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RESEARCH PAPERS

Untangling Long-Term Enmeshed Suffering Emotions: A Study of Lurianic Kabbalah and Gestalt Therapy

This paper explores the interplay between Jewish Lurianic Kabbalah and Gestalt Therapy, focusing on enmeshment of emotions of the client. The paper proposes a method to unmesh enmeshed emotions using principles of Lurianic Kabbalah applied to Gestalt Therapy. The study delves into the history and concepts of Lurianic Kabbalah, emphasising the significance of its key elements: tzimtzum (God's self-limitation), shevirah (breaking of vessels), and tikkun (mending of flaws), highlighting the roots of Gestalt Therapy in Jewish thinkers and its compatibility with mythic and mystical traditions. Through a proposed therapeutic model, the paper illustrates the application of Lurianic Kabbalah in Gestalt Therapy sessions. The model comprises five stages of withdrawal, destruction, repair, gratitude, and celebration. By applying Kabbalah's transformative principles mirroring creation, destruction, and repair, clients gained fresh perspectives and identities. A quantitative study involving 49 non-clinical participants was conducted to study four variables, depression, anxiety, stress, and hopelessness, using DASS-21 and BHS. Results from pre-and-post testing, by employing Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test at p value of <0.01, revealed significant emotional state reductions of all variables with 0.000 significance values, endorsing the effectiveness of the approach in facilitating well-being and psychological healing. The study underscores the potential of this integration, contributing to the crossroads of mysticism and psychotherapy. Further research is needed to explore its broader applicability.

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Anil Thomas

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Enmeshed emotions · Lurianic Kabbalah · Mythic traditions · Therapeutic model · Psychological healing

Adopting a Model of X-Y Axis to Understand the Client’s Narrative and Presenting State

This paper introduces the innovative integration of the Cartesian Coordinate System (CCS) into psychotherapy to enhance client self-reflection and insight. The historical evolution of psychological theories and therapies is explored, highlighting the continuous quest for effective treatment. Inspired by René Descartes' mathematical system, the CCS is applied in psychotherapy as a tool in collaboration with the therapist-client bond, to graphically represent clients' presenting problems, facilitating structured breakdown and understanding through quadrants. The paper elaborates on the theoretical underpinnings, the effectiveness of data visualisation, and the relevance of matrix systems in psychotherapy. The proposed CCS model is introduced, detailing its practical application in therapy through case illustrations. The model not only supports therapeutic progress but also offers the potential for coping beyond therapy, enhancing personal awareness, cognitive restructuring, emotion regulation, and problem-solving. The model's inclusive design principles cater to diverse clients, including neurodivergent individuals. By promoting metacognition and empowerment, the CCS model contributes to a holistic approach to mental health and personal growth.

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Anil Thomas

Mallika

Cartesian Coordinate System · Data visualisation · Matrix systems · Therapeutic tool

Exploring the Five Influential Action Factors to Unravel Procrastination

The voluntary delaying of work completion in the face of potential drawbacks is known as procrastination. It has substantial effects on personal, academic, and professional spheres. In order to better comprehend procrastination's underlying mechanisms, contributory elements, and potential mitigation measures, this paper aims to present a thorough and multifaceted investigation of the procrastinatory behaviour. This paper highlights a detailed examination of the cognitive, affective, and motivational elements of procrastination by synthesising the available literature from the psychology and cognitive science domains. There are five potential reasons as to why people procrastinate: when goals are too big, when goals are too small, and issues with respect to belief, attitude, as well as skill deficits. The paper also highlights a mitigation model basing analysis of chunking and Neuro-Linguistic Programming to end the vicious cycle with respect to procrastinatory behaviour.

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Affective · Chunking · Goal · Neuro-Linguistic Programming · Procrastination

Impact of Personality on Subconscious Pattern: A Correlational Study

Every person has unique characteristics, and as a result of these characteristics, they exhibit a particular behavior in particular contexts. His personality is closely tied to this behavior. Our personality refers to who we are as a whole, including everything about us, including our appearance—hair, teeth, and eyes—as well as our gait, posture, and mannerisms. It also refers to our thoughts, feelings, attitudes, and hobbies.


The Latin word "Persona" is the etymological source of the word "personality." Originally, this term referred to the "mask" that actors wore to alter their appearance. Since then, external behaviour or appearance has been described by the term "personality." Personality is the sum of a person's interactions with both themselves and other people. It is the only thing someone knows about him.

