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Ki Breathing Meditation

Posted on July 21, 2015 by Joel

Ki Breathing Meditation: Four Basic Principles to Unify Mind and Body These four principles will facilitate both Attention Training Therapy and Ki Breathing Meditation. Relax Completely – The way to approach this is to relax your shoulders. Keep One Point … Continue reading →

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Balanced SEEKING

Posted on March 24, 2019 by Joel

A well-functioning balanced SEEKING system is essential to physical and emotional health. When the system is under-or over stimulated It can promote emotional disorders, ranging from depression to psychosis. Through many years of lab research with rats and other mammals, … Continue reading →

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Seeking Control of Emotions

Posted on March 21, 2019 by Joel

Even if you came up with answers to someone’s deepest problems, it would likely be a long time before they might be able to  accept this help. In words attributed to Winston Churchill, “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but … Continue reading →

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SEEKING

Posted on February 17, 2019 by Joel

Why can’t we realize if we don’t make immediate changes, climate change is on course to destroy our planet? The answer is straight forward. We are mammals. Our higher executive cortex is slave to our lower subcortical emotional systems, just … Continue reading →

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Breathing Moods and Feelings

Posted on July 25, 2018 by Joel

Breathing Moods and Feelings You may be familiar with how breathing reflects feelings and moods. For example, rapid and shallow breathing can be a symptom of anxiety. But how can breathing change moods and feelings? I like to think of … Continue reading →

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BREATHING, CORE ATTENTION THERAPY

Posted on July 3, 2018 by Joel

Few people are aware of even the basic mechanics of breathing and its effects on your mind and body. Fewer know of breathing as a major skill for peak performance, flow, and transformation. Image by Hitomi Dames

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Peak Performance Breathing

Posted on June 27, 2018 by Joel

Ki Breathing Breathing can be a life-changing skill on the path to Total Self Renewal. I took Ki Breathing into my life from years of Aikido practice in Japan. Few people are aware of even the basic mechanics of breathing … Continue reading →

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Insight Meditation

Posted on October 14, 2016 by Joel

Vipassana or Insight Meditation Insight Meditation focuses attention and awareness on thoughts, feelings, urges, emotions, and sensations, without attachment and without judging.

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Metacognitive Mindful Meditation

Posted on August 14, 2016 by Joel

Metacognitive Therapy (MCT) is a form of mindfulness. Step back mentally. Shift focus from thinking about problems to patterns of thinking. Observe thoughts as passing events, as a detached observer, without judgement or action. Attention Training Technique, a Metacognitive Therapy … Continue reading →

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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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