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The Godly Spiritual Psychology approach to emotions

Emotions can be recognized by all people, regardless of culture, age, gender, identity, or race. Science explains that every emotion possesses a vibrational frequency that never changes.

By Mihaela Luca

Altruism from the perspective of Godly Spiritual Psychology

Sometimes in our lives we have the opportunity to be altruistic with our loved ones or perhaps occasionally for strangers. Offering help or giving something for the benefit of another person without expecting any reward from the one who benefited from the help is a concept known in psychology as altruism.

By Mihaela Luca

The feeling of value from the perspective of Godly Spiritual Psychology

Throughout our lives we believe that the most important thing is to build a personality and this we believe is our value. The most profound sense of value, from the perspective of Godly Spiritual Psychology, has its source in the true spiritual essence of our being the Eternal Self Atman.

By Mihaela Luca

Numinos from the perspective of Godly Spiritual Psychology

Throughout our lives we believe that the most important thing is to build a personality and this we believe is our value. The most profound sense of value, from the perspective of Godly Spiritual Psychology, has its source in the true spiritual essence of our being the Eternal Self Atman.

By Mihaela Luca

Awareness from the perspective of Godly Spiritual Psychology

We live every day in a world full of noise, colors, advertisements, information, games, social media networks. Our attention is constantly distracted by all these. In order to become aware of ourselves, we need to direct our attention to what we feel and think.

By Mihaela Luca

Communication from the perspective of Godly Spiritual Psychology

Communication is essential in our lives, but not many people understand what communication really is. From the perspective of Godly Spiritual Psychology, communication is a conscious process that includes both verbal...

By Mihaela Luca

Hope from the perspective of Godly Spiritual Psychology

Hope is like the sunbeam that gives us warmth and light when we are in darkness and cold. Hope is such a comforting Godly energy, it is a Godly attribute that brings us clarity and helps us listen to our soul and have faith in God. Mental disorders, emotional suffering and psychosomatic conditions require a lot of hope in their healing and can be true spiritual tests for us.

By Mihaela Luca

Godly Beauty from the Perspective of Godly Spiritual Psychology

'Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' say the sages of authentic spiritual traditions. In our days, some people have lost the authentic standard of godly beauty. The entire nature on our planet offers us the necessary bridge for connecting the soul to Godly Beauty.

By Mihaela Luca

Courage from the perspective of Godly Spiritual Psychology

Courage is what we need when we want a change in our lives. Any obstacle can be overcome, understood and integrated into our consciousness. The fact that we sometimes get stuck in such situations is ultimately a choice.

By Mihaela Luca

Patience from the perspective of Godly Spiritual Psychology

To be present involves patience. Lack of patience shows lack of living in the present moment. Patience connects you with everything and all because the true connection takes place only in the present moment.

By Mihaela Luca

Acceptance is a necessary step in our healing

In Godly Spiritual Psychology, acceptance is a godly attribute that helps us in the process of emotional healing. Psychology as a science helps in the development of Godly Spiritual Psychology, because it explains why we need acceptance in order to heal.

By Mihaela Luca

Wisdom from the perspective of Godly Spiritual Psychology

True self-knowledge opens the way to wisdom. We realize that cognitive intelligence is only an aptitude and not a goal in life. From the perspective of Godly Spiritual Psychology, our aspiration for wisdom is a real goal and always helps us to experience communion with God.

By Mihaela Luca

Awakening the soul is a necessity from the perspective of Godly Spiritual Psychology

It is important to intuit and realize that a happy life does not only mean thinking logically and sometimes maintaining our inner peace but in fact to always be conditioned by our emotions. Many people believe that social and professional integration, resources, money and other possessions are the most precious things in life. Other people believe that having great intelligence is an achievement of life.

By Mihaela Luca

The Prayer in Godly Spiritual Psychology

Prayer to God is a simple way and can be done at any time and no matter in what context of life. Prayer helps us to be and remain with a living soul and an awake consciousness. From the perspective of Godly Spiritual Psychology, the Prayer to God is a simple way to maintain a healthy functionality connexion of the Ego-Self axis, if we refer to the concepts of analytical psychology, as described by C.G. Jung.

By Mihaela Luca

Empathy from the perspective of Godly Spiritual Psychology

Being empathetic is the human ability to feel with the soul, a beneficial godly resonance, characteristic of the human being, which makes us human, full of compassion for others and for everything that exists in the entire nature of our planet. Empathy is a godly attribute that helps us recognize the presence of God in ourselves and in others.

By Mihaela Luca

Happiness from the perspective of Godly Spiritual Psychology

In psychology, the concept of happiness is interpreted and quantified as the state of well-being in life. Happiness seems to be an ideal to be achieved throughout life. From the perspective of Divine Spiritual Psychology, happiness is a divine attribute, a divine energy that is free and accessible to all people.