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Anil Thomas

Ashvika Singh

Personality · Subconscious · Subconscious Pattern · Self Reflection · Inner Consciousness · Insight

Hologram – An Enquiry on Neurocleanliness: A Mixed Method Study

People often explore who they are through the dynamic forces of relationships. Through each relationship, people find themselves and commit to an unconscious process that unfolds and start to adapt to patterns that eventually become habitual. The purpose of the current study is to explore if Holograms or role images, unresolved issues and patterns of behaviours adopted through the various processes always influence communication in current relationships. The study also hypothesized that there will be a relationship between Archetypes and Perception of Self; between Perception of Self and Perception of Mother and Father. The sample consisted of 30 participants in the age range of 20 to 45 years. The Pearson-Marr Archetype Indicator was used to assess Archetypes; California Adult Q-sort was used to assess Perception of Self, Mother and Father and the Thematic Apperception Test was administered to assess if participants would project the parental role images, unfinished business and patterns of behaviour. A bivariate correlational analysis carried out between Archetypes and Perception of Self-showed no significant correlation while a bivariate correlation between Perception of Self and Perception of Mother and Father respectively showed a positive moderate correlation. The interpretation of 15 participants’ TAT stories indicated projection of unresolved issues, parental role images and patterns of behaviour or the Holograms.

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Anil Thomas

Kremika Shobhawat

Hologram · Neuroclean · Archetypes · Unfinished business · Parental identification

Self-Esteem, Parenting Styles and FOMO: A Pilot Study

Studies have previously shown that 75% of adolescents and young adults experience FOMO regularly. It has also been related with problematic smartphone usage and social media usage. There is an evident lack of discourse pertaining to the psychological aspects of FOMO. This study investigates the relationship between Parenting Styles, Self-esteem and the levels of the fear of missing out experienced by adolescents and young adults. Data was collected from 159 participants, aged 13 - 25 years, originating from Indian urban settings, through an online questionnaire. The questionnaire included the General Health Questionnaire 28, Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale, Parenting Style Inventory II and the Fear of Missing out Scale. Results show high correlation between parenting styles and self-esteem. It was found that there is an effective and statistically significant relationship between parenting styles, self-esteem and the levels of FOMO experienced by adolescents and young adults.

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Anil Thomas

Meghna Basu

Parenting styles · Self-esteem · Fear of Missing Out · Adolescents · Young Adult

Understanding the Concept of Love and How it Evolves Through Life: An Exploratory Study

Each person is unique and interprets situations differently depending on their perspective, the definition of love can change as a person ages. The purpose of the present study is to explore the concept of love and how it changes with age and to study this objective data was collected using a subjective survey which consists of six open ended questions and thematic analysis was used to interpret the gathered information. Total sample size was, N=119 participants, among which 91 were females, 27 males and 1 other, age ranging from 17-60 years. Findings shows four major themes: expression, experience, connection, and exchange, all of which are considered to represent love when put together and it also reveal that participants at young age experienced love which is described as immature (35%), emotionally unstable (17%) as compared to love relationships after 30 years of age that were mature, long lasting and emotionally stable. It can be concluded that love is a multifaceted phenomenon including the expression of feelings and emotions, the formation of friendly connections, the exchange of pleasurable interactions, and the experience of a positive state. And the concept of love evolves as people gain new experiences with age.

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Anil Thomas

Ashvika Singh

Love · Experience · Expression · Connection

Understanding the Dynamic States of Fear and Arousal and its Manifestation in Abusive Circumstances.

As human beings, we know anything because it gets reflected on our senses - “I know this bag is black because I can see that it is black” or “I know the music is loud because I can hear that the music is loud.” There is a connection present with our senses, and this connection goes up to the brain. The brain interprets the data that the senses have sent and accordingly commands the associated systems in the body to respond. Fear is our response to threatening situations, while arousal is a state of vigilance that allows us to respond to a situation either by retreating from it or seeking it as a source of pleasure. The chemical response to both states leads to confusion, because neurotransmitters involved in fear and arousal are the same, i.e., norepinephrine and dopamine. This research paper studies 75 adult participants who answered a questionnaire on verbal abuse and emotional negligence that had taken place during their childhood. We understand the unconscious arousal that covers a fear response in an abusive situation leading to a victim enduring their abuser obediently. The questionnaire used to conduct this research was generated by the authors. It consists of 3 subscales and each item is carefully fabricated to understand different aspects of childhood abuse, Arousal and its impact on adult relationships. The results of this study have indicated positive correlations among all three subscales, hence proving the hypothesis that one might get seduced into loyalty from what they fear.

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Anil Thomas

Ritika Goswami

Fear · Arousal · Amygdala · Abuse

The Psychology of Lying

Lying emerges from the hedonistic nature of humans to avoid pain and to increase pleasure. It can be also seen that we lie not only for personal gains but also for others' gain too. It is a known fact how, telling a lie is costly: emotionally, cognitively, and physiologically. Lie-tellers experience negative emotions, cognitive impairment, physiological stress, and reveal this through nonverbal cues. Systematic detailed information was depicted about types of lying along with providing an overview of convergence and divergence.

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Nandini Papriwal

Lying · Pathological · Deception · Syndrome · Compulsive

The Impact of Neurological Intervention in Self-Talk Regulation: An Intervention Study.

