If you are into mindfulness, you can’t stray far from advice concerning gratitude. Continue reading
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I’ve been writing in this blog about Open Focus, Attention Training Therapy (ATT), Metacognitive Therapy ( MCT ), Ki Breathing, and more. Though I have a master’s degree in psychology, I am not posting as an academic, certainly not from the point of view of a therapist.
Bad News: Life is one problem after another.
Good News: Problems offer opportunities to check whether you are caught up in a Mind Drama of thoughts, emotions, and feelings. Each problem offers the chance to observe triggers setting off Mind Drama. Not only observe; problems offer the opportunity of Mindlifting.
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When I was a high school student, I was diagnosed with OCD. That was in the early to mid 1950s. PTSD diagnosis did not come about till 1980.
Labels like OCD, depressive, alcoholic, bipolar, mood disorder, and schizophrenia pigeonholed, but accomplished nothing resembling a cure. Powerful drugs left us in a stupor, killing motivation for anything but sleep. Continue reading
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 wife. They dropped my wife and me at our house and his wife turned down an offer to come in for coffee (right after he had accepted the offer and was about to come inside). Continue reading
Though I am Jewish, I used to be envious of people who believed in Christ and could surrender their angst to him. I was not religious and was full of angst. So I could never have imagined experiencing bodhi, an enlightenment or awakening. 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”