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Psychic Process
Self Code

Selfhood — Core Principle

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Most students tend to view counselling as a remedial function and emphasise immediate goals, such as problem solution, tension reduction and the like. Conversely, counselling in its spirit and essence is generative. It aims at assisting the individual to develop such that he or she becomes psychologically mature and is capable of realising his or her potentialities optimally.

In the essential scheme of Creation, no human being is intended to be useless, worthless or a failure. If we get to the core of every person, we will get a good person, who is rational, objective, trusted, self-fulfilling and SELF-ACTUALISING. In other words, every person has within him or herself the resources and potential to make him or herself better, make constructive changes and move from self-defeating activities.

Activating your SELFHOOD simply means harnessing all your energies towards SELF-ACTUALISATION. To facilitate this we need to generate a SELFHOOD CODE. Consequently, the purpose of this SELFHOOD CODE is to arouse your internal locus of evaluation — your innate God-endowed potential to be your AUTHENTIC SELF. Listen to Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799): "What am I? What ought I to do? What may I hope and believe?"

In this era of IT Revolution characterised by the shrinking of the globe, acceleration of history, and competitive global marketplace, the demand of nothing less than total efficiency and outstanding performance cannot be overemphasised.

Installing the CODE to ACTIVATE your SELFHOOD is a 'Jovial Journey' towards whom you are naturally entitled to BE. It implies changing your patterns of assumptions, thoughts and beliefs which you use to categorise and interpret your LIFE experiences. This means developing those EGO-STRENGTHS or VIRTUES facilitative in making you completely relevant and fully responsive to all changes unfolding in these TUMULTUOUS TIMES.

This entails replacing current obsolete VALUATIONS —
which are the abode of uncertainty, self-doubt, loneliness, sadness, frustrations,
feelings of alienation and anxiety for the future —
with new VALUATIONS: the abode of joy, excitement, curiosity,
an appetite for education,
and cultivating self-critical standards to refrain from anti-social actions.

SEVEN ways on how to be a PASSIONATE PILGRIM:

The Seven Ways

P assionate Purpose — Know why you journey
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Therapeutic Tip Clarify your deepest values and let them guide every decision.

A passionate pilgrim walks with a clear sense of purpose. Without purpose, effort dissipates; with it, even hardship becomes meaningful fuel. Ask yourself daily: Why am I on this path?

I ntentional Growth — Choose to expand
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Therapeutic Tip Set one small growth challenge each week and reflect on what you learned.

Growth is never accidental. The pilgrim who thrives chooses discomfort, seeks feedback, and treats every obstacle as a curriculum designed specifically for them.

L earning Posture — Stay a perpetual student
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Therapeutic Tip Replace the phrase "I already know" with "Tell me more."

Intellectual humility is the pilgrim's greatest asset. The world changes faster than any fixed knowledge base. Curiosity is the compass that never points wrong.

G ratitude Practice — Cultivate thankfulness
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Therapeutic Tip Write three specific things you are grateful for before sleeping each night.

Gratitude rewires the brain away from scarcity and towards abundance. A thankful pilgrim perceives opportunities invisible to the anxious traveller.

R esilience Building — Bounce forward, not back
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Therapeutic Tip After every setback, ask: What is this teaching me? What's my next step?

Resilience is not the absence of pain — it is the refusal to be defined by it. Each trial navigated with grace compounds the pilgrim's inner strength exponentially.

I ntegrity of Self — Align action with values
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Therapeutic Tip Identify one area where your actions contradict your stated values — and close that gap today.

Integrity is wholeness — the condition in which what you say, what you feel, and what you do all point in the same direction. This alignment releases enormous creative energy.

M indful Presence — Live the journey, not just the destination
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Therapeutic Tip Spend five minutes daily in stillness — observe thoughts without attaching to them.

The passionate pilgrim is fully present to the moment unfolding. Presence transforms routine into revelation and converts ordinary encounters into extraordinary lessons.

IN A MORE EXPANDED MANNER

Preparing ourselves to receive the INCISIVE IDEAL in the name of BEYONDISM is key. We start by pointing our 'Dedicated Direction' which means 'Factually Formatting' our PSYCHE. TAP
Therapeutic Tip #1: Move BEYOND lethargy, to awaken your 'being', and experiential relation with God.

