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Jul 1, 2014 · Public or private lamenting, full of sound and movement, is a good antidote to the responses of fury, numbness, and hopelessness that have become our normal reactions. My friend Robert said he ...
Sep 4, 2018 · I placed the debate of the self in the domain of consciousness (as opposed to the self understood as e.g., a representational structure, a physical object, or a spiritual entity) and argued that (1) conceptually, the distinction between “Me” and “I” may reflect the distinction between theoretical problems of the phenomenal self and the metaphysical self, respectively (although the ...
- Mateusz Woźniak
- 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01656
- 2018
- Front Psychol. 2018; 9: 1656.
- The News Sucks
- How We Deal with Bad News of Injustice
- How Humans Work
- What Is Lament?
- How Lament Helps Everyday People Process Suffering
- Lamenting as A Spiritual Discipline
- What Lament Give Us
- Allow Yourself Room and Lament
In case you missed the news yesterday (and no judgement here, the news sucks), Turkey invaded Northern Syria when the U.S. pulled out. We all knew the United States wouldn’t stay forever, and nations in the area don’t like the Kurds, who were making their own space in the Syrian North while fighting was going down with ISIS. Honestly, the deets are...
Scrolling through the news feed we see a sad picture or read some lines of text. It is horrible. Inhuman. Unthinkable. This is often how my brain handles it: *Screeching brakes* *Shut the door* *Change subject fast* We.Are.Done.Here. That’s about all we can take, right? That painful itching, scratching inside. It is just too much, gagaggggggagga . ...
But this is how we work as humans. We know empathy is paramount for connection, love, family, to be fully alive (at least according to Brene Browns extensive research.) But we just can’t empathize thatmuch. Years ago I rewrote Syria’s story, superimposing it into the story of the United States, simply to try to get in their shoes and empathize. I t...
Lament is an ancient art. Historically, it is mourning, often accompanied by ashes, wailing, scratchy sackcloth and fasting. Often it was public and could be done corporately. Lamenting is grieving, but many use it in conjunction with prayer. Heck, I won’t even open Twitter to read about Turkey, Kurds, and Syria. Too much yuck. Lamenting is the dam...
Justice-seekers know that we can’t turn from injustice and simply look the other way. Our theology must allow room for suffering. It cannot notaddress it. Lament makes this possible. Through lament, we grieve to grapple with suffering. Through lament, we foster empathy, connecting us with people close or far, and it helps us see them as equals. We ...
For those of us of faith, lamenting is a spiritual discipline. It requires honesty, vulnerability, anger, confession and ultimately, surrender. But as we do it with God, we commune, wait, and prime ourselves to be put into action, as action is always the next step.
And that is the other reason everyday people gain something good through practicing lament. Through it, we almost always find our next steps to act. It causes us to get to a place where we must do something, a stage I call “early action.” Early action isn’t where we end up, but it is essential to begin figuring out where we fit. For years I’ve stud...
What if everyday people choose to process injustice and the news this way? Not just weird people who like old words like “lament”? Of course, it is a good idea to make boundaries as we face injustice (my mom calls this “cacooning”–but that is a post for another time). And we often have to schedule time to lament (like I did a little processing Meg’...
Jan 29, 2024 · Carl Rogers’ self-concept is a central theme in his humanistic theory of psychology. It encompasses an individual’s self-image (how they see themselves), self-esteem (how much value they place on themselves), and ideal self (the person they aspire to be). The self is the humanistic term for who we really are as a person.
Mar 25, 2019 · Specifically, lament is a powerful practice for embedding us firmly in the Christian story. And that helps us to find meaning in our suffering. A quick search in dictionaries for the definition of lament reveals that it is to express sorrow, regret or unhappiness about something, or it’s a formal expression of sorrow or mourning.
By contrast, his chapter on habits highlighted the ways in which an individual becomes more and more like a particular type of person, with a particular type of disposition, over time. Whether functional or dysfunctional, habits coalescence into personality traits, and these personality traits become relatively fixed by the age of thirty. Type.
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Individuation. Individuation describes how this agency works. Jung saw it as the process of self realisation, the discovery and experience of meaning and purpose in life; the means by which one finds oneself and becomes who one really is. It depends upon the interplay and synthesis of opposites e.g. conscious and unconscious, personal and ...
