The Power AND Weakness Within

For many centuries, several repetitive questions regarding our existence have arisen: Who am I? Why do I feel the way I do? Why do I think and behave the way I do? Why do other people think and behave the way they do? What really controls a person’s life? Is it our thoughts, our feelings, or our desires? Is it our behavior? Is it our environment? Is it our genetic make-up? Is it the way we were raised? Is it the laws set by society that one feels compelled to follow? Why are people and systems so frequently resistant to new ideas and so resistant and slow to change? What if I need to make changes in my life? Am I really happy with my life? Can I really change myself or others? How can I make change happen? Can things really ever change at all? The list goes on and on… Attempting to find answers to these questions many people have searched for the right ‘way’ or ‘path’ to follow. This in the hope of finding their true nature and place in our universe. In response to this identified need, many ways and paths have been created, developed, taught, and instilled throughout the ages. Historically, the developers of those ways and paths have most often used the platforms of philosophy, religion, psychology, therapy, and politics to spread to the masses their various ‘answers’ to life. Many of those answers, right or wrong, have come in the form of beliefs, myths, prose, and doctrines regarding life’s most challenging questions. Quite often those teaching the various paths have claimed to have the superior path to follow. This of course is quite absurd. The truth is that there is no one right way or path to follow. There are many paths to many ends. The presence of many paths to follow often leads to the inherent confusion and confounding nature of our life’s journey. In truth life is specific to each of us as individuals based on our own personal desires, needs, circumstances, and experiences. Therefore, this book does not attempt to place any one path, philosophy, system of belief, or end above another. Which path to follow must ultimately be chosen by the individual to meet their own particular needs and desires within the context of their life circumstance. One’s chosen path is often best woven and crafted within the context of one’s own set of evolving circumstances and personal vision of their desired future. By examining the core of who we are, using a structured model, the aim of this book is to teach a powerful perspective and provide several tools that can be used to obtain deeper self-enlightenment, personal growth, and inner change. It reveals a method that can be used to overcome the many obstacles that hinder our ability to develop greater mental flexibility and emotional stability. If for some reason one feels compelled to refer to this method as a way or path, as you will soon see, the way of the flexible gyroscope would suffice. For insight, flexibility, and emotional stability lie at the heart of our ability to adapt and change. Using a simple unified model, this book also attempts to explain the behavior and interactions of individuals, groups, and systems. It presents a unique model and method that can be applied to the psychotherapeutic process. It provides a powerful tool therapists can use to deliver psychotherapy in a clear, competent, and comprehensive fashion. The core gyroscopic theory presented here can serve as a model upon which all schools of psychotherapy and analysis can be superimposed. It can be used as a central amalgamated unifying point of reference for examining and performing the art of psychotherapy and of self-therapy. The model and methods presented can be used to examine, analyze, understand, and to teach about individual human behavior and about the behavior of systems. However, for the individual, the long-term goal is continuous personal growth and change.