We are innately complex, multidimensional beings composed of various sub-personalities or parts. We all have inner contradictory characteristics or competing archetypes within us, some taking over unconsciously, some stuck in a specific nervous system response, and others kept hidden from ourselves or the world, fragmented off.
These parts that split off from the rest of our psyche are called psychic fragmentations by the psychologists and soul loss by the shamans. It’s all the same story. It’s the same journey we walk through the stars to tell. It’s the same unity of being we seek in our fragmented world...
We have to identify our parts so we can synthesize them and then ultimately become unrestricted by them. This work is called Psychosynthesis and it’s a process to engage with this complexity of self and give awareness and meaning to every part of you and learn the resilience to let yourself endlessly evolve.
This exploration leads us to Self with a capital “S”, our true and authentic Self, unconditioned, unbreakable, always changing, and inherently whole. Who you are before what’s happened to you, and without the current trend. Where we live freely guided by our own intuition.
Psychosynthesis was developed by a lesser-known contemporary of Carl Jung. Unlike psychoanalysis, however, psychosynthesis is not a perpetual study of the unconscious and shadows, but instead seeks to synthesize our conscious & unconscious layers to create inner harmony and expand to higher consciousness states of mind. This makes it better suited for coaching than therapy.
"Psyche" meant "soul" in Ancient Greek, but we've separated the two and lost the connection to the latter. Psychosynthesis reclaims our soulfulness and reintegrates this into a more whole sense of self. Many healing modalities today are slowly becoming what psychosynthesis already is, a transpersonal psychology that inherently considers your mind, body, and spirit.
Every one of our many parts serves a purpose once understood and integrated. Astrology can help us articulate these many parts, even the ones that carry shame or burdens, as well as help us articulate our authentic motivations and desires.
In my coaching sessions I combine these modalities, along with others, to ultimately connect to a deeper sense of inner connectedness.
-Susan Reis / The Cyclical Seed