theory of personal transformation that will be of interest to scholars working in social theory, philosophy, rhetoric, and the history of Christianity. |
| self transformation: Self-Transformations Cressida J. Heyes, 2007-08-16 Heyes' monograph in feminist philosophy is on the connection between the idea of normalization--which per Foucault is a mode or force of control that homogenizes a population--and the gendered body. Drawing on Foucault and Wittgenstein, she argues that the predominant picture of the self--a picture that presupposes an inner core of the self that is expressed, accurately or not, by the outer body--obscures the connection between contemporary discourses and practices of self-transformation and the forces of normalization. In other words, pictures of the self can hold us captive when they are being read from the outer self--the body--rather than the inner self, and we can express our inner self by working on our outer body to conform. Articulating this idea with a mix of the theoretical and the practical, she looks at case studies involving transgender people, weight-loss dieting, and cosmetic surgery. Her concluding chapters look at the difficult issue of how to distinguish non-normalizing practices of the self from normalizing ones, and makes suggestions about how feminists might conceive of subjects as embodied and enmeshed in power relations yet also capable of self-transformation. The subject of normalization and its relationship to sex/gender is a major one in feminist theory; Heyes' book is unique in her masterful use of Foucault; its clarity, and its sophisticated mix of the theoretical and the anecdotal. It will appeal to feminist philosophers and theorists. |
| self transformation: Cultivating Perfection Louis Komjathy, 2007-09-30 This important work focuses on early Quanzhen (Complete Perfection) Daoism, a twelfth-century Daoist religious movement and subsequent monastic order. Emphasis in this first study to approach Quanzhen from a comparative religious studies perspective is placed on the complex interplay among views of self, specific training regimens, and the types of experiences that were expected to follow from dedicated praxis. On the basis of historical contextualization and textual analysis it is demonstrated that in its formative and incipient organized phases Quanzhen was a Daoist religious community consisting of a few renunciants dedicated to religious praxis. The study proper is followed by a complete annotated translation of a text attributed to the founder, which represents one of only two early Quanzhen texts translated to date. Subsequent appendices address issues of dating and contents of the early textual corpus as well as technical Quanzhen religious terminology. |
| self transformation: The Self in Transformation Herbert Fingarette, 1963 |
| self transformation: Remapping Your Mind Lewis Mehl-Madrona, 2015-07-17 A guide to retelling your personal, family, and cultural stories to transform your life, your relationships, and the world • Applies the latest neuroscience research on memory, brain mapping, and brain plasticity to the field of narrative therapy • Details mind-mapping and narrative therapy techniques that use story to change behavior patterns in ourselves, our relationships, and our communities • Explores how narrative therapy can help replace dysfunctional cultural stories with ones that build healthier relationships with each other and the planet We are born into a world of stories that quickly shapes our behavior and development without our conscious awareness. By retelling our personal, family, and cultural narratives we can transform the patterns of our own lives as well as the patterns that shape our communities and the larger social worlds in which we interact. Applying the latest neuroscience research on memory, brain mapping, and brain plasticity to the field of narrative therapy, Lewis Mehl-Madrona and Barbara Mainguy explain how the brain is specialized in the art of story-making and story-telling. They detail mind-mapping and narrative therapy techniques that use story to change behavior patterns in ourselves, our relationships, and our communities. They explore studies that reveal how memory works through story, how the brain recalls things in narrative rather than lists, and how our stories modify our physiology and facilitate health or disease. Drawing on their decades of experience in narrative therapy, the authors examine the art of helping people to change their story, providing brain-mapping practices to discover your inner storyteller and test if the stories you are living are functional or dysfunctional, healing or destructive. They explain how to create new characters and new stories, ones that excite you, help you connect with yourself, and deepen your intimate connections with others. Detailing how shared stories and language form culture, the authors also explore how narrative therapy can help replace dysfunctional cultural stories with those that offer templates for healthier relationships with each other and the planet. |
| self transformation: Wicca for Self-Transformation Marie Bruce, 2023-07-01 Wicca is one of the fastest growing religions in the world and this beautiful book will introduce readers to this Pagan belief system. There are many different types of witches, but this book will focus on the main branch of the Craft, known as Wicca. It is a magical system that merges together spells, rituals, celebrations and a reverence for nature. It is a spiritual system of duality, one that worships both a Goddess and a God. It is a form of slow living, wherein the practitioners, known as Wiccans, take the time to honour the turning of the seasons, to celebrate the phases of the moon, and the turning of the tides. Wicca, as a practice, is a welcome relief from the frenetic, technology-driven world in which we live and a way to connect with our ancestors. Wiccan belief is rooted in nature and has a strong, recognisable morality. This illuminating guide by a practising Wiccan will explain how readers can use Wicca to self-transform their lives for the better. |