You ask, what is the policy of BEYONDISM? We can assert: It is to INCITE you to wage war, with all means at your disposal, with all your might and with all the strength that God has given you; against a monstrous tyranny of Inactivation of SELFHOOD. You ask what is our aim? We can answer: It is to EXCITE you to Activate your SELFHOOD at all cost, in spite of all obstacles, however long and hard the proccess may be; for without an Active SELFHOOD, there is no authenticity, no success, no self-realisation, no SELF-ACTUALISATION and ultimately no HAPPINESS. BEYONDISM entails discerning your raison d'etre (French, "reasons for being"). This means uncovering your purpose or reason for living. It implies knowing the WHY you do things. You must in the words of British Philosopher and economist John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873), discard all "excuse for being", and ascertain "your rational grounds for existence". This is the 'Dedicated Direction' towards being a Fully Functional Individual, towards living a Harmoniously Integrated Existence. To cleanse yourself for this task, in the language of 'IT', we are talking of 'Factual Formatting'.

Invigorating our PSYCHE with 'Initiating Insights' or rather installing the 'Selected Serial' number is the most important step towards the ACTIVATION of our SELFHOOD; it is a kind of a baptismal rite. TAP
Therapeutic Tip #2: Move BEYOND the dictates of impulses, thus being relatively content and blissful.

The Activation of SELFHOOD is a movement, not a condition; it is a voyage, not a harbour. Your endeavour at crafting and/or adopting a new MODE of VALUATION in regard to managing yourself, irrespective of the speed of its development, is an arduous work that must in the very nature of things, stretch over a long period. This process of rebirth, this intervening period of deep crisis, is a prolonged, stormy process, which by its very nature is indeterminate and ambiguous; although not infinite. But as a beginning, you have to humble yourself to the inescapable compulsion, of subjecting yourself to a thought system, in the name of BEYONDISM. This IDEAL is so comprehensive that, it encompasses, and distills ALL the positive IDEAS from the universal pool of knowledge, and creates a uniquely AFRICAN conceptual framework, in terms of both the present and the future. Such an aim requires nothing short of a full account of reality itself – the total developmental process of everything THAT IS. As such, 'Initiating Insights' entails being inaugurated and prepared for this 'Jovial Journey', towards your 'Active SELFHOOD'. You will get a 'Stimulating Summary' to the response of the SELFHOOD PROMPTINGS, which in the language of 'IT' is 'Selected Serial'.

Loving ourselves without being selfish or egotistic, will give us the necessary energy to move forward to charting the 'Royal Road' to be followed or rather proceeding with our 'Inerrant Installation' process. TAP
Therapeutic Tip #3: Move BEYOND rigid stereotypes, by indulging in a thorough de-suggestion process.

"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past", so boasted 3rd U.S president, Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826). In line with the Biblical teaching of Jesus the Christ, that "whatever a man soweth that shall he also reap", ahead of you stretches your future. Your 'Royal Road' leads you into distance and along which are duties you hope to perform, ambitions you wish to accomplish, endeavours to be fulfilled and desires you wish to gratify. In this 'Jovial Journey' you will not avoid to marvel at the endless flexibility of your character and destiny; on your ability to transform negativity into positivity; on your potential to reconstruct yourself from a social rat into a social lion. Austrian psychologist and psychiatrist Alfred Adler (1870 - 1937) was not mistaken when he maintained that, all human beings begin LIFE with feelings of inferiority which then evoke in them a need and a dominant motif for superiority, that, the basis of genius lies in some organic defect, whose inescapable presence stings the soul into a struggle to conquer the imperfection: "This feeling which the individual has of his own inferiority, furnishes the inner impulse to advance." English philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), was also very insightful in this regard: "Whoever hath anything fixed in his person that doth induce contempt, hath also a perpetual spur in himself to rescue and deliver himself from scorn". No wonder then, in the language of 'IT' we are talking of 'Inerrant Installation'.

