Category Archives: Attention Therapies

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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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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Attention Therapies

Posted on September 19, 2018 by Joel

Attention Therapies Attention Therapies have the power to restore the balance trauma took away from us.  But it is not a quick fix. It takes action more than reading and understanding.

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Total Inattention

Posted on September 6, 2018 by Joel

Out of the millions of bits of information our brains process each second, 45 bits give or take are devoted to conscious thought. We can give our total conscious attention to around of one-millionth or 0.000001 of the sensory input … Continue reading →

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Forest Bathing

Posted on September 3, 2018 by Joel

Our phones grab our constant attention, stressing us out in a state of fight/flight/freeze.
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Attention Therapies Don’t Work

Posted on August 16, 2018 by Joel

There are some good self-help books out there with good advice. Thousands of people have read many of them. In fact, they go from one good book to another. Without being helped. Attention Therapies don’t work. And I am not … Continue reading →

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Stress-Resilient

Posted on August 11, 2018 by Joel

Learn From Your Enemy ISIS is synonymous with mass killings, abductions, and beheadings. Bad Guys! But we can and should learn anything we can from our enemies. And what some people have focused on is resilience. ISIS is  resilient.

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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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Misophonia: Stop Crunching the Salad

Posted on June 22, 2018 by Joel

Misophonia Photo credit: Neil. Moralee on Visualhunt.com / CC BY-NC-ND When I was teaching I could not filter out sounds in the classroom. If I began talking to the class and heard someone whispering, I could not go on. I … Continue reading →

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