| self transformation: The Positive Psychology of Personal Transformation James Garbarino, 2011-01-06 Given the current climate of economic and environmental uncertainty, it is all too easy for individuals to feel hopeless about their lives and indifferent to the problems of others. But according to leading psychologist, James Garbarino, this is the peak time for people to enhance their optimism, empathy, and emotional responsiveness. In his important new book, The Positive Psychology of Personal Transformation, Dr. Garbarino reveals the social basis for moral development in adversity, and the mental and physical benefits of psychological and spiritual growth. Drawing widely on his years as a healing professional and own experience of personal crisis as well as on decades of resilience and happiness literature, the author traces the evolution of the moral sense that affects all human relationships, including the one with the Earth itself. In these compelling pages, Dr. Garbarino: Examines how humans’ deep bonds with dogs can model positive human relationships. Compares the risks and benefits of the “oblivious” versus the self-aware life. Analyzes the role of trauma in heightening our sense of the meaning of life and defines the experience of transformational grace in adversity. Explains current manifestations of narcissism and the need for “the positive death of the self.” Asserts that every person is capable of “living an ‘extraordinary’ life.” A book with vast significance across the healing disciplines, The Positive Psychology of Personal Transformation should be read, savored, and practiced by researchers, practitioners, and scientists in clinical child, school, and developmental psychology; social work; educational and community psychology; sociology; and public health. |
| self transformation: Good Self, Bad Self Judy Smith, 2013-10-15 A crisis manager explains how to overcome a personal crisis, whether a relationship crisis or business disaster, by recognizing one's worst qualities and dealing with them appropriately. |
| self transformation: Transformation of the Self in the thought of Schleiermacher Jacqueline Mariña, 2008-04-24 Often referred to as the father of modern theology, F.D.E. Schleiermacher occasioned a revolution in theology having a decisive impact on all subsequent theology. In this original study, Jacqueline Mariña argues that Schleiermachers philosophical ethics constitutes a completely original project, and is arguably his most important achievement. Mariña examines Schleiermachers claim that the self relates to the whence of all that is through the ground of self-consciousness, and shows how this understanding allowed him to develop a philosophical system integrally linking religion and ethics. Because this whence relates to self-consciousness in the way of a formal cause, the most important criteria for what constitutes genuine religion are the ethical fruits expressive of a proper relation to the divine. In Christian Faith Schleiermacher argues that insofar as the personal self-consciousness has been transformed through openness to this whence, the actions that arise from it, too, will be different from those of the former self. This book is an analysis of how Schleiermacher conceived of this transformation, the conditions of its possibility, and the nature of its effects. This is accomplished through an examination of his metaphysics of the self, especially Schleiermachers understanding of the immediate self-consciousness and its relation to the divine causality, the nature of self-consciousness and personal identity, the nature of agency, and the relation between self and society. This book demonstrates that Schleiermachers achievement offers a compelling, live option for contemporary debates concerning the relation of religion and morality. |
| self transformation: Living with Transformation Tareef Hayat Khan, 2013-07-19 This book describes and analyzes the phenomenon of spontaneous transformation in self-built houses in the context of developing countries. After describing briefly the history of self-built houses and the phenomenon of transformation around the world, it focuses on its context, the city of Dhaka. Firstly it describes the physical patterns of spontaneous transformation. Then it explains the explicit reasons behind those transformations. Finally, it carefully unveils the implicit values that are hidden behind those explicit reasons. The entire book is an ethnographic journey, which not only expresses unique stories of living with transformation, but also captivates the reader throughout with its compelling way of qualitative judgment. |
| self transformation: Self and Self-transformation in the History of Religions David Dean Shulman, Guy G. Stroumsa, 2002 This book brings together scholars of a variety of the world's major civilizations to focus on the universal theme of inner transformation. The idea of the self is a cultural formation like any other, and models and conceptions of the inner world of the person vary widely from one civilization to another. Nonetheless, all the world's great religions insist on the need to transform this inner world. Such transformations, often ritually enacted, reveal the primary intuitions, drives, and conflicts active within the culture. The individual essays study dramatic examples of these processes in a wide range of cultures, including China, India, Tibet, Greece and Rome, Late Antiquity, Islam, Judaism, and medieval and early-modern Christian Europe. |
