Planning

This is the fifth step in the Act of Will journey of Psychosynthesis. You can join in at any time. I will offer one tool per all the stages. If you decide to join, you need to start from step 1 (Purpose) and give it time to land before step 2 (Deliberation) and so forth. It would also be helpful to read the “Act of Will Process” from my profile. You can find all the material related to this journey by scrolling down posts or you can find the posts under Tunnisteet / Labels: “Act of Will Process”.



R. Assagioli (founder of Psychosynthesis) has emphasised that it is so important to formulate, clearly and precisely, the goal to be reached as he sees that there is a constant tendency in man to pay so excessively attention to the means, even to the point where he/she loses the sight of the goal itself; means are not the ends themselves. This is valid in so many ares, for example if you practice something, lets say yoga asanas (posture), meditation, dance.. and if you see the technique becomes the end, maybe it is good to bring into awareness the actual reason, preferably a quality why you do what you do.. and sure the technique is important in some of the places too, but it is not the deeper purpose itself.. more about the qualities you can read under the “Purpose Calling” post.

The tool(s) for the planning stage:

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Remember your purpose;
the quality /qualities it represents or experience the you wished for
The choice you made
Recall the affirmation that you have planted

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Take time to vision the goal that you wish to reach
the outcome of the
manifestation
the experience that you wish in your life

Really see how it could be if it comes fully into your life

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Draw or write it on a paper

Now
moving to planning
How is your plan going to look like
Create your plan any way that works for you
And make sure to list the actions you are going to take towards the goal/the manifestation
&
What are you going to do
next week / weekly
next month

and ask yourself

What is the next step(s) that I’m joyfully and lovingly willing to take within a few days?

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“Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.”
- Indira Gandhi


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Kristiina

In group workshops or one one one sessions we would / could look deeper into different ways to plan, into resources, challenges, needs and timeframes + guidelines for goal settings and the importance of the purpose qualities in the planning.. that it is about embracing the journey.. all the steps..

Hey 👋

Hey 👋 How are you guys doing?

Here we are earthing, if that is a word. Love to be outdoors. In nature. Our daughter is growing so much in days.. What a beautiful being to witness 💓
I've been much tuned with natural processes.. and honestly did not think that I would have been a full time mom for this long however there has been a bit more space for work and it has much meaning to me. To share and guide ✨🙏💝
Wish to be more in touch with you in the coming fall.

We @livingconsciouslife are also teaching other psychosynthesis coach trainees next fall but I'm also drawn to have an open online group for "meeting self". Bit strange name for now but if you are ready and interested in a steady group that meets weekly or monthly for a short period of time (to see if you like it). In any case it will be in line with different tools from meditation traditions, psychosynthesis, yoga and somatic approach. Depending on the group.

Over a year ago we @livingconsciouslife were invited to facilitator training from psychosynthesis (it’s psychology and spiritual traditions combined for integration that works around personality and realisation of true Self) and that finished a few months ago.
What psychosynthesis also very nicely points out is how the inherited value is in the deeper qualities and not in a form itself. Forms will alter if you allow and if they don’t serve anymore.

There is so much to share and I have always loved how for example Krishnamacharya taught. I’ve been practicing with his student Pattabhi Jois, who was teaching ashtanga yoga.. anyhow Krishnamacharya taught many students and these student further (Iyengar, Desikachar..) and they were different forms, Krishnamacharya taught individually, what was the need of the person, the form changed according to the student.

There is a Buddhist saying of this too.. about using a draft in the water but you don’t drag the draft into the woods with you.. well, maybe you could but that’s quite some work i would think.

I wish you are doing well and if you would like to start / restart a journey with me and a group then you can let me know. You can also let me know how you are in your life, that would be nice 🙂

Summery wishes
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Affirmation

This is the forth step in the Act of Will journey. You can join in at any time. I will offer one tool per all the stages.
If you decide to join, you need to start from step 1 (Purpose) and give it time to land before the step 2 (Deliberation) and so forth. It would also be helpful to read the “Act of Will Process”.
You can find all the material related to this journey by scrolling down posts or you can find the posts under Tunnisteet / Labels: “Act of Will Process”. So start with the post “Act of Will Process”, then "Purpose", have a week or 2 pause and move to "Deliberation", have a pause and move to "Choice", pause and then moving to "Affirmation". Additional material; "What is Will" and "Purpose Calling".


