Existential coaching and spiritual intelligence- Ebook

This book explains what existential psychology is and its two areas of work: self-knowledge and the discovery of the meaning of one's life. It explains, based on ancient texts, how a personality is structured based on ten character traits and how this personality is expressed through values and behaviors that can adapt to a situation. The book also addresses the concepts of multiple intelligences, including spiritual intelligence, which has only been studied in psychology for about ten years. Numerous exercises and tests allow the reader to progress towards greater personal awareness or to reduce their stress levels, and coaches to have support tools more focused on the notions of values.

This work realizes the syncretism between the most recent psychological research and the teachings from ancient texts (including astrology or Kabbalah as a symbolic representation of the world). It addresses a topical yet rarely discussed subject: spiritual intelligence and the search for meaning.

The first chapter is devoted to the definitions and the formation of essential concepts which are on the one hand existential psychology and on the other hand spiritual intelligence. These approaches are nourished by the work of existentialists (Husserl, Sartre), psychiatrists like Frankl but also researchers in multiple intelligences like H. Gardner. But anyone wishing to develop this type of intelligence first needs to know themselves because each intelligence is not expressed in the same way according to the personality type of the individual. After having made a quick overview of the state of research on theories of personality, the author invites us to draw on ancient texts ignored by scientists and researchers in psychology but which nevertheless give us the fundamentals allowing us to develop a theory of global personality.

Knowing oneself is necessary but not sufficient; one must also know the “cosmic” laws » that govern us and know where the individual is in his development: duality and principle of union of opposites, notion of evolutionary cycle, expansion versus withdrawal… The main laws that govern us are exposed. Once again the author refers to ancient texts to help us decode our environment.

While the previous chapters presented us with principles for understanding our personality and our environment, the third chapter addresses more specifically the way to develop one's spiritual intelligence. This involves becoming aware of the need to evolve and, above all, understanding the meaning of one's evolution. This is often done under the influence of stress or by the need to achieve a certain level of well-being, far from conflicts and violence. Spiritual intelligence in fact includes several components distributed around two axes: the first, more internal, starts from the mastery of instincts to move towards the search for transcendence, the second includes on one side of the spectrum, the search for meaning in the relationship with others and daily events and, on the other, the awareness of the interconnection with the environment.

Finally, the book invites us to be our own coach and to develop our spiritual intelligence by observing the signs sent to us by the three planes: the body, the soul (emotional and cognitive) and the spirit.