Monthly Archives: August 2020

Awakening Into Awareness 10 Sticky Notes

Sticky-Note Method 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 … Continue reading

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Awakening Unto Awareness 9 Mindfulness Therapies

Mindful therapies can mean working with a mindfulness-based therapist or employing mindfulness as self-therapy.

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Awakening Unto Awareness 8 PLAYrooms

Healing Power of Reading Though none of my therapists tapped into the therapeutic power of bibliotherapy, the right book at the right time is transformative.

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Awakening Unto Awareness 7 PLAY

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

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Awakening Unto Awareness 6 GRIEF

PANIC/GRIEF 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 … Continue reading

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