Affirmation anchors choosing coming into manifestation. You have made your decision and now the wheel is put into motion, this is the first act.
This is a necessary step to empower your choice, especially if you later on at all feel discouraged, this will help you to remind you of your purpose and choice on a deeper level.

“What is willed shall be” R. Assagioli (founder of Psychosynthesis).
Affirmation fuels and energies your choice.


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In this step:


Create your words of power
and / or
Create your gesture of power
and / or
Create your image of power


If you do all you can do them all in one row and take notes and draw after.

Start with gesture:
Remind yourself of your purpose and choice and
feel how would your body want to move or express this into a form, to affirm your decision.
This is to symbolically express what is to be achieved.


Image
Remind yourself of your purpose and choice and
invite an image to support you as an affirmation
or invite an image, or vision, of what is wanted as if it were already accomplished
draw it and write what it means for you if needed


Words of power
Remind yourself of your purpose and choice and
invite words that help you with your choice. Create a short phrase.
Repeat inwardly and out loud.



Use this/these affirmation daily before we move into another second step in a few weeks. It helps that you have it written or drawn on a paper (and you have it visible for you).
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You can remind yourself of the affirmation later on too, when moving on to other steps, especially if you feel disempowered.
You will be more ready for the planning step (next one to come) when you have created and used your affirmation.



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Kristiina


In group workshops or one one one sessions we would / could look deeper into the theory of affirmation, into psychological laws which means how for example our thoughts, images, emotions, gestures.. affect. We could be checking in what is happening in psychological functions, motives, sub-personalities, LOAFing; (Limiting Ideas, Old and Out-dated Beliefs, Assumptions, Fears) as moving from choice to affirmation, we could also look at will alignment.

Unconscious to Conscious

 

In Psychosynthesis (PS) we see that there is conscious material, things we are aware of + there is all the unconscious (UC) that is not in our immediate reach, could be close by or further away. In PS they are divided into middle UC (close by), lower UC and higher UC.

Lower can also be described as our basement or even past and higher to our attic with qualities and potential.
What I find interesting in the light of expanding awareness, whether it is through yoga, meditation traditions, psychosynthesis or other conscious means, when we expand the awareness that the space of our consciousness expands we normally expand into both directions if we touch the higher or lower UC.

PS suggests that the lower UC is formed because we do not want to keep some things in our consciousness. They could be uncomfortable feelings, experiences that we do not like to be reminded of or just simply do not want to feel them. When this happens we also create higher UC which means that we also separate positive aspects such as love, joy, creativity, trust, connection to Divine… that were threatened by our wounding that we store in the lower UC and this is how the higher UC also gets to be formed.

So what it means is that any time we work with the higher UC or lower UC we also might reveal what is on the other end. We expand the conscious space. And the space enlarges if we welcome all that in. Not that we necessarily need to go all the way to all stories of the UC but atleast have space for the emotions that may show up. Recognise, feel and hopefully eventually accept the feelings. This can lead to integration which means that the expansion brings life more available, we have a grater reality than before, we have more choices and see other possible ways of being, we might be able to hold more easily a variety of experiences with their glory and shadows. Life in this sense can become richer and experiencing vitality and aliveness becomes easier.

And for those who are in the Act of Will Journey (you can still start and find all the material here  by scrolling down posts or you can find the posts under Tunnisteet / Labels: “Act of Will Process”), as we started the journey with calling in an experience that most likely is in the higher UC, it can be normal to become aware of material that may have helped to suppress it.

Sidenote: I love how my teacher Didi always emphasizes that there is no need to dig the basement if the material do not affect our daily life. Maybe good to know..

From psychosynthesis coaching perspective, especially from the self-development point of view, what is it then to "do" if the enlarging consiousness interests? You can start by asking: What is calling you, what would you like more in your life? Or if you are more of a person to say at the moment what is not working, then see what is it that you need (internal need).
You might like to dive in to this with the "Purpose" post which is the first step in the Act of Will Journey which in larger sence expands our consciousness.

Coaching/Mentoring Vs. Therapy in Psychosynthesis

I myself work as a coach/mentor and there are few things I'd like to write about it to differentiate this work to therapy and I’ll only look at it in the Psychosynthesis view.

