Discovering Your Self is a remarkable and original personal acount of psychotherapy and psychosynthesis. Through it, Reinhard Kowalski, a consultant clinical psychologist and psychotherapist, charts his own development and growth in the context of the political and economic changes in the world outside. Discovering Your Self shares and encourages this process of personal growth through a series of exercises from which both professionals and individuals can learn and develop. The result is a fascinating book that challenges our accepted view of ourselves.

Discovering Your Self: Breaking Walls - Building Bridges

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Kowalski, Reinhard

Mental Health

Routledge

This is a comprehensive resource for learning, practising and teaching meditation. Meditation is becoming a useful tool in the arsenal of the established healing professions. In particular Mindfulness meditation is recommended in the NICE guidelines as a treatment for depression and has proved helpful for a range of problems, including anxiety disorders and OCD. It can also be used with physical, psychosomatic and stress-related problems, and as a self-development programme. This handbook guides the reader into meditation practices in a systematic, gradual and practical way. It includes Cognitive Therapy exercises, reflections, relaxation, guided imagery, breathing exercises and a wide range of meditation practices from different traditions. It contains clear instructions on how to use the exercises and practices, as well as suggestions on how they can be used with individuals and in groups. It addresses the differing needs of readers, whether it is to 'dip into' meditation a little, to follow a programme, to learn about the spiritual aspects of meditation, or simply to create more peacefulness, calmness, groundedness and centredness in their own and in the lives of others. It includes two audio CDs for the reader to develop their own varied daily relaxation and meditation practices, as well as photocopiable worksheets, record-forms and audio exercises, so practitioners can read them out in groups or to individual clients, if they prefer to use their own voice. Meditation is a complex subject. This handbook provides a clear and practical guide that introduces the reader to the wider context of meditation, provides an optional deeper understanding of some of the concepts and models, and includes comprehensive resources for those who want to explore meditation further.

The Mindfulness and Mindbalancing Handbook

Originally published in 1993, Discovering Your Self is a remarkable and original personal account which examines the psychological walls we build around us. In it, Reinhard Kowalski, a consultant clinical psychologist and psychotherapist, develops his model of psychotherapy and psychosynthesis in a personal, psychological, clinical and political way. The result is a psychological guide-book through an increasingly complex, changing and confusing inner and outer world.His exploration draws on re-formulated cognitive behaviour therapy, stress management, and psychosynthesis psychotherapy, as well as Leontyev's activity theory, and the works of Grof, Wilber and Masterson. In addition, Douthwaite's economic considerations and the process of German unification, with its symbolism of the 'Wall coming down', are discussed in a psychotherapeutic way. The discovery of 'Self' is seen as a process that needs to constantly to deal with 'breaking walls and building bridges' between the different aspects and levels of our being.Throughout the book there are experiential exercises and meditations, based in psychosynthesis, that are relevant for therapists and for individuals who are on their own journey of personal growth. The book aims at sharing with the reader ways and means of becoming conscious of our own inner 'greenhouse', the closed system within, and of breaking through the walls that we have built within us, around us, and between each other.The result is fascinating book that challenges our widely accepted views of ourselves in a practical and experiential way.

Discovering Your Self (Psychology Revivals)

Psychology & Counseling

This practical guidebook for spiritual seekers creates a bridge between the best in Western psychology and the most relevant in yogic spirituality. It provides maps for an inner journey.Meditation, breathing techniques, mantra and devotion are presented as practical psychological tools to change our thoughts, emotions and deep-seated conditionings.The last chapter presents in detail the new MindBalancing relaxation and meditation programme (also available on audio cassette) which combines effective methods from yoga meditation, Ayurveda and Western transpersonal psychology.

The Only Way out is In: Yoga, Ayurveda and Psychology

Exercise & Fitness

Jon Carpenter Publishing

"La única salida es hacia dentro" es una guía práctica de cómo emplear las herramientas yóguicas para la transformación psicológica. Proporciona un estupendo puente entre lo mejor de la psicología occidental y lo más importante de la espiritualidad yóguica, al fundir con armonía herramientas prácticas de ambos ámbitos. A partir de su propio viaje interior, Reinhard Kowalski presenta en "La única salida es hacia dentro" una obra personal, original y, sobre todo, innovadora dentro de los estudios psicológicos de Oriente y Occidente. "La única salida es hacia dentro" debería ser leído por todos los psicólogos, meditadores y profesores de yoga, pues les permitirá entender cómo usar sus prácticas para una transformación integral del cuerpo, la mente y el espíritu. DR. DAVID FRAWLEY

La única salida es hacia dentro - Yoga, ayurveda y psicología (Spanish Edition)

Ediciones Ayurveda