Awakening Into Awareness 22 Healing with Awareness

Awareness of Our Bottom-Basement Mind

Healing with Awareness

Affective Neuroscience developed by Jaak Panksepp in the 1990s deals with raw affective feelings and instinctual emotional responses deep inside our brains below the thinking-cap neocortex. Clinical psychologists rarely deal with these affective feelings and psychiatrists attempt to counter them with drugs. But a powerful tool is to recognize and understand the “low-minded ways. Continue reading

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Awakening Into Awareness 21 Shift the Curve

Actually, you don’t need to shift the curve. That would be an impossible task to shift an entire population from, for example, pessimism to optimism. Rather, all you need to do is shift where you are on one of the curves, from left to right – from pessimism to optimism. “Shift the curve” is a phrase to keep that in mind. Continue reading

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Awakening Into Awareness 20 Body Keeps the Score

Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: the past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is playing out inside. They learn to hide from themselves. Continue reading

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Awakening Into Awareness 19 Belief

Belief drives science to the next level and beyond. There is no progress in science without belief. Reason is a fundamental part of science, but the parent of reason is belief. Continue reading

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Awakening Into Awarenness 18 Being All There

Relaxation Response

In“Relaxation Response, Beyond Relaxtion Response and “Relaxation Revolution,” Harvard Cardiologist Herbert Benson discusses how mind-body techniques lower blood pressure, calm brain activity, and balance healthful emissions of nitric oxide in the body’s cells. Continue reading

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Awakening Into Awareness 16 Counseling 45 Bits of Attention

 Just 45 Bits of Brain Allotted to Focus

I read Albert Ellis’s books and listened over and over to his tapes, yet I was a raging monster. I felt a part or maybe most of my brain was not rational and could not be reached by Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy(REBT). Continue reading

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Awakening Into Awareness 15 Consciousness

Consciousness @ 1 to 45 Bits per Second

Our body sends millions of bits per second to our brain for processing – millions – yet our conscious mind processes only 1 to 45 bits per second. We are conscious of only millionths of what is out there. Continue reading

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Awakening Into Awareness 17 Plant the Change You Want to Be

The start of each school year was rough. High school students reacted to me with baggage they carried in with them. It was apparent to them I was different (VERY Different) and they tested that in every way possible. But I came equipped with graduate training in behavioral psychology. Continue reading

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Awakening Into Awareness 14 Autogenic Therapy

Weight Underside

While in Japan I underwent the series of Autogenic Therapy training sessions under the supervision of a psychiatrist at Kitazato University Hospital. Autogenic Therapy is in part, like the weight-underside part of Ki Breathing Meditation with mind and body coordinated training. Continue reading

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Awakening Into Awareness 13 Focus

13 Focus

Les Fehmi’s two basic Open-Focus books supply the exercises and all you need to know for Open-Focus meditation without EEG training. Continue reading

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