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The Spiritist Psychological Society
Year VI l Issue N° 31 l November and December l 2013
The Journal of Psychological Studies
Science, Philosophy and Religion
From Crisis to Self-realization: A Journey of Life
The consciousness of being an
sence. One thinks of happiness, but
immortal Spirit promotes a greater
does
not
really
know
how
challenge to the human being. One
achieve it, living an external life
has to go in search of the meaning
without meaning and without spir-
and significance of its existence in
itual guidance. Thanks to the Divine
representative of God.
to
Adenáuer Novaes
Clinical Psychologist
"The
modern
findings
Psychosomatics demonstrate
pathological
occurrences,
of
that
in
the
psychological and emotional fields,
are
easily
or g a n ic
transferable
f ie ld ,
to
the
a l l ow in g
the
installation of diseases of varied
genesis.
balance
When
of
disturbed,
the
support
energetic
to
cells
immunological
is
factors
under the destructive bombardment
of mental discharges are altered,
granting
the
development
installation
of
deadly
and
agents,
which produce degeneration of the
body.
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addition to having to find its own
Mercy, that always reserves some-
Personal Designation. As one is still
thing better for its upward journey,
to
occupied with its physical survival,
its crisis will lead to the renewal,
responsibility awareness, so that,
having to learn how to better deal
the surprising and wonderful en-
lucid and balanced, the individual
with the neighbour in order to know
counter with oneself, hence with
sets the paradigms of the conquest
itself, unfortunately little time is
the Creator. On its journey, one
of the valuable asset of health.
reserved for this greater quest that
must rely on many aids, likewise it
would, in fact, lead to the under-
will be required that it offers help to
exalted the creature's moral and
standing of God. Living from crisis
all those who it meets on its way,
emotional harmony before Life...
to crisis, but in reality, not under-
so that solidarity will teach one to
standing that one’s great crisis has
love, ultimate reason for human
Jesus proposed self-examination in
as a main theme, the explanation
existence. The more one becomes
the
of who we actually are and for what
aware of its immortality, integrating
acquisition of peace as a result of
reason we exist. One’s journey is
all that relates to the condition of
the proposals to love God above all
fulfilled by gaining economic and
Spirit, the more one advances and
things
financial stability in the world, often
will experience new, amazing and
yourself.
despising spiritual experiences that
complex
reality.
Nowadays, various sciences are
would be important and would give
Therefore, in the moments of crisis,
in agreement with these programs
meaningful answers to key ques-
one should seek to renew, trans-
(...) inciting the self-encounter, the
tions. Mistaking success with self-
form itself and remember its divine
freedom from the mental and moral
realization, one is concerned more
status, without which one remains
debris, the freedom of the eternal
with superfluous activities, in which
trapped in lamentations, victimizing
spiritual self in its inevitable growth
its vanity and selfishness stand out
itself. One should always remember
process. "
than with the rich experiences of
its luminosity and its spiritual desti-
contact with its own inner world,
nation,
dimensions
whose
of
greatness
places
For this reason, it is essential
establish
Jesus
a
new
throughout
Uncommon
form
and
of
era
the
of
Gospel
psychotherapist,
recipe
your
for
neighbour
the
as
Momentos de Saúde
Joanna de Ângelis
“... seeing that to study the Spirits is to study man ...”
Allan Kardec
The Journal of Psychological Studies -
Year VI l Issue N° 31 l November and December l 2013
Psychopathology of Fear
In the condition of one of the
Overcoming Obstacles
choking etc. - begin to extrapolate
the
essential function of ensuring our
greater intensity, this indicates the
expectations of a better future for us
survival, functioning as a warning
risk
and our family, many couples stop
sign
psychopathology:
so that
the body and the
normality
of
and
an
occur
with
In the times we live in, anxiety
basic human emotions, fear has the
associated
phobias,
panic,
seems
having
to
prevail
children
over
because
of
our
the
psyche are prepared to deal with
OCD, post-traumatic stress, among
uncertainties caused by the actual
some risk. The problem starts to
others.
obsessive
disenchantment and disengagement
arise
phenomenon
present,
and by the negativity existent; and
when
the
emotion
occurs
Often
the
is
also
in turn "wars and rumours of wars”
disturb,
revolt
hopes.