By Mihaela Luca

Freedom from the perspective of Godly Spiritual Psychology

Freedom is a gift that God gives us when we are born into this existence. From the perspective of Godly Spiritual Psychology, freedom is a state of being in God and not an instrument of our ego. We truly experience the state of freedom only when we feel the presence of God within us.

By Mihaela Luca

Godly Action

With every good action, always based on the dedication of that action to God, we actually achieve a living communication with God through that action. Through intuition, which is a function of our psyche, through empathy, common sense and kindness we can always achieve divine actions.

By Mihaela Luca

Godly Joy to be Alive

From the first moment in the morning when we wake up, we can discover the Godly Joy of life. The first thought of the morning is important to be given to God and thus to recognize that the eternity of the moment is meant to help us discover our divine essence.

By Mihaela Luca

Our life is full of God

Sometimes we all wonder what life is. For some people, life is a journey on Earth full of events that can make you live happy or unhappy. For other people who love God, life is a spiritual school where every moment is full of God. From the perspective of Godly Spiritual Psychology, life is another chance to reveal the godly essence within ourselves.

By Mihaela Luca

God's goodness heals us

The actions we take reflect our thoughts and intentions. From the perspective of Godly Spiritual Psychology, goodness begins with our good thoughts and intentions and then they materialise into goodness in relationships with others. Looking, thinking, speaking, offering, acting with kindness helps us to be aware of the fact that kindness, as the Christian sages say, is the thought of God carried out by people.

By Mihaela Luca

Healing through Godly Art

The soul is spontaneously attracted to beauty, love, harmony, spiritual perfection, and even if we are not aware of it, the soul always aspires to unite with its godly origin, with God. Through Godly Art, our soul has the opportunity to consciously live experiences of godly aesthetics. In this way, we manage to change the perspective on ourselves, on others and on life.

By Mihaela Luca

The origin of the psyche is androgynous

In Alchemy, the Androgyne is a symbol that reveals the divine, paradisiacal nature of the psyche and expresses the union of all polar opposite elements. This explains the fact that the human being is always, whether he knows it or not, consciously or unconsciously, searching for this superior and godly condition.

By Mihaela Luca

The Masculine from the Perspective of Godly Spiritual Psychology

The godly masculine is the expression of the completely revealed godly consciousness in our psyche. We have the opportunity every moment of our lives to live in Godly consciousness through the choices we make. The godly masculine is present in both every man and every woman since birth.

By Mihaela Luca

The Feminine from the perspective of Godly Spiritual Psychology

We are from the first day of our lives surrounded by the Godly feminine only that we often do not know or recognize it either in our inner or outer world. The Godly feminine is the Godly energy of life that gives us life and helps us through its many divine attributes to stay alive and live whether we are a man or a woman.

By Mihaela Luca

Will from the perspective of Godly Spiritual Psychology

Will is one of the most important functions of our personality. It is based on intention and helps us to mobilize our resources through a voluntary effort to carry out an action and achieve a goal. From the perspective of Godly Spiritual Psychology, the will is no longer used to fulfill our desires in a selfish, immature and self-centered way just to survive in today's consumerist and materialistic society.

By Mihaela Luca

What is the suffering from the perspective of Godly Spiritual Psychology

Throughout human development and throughout human history, suffering has become commonplace for every human being. We are used to it. We suffer from everything: an unfulfilled desire, an unmet need, a word that hurts our pride, envy, jealousy, stupidity, possessiveness, inferiority complexes, loss of a loved one, break-ups, loss of a child or parents, aggression, terrible situations, shocking events, war, and so on and so forth.

By Mihaela Luca

Spiritual Knowledge from the Perspective of Godly Spiritual Psychology

Knowing, informing about has become for us knowledge. But this knowledge is only intellectual. We have become accustomed to receiving information about things that interest us and sometimes hold our attention for a short time that we then forget because it is of no use to us.

By Mihaela Luca

Godly Spiritual Psychology today

To live in the present is to do something such as thinking, doing an action, going to work, and so on. We have forgotten what it means to live. We live day by day with the intention of doing something and we have forgotten that to live is to be.

By Mihaela Luca

Genius is only possible through communion with God

Genius is a gift from God. From the perspective of God's Spiritual Psychology, the great personalities of science, writers, philosophers and artists have lived and continue to live genius under certain psychological and spiritual conditions.

By Mihaela Luca

Optimism brings you closer to God

Optimism is an important step to living communion with God. You are always open to look at every moment of life as something good to learn from and become even better. From the perspective of Godly Spiritual Psychology optimism is a Godly attribute that helps us to look at every experience of life...

By Mihaela Luca

Spiritual aspiration helps in the healing process

Spiritual aspiration helps us live happily and optimistically. It is necessary to realise that the healing process begins with connecting our soul even more to the true centre of our being, Atman, the Self. Spiritual awakening is like a flame that needs to be constantly lit until we achieve the spiritual results we aim for.

