Self-Therapy

Self-Therapy

Cognitive Therapy and Internal Family Systems are both effective self-therapy. The good thing about self-therapy is you can take what you find effective from each.

Self-Therapy

Self-Therapy

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Attention Therapies

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.

Attention Therapies

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Compassion for Anger

I’ve dealt with ferocious anger – rage – for much of my life. No therapy could sooth the beast. It was that; a beast, a raging monster. Continue reading

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Mutiple Selves

Multiple Selves

Multiple Selves

Multiple Selves

We are not teacher, policewoman, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, queer, straight, male, female, weird, Asian, or Black. We are not protector, contemner, lover, hero, wimp, traitor, harasser, judge, killer, prisoner,  geek or tolerant. We are multiple selves. Continue reading

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Inversion Therapy

Contraindications

Around 1980 gravity boots were in fashion, inspired by Richard Gere dangling from gravity boots in American Gigolo with Blondie singing Call Me in the background. But then concerns were raised by an American scientist called Dr Goldman that inversion therapy could cause an increase in blood pressure and too much internal eye pressure for comfort.

A couple of years later, after further studies, Dr Goldman adjusted this conclusion, finding that as long as participants were in general good health, inversion therapy could be beneficial.

I’m 83 years old, with a heart murmur, and that is me in the photos. Continue reading

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Total Inattention

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 available to our brain. We are programmed for virtually total inattention. Continue reading

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Forest Bathing

森林浴 shinrin-yoku 森 shin 林 rin 浴 yoku

Japanese researchers have accumulated impressive data on what they call shinrin-yoku. Shinrin-yoku consists of three kanji, shin for forest, rin for wood, and yoku for bathe, so the English translation is forest bathing. Forest bathing is simply walking slowly among the trees in a forest, park, or wooded area. We have been forest bathing for millions of years. Our bodies are adapted to living in a pristine natural world. Continue reading
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REST – Rational-Emotive Self-Talk

Rational-Emotive Self-Talk (REST) is part of the title of a book I wrote published in Japanese in 2002. I was reminded of it when I read a blog post by “Charles” from a PTSD blog I subscribe to. Continue reading

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Attention Therapies Don’t Work

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 being facetious. Continue reading

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Stress-Resilient

Learn From Your Enemy

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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. Continue reading

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