| self transformation: Self and Self-Transformation in the History of Religions David Shulman Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Guy S. Stroumsa Martin Buber Professor of Comparative Religion both at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2002-03-18 This book brings together scholars of a variety of the world's major civilizations to focus on the universal theme of inner transformation. The idea of the self is a cultural formation like any other, and models and conceptions of the inner world of the person vary widely from one civilization to another. Nonetheless, all the world's great religions insist on the need to transform this inner world. Such transformations, often ritually enacted, reveal the primary intuitions, drives, and conflicts active within the culture. The individual essays study dramatic examples of these processes in a wide range of cultures, including China, India, Tibet, Greece and Rome, Late Antiquity, Islam, Judaism, and medieval and early-modern Christian Europe. |
| self transformation: Confucian Perspectives on Learning and Self-Transformation Roland Reichenbach, Duck-Joo Kwak, 2021-05-19 This book bridges the regions of East Asia and the West by offering a detailed and critical inquiry of educational concepts of the East Asian tradition. It provides educational thinkers and practitioners with alternative resources and perspectives for their educational thinking, to enrich their educational languages and to promote the recognition of educational thoughts from different cultures and traditions across a global world. The key notions of Confucian and Neo-Confucian philosophy directly concern the ideals, processes and challenges of learning, education and self-transformation, which can be seen as the western equivalences of liberal education, including the German concept of Bildung. All the topics in the book are of fundamental interest across diverse cultures, giving a voice to a set of long-lasting and yet differentiated cultural traditions of learning and education, and thereby creating a common space for critical philosophical reflection of one's own educational tradition and practice. The book is especially timely, given that the vocabularies in educational discourse today have been dominantly “West centred” for a long time, even while the whole world has become more and more diverse across races, religions and cultures. It offers a great opportunity to philosophers of education for their cross-cultural understanding and self-understanding of educational ideas and practices on both personal and institutional levels. |
| self transformation: Language and Self-Transformation Peter G. Stromberg, 2008-06-26 Using the Christian conversion narrative as a primary example, this book examines how people deal with emotional conflict through language. |
| self transformation: The Ethics of Richard Rorty Susan Dieleman, David E. McClean, Paul Showler, 2022-05-05 This book contains diverse and critical reflections on Richard Rorty’s contributions to ethics, an aspect of his thought that has been relatively neglected. Together, they demonstrate that Rorty offers a compelling and coherent ethical vision. The book's chapters, grouped thematically, explore Rorty’s emphasis on the importance of moral imagination, social relations, language, and literature as instrumental for ethical self-transformation, as well as for strengthening what Rorty called social hope, which entails constant work toward a more democratic, inclusive, and cosmopolitan society and world. Several contributors address the ethical implications of Rorty’s commitment to a vision of political liberalism without philosophical foundations. Others offer critical examinations of Rorty’s claim that our private or individual projects of self-creation can or should be held apart from our public goals of ameliorating social conditions and reducing cruelty and suffering. Some contributors explore hurdles that impede the practical applications of certain of Rorty's ideas. The Ethics of Richard Rorty will appeal to scholars and advanced students interested in American philosophy and ethics. |
| self transformation: Divine Transformation Zhi Gang Sha, 2010-09-21 Clear your karma to transform your soul first; then transformation of every aspect of your life will follow. Millions of people are searching for lifetransformation. Thousands of books, articles,seminars, and workshops teach methods foraccomplishing this. The seventh book of Master Sha’s bestselling Soul Power Series, Divine Transformation: The Divine Way to Self-clear Karma to Transform Your Health, Relationships, Finances, and More, teaches the divine way to transform every aspect of your life, including your health, relationships, finances, and more. Karma is the root cause of success and failure in every aspect of life. Bad karma is the root blockage underlying any and every challenge that you, humanity, and Mother Earth face. Divine Transformation teaches sacred wisdom, knowledge, and practical treasures to self-clear karma in order to remove the blockages and transform the challenges in your life. Master Sha’s teaching is becoming deeper and simpler. Study it. Benefit from it. Transform your health, relationships, finances, and every aspect of your life. |
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Jun 16, 2024 · It shows that self-awareness is crucial for us to experience self-development, take the perspective of others, exercise self-control, produce creative accomplishments, and …
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Jan 12, 2023 · What is personal transformation? A personal transformation occurs when you change your thoughts, behaviors, and beliefs to expand your consciousness and live a more …
The Psychology of Self-Transformation - Academy of Ideas
Sep 28, 2017 · In this video, we will explore how we can escape from a life of quiet desperation and transform ourselves in a manner more conducive to a fulfilling existence. “We cannot …
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The journey of self-transformation, thus, is the journey of strengthening your higher mind, and aligning your lower mind to your vision and values, so that you can be the person you aspire to …
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Apr 28, 2015 · Personal change, often referred to as self-transformation or personal development, is a fundamental aspect of human experience. This multifaceted process encompasses a wide …
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