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Psyche & Soul 58: SIGNING OFF
Jose Parappully, Salesian priest and clinical psychologist at Sumedha Centre for Psychospiritual Wellbeing at Jeolikote, Uttarakhand (sumedhacentre@gmail.com) is signing off with the final edition of Psyche & Soul.
For the 57 weeks, he has been able to present regularly some psychospiritual reflections on these podcasts. In these reflections he used insights from psychology, sacred scripture as well as the socio-political realities of our everyday life to help us enhance our emotional wellbeing and our spiritual life - our psyche and our soul.
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Psyche & Soul 57 SPIRITUALITY FOR THE POST-MIDLIFE YEARS
Hello, this is Jose Parappully, Salesian priest and clinical psychologist at Sumedha Centre for Psychospiritual Wellbeing at Jeolikote, Uttarakhand (sumedhacentre@gmail.com) with another edition of Psyche & Soul.

In this edition I present some salient features of a spirituality for the post-midlife years.
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Psyche & Soul 56: Post Midlife XIII: AGING GRACEFULLY
In this edition of Psyche & Soul Jose Parappully, Salesian priest and clinical psychologist at Sumedha Centre for Psychospiritual Wellbeing at Jeolikote, Uttarakhand (sumedhacentre@gmail.com) presents some significant helps for aging gracefully - a necessary challenge in the post-midlife years.
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Psyche & Soul 55: Midlife XII -- ATONEMENT (AT-ONE-MENT)
In this edition No. 55) of Psyche & Soul, Jose Parappully, Salesian priest and clinical psychologist at Sumedha Centre for Psychospiritual Wellbeing at Jeolikote, Uttarakhand (sumedhacentre@gmail.com) presents another midlife challenge: namely, atonement.

Integrity that we explored and reflected upon in the previous blog calls for atonement, understood as at-one-ment, becoming one, becoming whole.
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Psyche & Soul 54 MIDLIFE -XI: MOVING TOWARD INTEGRITY
Hello, this is Jose Parappully, Salesian priest and clinical psychologist at Sumedha Centre for Psychospiritual Wellbeing at Jeolikote, Uttarakhand with another edition of Psyche & Soul.

In this edition of Psyche & Soul, Jose Parappully, Salesian priest and clinical psychologist at Sumedha Centre, Jeolikote, Uttarkakhand (sumedhacentre@gmail.com) presents another midlife challenge: achieving integrity--that is ability look back over one`s life without regrets and look forward to death without fear.
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Psyche & Soul 53: MIDLIFE - IX: BALANCING THE MASCULINE AND THE FEMININE
Hello, this is with another edition of Psyche & Soul.

In this edition of Psyche & Soul, Jose Parappully, Salesian priest and clinical psychologist at Sumedha Centre for Psychospiritual Wellbeing at Jeolikote, Uttarakhand (sumedhacentre@gmail.com) presents another midlife challenge: namely, integration of the masculine and the feminine, or the anima and the animus.
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Psyche & Soul 52 Midlife VIII (Re) Awakening of Sexuality and Intimacy Needs Women`s Experienc
In this edition of Psyche & Soul, Jose Parappully, Salesian priest and clinical psychologist at Sumedha Centre for Psychospiritual Wellbeing at Jeolikote, Uttarakhand (sumedhacentre@gmail.com), presents Women`s` experience of Sexuality and intimacy s at midlife.

For a woman, midlife is the period when her sexual drive (arousals, urges) and the demands for sexual pleasure is at their peak. Her sexual drive is awakened in the late twenties or even later and reaches its peak in the late 30`s or early 40`s. Midlife can be for a woman a time of sexual self-discovery, greater sexual enjoyment and adventurism, and sexually speaking, one of the richest and most fulfilling periods in her life.
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Psyche & Soul 51: Midlife VII (RE-) EMERGENCE OF SEXUALITY AND INTIMACY NEEDS
Hello, this is with another edition of Psyche & Soul.

