Understanding Self and Inner Healing
Discover Your True Self and Enjoy Lasting Inner Peace
What you'll learn
- Understand the concept of the self and identity
- Identify why people lose connection with themselves
- Understand emotional wounds and their effects
- Recognize unconscious programming
- Explore psychological masks and defense mechanisms
- Release stuck emotions
- Use the healing writing technique
- Practice self-compassion exercises
- Reprogram the subconscious mind
- Build a personal plan for healing and growth
About this course
This course explains self-understanding and inner healing, which means learning to know your true self and free yourself from emotional wounds and old patterns so you can reach inner peace. You start with the meaning of the self and identity, then learn why people lose connection with themselves and how emotional wounds and unconscious programming affect your behavior. Next you learn about psychological defense mechanisms and psychological masks and their types, and you do a practical exercise to explore the masks you wear. Then you move on to releasing stuck emotions, the technique of healing writing, and self-compassion exercises to build a healthy relationship with yourself, and you learn the signs of a healthy relationship with yourself. In the final part you learn tools for reprogramming the subconscious mind, dealing with setbacks on the healing journey and building a personal growth plan, with a downloadable workbook. The course suits anyone who wants to understand themselves and improve their relationship with their feelings, and it needs no previous experience. In the end you will be able to handle your feelings with awareness and set a clear plan for healing and personal growth.
Expected outcomes
- Achieve a deeper understanding of yourself and your true needs.
- Develop the ability to handle emotions with flexibility and awareness.
- Build a balanced and healthy relationship with yourself.
- Improve your ability to make informed decisions aligned with your values.
- Live with greater inner peace and awareness.
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Course content
1Understanding Self and Healing Within
19 lectures
- Course IntroductionIntroduces the course on self-understanding and inner healing as a practical inner journey: telling the true self from the false self, facing emotional wounds, and building a relationship with oneself based on awareness and acceptance.2:15
- What is the Self: Its Concept and Importance in Our LivesOutlines the course's seven themes, defines the self as a person's unique inner essence, and distinguishes the true self from the false social self, with a reflective exercise on the question of who I am.9:01
- What is Identity and How It Shapes Our PersonalityClarifies that identity is the image we hold of ourselves and only a part of the self, why understanding the self is the root of healing, and how losing contact with it creates a gap with the false self.7:01
- Psychological and Social Reasons for Losing Connection with the SelfExplains the psychological and social causes of losing contact with the self, such as early conditioning in upbringing, trauma and the pressure of modern life, followed by a three-part writing exercise.12:16
- Emotional Wounds and Their Hidden Impact on Our LivesExplains what emotional wounds are and how they shape our behavior unconsciously, as an unprocessed impression rather than a mere memory, and presents the five wounds theory, including the abandonment wound.13:25
- The Unconscious Programming: How It Controls Our BehaviorsContinues with emotional wounds, explaining how they form from messages received in childhood and turn into automatic patterns, reactions and beliefs, followed by an exercise on reflecting on reactions and identifying the dominant wound.17:37
- Psychological Defense Mechanisms and Masks: Protection or BarrierExplains psychological defense mechanisms and emotional masks, why we wear them to protect ourselves from pain and rejection, and how over time they become a barrier between us and our true self.7:43
- Types of Psychological Masks: Our Hidden Roles in LifePresents the types of psychological masks tied to each emotional wound, such as the isolated, the perfectionist and the controlling mask, and explains the defense patterns of denial, justification and avoidance and their negative effects.12:50
- Practical Exercise: Exploring the Psychological Masks We WearA practical exercise for discovering the mask we wear through reflective questions about how we present ourselves, difficulty expressing feelings and what we fear others would see, ending with a short letter to ourselves.8:17
- Releasing Stuck Emotions: Steps Towards Emotional HealingExplains emotional healing as freeing oneself from a feeling's grip rather than erasing it, and the steps to release stuck emotions, including accepting the feeling without approving the event and expressing it and releasing it from the body.10:23
- Therapeutic Writing Technique: A Tool for Expression and Psychological LiberationExplains the therapeutic writing technique, free writing of feelings without judgment or pleasing anyone, with steps for a letter to our wounded part that includes greeting and apology, then tearing or burning it.11:22
- Building a Healthy Relationship with Self: The Foundation of Inner BalanceBegins building a healthy relationship with the self through questions about how we treat ourselves in mistakes and pain, and corrects the concept of self-love, distinguishing it from selfishness in responsibility, boundaries and accepting weakness.10:08
- Self-Compassion Exercises: Practical Steps to Enhance Self-LoveExplains self-compassion as treating ourselves the way we treat someone we love when we make mistakes, with practical exercises including instant compassion phrases, placing a hand on the chest and writing a love letter to oneself.12:27
- Types of Relationships with SelfPresents the four types of relationship with the self, loving, critical, neglectful and fluctuating, explaining for each its roots in upbringing, its behavior and its psychological impact.9:22
- Signs of a Healthy Relationship with SelfLists the signs of a healthy relationship with the self, including setting clear limits kindly, accepting mistakes with compassion, expressing feelings, listening to one's needs and speaking to oneself in a supportive voice.11:22
- Reprogramming the Subconscious MindExplains reprogramming the subconscious mind, defining it as the store of experiences and beliefs since childhood, why we repeat the same patterns, and introducing mental visualization and positive affirmations as tools for change.8:49
- Tools for Deconstructing Old Programming and Reprogramming the Subconscious MindExplains practical tools for reprogramming the subconscious: mental visualization paired with positive emotions, affirmations and how to repeat them, and an exercise replacing an old negative belief with a positive one.14:13
- The Healing Journey: Dealing with Setbacks and ChallengesExplains how to keep going on the healing journey and handle relapses and their causes without self-blame, through self-care, writing down lessons learned and building a support system of inner voice and daily rituals.13:15
- Building a Personal Plan for Healing and GrowthExplains building a flexible personal plan for healing and growth that includes caring for the spirit and tools for coming back after a relapse, and how to measure progress through small signs while avoiding comparison with others.12:33
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Instructor
Dr. Aya Al-Arabi
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