About a week after a new memory is consolidated –stabilized– by the hippocampus, it transfers to the neocortex for long-term storage. The neocortex is the thin outer covering of the brain. Once stored in the neocortex, the memory can be recalled and again consolidated or stabilized. This memory reconsolidation renders the memory changeable.
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. Continue reading
How do we deal with the violent victim? Who is to blame? What do we do with him? Prison? Isolation? Execution? We want to deal with him swiftly and put him out of mind. Something inside horrifies. Continue reading
Total Self-Renewal through Attention Therapies and Open Focus
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.
Breath Therapy can relieve anxiety and tension that interfere with performance, be that sports, sex, sleep, etc. It improves It promotes the integration of mind, body, feelings, and emotions enabling artistic expression to flow and optimizing physical movements to conserve energy and reduce wear and tear on joints, muscles, and tendons. If the interchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide takes place completely both in the lungs and the organs, we have the strength and life energy to recover quickly. Breath Therapy is a source of vitality and strength of mind and body.
Cycle of Violence
I am neglecting my blogs. I’m putting a great deal of time to contacting therapists:
“At 80, my life has been one of incredible suffering and incredible self-renewal through a mix of Attention Training Therapies that include Open-Focus Therapy, Metacognitive Therapy, and Ki Breathing Meditation Therapy –– Continue reading
For much of my life I suffered from a fear of sleep, of losing consciousness. I think it was related to a tonsillectomy and appendectomy with either. After the tonsillectomy when I was five years old, I was terrified about the prospect of being anesthetized by either. Continue reading
Adrian Wells introduced Attention-Training Therapy (ATT),one of many Attention Therapies, as a part of his Metacognitive Therapy (MCT). MCT proposes that psychological disorder involves a style or pattern of recurrent, recycling ideation, fixing attention narrowly on worry and problems. MCT focuses on these recurrent patterns of thinking, whereas Cognitive Therapy focuses on the thoughts. Continue reading
Underlying much of our fear and anxiety are unconscious emotional memories. Until recently, it was believed you were stuck with damaging emotional memories for life. It was believed that it were not possible to extinguish fear and anxiety. This may not be so. Continue reading
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 writing till I could not keep my eyes open, plopped onto my futon and fell into a seemingly dreamless sleep.
I got by with five or six hours of sleep. To feel balanced, I required nine or ten. Continue reading
“Total Self-Renewal through Attention Therapies and Open Focus” (Sample chapters on Amazon.)
Alternate Title: “Attention Therapies for Total Self-Renewal with 50 Bits–All We Have– Attention”