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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 15 Consciousness

Consciousness @ 1 to 45 Bits per Second Our body sends millions of bits per second to our brain for processing – millions – yet our conscious mind processes only 1 to 45 bits per second. We are conscious of … Continue reading

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Awakening Into Awareness 17 Plant the Change You Want to Be

The start of each school year was rough. High school students reacted to me with baggage they carried in with them. It was apparent to them I was different (VERY Different) and they tested that in every way possible. But … 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 11 Live with Paradox

Work To Live: Work Kills Us During the time I lived in Japan from 1968 until 1992, Japanese salarymen–office workers–worked from morning till late at night. Many of the mid and upper managerial class put in eighty to a hundred … 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 9 Mindfulness Therapies

Mindful therapies can mean working with a mindfulness-based therapist or employing mindfulness as self-therapy.

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Awakening Unto Awareness 8 PLAYrooms

Healing Power of Reading Though none of my therapists tapped into the therapeutic power of bibliotherapy, the right book at the right time is transformative.

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Awakening Unto Awareness 7 PLAY

PLAY You might not think of PLAY in terms of affective neuroscience, but according to Jaak Panksepp’s years of lab research, it is. Playfulness is the source of one of the most positive social-affective feelings our brains can generate.

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