Self-talk is crucial since it significantly affects how people feel and what they do. It may be positive and encouraging, inspiring, or it can be damaging and diminishing one's self-confidence. Aim of the present study was to examine the impact of neurological intervention on self-talk of an individual. Single group pre-post research design was used. Information was collected through self-report measure, self-talk scale by Brinthaupt et al.,2009. In total 108 participants (Male= 32 and female= 76) aged between 18-60 years participated. After conducting a pre-intervention assessment, participants were asked to practice the tongue drop intervention, learned from John Grinder for at least 24 hours. Post intervention the same test was re-administered with the same participants. T-test dependent was used for analysing the differences in score of self-talk before and after the intervention.Results show significant difference in scores after the intervention t (107) =2.132, P< .043.Therefore, findings suggest that neurological intervention can be an effective method toregulate self-talk which can lead to a high functioning state of mind.

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Anil Thomas

Ashvika Singh

Neurological Intervention · Self-Talk · High Functioning State

Quantum Neuro – Synchronicity

Quantum Neuro-Synchronicity explores the brain activities of an individual when they are completely immersed into a previously inexperienced and unfamiliar activity. Although there have been researches on the synchronicity between dyads, there is a clear gap in research on the benefits of the sync on the right and left sides of the brain on an individual. Its scope extends to not only engaging and developing our neurology but also as a means to escape all the weights that constantly pull people back. It is a momentary relief, a transitory phase, and a feeling of bliss that one can experience by simply learning something new. Carl Jung created the term “synchronicity” to explain a relationship between two events that could not be explained by cause and effect.

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Anil Thomas

Rishika Shah

Synchronicity · Schema · Nervous System · Bilingualism · Multilingualism · TOTE model

Anger: Examining Anger Variations and their Effects

Anger is one of the simplest and primary emotions felt by human beings but this emotion can single-handedly give rise to various negative emotions like frustration, aggression, irritation, sadness, grief and pain. Anger, being the root cause of all these negative emotions, makes a very interesting topic to study. Here, we have tried to look into anger and its variations that can be expressed in the form of several emotions like mild irritation, annoyance, reduced tolerance level, frustration, full-blown tantrum etc. One hundred and eighty-two (N=182) individuals were studied from the Indian population belonging to different religions and sects. This data was collected via descriptive google forms. The Novaco Anger Scale (NAS) was used as the questionnaire. From this sample, we concluded that majority of the responders ranked towards the lower half of the anger scale regardless of age, sex and religion they belonged to.

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Pranjali Vatsa

Anger · Tolerance · Bullying · Rage · Aggression

Cognitive Psychology & Neuro-Linguistic Psychology ( NLP)

This research is based on the idea that a link exists between memories and phobias, fears and traumas and mainly they can be reduced in one’s life by manipulating negative memories, the encoding process, and by using NLP as therapy and its techniques like the Swish Technique or the Visual-Kinesthetic Dissociation Technique to overcome and remove those very phobias, traumas and fears. Since memory and cognition form an important part of the individual’s life because of the functions it performs the focus of this article mainly lies surrounding this topic and how NLP can prove to be useful. The encoding process in the memory takes place through different representational systems that are a part of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). Since NLP lists visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory and gustatory as a part of this system, an attempt is made to explain how through these systems and their submodalities (finer distinctions of the representational system) memories are formed and how emotions play a role in determining the retrieval of a particular memory and how that, in turn, leads to the formation of phobias, irrational fears and traumas like the fear of heights, water, etc or a traumatic event like the death of a loved one due to a disease or accident and to achieve all of this secondary researches, data analyses and information tools were used.

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Memory · Phobias · Traumas · Emotion · NLP · Therapy · Modalities

Gestalt Cycle: The Resistance of Commerce

This brief report throws light on the evolution of humans, the various universal emotions that exist like happiness, sadness, disgust, fear, surprise and anger and the biological basis of the human brain, the two different hemispheres, the lobes and the functions that it performs.

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Anil Thomas

Smruti Pusalkar

Gestalt Cycle · Needs · Emotion · Neurotic & Psychotic Illness · Therapy

Neuro-Immuno Psychology

Psychoneuroimmunology, an evolving field, is made of three parts. Thoughts (psycho-) control the brain (neuro-) which, in turn, influences the immune system (immunology). In this article, through demonstrations, research evidence, illustrations, and live examples, we will understand how our perception and beliefs of our environment actualize our body’s ability to heal itself.

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Anil Thomas

Ananya Ramesh

Thoughts · Immune System · Perceptions · Beliefs

Treatment of Trauma through Integrational Dissociation and Distortion

Trauma has been one of the oldest and most difficult sufferings of humans. Even though the source of trauma has passed, there are long-lasting effects that generations have to deal with. In this research, we explore and validate a treatment method for the trauma that involves the usage of dissociation and distortion in the form of the much-studied V/AKD technique. We discuss the impact of trauma, organisation of traumatic memories, and the V/AKD technique based on the theories of Richard Bandler, John Grinder, and Steve Andreas. 216 participants were tested on the Impacts of Events Scale (R) and further, 50 participants with a mean score of more than 8, were selected to test the intervention technique which entailed a free-form interview. The results produced have potential usage for additional experimental studies of such intervention procedures and define effective as well as swift treatment methods for pertinent suffering like that of trauma.

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Anil Thomas

Kumud Poptani

Trauma · Memories · Treatment · V/AKD · Dissociation · Distortion

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