Quotes About Psychological transformation

But Jung also pointed out: "One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

The aim of therapy is to convert neurotic suffering into ordinary human misery.

When therapy was successful, two kinds of changes showed up in person after person: the schemas' grip on their lives loosened, and the script changed for the better its typical outcome.

There is no immediate emotional release in the literature of minor feelings. It is cumulative. Change is measured in the internal "waverings of the mind" or in shape-shifting personae.

Com a psicologização do parecer abre-se o prazer narcísico de se metamorfosear aos olhos dos outros e de si mesmo, de "mudar de pele", de se tornar e de se sentir como uma outra, mudando de toalete.

Agnes Smedley also knows what the century knows: that we become what is done to us.

The academician commonly is more interested in gaining information to swell his or her bag of facts, than to open him or herself up to psycho-spiritual transmutation. This wisdom would be wasted on those whose only interest is to rape wisdom for academic data.

I knew my transformation was complete when Dr.Keyes asked, How are you feeling today, Tandy? and I responded I'm not

When you try to bring about behavioral change by an effort of will, you actually do violence to yourself, and the chances are very good that you will not succeed. This is so universally true that you can actually make money from it.

Science can now illuminate why approaches like psychodrama, 12-step programs, group therapy, journaling, bodywork, yoga, exercise, and massage work; why one-to-one therapy can help us learn a new style of attachment; why changing the way we live and the nature of our relationships can change the way we think and feel, and vice versa; and why quick fixes don't work but why a new design for living does.

She knew she couldn't escape unscathed, and the trauma would take her a long time to get past. And she might never fully heal mentally. There was no denying the fact, though, that everything had changed for her. To know what to expect wasn't the same as actually living it.

La capacidad emocional, pues, no constituye un dato inmutable puesto que, con el aprendizaje adecuado, puede modificarse.

Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.

If you pretend to feel a certain way, eventually you do feel that way. That has been a surprisingly pleasant lesson to learn in life.

Grief, after all, is like smoking in a damp country — what was at first a necessity becomes afterwards an indulgence.

People don't change just because you know more about them.

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

When you say 'no' and you get on the streets and you do an act of civil disobedience, it changes your psychology.

I do tend to find when you're playing characters, often - just for the time you're playing them - there are sides of your personality that get stronger because you draw on them more.

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into still subtler form.

There is an increasingly pervasive sense that one age is over and a new one is beginning - in business, in politics, in science, in psychology.

Insight is the booby prize of therapy" is my favorite maxim of the trade, meaning that you can have all the insight in the world, but if you don't change when you're out in the world, the insight—and the therapy—is worthless

It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to evolutionary and psychological transformation as the cracking of outgrown shells.

Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.