Personal development

One names personal development , personal blooming or personal growth (qc) a whole of Pratique S having for finality the redécouverte of oneself for better living, opening out in the various fields of the existence, to carry out his potential etc There does not exist a single method of personal development, but a multitude of approaches and practices which stick to this objective. Various teachers of personal development claim Psychologie, or of the Bouddhisme Zen. There is thus a broad variety of disciplines which are dependant for him of which certain with vocation individualists or spiritual.

This article thus considers the personal development by the means from several points of view: according to a history, objectives, practices, and finally of the concepts - each one from these points of view which can bring to a design different from a blooming of the person.

The sector of the “personal development” is the subject often of a certain mistrust in the Médias and near the public authorities, the field is so vague that groups sectarian as the Scientologie make use of it to recruit new followers. Others benefit from the vulnerability of certain people to attract them in not recognized medical techniques which can sometimes present a danger to the Santé.

History and context

The Old New

New Age would take its inspiration in the Années 1920 with a concoction of Théosophie (Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Alice Bailey, etc), of Bouddhisme and Hindouisme. One second inspiration would be the Era of Aquarius of Paul the Court as well as the values and the Utopias of the " generation; Peace and Love". In 1961 is created the Institut Esalen by Michael MacMurphy, close to San Francisco, then the following year Fondation Findhorn in Scotland.

The Années 1970 are favourable with psychic exploration, certain people experienced the consumption of psychotropic substances, like LSD used initially like therapeutic means by Timothy Leary.

Youth is then recipient of the great protest movements of the Années 1960, May 1968, dispute against the Guerre of Vietnam. The Occident redécouvre the Spirituality and some practical like the Meditation transcendantale, often in contact with India and its traditional knowledge, with the image of artists like the poet Allen Ginsberg, the Beatles and in particular George Harrison, Carlos Santana, etc

At that time are born the modern Psychothérapie S, tested with the Institut Esalen (California) like the Primal scream of Arthur Janov, the Rebirth, the Rolfing of Ida Rolf, tested by John Lennon and the bioenergetic Analyze of Alexander Lowen, in phase with work of Wilhelm Reich, raises Freud as well as the humanistic psychology of Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers. One also discovers into 68 the Gestalt - Therapy of Fritz Perls, a 75 year old Mister. It is in the Années 1980 that the American psychologist Marilyn Ferguson theorizes the movement. It precedes in the conspiracy of Aquarius " the emergence of a new cultural paradigm, whose extension would be planetary, heralding one new era in which humanity would manage to carry out a big part of its physical potential, psychic and spiritual ". The current is then in the continuation of the vagueness of release of the years 1970 in an ascending and experimental phase, in agreement with most of the ideals of Western youth.

Objectives

Which are, a priori , the aimings of the personal development? The personal development is not so much a gasoline which would make it possible to define several disciplines - so different - which a whole of objectives, necessarily not adopted by these disciplines, but which can be to them associated and are practiced in training courses or individual consultations.

For example, some will practice the meditation in order to open out, which will define the personal development by the objective, while the same form of meditation could be practiced except context of personal development, for example in a context of spiritual practice. The finality is to reach changes, to reach an agreement between the being and to have it. To some extent the personal development is on a level Méta: it is useful when one wants to modify his will.

Various techniques of personal development

The approaches related to the personal development borrow:

  • With the practices and Eastern spiritual traditions on a practical and/or theoretical level: Buddhism, Sufism, Zen, Martial arts etc;

  • With the nonreligious traditions: Shamanism, practices artistic, symbolism, tales etc;
  • With the Psychotherapy S and the psycho-body approaches, (Bioénergie, massage, Sophrology etc);
  • With the modern psychological theories;
  • With the techniques of communication, Coaching, management (Gestalt, PNL, relooking etc);
  • With approaches like the positive thought, creative visualization, the analysis of the dreams, the ennéagramme, the art-therapy, etc

The concept of personal Développement is sometimes diverted by certain sectarian groups which can make a of it produces call (e.g.: scientology, the movement raélien).

Internal bonds towards various approaches

Various rather traditional concepts of the personal development

Certain concepts getting a foothold in the familiar language, of the theoretical concepts a priori restricted with a rigorously definite framework of thought moult of ordinary concepts. It is for example the case of the concept of Libido. Various concepts rather often return in the personal development:

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