Your Life Is a Unique Experience
By Jens Pieper
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Unique, sure, but what about adventure, thrills and excitement?
What about those "why" questions?
If you have ever asked yourself any of the following questions, this book could be coming by at the right moment.
"Why do I get this constant feeling, that there is "more" out there?"
"Why am I so frustrated and so tried?
"Why should I endure this any longer?"
"Why am I so unhappy with my spouse, my children, my boss, my job?"
"Why do I not know my way out of all this?"
"Why do I eat, drink, smoke so much?"
"Why am I not so happy anymore?"
Mostly, these "why" questions are suppressed as they surface.
They occur far to often and they have no answers anyway!
(or so we think)
This book offers a new 'tool box" to improve the outcomes to life's challenges and offers the reader a chance to find personalized answers to those diffucult "why" questions - and a way out!
Your personal adventure along a trail to reach your full potential is about to begin!
Jens Pieper
Jens Pieper was born in Johannesburg, and maintains a general medical practice in Cape Town, South Africa. The way humans react to life's challenges with set behavioral patterns, has been his passion for many years. The analysis of this 'hard wiring" forms an exciting and valuable part in his daily practice of medicine. Pieper was appointed medical consultant to Pharmafrica, a South African pharmaceutical firm in 1999 and is associated with the German and French Embassies in Cape Town. In his spare time, he looks forward to the company of his two grown daughters, enjoys learning about and being around trees, hiking, jogging, the art of bonsai, reading and wine. .
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Your Life Is a Unique Experience - Jens Pieper
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This book is a work of fiction. People, places, events, and situations are the product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or historical events, is purely coincidental.
© 2009 Jens Pieper. All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.
First published by AuthorHouse 1/9/2009
ISBN: 978-1-4389-1552-4 (sc)
ISBN: 9781463467432 (ebk)
Printed in the United States of America
Bloomington, Indiana
Contents
Introduction.
The Soul.
The Ego.
Your King/Queen –
The Regent.
The General.
Your Magician.
The Lover.
On the Road to Full Potential.
Your Sacred Moment.
In Summary.
Hope and Expectations.
Workshop.
It’s my life!
Answers to life’s complexities are often elusive and difficult to come by.
Why am I so tired? Is this burn-out? Why am I so angry? Why do I feel so empty inside? Where has my jest for life gone? Where am I going? Why is my marriage falling apart? Why do I hate my job?
This book aims to allow the reader who has begun asking these ‘why’ questions to visualise the different players in the inner self, the human psyche, in a playful, simulated way.
The reader is encouraged along a path of discovery, a private adventure trail, to find the answers.
The aim whilst writing this book is to assure that the golden thread of understanding is never lost. The approach is therefore tailored to the layman and apologies are made to those who find things oversimplified.
A simplified version for children is attached under the title "It’s my Life."
It has the aim to open up a dialog between adult and child, creating a platform of understanding and trust.
The views expressed are solely those expounded by the author.
Introduction.
We begin with you, the human being, as you see yourself in the mirror.
This human being is actually made up of two distinct parts - the physical body and the psyche.
Although the physical body is intimately intertwined with the psyche and they have a myriad of effects and counter effects on one another, this book will concern itself primarily with the psyche.
As we begin to unravel the secrets of the psyche, we are struck by what we see.
There is an old part and a very young part!
One old and one new - the soul and the ego.
The Soul.
In the same way that DNA remembers our body’s anatomy from one generation to the next, it can be postulated that traits of the human soul are likewise remembered and handed down through the ages.
The soul of an individual is unique, formed from traits found in that individual’s maternal and paternal ancestors. Traits are like mysterious currents, often expressing themselves in the immediate offspring, sometimes remaining latent and obscure for many generations.
It is in the process of their expression, their calling to be ‘switched on’ that many outside factors will act with positive and negative consequences on these traits.
After birth each soul will react in its own special way to events which begin to unfold in an ever increasing cascade.
As humans, we have a strong bias to register caution and a heightened awareness of potential danger when confronted with something new.
The young soul, pure and naïve, trusting and loving, reacts with wisdom from the first moment. Everything is new and the infant seeks protection.
This is the moment that ego begins to form.
The Ego.
Imagine a power tool called a grinder. This tool has a hardened disk spinning at high speed. When applied to another surface, a shower of sparks is liberated into the air.
Consider the outside world to be just such a grinder. As it begins to penetrate the comfort zones of the infant the peace is shattered, creating a shower of ‘sparks’.
Every step on the path of life puts the infant on a collision path with that grinder – and every spark created is recorded and remembered.
Let us look at a child at the age of two.
Do this! Don’t do that!
A young individual is forcibly moulded into society primarily by parents and relatives, with other institutions like the kindergarten gradually adding to the grinder’s effect in an ever-increasing cascade.
The final power of the ego is directly related to the amount and quality of the sparks, whether these sparks were caused by the force of the grinder, the individual’s perception of the threat, or a combination of the two. The power of the ego is a collective of negative and positive streams of influence, actual or perceived.
As we grow older, the layer of protective armour that ego offers us is all too familiar.
Ego is our friend – often our only one.
As we reach young adulthood, Ego’s protective coat is warm and comforting.
But ego was formed to protect the infant and young child. It is not equipped to deal with adulthood.
But do we even stop for an instant to think of this?
On the contrary!
We are inclined to hold onto our ego as if life depended on it.
An ego-driven life is pre-programmed and we like normality and routine.
We will react with identical emotional responses to similar situations in the future as we did in the past. Once the habit phenomenon has taken over, we do not stop to think about the flow of emotions in our reaction to life – it is automatic.
This habit phenomenon will allow us to react at forty as we did when we were eight.
Certainly, many people lead their entire lives with ego in the driving seat, and manage to get by.
It takes nothing less than a crisis to make us listen up.
A crisis makes us stop in our tracks. We might even be tempted to analyse our inner self, our reactions and responses.
Such moments may occur after an acrimonious argument, an accident, a divorce or loss of employment.
But, they also occur when we ask ourselves the ‘why’ questions.
Without a new set of tools, such moments will lapse and so, the chance to rid ourselves of the restrictive effects of our ego.
But I like my ego!
is the immediate gut reaction at this point. My ego is my friend and protector!
Well, there are strong pointers that your ego actively develops up to the age of eight.
Then, your ‘hard wiring’ is set.
Imagine – as an adult, having an eight year old sitting at your emotional computer, dictating what to feel, how you react.
Consider the following:
You are in your car, late for work. The traffic is painfully slow. Finally, the traffic light turns green, but the driver in front of you does not pull away as fast as you think he should. You blast him with your horn.
What is actually happening here?
You can see the traffic is slow. In fact even if the driver in front of you spins his tires to take off, the traffic is stationary beyond the intersection. You will be stationary there as well!
So why hoot?
It’s the eight year