In this edition of Psyche & Soul, Jose Parappully, Salesian priest and clinical psychologist at Sumedha Centre for Psychospiritual Wellbeing at Jeolikote, Uttarakhand, presents another important Midlife dynamic, namely, Emergence or Re-Emergence of Sexuality and Intimacy needs.
Midlife is a time of sexual awakening or re-awakening. Sexuality can be experienced at this period in rather intense and surprising ways. This can lead to confusion, conflicts, pressure to gratify impulses and compromise of commitments. It is important to understand the nature of this awakening or re-awakening.
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Psyche & Soul 50: Midlife VI -REDEEMING THE ``SHADOW``
Hello, this is Jose Parappully, Salesian priest and clinical psychologist at Sumedha Centre for Psychospiritual Wellbeing at Jeolikote, Uttarakhand with the 50th Edition of Psyche and Soul.

In this 50th edition of edition of Psyche & Soul, Jose Parappully, Salesian priest and clinical psychologist talks about the redemption of the Shadow at Midlife.

Midlife is the time when the shadow makes its presence felt. The ``shadow`` is that part of our personality that is repressed because it conflicts with the way we wish to see ourselves and to be seen by others. It is those parts of our personality we are now unaware of because they were deemed incompatible with our ideal personality and have been conveniently forgotten.
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Preventive Method of Education and Its Reverse Effects
An educational experiment which is commonly known as Preventive System is a method of education that was promulgated by John Bosco who is commonly known as Don Bosco. In Memoirs of the Oratory of Saint Francis de Sales from 1815 to 1855, the autobiography of this great educator, he explains the basics of this method of education. He lived and experimented with this method all his life. Gradually it grew, understood and became more specific in settings and institutions managed by his collaborators and their disciples across the globe. Its buoyancy is a matter of in-depth study for adaptation and continuity. This paper study the impact of the Preventive system on the educator.

Keywords - Don Bosco, Education, Expressive System, PS
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LITANY OF LORETO EXPLAINED
``Litany of Loreto Explained`` is highly informative and will surely increase our devotion to Blessed Mother. Each title is beautifully explained. It can be used for our own self-learning and Catechesis.

Click on the link below to see the video
https://youtu.be/IZGUDvKQUHc

The Red Diamonds of Kangleipak, The Ransom Paid
A Tribute to the martyrs of Imphal ... (Frs Raphael Paliakara SDB, Andrias SDB and Cl. Shinu SDB...
May they intercede for all of us ...

Send it to all your friends and family ..
Click on the link below to see the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsVp8uGMUwo

Psyche & Soul 48: MIDLIFE -REASSESSMENT OF ``DREAMS.``
In this weekend edition of Psyche & Soul, Jose Parappully, Salesian priest and clinical psychologist at Sumedha Centre for Psychospiritual Wellbeing at Jeolikote, Uttarakhand, (sumedhacentre@gmail.com) discusses the reassessment of our ``Dream`` at midlife. The dream is a vision we create for ourselves in our youth or early adulthood in regard to our future. It is something that inspires and motivates us and around which we organize our life energies.
Full Text at http://pojose.blogspot.com
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Psyche & Soul 47 MIDLIFE - TIME FOR REASSESSMENT
The emotional awareness that slowly creeps upon us at midlife has profound impact on our psyche and soul, explains Jose Parappully (sumedhacentre@gmail.com). It leads to a shift in time consciousness resulting in an reassessment of our priorities in life..
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Psyche & Soul 46: MIDLIFE: EMOTIONAL AWARENESS OF MORTALITY
In the last weekend`s podcast of Psyche & Soul Jose Parappully (sumedhacentre@gmail.com) spoke of four kinds of journeys resulting from the quest for meaning and purpose in life. What triggers this quest is what Elliott Jacques, the first to introduce the concept of midlife into psychological and social discourse, termed ``emotional awareness of one`s mortality.``

What this phrase means is that we recognise, as never before, that we are going to die soon, that we have lived more years than we are going to live.
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