Ever
and
minimize
increasing
our
personal
issues and challenges may take the
form of real impassable walls.
To expect others to solve our
issues or to meet our needs would
be
to
take
attitude
an
that
collaborate
capabilities.
expression
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actually
our
literally,
the
presupposes
a ggressive
forces.
Looking at life from another angle,
changing
the
meanings,
p r e se n t
and
transcending
v i su a l i z i n g
optimistically the future moments
assures us healthy and harmonious
expectations. To live one moment at
a time, waiting for the day to be the
without
justify
effective
its
situations
presence
or
that
intensity,
which can be the result of several
fact or s:
t ra u ma,
imma t ur ity,
reminiscences, etc.
Early childhood education, often
guided
by
aggression
and
intensifying
the
becoming
a
pathology
more
and
complex
diagnosis.
best
possible
effectively
for
and
that;
contributing
to
recognize
yourself as a traveller of life, in the
“The courage of staying in touch
words of Plotinus; to recognize that
with your own fears" is an important
"everything
step towards their eradication, says
Peter
Joanna
moments to the happy moments; to
de
Ângelis.
Psychiatric,
evolution as advocated by Spiritism
which often extends into adulthood
enable the different entities affected
are chances for growth and instead
by weakening the ego, which is
by fear to be worked out, with a
of obstacles and defeatism, we will
unprepared to deal with the conflicts
greater chance of success. At the
see opportunities to be embraced for
of natural existence.
same
our growth, always ascending. This
In addition, the media ends up
forget
the
excellent treatment of love, which,
giving
starting within ourselves, by the
undue prominence to violence and
way we care about our health, in all
natural disasters. To the psychiatrist
instances, leading us to meet with
Gerard Ballone, fear and anxiety are
the neighbour in the direction of
very
affectivity. After all, is there a fear
fuelling
anxiety
close,
and
and
fear,
"the
difference
between fear and anxiety is just the
more
feared object, the fear is specific
than the fear of loving?
destructive
and
dangerous
(fear of a, b or c) and anxiety is
Cláudio Sinoti
Jungian Therapist
our
moral
and
as
sad
will
never
for
the
treatments,
together,
work
from
instilling excessive fear in children,
acting
spiritual
impermanent"
psych ological
time,
and
is
advises,
imposition, is also responsible for
When the physical symptoms -
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Taken
"winning"
sometimes
generalized (fear of what?)."
2
not
develop
in an imbalance of antagonistic and
Editor
Evanise M Zwirtes
Reporting
Adenáuer Novaes
Cláudio Sinoti
Sonia Theodoro da Silva
Iris Sinoti
Manuel Portásio Filho
Evanise M Zwirtes
to
overcoming at the other’s expenses
Journalist
João Batista Cabral - Mtb n° 625
Collaborators
Adenáuer Novaes
Maria Angélica de Mattos - Revision
Maria Novelli - English Translation
Cricieli Zanesco - English Translation
Karen Dittrich - German Translation
Maria M Bonsaver - Spanish Translation
Lenéa Bonsaver - Spanish Translation
Valle G Bermejo - Spanish Translation
Nicola P Colameo - Italian Translation
Sophie Giusti - French Translation
Andrei Latinnik - Russian Translation
Natalia Latinnik - Russian Translation
Spartak Severin - Russian Translation
accommodative
would
ethical
means having faith.
Sonia Theodoro da Silva
Columnist
- The Journal of Psychological Studies
Year VI l Issue N° 31 l November and December l 2013
Frustrations
Causal Factors of Laziness
Normally we do not like when
“Laziness travels so slowly that
From a spiritual point of view,
something "goes wrong" and our
poverty soon overtakes it”, ruled
however, the lazy would be set in a
desires and goals do not reach our
Confucius, the Chinese philosopher
primary development range. Some
expectations. However, dealing with
in the 6th century BC.
of
them
might
try
to
justify
frustrations is something important
The Church has listed it among
and necessary for the attainment of
the "seven deadly sins", next to
would not be doing anyone any
psychological maturity, and as the
gluttony, pride, lust, greed, anger
harm. But in answer to the question
Jungian psychiatrist Carlos Byington
and envy.
