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The puzzle psychology could be just the Pop-psychology you need.
A word on Pop-Psychology
This term is often used with a negative undertone. But all it means is, it is new, and it is based on a practical, working model of psychology. I am not suggesting you may not need 5 years of classical psychology or psychoanalysis.
However, just because something is popular, new, simple, logical and practical, and appeals to a lot of people, doesn't mean that it doesn't work.
Pop, simply means it is popular and therefore works for most people most of the time.
Like Pop-Music, it is successful because it works for most people. And let’s face it, nothing works all the time for every one. Actually everything that heightens your awareness will work.
The puzzle psychology works, because it is workable, practical and triggers common sense.
Was Freud or Jung Pop-psychologists, when they were practicing?
How to use this book - or these pages - (the book is out of stock at the moment)
- For general interest simply read the book cover from cover, come back to areas of interest or for reflection.
- As an Oracle; simply flick through the pages, stop at any spot you feel like, and read that chapter.
- For specific question, look under chapters or at the index.
- Read with an open mind, enjoy and have fun.
This book is not about what is right or wrong, it is about life and it’s possibilities and potentials.
Rules of the Game
To make this book - text - really interesting and to fully appreciate its concept, this book is to be used with a real Jigsaw Puzzle where the box and therefore the picture of how it looks like is missing,
... and now you have to solve it.
( Note: tell someone to give you a puzzle you haven't seen before)
A puzzle in a metaphoric way can explain your life.
As you see, this Jigsaw Puzzle has no picture for you to guide you on. You have to piece it together blind, like life, you never know what is around the corner.
There are a few more surprises build into the concept of how this particular Jigsaw Puzzle is designed, which you will discover as you play on.
Now, when you look at the heap of puzzle pieces, you have your life spread out before you.
What will you learn while you put this puzzle together, you don’t know the final picture, there is the element of surprise, and you don’t know what comes next?
Like a Jigsaw Puzzle, you don’t know what you will learn and experience as your life unfolds.
As you play the game, the Jigsaw Puzzle, whatever you do with it, or not do, has some kind of relevance or significance as to how you live your life at this moment and how you will work out your life in the future.
Rules
Part - 1 -
Life humble beginnings - Let the game begin.
The game begins; the metaphors are coming in fast.
With the first pieces looked at, handled, shifted and contemplated, we have opened a Pandora box of metaphors and oracles.
Some are that profoundly meaningful,
they can explain at least half of mankind’s troubles and tribulations.
Life indeed is a like Jigsaw Puzzle, or do you have all of Life's answers?
Are you puzzled by what it all means? Just have a good long look at the life we are living, and in the world we are living in.
Or you just could have a look at a Jigsaw Puzzle. If at this moment you think that your life is complicated, then you could liken your life to the complication and overwhelming task of solving a 2000 piece Jigsaw Puzzle.
If on the other hand you think life is pretty straight foreword, even a touch un-eventful; than it could be that you have taken your lives lessens from a small, maybe 50-piece Jigsaw Puzzle.
This than is the first lesson, what is your life like?
Is it 50 or 2000 pieces, or any size in between?
And even more interesting,
"what type of puzzle, how many pieces,
did you tell your friend to get for you? "
What? you didn't know that this could be meaningful?
Such is Life, and blaming is not working :-)
You may find a 50-piece life, uncomplicated, but probably too monotone, without real challenges. Like a 50 piece puzzle, the first time you play and solve it, it was fun, you enjoyed to have the overview, to be in control, to get the thrill of solving it fast, but you may be bored to tears to do it a second time.
If you feel like that your life is a metaphor of a 50-piece puzzle, than maybe you could consider upgrading to a more challenging puzzle. Put some more pieces into your life, you may not have the full overview, but you actually may enjoy some of life’s surprises, as this is where real learning starts happening.
For a bigger puzzle you may need more life skills and strategies, which in turn will present you with more learning. With other words, “you get more out of it”.
On the other hand, if your life seems to be too complicated, too many pieces, you may actually want to choose a smaller puzzle.
How do you do this?
Easy, clean up your life, cut down on projects, on activities, stop burning the candle both ends, come back to some of the basic questions what your life is all about.
You may be overwhelmed, stressed, and burned out, however you are responsible for your own life, your own game, your own pieces and your own puzzle. Now it’s the time to simplify, you definitely have lost the overview; you don’t know what comes first anymore.
For these situations in life, there are many answers and techniques, which we will address as part of the game, as part of the learning, which comes from studying the individual puzzle pieces.
For now, just know, that you have to chunk down, eat smaller pieces; you are choking on the big ones.
Go back to a 50-piece Jigsaw Puzzle and get back the overview of life, get back in control and upgrade from a base of security and certainty.
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