by Michael on December 11th, 2011
 Long ago, and far, far away lived a young man in his 20s… me. Then I dated a woman who was in training to become a therapist. I remember that amidst one of our arguments, she yelled out, “You need therapy!”
And so I soon began therapy. But given I didn’t earn enough money to afford private sessions with a therapist, I began with a group. One by one each group member would work individually with the therapist. As I witnessed others and myself work with our issues, I learned an essential truth which continues today to guide me and my work with my own clients.
Continue reading The Intelligence within Your Living in Process
by Michael on June 17th, 2010
Recently I posted “Treading the Path – Living in Process” about how our psychological-spiritual process itself is the spiritual path for which so many seek elsewhere. So much more elegant than I in depicting this truth is this delightful cartoon by the Australian cartoonist, Michael Leunig.
Continue reading You are Your Path (Cartoon by Leunig)
by Michael on June 14th, 2010
Theme of the following quotations: The Self is not a noun, but a verb; not a static entity, but a psychological process. Each instant the process reveals unfolding experience within and without, guided by a dynamic or Will which some call individuation, others self-actualization. The Taoist practice of Wu Wei or nonaction expresses how when we identity with this process, it unfolds naturally and spontaneously according to each moment’s necessity.
Continue reading Authentic Presence Expressing as Living in Process
by Michael on June 1st, 2010
An teenager recently upturned my self-image when she called me, “Old Man.” Yet I have been called many things, including infant, teenager, young adult, and middle-aged. Millions of thoughts have excited my brain. Tens of thousands of feelings have rippled through my body. The sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and touches which have passed through my awareness are innumerable.
Continue reading Treading The Path – Living in Process
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On Authenticity:Each man had only one genuine vocation–to find the way to himself…. His task was to discover his own destiny–not an arbitrary one–and live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one’s own inwardness. — by Herman Hesse (1877-1962),, in “Demian”
About …The Personal Authenticity Project is a blog authored by Michael Nagel MA. The Project explores the practice of personal authenticity. Your comments help to clarify the meaning, practice, and relevance of personal authenticity.
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