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Awakening Into Awareness 22 Healing with Awareness

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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Awakening Into Awareness 21 Shift the Curve

Actually, you don’t need to shift the curve. That would be an impossible task to shift an entire population from, for example, pessimism to optimism. Rather, all you need to do is shift where you are on one of the … Continue reading

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Awakening Into Awareness 16 Counseling 45 Bits of Attention

 Just 45 Bits of Brain Allotted to Focus I read Albert Ellis’s books and listened over and over to his tapes, yet I was a raging monster. I felt a part or maybe most of my brain was not rational … Continue reading

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Awakening Into Awareness 14 Autogenic Therapy

Weight Underside While in Japan I underwent the series of Autogenic Therapy training sessions under the supervision of a psychiatrist at Kitazato University Hospital. Autogenic Therapy is in part, like the weight-underside part of Ki Breathing Meditation with mind and … Continue reading

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Awakening Into Awareness 12 Instant Dynamic Therapy

KISS If therapy is to be effective with rage and violence, you had better be able to call upon it and put it into practice instantly when you are headed for trouble. Many psychotherapies and self-help systems are logical and … Continue reading

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Awakening Into Awareness 10 Sticky Notes

Sticky-Note Method Jeffrey Schwartz’s Four-Step Method, very basically, involves four sticky notes for mindful awareness of the Narrator’s incessant voice in our head. We can’t easily shut this voice out since it is a basic function of the left hemisphere … Continue reading

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Awakening Unto Awareness 6 GRIEF

PANIC/GRIEF Jaak Panksepp initially called the sixth primary affect system the PANIC /GRIEF system to reflect what goes on deep in the subcortical brain. Like the other primary emotions, the GRIEF system consists of a widespread emotional network concentrated largely … Continue reading

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Awakening Into Awareness 3 FEAR

3 FEAR The FEAR system, like the other primal emotional systems, behaves like the sinews and muscles of our bodies. The more they are used, the stronger they become. And you don’t have to get up and exercise to work … Continue reading

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Awakening Into Awareness 2

This is Chapter 1, SEEKING of my third book (first book published in Japan in Japanese) “Awakening Into Awareness: Affective Emotional Neuroscience & Attention Therapies” set for publication January 2021. I will share the entire book, chapter by chapter up until … Continue reading

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Awakening Into Awareness

This is the introduction of my third book (first book published in Japan in Japanese) “Awakening Into Awareness: Affective Emotional Neuroscience & Attention Therapies” set for publication January 2021. I will share the entire book, chapter by chapter up until the … Continue reading

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