If therapy is to be effective with rage and violence, you had better be able to call upon it and put it into practice instantly when you are headed for trouble. Many psychotherapies and self-help systems are logical and seem like they should be effective. But when you are about to erupt and become violent, you need something that works in an instant. Continue reading
Jeffrey Schwartz’s Four-Step Method, very basically, involves four sticky notes for mindful awareness of the Narrator’s incessant voice in our head. We can’t easily shut this voice out since it is a basic function of the left hemisphere of our brain. The Four-Step Method is a mental string around your finger reminding you not to buy into the Narrator’s specious pitch. Continue reading
Though none of my therapists tapped into the therapeutic power of bibliotherapy, the right book at the right time is transformative. Continue reading
Jaak Panksepp initially called the sixth primary affect system the PANIC /GRIEF system to reflect what goes on deep in the subcortical brain. Like the other primary emotions, the GRIEF system consists of a widespread emotional network concentrated largely in ancient medial brain regions.
GRIEF may be the most powerful affective network of the human brain. It is one of the most important systems in generating depression, anxiety, and stress. Continue reading
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Most neuroscientists accept the LUST and RAGE brain systems, because both emotions are manifested in animal behavior and because these emotions are patently essential for survival. Continue reading
Lust is perhaps the most complex of the seven primary affects. It is easy to see that FEAR, for example, is an emotional affect because it produces undeniably robust emotional feelings and it generates actions like freezing and running away. But LUST has a homeostatic effect like hunger and thirst. Continue reading
FEAR
The FEAR system, like the other primal emotional systems, behaves like the sinews and muscles of our bodies. The more they are used, the stronger they become. And you don’t have to get up and exercise to work fears. Continue reading
“Total Self-Renewal through Attention Therapies and Open Focus” (Sample chapters on Amazon.)
Alternate Title: “Attention Therapies for Total Self-Renewal with 50 Bits–All We Have– Attention”