Chapter 8
Creating a Meaningful Vision
Vision Board Presentations.
Create a Power Point
Provide a Mission Statement
Create 5-10 slides of your Vision for the Future.
Where are we now
Vision Board Presentations
TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY
Explores the overlap between the realms of psychology and spirituality.
What’s your VISION
Living Beyond Your Limits: AMY Purdy
How to write a Personal Mission Statement
Vision Board
Transpersonal Psychology
Theoreticians
Stanislov Grov (1985, 1988), Ken Wilbur (1979), Charles Tart( 1986)
Actively pursuing ideas like the reality of the soul, reincarnation, and the whole realm of paranormal phenomenon.
Life Is A Mystery
Life is ultimately a mystery that won’t ever be solved no matter how big you build your bonfires.
Form a relationship with the mystery (God, Goddess, the fates or whatever you choose to name it)
Ask the question you’ve always wanted to ask.
The real key to success is listening.
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Life Is A Mystery
Life Is Uncertain
Life Is Trouble
Everything Is Connected
– Whatever you do, you do it to yourself
– Do not burn your own house down
Everything Is Connected
alison davis () –
Everything
Is
Connected
Life Is Trouble
Life very often involves dealing with problems
Trouble cannot be avoided
Me, myself and my conscience
Life Is Uncertain
THINGS CHANGE
This Too Shall Pass.
VISION QUEST
Destiny.
Dreams and Fantasies
Compassion
Excitement
Peace
Your heart is a compass that will point to your path.
$The successful life requires constant questioning and attending to how you answer those questions, moment to moment.
What’s stopping you from achieving your goals.
Eudemonic Life
A life not merely filled with pleasantries but filled with meaning.
Visualization
A method of deliberately using imagery, visual and otherwise, to alter your feelings, your behavior, and even your physiology.
Begin with the end in mind.
Getting Clarity: The Goal of the GOAL!
The goal must be stated in positive terms and in a way that you can achieve it yourself regardless of the behavior of others.
Make certain you know how will know that you have reached your goal.
Describe your goals as specifically as you can.
Are your goals compatible with each other?
Assess what you already have and what you are going to need in order to reach your goals.
Make a plan.
HOW VISUALIZATION WORKS
Albert Bandura (1977) Social Cognitive Learning Theory
$Modeling Principle: the ability of humans to learn how to do something simply by observing others…………aka
Observational Learning
Where does our anger go?
College… What do we do now? How well do you know your parents?
Under the bed… Who have you misjudged?
Work out: the flip side
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f2WtUle74M
Who do you treat differently?
Parenting
Caller ID
Unconscious Mind
$mental imagery, the primary medium that your mind represents and stores information.
Freud (1924) Psychodynamic Theory: the concept of the unconscious mind to describe the part of the mind containing aspects of functioning of which we are totally unaware.
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