Welcome to Pervix

PERVIXI — The art of living throughly — Which path will you take? 

Thinking enables humans to consider ideas and beliefs which may be a guide toward a fuflilling life.  For children the beliefs of the parent, teachers and society have an enormous impact on their mind.

It is likely that child will carry this impact with them for the rest of their life. If, however, those early influences enable the child to question, explore and encourage curiosity the outcome can be entirely benificial.

As an adult, your choice must be to inspire questioning, exploration and curiosity. 

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

Dag Hammarskjöld 1905-1961 
Secretary-General of the United Nations 1953-1961

Individual Consultation

Personalised sessions tailored to your needs. Not blindly experiencing your life but mindfully living.

 

If you are interested in having discussions to advance your thinking to be better at relating you will find every session you undertake will help you make use of your already vast array of abilities to live fully.

 

Adding to that is the benefit of a guided therapeutic environment which will provide you with greater understandings of your past, present and future connections.

Walking the unknown path is usually where growth might occur.

Philosophy

All of our lives are built on our connections, our relationships. We all have the potential to enjoy and thrive with our family, friends and work colleagues.

 

By applying the Socratic -  The unexamined life is not worth living, you are able to find ways to perfect your relationships.

 

When you decide to examine, examine your 'cogs', the deep roots of your own philosophies is when you will begin to live thoroughly and your world will be an expanding wonder.

Everything I say or think has come form past reading (novels especially) or other people lecturing or... mostly – standing on the shoulders of giants.   

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My background

This is the begining of life, the single cell. Paramecia* are small, single-celled organisms, so they are not easily visible to the naked eye. From the tiniest cell we all developed.. and yet you can already see from this tiniest life-form how complicated it already is.

Parcinum feed on even tinier cells, bacteria. It is the life force we all must live.

I have over 25 years of experience as a practising psychotherapist and have helped many people improve their wellbeing and assisted many in creating a dynamic space to help enrich their relationships at home and at work.

* 1 - pulsating vacuole, 2 - afferent canal, 3 - food vacuole, 4 - macronucleus, 5 - micronucleus, 6 - cilium, 7 - periorbital depression, 8 - funnel, 9 - cytostome, 10 - cytopygea

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Services - what to know

Understanding Childhood

The adage "Give me a child until they are seven and I will give you the adult is not just a truism.

This indicates a log held belief that must not be ignored. It is the seat of the future adult.

How each person lives depends on their ability to learn, adapt, grow.

How they learn depends on the adults surrounding them.

Teenagerhood Growth

Teenagers are transitioning between being a child and learning how to be an adult. It can be a terrifying time for the teenager and the parent.

This is where the early experiences show  their true colours. 

Being able to argue passionately but with care is an art... to learn - learned from previous experiences. 

The Individual

The individual person, whatever their personality or makeup, is the initial focus.

Being and loving yourself is a basic tenet for living well, alone or in the group.

Those early experiences are the blueprint for today's experiences. 

What was not learned as a child must be learned as an adult.

Couples and Families

Most of us live in a group. as a couple or family - the  most common units. This brings stresses and strains on the connections.

Learning how  to navigate the many difficult situations which inevitably arise is the key to having a successful relationship.

Remembering... change always starts with the individual.

Common questions

How long are appointments?

Appointments are usually sixty minutes but can be changed to suit you.

Do you offer online appointments?

All sessions are offered online with Zoom.

On what basis are sessions offered?

Philip Johnson practiced under the banner of choosingchange based in Sydney, Australia. I am committed to providing high-quality, evidence-based services to help you achieve emotional stability and improve your well-being. I believe in the power of personalised care and aim to create a safe and supportive environment for you to explore and grow.

I am not a member of any counsellor or psychotherapy body therefore my sessions come under the title of coach where I utilise philosophy and various schools of thought to aid in improving functioning well in society.

What others think

Lao Tzu ― (c. 6th or 4th Century BCE - 4th Century BCE)

> Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.

> Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.

> Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.

 

> Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world.”

Tao Te Ching

Plato ― (c. 428/427 or 424/423 BCE - c. 348/347 BCE)

> Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

> Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

Buddha ― (c. 563 or 480 BCE -  483 or 400 BCE)

> Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Aristotle ― (c. 384 BCE - 322 BCE)

> Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Socrates ― ( c. 470 BCE - 399 BCE)

> I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.

> Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Petronius Arbiter ― (c.27 BCE. - 66 BCE)

> Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.

> Litterae thesaurum est. > Education is a treasure.

> A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well.

John Stuart Mill — (1806-1873)

No person is an entirely isolated being; it is impossible for a person to do anything seriously or permanently hurtful to himself, without mischief reaching at least to his near connections, and often far beyond them. If he injures his property, he does harm to those who directly or indirectly derived support from it, and usually diminishes, by a greater or less amount, the general resources of the community.

If he deteriorates his bodily or mental faculties, he not only brings evil upon all who depended on him for any portion of their happiness, but disqualiies himself for rendering the services which he owes to his fellow-creatures generally; perhaps becomes a burthen (burden) on their afection or benevolence; and if such conduct were very frequent, hardly any ofence that is committed would detract more from the general sum of good.

Friedrich Nietzsche ― (1844-1900)

> Without music, life would be a mistake.

> It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

Mahatma Gandhi ― (1869-1948)

> The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.

Albert Einstein ― (1879-1975)

> A human being is a spatially and temporally limited piece of the whole, what we call the “Universe.” He experiences himself and his feelings as separate from the rest, an optical illusion of his consciousness. The quest for liberation from this bondage [or illusion] is the only object of true religion. Not nurturing the illusion but only overcoming it gives us the attainable measure of inner peace.

Ludwig Wittgenstein ― (1889-1951)

> The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

> Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

> Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. 

Carl Rogers — (1902-1987)

Carl Rogers, in Client-centred Approach to therapy says –

The central hypothesis of this approach can be briely stated. It is that the individual has within him or her self vast resources for self-understanding, for altering her or his self-concept, attitudes, and self-directed behaviour – and that these resources can be tapped if only a deinable climate of facilitative psychological attitudes can be provided. 

Dag Hammarskjöld ― (1905-1961)

> Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

>The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

May Sarton ― (1912-1955)

> We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

James Baldwin — (1924-1987)

Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.

Michel Foucault — (1926-1984)

Michel Foucault on the subject of the uses of philosophy –

What is philosophy today... if it does not consist in, instead of legitimizing what we already know, undertaking to know how and how far it might be possible to think diferently.

Maya Angelou ― (1928-2014)

> My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

> I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Irvin D. Yalom — (1931-)

Each of us has a taste of death when slipping into sleep every night or when losing consciousness under anaesthesia. Death and sleep. Thantos and Hypnos in the Greek vocabulary were twins.

The Czech existential novelist Milan Kundera suggests that we also have a foretaste of death through the act of forgetting – ‘What terriies most about death is not the loss of the future but the loss of the past. In fact, the act of forgetting is a form of death always present within life.’

In many people death anxiety is overtly recognisable, however distressng.

In others, it is subtle, covert, and hidden behind symptoms, and it is identiied only by exploration, even excavation.

Relationships

by Philip Johnson

About the Book

"Relationships" is a guide to living well that in turn helps you live better in your relationships. From early times philosophers have directed us to looking after our own wellbeing in order to be any use to others.

This idea threads throughout the entire book, looking at all kinds of examples and bringing attention to the many ways we may be diverted from our goal toward living a good and healthy and fulfilling life.

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