I recently came across this amazing lecture by Brene Brown that I can not recommend enough. Weaving humor, insight and compassion she speaks bravely about the power of vulnerability. http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability.html
Mindfulness-oriented approaches to psychotherapy, such as Hakomi, help assist people to study how they organize their experience. What does this mean exactly? If someone has a habitual way of doing something based on an unconscious attitude or belief, the therapist helps to bring these thoughts into consciousness where they can be studied. In this way people can have more choice [Read More...]
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posted on 04-25-11 at 7:26 am in Emotions
Imagine if the human potential movement of the 60′s gave birth to a love child. Fast forward 30 years and you have the happiness movement. In the late 1990′s, psychologist Martin Seligmen researched optimal moods and positive character traits. Following his lead a new generation of psychologists, neuroscientists, even economists began building a respectable body of research on happy-boosting practices. But all [Read More...]
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posted on 12-20-10 at 7:30 am in Emotions
Emotions have gotten a bad rap in our culture. They’re often seen as signs of weakness or the things that get in the way of our ability to function and cope. But the truth is, the way you process feelings and respond to others speaks volumes about who you are. Dealing with emotions effectively isn’t about [Read More...]
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posted on 01-20-10 at 7:27 am in Emotions
Pain is full of information about what is wrong and what is needed. Staying with pain can be a powerful tool. By alleviating it too quickly, the chance to study the underlying core beliefs is lost and old patterns go unchanged. All of us avoid contact with discomfort by creating noise in the form of distractions and diversions. [Read More...]
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posted on 12-11-09 at 7:15 am in Emotions
There is strength and meaning to be gained in sitting with suffering. All too often, we lose the ability to turn compassionately toward ourselves in difficult moments. When we are able to do so in the presence of a compassionate other, as in therapy, we remember how to love ourselves. By unflinchingly holding company and deeply empathizing with our [Read More...]
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posted on 12-04-09 at 7:28 am in Emotions
According to Buddhist psychology, by pushing away the painful aspects of experience we isolate ourselves from the capacity to love. We justifiably complain of feeling unreal because we are busy keeping ourselves at arm’s length by listening to the inner dialogue urging us toward our favorite distraction (sex, food, computer games, etc.). Opening to emotion deepens the [Read More...]
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