642
says: "a mature ego is that capable
of elaborating its own frustrations."
We should not forget that the
perception
of the
ego
is,
often,
not too lazy
to walk, he
wills must be satisfied. Frustrating
would
the ego is a response of life to show
h
that we are on a wrong path.
invented
frustrations,
must
make
v
e
the wheel”,
wrote
g r e a t
need. We need that what is essential
Brazilian
to the body, the soul, the life as a
poet
whole. Now desires often come from
Quintana.
desires
the
Mario
our feeling of lacking and the illusion
Dráuzio
of the senses. It is not necessary to
Varella,
deny them, but it is an important
MD,
adds
lesson to lead them, so they do not
t
a
become destructive.
"laziness to
Maslow himself, author of the
famous
Pyramid
of
Needs,
the
not
a
the
between
Book,
were
and
distinction
we
wit h
they
of
infantile ego that believes that all
de a l
Spirits’
that
progress. If
necessary are merely whims of our
to
The
saying
the
mother
man
le a r n ing
of
by
Laziness
is
superficial, and what we think is
In
themselves
h
move
t
the
skeleton
is
established that the most important
n
thing to the individual would not be
restricted
to satisfy wishes and whims, but
to our species: no adult animal
spiritual teachers say that it is not
seeking
expends energy for nothing."
enough
"self-actualization"
o
t
not
to
do
evil,
it
is
understood as one that realizes the
What are its determinant factors,
aspirations of the soul and learns to
then, understanding laziness as a
cope with all the frustrations that life
tendency to inactivity, aversion to
throws
the
work, slowness to perform any task,
presents
Master taught us: “For what is a man
negligence, indolence, sluggishness
fatigue or the individuals' need for
profited if he shall gain the whole
or drowsiness.
rest to remake their energies, this
its
way,
because
as
world and lose his own soul?”
Iris Sinoti
Jungian Therapist
imperative to do good, to the utmost limits of ones ability.
And
e ve n
itself
wh e n
as
an
la z in e ss
effect
of
Characterized as a misconduct,
cannot continue indefinitely because
according to Joanna de Ângelis in
it would result in an “anomalous
the
phenomenon
book
Conflitos
Existenciais,
laziness can be expressed in many
ways: tendency to stay in bed, even
after
having
adds
Joanna de Ângelis.
After all, as Roberto Brólio, MD,
in the book Doenças da Alma says,
destruction mechanism; loss of zest
"the physical and mental laziness" is
for
mental
harmful to the soul, "which can not
some
remain stagnant in the face of the
lack
of
wider
horizons;
resulting
emotional
shock
surpassed;
or
enough;
conduct”,
self-
life;
slept
of
from
not
in
the
consciously
form
isolation, as revenge against society
that does not meet the expectations
of the lazy.
laws to which it is linked."
of
Manuel Portásio Filho
Lawyer
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The Journal of Psychological Studies -
Year VI l Issue N° 31 l November and December l 2013
Psychogenesis of Anxiety
According
to
Sacconi
Mini
derivative
result of the fragmentation of a
Dictionary of Portuguese Language,
symptoms
disorders. A depersonalization, for
there
may
mediumistic trance, as well as the
anxiety means “uneasiness or pain of
example,
the spirit caused by impatience or
dissociative
uncertainty; agony, distress.”
can
develop
disorder,
into
a
derealisation,
which
as
a
consequence
of
feels
such
is
already
a
depersonalisation.
psychosis; a phobia can manifest
The
The earthly beings fast approach
itself as a physical disorder, the so
oneself, having a sensation rather
the Era of the Spirit. At present,
called panic disorder, for example,
unpleasant, feels uncomfortable.
