Monthly Archives: November 2020

Awakening Into Awareness 22 Healing with Awareness

Posted on November 21, 2020 by Joel

Awareness of Our Bottom-Basement Mind 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 … Continue reading →

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Awakening Into Awareness 21 Shift the Curve

Posted on November 14, 2020 by Joel

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 … Continue reading →

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Awakening Into Awareness 20 Body Keeps the Score

Posted on November 7, 2020 by Joel

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 … Continue reading →

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