Teaching Meditation on Breath & Mental Ilness.

On today's 'Ex-In' (experience involved, psychotherapy more or less) course i took responsibility of introducing rest of group into simple meditation on breath, that i composed myself, using my own knowledge & experience.

Most of us are mentally ill, we know a lot about our mental ills, this course prepares us to support / help other mentally ill people professionally, in teams with psychiatrists, psychologists & psychotherapist.

Goal of this meditation is developing mind calmness & enhancing self discovery, mostly.

Meditation is dangerous for mentally ill people, but our group needs it - they requested me to teach them this.

i need support, calm mind, wisdom, compassion, protection & beneficial speech to succeed.

This will occur in 2 weeks (10 November 2017 11:00 AM Warsaw Time), not earlier - but perhaps later, if at all.

Thanks in advance to those who will support or help, if anyone.

Development of Self.

From what i read:

1. Separation of ego from Self during childhood.

1.1. Primordial Self.

At first there's Self without ego, original Self.

1.2. Seeds of Ego.

Young children have ego & self, unconsciousness but no consciousness. All of them connected, ego being partly in Self, both ego & Self unconscious.


From what i read, experienced & can remember:

1.3. Separation & development.

Older children have unconsciousnes, consciousness, self & ego. Self is contained within unconsciousness. Ego is conscious part of kids psyche. They barely 'touch' each other.


2. Building ego-Self axis.

2.1. Domination of individual consciousness, unconsciousness of self.

At this point, i had unconsciousness, consciousness, self & ego. Self was buried deep within unconsciousness, nevertheless still affected behaviour.

Ego was independent but not free - affected by thoughts, feelings & impulses, conscious & dominant, unaware of Self's influence.

2.2. ego-Self axis.

At this point i am now.

Self is either unconscious or conscious, not sure to what degree where... probably partly in unconsciousness, partly in consciousness. Ego is still present.

Thoughts, feelings, 'inner voices', 'visual hallucinations of artistic or artful quality' surface from unconsciousness to consciousness via Self then affect ego, making ego change with time.


Source: [2], my Experiences.


See also: Self, Impersistent Ego, Unconscious, Conscious.

Self, Impersistent Ego, Unconscious, Conscious.

During Individuation process, (which is lasting whole life, at least from a certain point in life - i think):

Self, Psyche's Center, joins Unconscious (Archetypes) with Conscious (Impersistent Ego).

Persona (Outer Mask: what others see when they 'look') is built around Ego, which is not persistent - thus, a Makeup, or Persona (i don't know the subtle differencies between a Makeup and Persona), can be changed.

Self is Symbol of Psyche's Final Integration, Symbol of Wholeness, Fullness.

Source: [2], my Experiences.

Conclusion: Beings can Change with time... from my experience: from a certain point in life, ego constantly changes... parts of new ego surface from Unconscious Depths (Unonscious Archetypes, perhaps more) during the Individuation process.

What Buddhism teaches about Self.

i've found this (click) in the Internet:

i'll look at this and comment later.

Self and Ego.

'Self' is 'we'.

'Ego' is 'i'.

But where is the end of 'i' and start of 'we', even if everything is interconnected somehow?