anxiety
of
which is an exaggeration of the
We see that the anxiety disorder
disturbance and imbalance, being
symptoms; a lack of concentration
presents itself at the root of many
the
and
psychiatric
is
a
product
severe
of
factor
inner
conflicts
memory,
suddenly,
between trends and lower desires
diagnosed
(power, hostility, aggression, greed,
disorder,
avarice, envy) that, upon reaching
derivative
the consciousness to become active,
hyperaesthesia
as
can
attention
about
disorders
or
psychopathologies. André Luiz in the
be
book A Spiritual Home, explains that
in
the
fears have deep roots in the soul. We
person
are approaching an era in which
collide with notions that propose the
becomes irritable, and may resort to
medicine will have dominion over the
moral sense; when this is not found
violence,
organic diseases, while the psychic
the
sensorial
is
insensitive,
cold,
of
can
strange
also
person
which
be
deficit
person
anxiety;
cases,
the
the
person
organs
has
very
the
sensitive,
diseases
i n c re a s e ,
with
the
indifferent. The restlessness inside is
edgy, in a sensory circuit, which may
probability of there being an increase
a result of the feelings of altruism
or
mental
in the unfortunate trends of the
and duty, the aspirations for spiritual
dissociation, in which the individual
Spirit, expressing them in different
elevation and others. Anxiety, being
would be going for a borderline
ways. For many, the disturbance
the
a
situation. This hyperaesthesia would
flow into the limbic system, creating
salutary reaction that, as a form of
already be the mediumistic status,
emotional
distress, stimulates the being to seek
when we say that the person has a
represent the noise and disturbance
solution to spiritual evil, portraying
high level of sensitivity, the person is
of the inner being, comprehending
the disobedience to the Divine Law;
already at the mercy of the sensory
the pathological anxiety, which is
in the course of this disobedience
activity. It is the hyperaesthesia that
always the disconnection from the
other people were seriously injured.
will make the person engage in a
deeper
mediumship connection. As the tune
circumstances.
product
of
misconduct, is
The anxiety disorder represents a
fear
of
advance
to
disturbances
meaning
of
Life
to
leave
that
and
of the person is not good, this
is
connection is not positive. And what
academic viewpoint of seeing the
unlike the anxiety of adaptation,
will
man and life in a fragmented way.
which
connection amplifies symptoms.
danger,
has
unknown,
not
an
internal
something
may
subjective.
an
objective
It
reason,
external.
happen?
This
mediumistic
It
is
necessary
the
We are spiritual beings, interning in
It is essential to remember that
energetic bodies. Most diseases are
In the anxiety disorder, people do
when a person has a psychological
sign of the Spirit’s lack of evolution;
not know why they get anxious.
problem, it irradiates a mental tune.
they have as their origin some of the
Numerous
The
vices of selfishness.
physical
symptoms
and
may
occur
simultaneously.
The
unknown
occurs
reasons
mental
thought
and
a
particular
wave,
The treatment for anxiety goes
for
which will tune with other minds that
through the spiritualisation of the
because
fear
amplitude
has
frequency
have that same vibratory pattern.
being and in this field Spiritism gives
people bring to themselves opposing
Thus,
psychological
a great contribution in explaining
feelings,
will
problem will be much greater, as it
and demonstrating that we are not
reverberate in the brain, presenting
will be intensified due to mediumship
the body, but immortal souls in
physical symptoms such as chest
influences
transit
pain,
pressure,
influences) when an enlargement of
continues after the death of the
headache,
ambiguous,
increased
tachycardia,
migraines,
anxiety
blood
dizziness,
lump
in
initial
(which
are
spiritual
to perfection
because
life
perception happens, capturing the
organic body. Proposing to us to
of
breath,
meta-psychical
know the truth, it leads us to the
the
throat,
me d iu ms hi p
shortness
heartburn,
that
the
digestive
symptoms
reality.
e f fect
The
c aus es
a
truth-transformation,
which
frees
superlative effect. It amplifies what
and promotes consciousness to an
(diarrhoea, stomach pains etc.), and
the
awaken
psychological
as
negative instances reaching the point
consciousness is the result of the
depression, phobias, insomnia, loss
of losing control. This exacerbation
experience with God.
of
may reach the extreme; it can lead
Evanise M Zwirtes
factors
concentration
depersonalization,
obsessive
and
memory,
derealisation,
compulsive
hyperaesthesia
such
to
person
serious
is
focusing
conditions
on,
such
in
as
disorder,
violence, suicide, murder etc. It is
(exaggerated
also possible to consider, in the case
sensitivity to a received stimulus).
level.
The
truth-
Psychotherapist
of exaggerated hyperaesthesia that
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