By Mihaela Luca

Beneficial intention from the perspective of Godly Spiritual Psychology

Beneficial intention is a resource that helps us transform our entire lives for the better. Just as the tree is known by its fruit, so our daily life depends on the beneficial or bad intentions we consciously or unconsciously think and emit. Intention is similar to an arrow that is launched by our thinking.

By Mihaela Luca

Self Realisation is the meaning of life

Our life is a unique opportunity to continue our inner journey towards Self-realization, as known in spiritual traditions as Atman.

By Mihaela Luca

Being grateful to God has a healing effect

I often hear from my patients sentences about how unhappy they are with themselves or with their husband or wife, or with their children, or with their job or any other aspects of their lives. This attitude of being ungrateful, generates and determines destructive emotions, anger and frustration. We have all lived such moments in our lives.

By Mihaela Luca

The psychotherapeutic relationship from the perspective of Godly Spiritual Psychology

Generally the quality of a psychotherapeutic relationship is given by the professional training, experience and personality of the psychotherapist. No psychotherapy works in the absence of a psychotherapeutic relationship. From the perspective of Godly Spiritual Psychology, the degree of spiritual awakening of the psychotherapist's soul and consciousness is important.

By Mihaela Luca

The true psychotherapist is God

The therapeutic relationship is essential in psychotherapy. In Godly Spiritual Psychology the true therapist which is always prezent behinde the terapist or the inner therapist is God. For Kohut, a treatment is successful when the analysand, giving himself up to the energy of the analytic process...

By Mihaela Luca

Communion with God is the true human evolution

Long ago Rumi has said: “To love means to reach God”. Nowadays this remains a psychological reality. We truly live when we feel love and when we act with love in our daily life. Most often we are not aware of our feelings, we act as human beings who are asleep and many times we act out of fear. But that is not the only strategy that our mind can choose.

By Mihaela Luca

God is the power of now

The Godly spiritual and integral psychology explains the importance of being aware of the present moment and the benefits of this awareness in the healing process. The true connection with the inner world of our soul starts with becoming aware of the present moment. We are used to the wrong habits of being stressed, overwhelmed by responsibilities, tired or bored, most often we are disconnected from the feeling of being alive and from life itself.

By Mihaela Luca

God is the essence of the human being

In current psychology, the Self is more conceptualised than it is discovered and revealed in the inner reality of the human being. As it is theorised by the psychological schools, the concept of Self is what organize the life of the psychic. Psychology has many definitions, classifications and typologies or categories of the Self and this creates confusion.

By Mihaela Luca

God is the truth within us

Godly spiritual psychology helps us become aware about our life’s purpose. The psychological development of the human being is a psychological process of development of the self consciousness, process described by C.G.Jung as individuation, a process which happens during our entire life. Through the individuation process, the human being becomes a unified and unique individual, a unitary and integrated person.

By Mihaela Luca

God is alive

God the Father is always present within you and when you make a conscious effort to feel Him, your own consciousness is not separate from the Godly Consciousness. The Godly Spiritual and Integral Psychology helps you understand that God is not separate from you, He is not what you imagine He might be, He is not an archetypal image, He is not a religious concept, He is not a judge who’s punishing you, but quite the opposite, He is an alive, psychological and spiritual reality.

By Mihaela Luca

God is the Supreme Healer

În Godly spiritual pshychology, the true healing can only be done by God. Each and every effort we take to become aware of the root causes of our problems, of our sufferings, these open up our Soul and take us step by step closer to our real and spiritual center, Atman, the Supreme and Eternal Self. Thus we take part fully aware and active to our own healing process which, în time, transforms us spiritually.

By Mihaela Luca

The Godly attributes help you build your relationship with God

Psychotherapy helps în your process of discovering and understanding your own personality, your own resources and your own traits of character, your habits, your aspirations, your thoughts and it also helps you recognise your own emotions.

By Mihaela Luca

God sees through our eyes

The fact that God sees through our eyes is a reality and not a psychological metaphor. The perspective of the Godly Spiritual Psychology refers to the connection between consciousness and energy, connection already proven by the Quantum Physics. The change of the paradigm by moving from the material to the spiritual perspective of the psychology is needed for the evolution of man towards the fully revealed of the Godly essence.

By Mihaela Luca

God is the Heart of Psychology

Godly Spiritual and Integral Psychology explains why humans need to become aware of their connection with God in this modern era. What’s missing for most people is the spiritual knowledge. The perspective of Godly Spiritual and Integral Psychology is clear: the Godly presence in our unconscious aspires for us to become conscious. The meaning and the purpose of life is discovering our true nature, discovering who we really are.

By Mihaela Luca

Why is God missing in today’s psychology?

In over 20 years of clinical experience with patients, and as a clinical psychologist and an analytic psychotherapist using Jungian therapy, I’ve often asked myself why does psychology, psychological studies and theories and most types of psychotherapies avoid talking about God, why don’t they clearly state the existence of God and why don’t they really help people gain access to the true center of their being.

By Mihaela Luca