Fulfilling The Requirements Of A Counseling Degree

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If you have been contemplating a career in counseling, you should know that it is considered one of the fastest growing, recession friendly careers available online. Not only is it convenient due to the internet bringing the classroom into your living room, but online schools offer the same courses with a much shorter duration than that of a traditional campus based degree program. Plus, financially, it is better since you do not have the cost of transportation or that of childcare if you have a family. It also helps the student choose his or her ideal area of interest within this profession.

Where should you start your research into this possibility? It is recommended that you find out what your state requires in order to be licensed and work as a counselor. The majority of states now are making a Master’s degree mandatory however; a Bachelor’s degree is also accepted in some cases. So do your homework and find out before you do anything else!
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Patterns, Roles and Archetypes – The Voluntary Prison?

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How many of us identify with the roles we play in life? Do we ever take time out to consider how much of our life force is invested in roles that are part of an ingrained pattern of consciousness imposed from aeons of traditional programming?

These are imprints built into the collective consciousness that we willingly undertake to adopt in order to learn, balance out or demonstrate for the benefit of others learning, the purpose of human evolution. This is the conscious agreement we undertake prior to incarnation. On an unconscious level we are equally subjected to all the personal and collective shadow that humanity en-masse has so far failed to heal. The shadow being all the personal and collective denial, issues we refuse to address or acknowledge. It is this latter patterning that causes the endless pain, conflict and misery that sometimes seems to underpin human evolution. In addition to this we have been given certain “Archetypal” energies that act as catalysts to enable us to evolve. However Archetypal energy can be a double edged sword when we fail to appreciate that working voluntarily from a particular archetype, such as hero, victim or martyr is only necessary for the length of time needed to develop balance. Becoming immersed into and totally identifying with the roles we are playing then becomes the actual chains with which we voluntarily imprison ourselves.
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