There is a co-relational, influential relationship between self-perceived weakness and self-hate... As self-perceived weakness and ineffectualness (real and/or imagined) goes up, so too does self-condemnation, self-anger, self-depression, and self-hate....Adler pinpointed this relationship in terms of the effect of 'level of perceived inferiority feelings' on self-image and self-esteem fluctuation...
Working with this type of transient, acute, or chronic 'self-esteem illness', one may need the help of a good friend, counsellor, or psychotherapist....and/or alternatively, be able to kick-start into motion the 'self-healing capabilities' within all of us...
Whether we need to 'nurture' ourselves better, and/or 'kick ourselves in the ass', be embraced and cuddled or -- in recent Geico commerical style -- have a 'drill seargent' inside or outside us...'direct us to take a trip over to Mambi Pambi land...and find us some self-confidence...'
Whether we need to 'go easier on ourselves' -- or 'harder'....it all comes down to 'what works for us'...Let pragmatism and functionality dictate...chase dysfunctionality out the door...
Don't let the toxins within you poison you from the inside out...or the outside in...
Like our body needs our liver for 'detoxifying pathogens'....so too does our mind....
We need a 'liver' in our mind that is pragmatic and functional....detoxifying and self-healing...The Jesus Christ Archetype providing energy to our 'Central Ego'
And our Central Ego adhering to, worshipping, and celebrating the gifts of our Creative and Altruistic Selves....Our 'Light-Soul'...The Archetype of our 'Internal God' who is guiding...or who should be guiding us...and finally the re-integration of not only Holy Spirits...but also 'Darker Spirits'....'The Dark-Soul'...home of Satan...who needs to be listened to for his 'Anti-Christian' and 'Deconstructive' Beliefs...his grudges and resentments from being 'evicted from Heaven'...from being 'ex-communicated'...and being labelled as 'The Disavowed'...'The Evil One'....In this regard 'Satanic Impulses'...evil impules...most certainly need to be 'detoxified' through the self-healing capabilities of The Central Ego in the Archetype Image of Jesus Christ...'negative energy' needs to be 'turned back into positive energy'...and failing that...civil justice systems need to take over....
But the Human Spirit needs the Fires from the Underworld...just as it needs the romantic passion of Aphrodite, Venus, Cupid, and Psyche...and just as it needs the deep, healing energies of the peaceful waters ruled by Poseidon (until Poseidon gets angry)...
And so too, the Human Spirit needs the rootedness, the security, the stability, the food and nutrition provided by The Earth, ruled over by The Greek God 'Gaia'....
And The Human Spirit needs the stabilizing institution of 'family' and 'marriage' as guided over by the Greek Mythological God, 'Hera', in whatever way we can best conceive of maintainging the stability of the family...
And finally The Human Spirit needs the Idealistic and Supreme Ruling of Zeus, Jupitor...and God in The Heavens...the Ideal Goodness worshipped by Plato...that became the Goodness of The Christian Relgion...or at least the best part of The Christian Religion...
The worst part of the Christian Religion was rhetorically confronted and 'deconstructed' by Nietzsche, Dionysus, Zarathrusta, The Superman, and 'The Anti-Christ' all of them emphasizing the supreme importance of appreciating every last day and moment we have the capability of enjoying on Earth...regardless of what may or may not be waiting for us in any imagined or real 'Afterlife'...
And I speak of the 'all-round integration of man'...
Of rational-empirical-spiritual-romantic-sensual-dialectical-humanitic-existential-religious-and/or-pantheistic egalitarianism and freedom...
I speak of the 'DHEEP'.
Dialectic-Humanistic-Existential-Egalitarian-Psychotherapy'...
-- dgb, Nov. 12th, 2010,
-- David Gordon Bain