Generating the necessary vigour to live wholeheartedly is imperative. In as much as our Jovial Journey may be marred by some awkwardness, we need 'Guiding Gems' or 'Formidable Files' to keep us fully focused. TAP
Therapeutic Tip #4: Move BEYOND sterotypes by de-programming yourself, to let loose your latent powers.

The reason why at times, a terrible darkness seems to fall upon you, is not that 'existence' selectively switches off her eternally shinning lights unto you ONLY. It is precisely because, the clumsiness with which you address a 'Luminous LIFE', has been the most unskilled and unseemly method for winning this natural prize. You need some 'Guiding Gems', which will illumine your understanding of the distraught world in which you live, and light the lamps of creativity, towards the morning of your Active SELFHOOD. In this way you will breath LIFE into your POTENTIAL, and unlock your infinite possibilities. Consequently, you will start being convinced that, you are essentially entitled to being one of 'the salt of the earth', and start moving to the core of the 'center of gravity' of your individuality. As such, in the language of IT, we are talking of installing 'Formidable Files'.

Romantically, the pace and speed of 'Jovial Journey' must be well maintained, without having not to toil unnecessarily or wander aimlessly. This is why we need 'Implicit Impetus' or 'Dominant Drivers'. TAP
Therapeutic Tip #5: Move BEYOND ignorance by unchaining yourself from the clutches of darkness.

In these early days of 21st Century, we have found ourselves in a fast paced world, with myriad options to choose from, and where the imperative of doing more and more in less time reigns supreme. As cognitive burden of making swift, responsive, valid and reliable decisions weighs so heavily on us than ever, we require as little emotional burdens as possible, if we are to remain afloat in this highly competitive world. As you proceed in your 'Jovial Journey', you are apt to lose your morale in the face of various obstacles which you may face. The 'Implicit Impetus' is suppossed to boost your spirit, to armour your ego and to infuse your mind with the resolve to trample down all impediments. That is why, in the language of 'IT' we are talking of installing 'Dominant Drivers'.

Intimately our 'Jovial Journey' must be well marked so that we may err not, nor swerve away from our essential calling. We therefore need 'Bright Beacons' which will 'Compoundly Customise' our efforts and endeavours. TAP
Therapeutic Tip #6: Move BEYOND blindness by endeavouring to 'know thyself' and 'care for thy soul'.

Many deceptive lures are inevitable in LIFE. But when the course of your 'Royal Road' towards the Activation of your SELFHOOD is well charted by the 'Bright Beacons', you will neither flop nor relapse. You should invoke the direct inclination to maintain and preserve your LIFE because duty requires, and not as duty requires; from duty as opposed to according to duty. So long as your 'Royal Road' is well illumined, you will eventually able to say that you are almost indispensable. You will never be useless, while you are blessed by the light of these 'Bright Beacons'. You are therefore, called to be a spirited person, an individual seasoned and ready to withstand loss – in order to gain – always scrutinising what is unnecessary and needs to be laid off. To find in yourself that which needs to be 'overcomed', in order to set free your spirit to soar higher and higher. No wonder then in the language of 'IT', this is embarking in 'Compound Customisation'.

Moving unhaltingly towards our ESSENCE, eventually we will reach our 'Definite Destination' and do the necessary 'Substantial Settings' to culminate the ACTIVATION of our SELFHOOD. TAP
Therapeutic Tip #7: Move BEYOND illusions by cleansing your PSYCHE for the flowering of inherent genius.

All of us AUTHENTIC human beings (and those is search of the Godly goal of SELF-ACTUALISATION), walk and move in a long caravan that ascends and descends, encamps and then proceeds in its way. LIFE in this caravan is not altogether bad, as the going may be hard by day, the wilderness sweeping out before us like shoreless seas. We pour with sweat, our throats are parched with thirst, but in our endurance and persistence we reach the frontier BEYOND which we think we cannot go. So if each one of us 'LOCATES one's BEARING', by sweeping away all fixed, fast-frozen ideas, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, and do what we should and MUST, with our minds totally focused, then we should be guaranteed of 'ACTIVATING our SELFHOOD'. This is the 'Definite Destination' for which this work is intended. In this regard, as far as the language of 'IT' is concerned, we are talking of 'Substantial Settings'.

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