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Namah Notes on counselling

which is the repertoire of all our energies, As the child grows up to be an adolescent,
dynamisms, desires, emotions and conflicting the plane of consciousness shifts from the
bipolarities of mood and behaviour. The vital physical-vital to the vital-physical plane
plane itself has many layers ranging from the where vitality overawes, dominates and
lowest which harbours elementary desires and exploits the physical plane. What was once a
lusts, to higher levels where the movement of simple exploratory libidinal behaviour now
desire can be transformed into the will for gets invested with emotions, that unless
progress. The vital plane is situated between sublimated, refined and acted upon, may
the physical and cognitive planes and an lead to experimental depredatory risks and
integral approach to personal growth needs deviance from cultural norms. Even though
to integrate them around a principle that is the vital-physical plane has developed, the
more meaningful than the ego. earlier physical-vital is retained and modified
with the powers of the vital-physical making
The pre-school child would not have yet matters more complex.Modern culture poses
developed the cognitive repertoire to a another risk to the growing adolescent. The
remarkable extent and is receptive to the ego is still more vital than mental and can get
vibrations and energies all around. In the easily misled in the alleys of cyberspace to
hierarchy of the evolution of consciousness, succumb to disruptive influences. Cyberspace
the pre-school child is at a physical-vital itself is a gateway to the nethermost recesses
level, where vitality has started emerging of the cosmic consciousness but one can enter
and asserting itself after the physical plane in an immature mode to be overawed by giant
of consciousness has consolidated itself to an negative forces.
optimal extent. At this point it starts getting
connected to the corresponding physical-vital The consciousness perspective needs the
plane of the cosmic consciousness. In absence thorough exploration and development of
of a mental ego that imparts a sense of defence all the three planes that are the building-
around the emerging individuality, the blocks of the emergent personality — the
child’s psyche may be invaded by disruptive physical, vital and mental — and subsequently
vibrations and energies which exist in the integrating them around a soul-principle that is
cosmic consciousness. These energies remain more meaningful than the ego. The ego is at
free and floating in the cosmic consciousness first necessary to impart a sense of individuality
as libido is a very strong force needed for the and defence against extraneous forces but
perpetuation of the species and claims a right needs to be surpassed at an optimal time by
to be preserved. In certain cultures, these a more harmonious soul-principle.
energies are more archetypally consolidated
in the cosmic consciousness, especially where Management
childhood eroticism is eulogised as in the
Tobriand culture or Tahagmyut families of the Though behaviour therapy and play therapy
Ungava peninsula. The current consumerist are recommended for pre-school children with
scenario with an over-exposure to audio- libidinal disturbances, there are finer issues
visual media and easy access to adult content to be considered. Children who are affected
may foster new archetypal consolidations. seem to spend more time with adults but it is

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