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Finding Flow

Finding Flow Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who coined the term “flow,” said that the natural state of the mind is chaos and this is why we need to constantly work at flow.

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REST Script Insight Script #1

Rational-Emotive Self-Talk (REST) Insight Script No. 1 “I largely choose to disturb myself about the upsetting events of my life.  I know now that I mainly feel the way I think.

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Oxygen Therapy

Oxygen Therapy A two-year-old girl drowning victim in cardiac arrest was revived at Arkansas Children’s Hospital. She had no speech, gait, or responsiveness to commands. Just constant squirming and head shaking. Fifty-five days post-drowning, she received 100% normobaric (barometer at … Continue reading

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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.  But it is not a quick fix. It takes action more than reading and understanding.

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Stressed Leading Stressed

Stressed Leading Stressed Stress is a significant cause of disease, yet doctors themselves cannot break the cycle of stress.

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Misophonia: Stop Crunching the Salad

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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Without Hope …..

Image by Hitomi Dames Without Hope I ask this, that if there be an assassination, I would want 5, 10, a hundred, a thousand to rise. If a bullet should enter my brain, let it destroy every closet door.

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Insomnia

Insomnia I am a night owl. Like so many others, I was forced to be up by 5:30 a.m. To get by, I rotated between four or five different sleep meds. I took the sleep medication, sat at my desk … Continue reading

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Eye-Contact Phobia Therapy

Eye-Contact Phobia Someone responded to my blog saying he suffered from General Anxiety Disorder (GAD) all his life, but his current anxiety centers about eye contact. It limits his freedom from being out in public. It affects his relations with … Continue reading

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Unconditional Self-Acceptance

I recently spent a couple of days with an old (literally and figuratively – we had not met for sixty years) friend and his wife. When afterwards he did not respond to emails, I wondered if, perhaps I had offended his … Continue reading

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