THE NATURAL SYSTEMS INSTITUTE

The Duplex Pyramids


 

LESSONS FOR SELF HELP AND HELP WITH RELATIONSHIPS

by Edwin L. Young, PhD

It is recommended that you work through each of the following lessons slowly and thoroughly over a period of from six months to a year.  Click on the underlined titles (hyperlinks) to go to the respective lessons.  (PowerPoint Presentations may open slowly).

1. KEEPING a RECORD of HOW YOU CHANGED in the PAST and HOW YOU CHANGE as YOU WORK THROUGH THESE LESSONS

A SELF REFLEXIVE JOURNALIZING

B SELF RETROFLEXIVE JOURNALIZING

C ADVANCED SELF RETROFLEXIVE JOURNALIZING

D CHRONOLOGUE

2. IMPLICIT OTHERS and the PROCESS of REPLACING THEM

3 RELATING TO LIFE EXPERIENCES

4. WHAT MAKES YOU FEEL FULFILLED

A CRITERIA FOR FULFILLMENT Delving Deeper to Uncover

B CRITERIA FOR FULFILLMENT Changing Complex

C CRITERIA FOR FULFILLMENT - Foreshadowing and Realism

5. ENVISIONING YOUR FUTURE

6. LIFE GOALS

A. DECIDING and GOAL SETTING

B. GOAL SETTING and CREATING a  HEALING CALENDAR

7. ADVENTURING and MIRRORING as YOU GO

8. COPING WITH EMOTIONS

A. CYCLING from RAGE to DEPRESSION

B. MOVING FROM BEING STRESSED OUT TO SERENITY

C. WHEN ANXIETY TURNS into RAGE

D. DEALING with the ANXIETY of UNBEARABLE EMPTINESS

9. The QUESTION of WHETHER to TURN to MEDICATION for PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS

A THE QUESTION OF MEDICATION FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS

THE QUESTION OF SUPPORT GROUPS

10. DISCOVERING YOUR WORLDVIEW, HOW YOU RELATE to TIME, DETECTING YOUR MOODS, and WHAT YOUR EGO STATES ARE LIKE (Work in Progress)

11. DISCOVERING and ALTERING YOUR LIFE TOPOLOGY

A Life Topology-The Places and Routes of Your Life

B Life Topology - Structure of Civilization-Life History-Relationships-and Circumstances

C Life Topology - Redesigning Your Life

12. COMMUNICATING

A LISTENING AND COMMUNICATING

B ALTERING COMMUNICATION PATTERNS IN SPECIFIC TYPES OF SITUATIONS

13. IDENTITY

A. EARLY  INFLUENCES  on YOUR IDENTITY  FORMATION

B IDENTITY: EARLY INFLUENCES ON ITS FORMATION

C IDENTITY CONFLICTS ACROSS GENDERS-BODY TYPES-RACE INTERACT WITH SOCIETAL STRUCTURES

D Identity Teens Crucible for Transformations

E. IDENTITY CHALLENGES ACROSS LIFE STAGES RAISE EXISTENTIAL CONFLICTS

14. MATING and RELATING

A . ENCOUNTERS, SELECTION, AND EARLY STAGES IN RELATIONSHIPS

B NEGOTIATING RELATIONSHIP STYLES THROUGH STAGES

C RE-NEGOTIATING THE NATURE OF AN ONGOING RELATIONSHIP

15. FINDING MATURITY AND SERENITY
(These eleven essays also can be found in various headings under the Outline of Topics for "Introduction to the Natural Systems Theory, Philosophy, and Approach to Solving Cultural Problems")

 


 

 

'Duplex Pyramids' above is the logo of the Natural Systems Institute.  The top inverted pyramid represents layers of  external structures and systems and the bottom pyramid represents layers of internal structures and systems.  The extension of the pyramid to the left represents degrees of distance into the past, while extension to the right represents degrees of projection into the future.  The underlying theoretical assumption is that effective, enduring change in humans and human social systems comes only when these multidimensional relationships of the external, internal, past and future perspectives are all addressed as change efforts are attempted.

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Document created by Edwin L. Young, PhD between 6/1993 and when last edited on 07/23/2010

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