Ego

The individual sense of self, the 'I am'-ness, the conscious developing individual.

Egoism

The theory of self interest as the central principle of living. Doing it all 'my' way, with little interest or connectivity with the collective; groups, organisations,humanity.

Egotist

Individuals or groups who are afflicted with extreme egoism.

Jiva

Vedantic term for inflated egoism. Also meaning an individual who has no knowledge of their extended self ("Om aham mani!"), thus dis-connected individual.

Behaviour

Physical, mental, and emotional activity.

Repression (active denial)

Banishing aspects of the conscious mind / being into the sub and unconsious states, generally without further inspection, understanding or analysis. An attempt at permanent dissociation from these aspects of being.

Supression (subdueing)

Subduing, putting on 'hold' aspects of the conscious mind to be dealt with later. A temporary measure. We use less harsh, less permanent repressives techniques, and we don't banish aspects 'fully' into the sub / unconscious.

Personality

The stable and enduring characteristics of an individual. Learned behaviour 'filters' - ie programmed / conditioned behaviour.

Learned responses and habits learned through experience ie habitual responses to certain situations.

Imprinting

The process of learning by imitation, usually refers to first cycle of life 0 - 7years when the imprinting process is very stong and lays down deep behavioural patterns, but we continue imprinting throughout our live

Repertoire

a collection of behaviour patterns that a person can use.

ie, an emotion, mental construct, physical posture or movement.

Essence

The Individual Soul. The deep and enduring characteristics of an individual. Those aspects of an indivduals behavioural repertoire that they appear to have been born with.

Character

More concerned with essence than personality.

Perception

Interplay of sensory organs and the nervous system (brain) that furnishes us with our 'world-vision'.

Sense organs

The organs of the body that we use to perceive the world.

Sight (eyes), sound (ears), nose (smell), mouth Taste), touch (skin),

Paradigm shift

a change (shift) in outlook, attitude, perspective.