In Psychosynthesis coaching/mentoring it is ideal that the “customer” already has a bit of sense of who they are underneath all the roles that take place in their everyday lives. That there is something deeper in themselves. A place where in coaching we can learn to observe all the events that take place in our lives if you are not yet familiar with it. Coaching/mentoring clients have willingness to take responsibility for their life and are maybe interested to expand their awareness and live more in connection with what is meaningful for them. They might also like to work with some of their obstacles in their daily lives.

The therapy side of Psychosynthesis may sometimes be in a space where the therapist takes a bigger role for carrying the “customer”. Person in the therapy might need a container for their story as it might feel too big for them to hold. Person might have lost connection to their true Self and therapy may seek to restore this connection. Therapist may also diagnose psychological disturbances. Coach/mentor is interested in the potential and do not diagnose. Coach/mentor is also a holding space for the customer for the session to evolve but the the customer has a space in themselves that they also know that they can look at things from, connection to s/Self.

For those seeking a coach/mentor or therapist, you can always ask if the form would fit for them and their needs.

I myself offer a free intake to see if the coaching/mentoring fits and also for the customer to see if they like the way I could be working with them. In this way the intake is a space for both parties to ask questions and get familiar with each other.

CHOICE

 

 

 
This is the third step (six in total) in the Act of Will journey. You can join in at any time. I will offer one tool per all the stages.
If you decide to join, you need to start from step 1 (Purpose) and give it time to land before the step 2 (Deliberation). It would also be helpful to read the “Act of Will Process”. You can find all the material related to this journey by scrolling down some posts or you can find the posts under Tunnisteet / Labels: “Act of Will Process”. So start with the post “Act of Will Process”, then "Purpose", "Deliberation" and "Choice". Additions are; "What is Will" and "Purpose Calling".

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Carl Jung has said that we can find God through the non dominant function. So if you discovered on the previous step, what was your most non-dominant or sleepy or non active psychological function, then it might be interesting to look at what it revealed in your deliberation.

It is time to center which ever way works for you. For some of you it might be a moment of stillness for some it could be through conscious movement..
and remind yourself of the purpose that you created on step one.

Then

Go through the list of options that you created on the previous step.
Which ones really calls you?
Come into two or three options.
It might be that some of the options from your list still forms a new option or combined one. That’s ok. Write it down. And consider if any new option is in your top 2 or 3.

The options that you choose should be possible to reach (options are realistic) within a certain timeframe (timeframe that you yourself will set to yourself later). And if you have so called unrealistic options too on your list, those are also valid, as they might be revealing your inspirations, interests, values, needs..

Then take one of the options and go through all the psychological functions. What do they inform you about this option. Are they all aligned with your option?

Thinking - What kind of thoughts does this option rase in you?
Desire / Impulse - Do you like/desire this option?
Sensations - What does your body sense/inform you when you think or imagine this option?
Feelings - What kind feelings does this option raise in you?
Imagination - What kind of image you get from this option? Do you like it?
Intuition - What does your intuition inform you about this option?



You might consider if the option is anymore an option, if many function do not support your choice..
Look at the other option(s) this way too.

By now, you might already be closer to choosing..

At this point you are still deliberating. With your psychological functions, with your deeper knowing.
Also, be aware that whatever you choose, you choose and it also means that the other option(s) are not chosen (at least for now). This also can rase thoughts, feelings, sensations about it..

Whenever you are ready with 2 or 3 options, I have recorded a guided meditation for choosing and step into the chosen path. Sent me a mail at kristiina.peltoniemi@gmail.com with topic Choice or Choice meditation and I’ll direct you to the meditation. Even if your choice is already clear, the meditation may deepen your choice, give an embodied reminder for later of your choice if you would start to be in doubt and also aid to let go of the other options.

after.. make sure that the choice is in allignement with your purpose or you might slightly change your purpose if that resonates with you on a deeper level than the original one.

Write your choice down: “I choose to … “ 🌱

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Kristiina


On a group workshops or one one one sessions we would / could look deeper into choosing process, how you choose, what is connected to choosing and why you might not choose. Go deeper into psychological functions, motivations, sub-personalities, LOAFing; (Limiting Ideas, Old and Out-dated Beliefs, Assumptions, Fears), Aspects of the Will and connection to s/Self.