- It is a collection of techniques and exercises designed to help us move away from what we don't want in our lives and towards what we do. It is not just a theory, but is a practical, working method that integrates principles and techniques from many approaches to personal growth.
- Psychosynthesis uses a comprehensive approach to self-realization and the development of human potential.
- The essential aim of Psychosynthesis is to help people discover their true spiritual nature, then to effectively utilize this discovery in everyday life.
- Psychosynthesis helps you to realize your creative potential, increase your ability to function harmoniously in the modern world, and improve the quality of all your relationships, and to do what we want to do when we tune into our innermost sense of self and purpose.
- So Psychosynthesis is a kind of therapy, and it is a method of self improvement, but more than this, it is also a process that co-operates with the unfolding evolution of all nature.
It aims to bring awareness, wholeness and connection to the process of evolution as it happens in each of us.
Unlike other kinds of counseling, Psychosynthesis has no fixed idea of what someone 'should' be like - indeed, with Psychosynthesis, it is quite the contrary. It is only successful when we have become more what we want to be like.
Psychosynthesis has been described as 'a psychology with a soul', and this is what distinguishes it from many other forms of psychotherapy. Emphasizing the value of intuition, inspiration and creative insight, it is a form of 'transpersonal psychology'.
While it concentrates on the personality, it also explores these areas that we could call spiritual, although it in no way imposes any form of doctrine or belief system upon the person using it. Psychosynthesis is not a religion, nor would it ever want to be. Although once you start doing Psychosynthesis it becomes a way of life, one of its greatest qualities is that it allows you to be and do whatever you want. So it is equally suitable for Christians, Buddhists, Pagans, Moslems, atheists, agnostics - indeed, anyone at all.
It deals with the whole person -- the physical, the emotional, the mental, and the spiritual. The word spiritual is sometimes misunderstood. It is used here to mean the divine essence of an individual, that part of a person that urges them to continually improve and grow. It is the spiritual part of the individual that prompts him/her to be honest, trustworthy, respectful of others and cognizant of their infinite rights. It is the spiritual part of the individual that knows, respects, and reveres the Creator of all life, whether it be called God, Goddess, Great Spirit, Universal Energy, or by another name.


Marjorie Hope Gross, A.A.S., C.P., C.P.LC.
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