Tag Archives: open focus

Awakening Into Awareness 13 Focus

Posted on September 19, 2020 by Joel

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.

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Contact

Posted on October 2, 2019 by Joel

Contact I go to a fitness training center three times a week. Some people seem to come there for socializing. It’s a club ambiance among them. Their contact seems intimate. Others like myself come there to work out and go … Continue reading →

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Forgiveness Paradox

Posted on September 29, 2019 by Joel

The Paradox of Forgiveness  The kindness power of forgiveness is caring for ourselves. Forgiveness is the hardest and easiest thing: it is as much something we are as something we do. The only thing we need to do is give … Continue reading →

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Maternal Care: Love & Grief

Posted on September 14, 2019 by Joel

Maternal Care: Love &Grief (go together like a horse and carriage) Care: When an infant is separated from the mother, it cries in grief or distress. But the feeling of grief, as painful as it is, is essential for its … Continue reading →

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Attention Therapies through Affective Neuroscience

Posted on July 24, 2019 by Joel

Attention Therapies Attention Therapies reach places in the mind and body where words cannot go. Attention Therapies have the power to restore the balance trauma took away from us. Attention Therapies and Affective Neuroscience combine to form a comprehensive self-therapy. But … Continue reading →

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Functions of Play

Posted on July 14, 2019 by Joel

You might not think of Play in terms of affective neuroscience, but according to Jaak Panksepp’s years of lab research, playfulness is the source of one of the most positive social-affective feelings our brains can generate.

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Comorbidity R Us

Posted on July 10, 2019 by Joel

Comorbidity Comorbidity invokes scary images for me. Maybe it is because I taught high school English and broke complex words by their root, prefix, and suffix. Morbid (Oxford English Dictionary)  is from classical Latin morbidus; diseased, sick, causing disease, unhealthy < morbus … Continue reading →

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Caring

Posted on July 6, 2019 by Joel

SEEKING (expectancy) RAGE (anger) FEAR (anxiety) LUST (sexual excitement) CARE (nurturance) PANIC/GRIEF (sadness) PLAY (social joy) CARing We can counter virtually all mass violence with CARing. That sounds so easy. But it means warm and loving care from birth on. That does not seem so hard. But … Continue reading →

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Priming the Pumpers

Posted on July 2, 2019 by Joel

Embodied Cognition Embodied Cognition describes the interrelationship between mind affecting body and body affecting the mind. It has a lot to do with our tendency to think in metaphors, best illustrated by priming.

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Rage

Posted on June 30, 2019 by Joel

Rage Rage is a bodily response. Emotional states arise at the neural level. Without this bodily response, there is no rage. We don’t think and become enraged. We experience rage in an ancient subcortical brain we have in common with … Continue reading →

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