Maslow’s hierachy of neeeds is a model that explains people’s needs and motivations and places them on 5 levels.
For those who haven’t come across the model, it is usually drawn as a triangle with physiological needs at the base, and then, as we move up the triangle, we have levels that relate first to safety, [...]
… an approach to self-development that recognises that each of us is unique, with complex situations. In other words, it must reject the temptation to offer a universal recipe because:
Such an approach will miss out on the the personal growth we can each gain from the importance of the problems we have to deal with. [...]
At Transpersonal Dynamics, we are becoming more and more excited that science is beginning to catch up with spiritual tradition! Over 1000 peer-reviewed articles have been published in the scientific community reviewing the relationship between meditation and a decrease in the symptoms of disease or changes in the meditators mental state. However, more recently, attention [...]
At Transpersonal Dynamics, we consider one of the key tools to gaining personal insight and healing to be meditation. So this week I’m going to write articles that offer an overview and some simple techniques you can practice safely. These are extracts from my upcoming e-book, You Can Meditate! So, to begin…
What is Meditation?
Some of [...]
Buddha outlined 8 clear and simple steps for self-actualisation – yet Buddhism became so heavily ritualised, that in some books on the subject, those 8 steps aren’t ever referred to!
Mohammed built a simple religion based on acknowledging God and 5 prayers a day, but Islamic Law is highly codified and requires years of study.
Moses was [...]
The Chinese have been saying for 5,000 years, western science for considerably less: everything is made up of energy. And energy is never still, it constantly vibrates in patterns and frequencies.
At Transpersonal Dynamics we believe that everything has an energetic frequency, including illness, dysfunction and disease. This explains what happens when healing takes place; we [...]
The final principle of Transpersonal Dynamics, and a very important one, is that whatever you focus on, there will your energy go.
If you focus on your fears, then you will use up a lot of energy sustaining those fears. The more you are in the now, the more you focus on the present, the more [...]
At Transpersonal Dynamics, we emphasise the need to look at both material and spiritual dimensions of a person’s being. This is entirely consistent with, for example, the work of Maslow.
In his well-known hierarchy of needs, he described level 5 – self-actualization, as the final level of psychological development, achieved when all basic and mental needs [...]
