Awakening Into Awareness 2

Posted on July 5, 2020 by Joel

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 the date of publication. Continue reading →

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Awakening Into Awareness

Posted on July 1, 2020 by Joel

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 date of publication.  Continue reading →

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Autogenic Therapy

Posted on March 28, 2020 by Joel

Autogenic Therapy

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 body coordinated training.  Autogenic therapy originated from research on sleep and hypnosis carried out from 1894-1903 by neuropathologist Oskar Vogt. Stimulated by Vogt’s work, J.H. Schultz, psychiatrist, and neurologist in Berlin, observed that his hypnotized subjects reported experiencing feelings of relaxation and heaviness in the extremities and entire body during the initial phases of hypnosis. Soon after this initial heaviness, subjects reported feelings of agreeable warmth.
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EFT Tapping

Posted on March 20, 2020 by Joel

EFT Tapping

Emotional  Freedom Technique or EFT Tapping is an accupressue no-needle technique to optimize emotional mental health. Continue reading →

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Trauma:Repurposing Movement

Posted on February 8, 2020 by Joel

When Roman Bacca returned from his deployment in Fallujah, Iraq, trauma did not enter the equation. He wanted to do everything he thought responsible people did. He got a really good job as a technical specialist at a storm-water company and bought a condo in Waterbury, Connecticut. He thought things were going really well for about six months. And then his wife sat him down and said, “We gotta have a talk.” Continue reading →

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Suicide Prevention – Compassion

Posted on October 7, 2019 by Joel

Suicide Prevention

In his suicide note Phillip Herron said his family would be better off if he wasn’t there any more.

Phillip Herron was a 34 year old guy you might pass on the street without seeing. Just a single dad factory worker living paycheck to paycheck to support his kids. He loved his kids and attempted to give them whatever they wanted.  But he was deeper and deeper into dept, owing 20,000 pounds including payday loans with 1,000 percent interest, Finally finding it impossible to work and take care of his three kids, he quit his factory job and applied for universal credit.  UC is a benefit payment for those out of work in England and Wales. He was eligible, but there was a five week wait and he had 4.61 pounds left to his name in his bank account. The final straw dropped in the form of an eviction notice.

He posted this image on social media minutes before his suicide.

Suicide

Suicide Prevention – Compassion

We all have our hidden loads to carry, some just too heavy to bare. Continue reading →

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Contact

Posted on October 2, 2019 by Joel

Contact

I go to a fitness training center three times a week. Some people seem to come there for socializing. It’s a club ambiance among them. Their contact seems intimate. Others like myself come there to work out and go home. Continue reading →

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Forgiveness Paradox

Posted on September 29, 2019 by Joel

The Paradox of Forgiveness

 The kindness power of forgiveness is caring for ourselves. Forgiveness is the hardest and easiest thing: it is as much something we are as something we do. The only thing we need to do is give ourselves permission to be forgiving.

In a rational sense, we had better choose to be forgiving. To choose not to forgive is to choose to cling to thoughts of hatred and revenge. And this choice influences every cell of our body. Negatively charged thoughts affects blood pressure and blood flow to every part of the body. The choice not to forgive brings about ceaseless damage to our body and mind. Continue reading →

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Maternal Care: Love & Grief

Posted on September 14, 2019 by Joel

Maternal Care:

Love &Grief (go together like a horse and carriage)

Care: When an infant is separated from the mother, it cries in grief or distress. But the feeling of grief, as painful as it is, is essential for its survival. And it keeps on crying for long periods at a time until rescued by Mother or caretaker. Arousal of the grief system feels awful. Continue reading →

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CARE in Short Supply

Posted on August 8, 2019 by Joel

CARE is one of the seven primary emotions neurologically pinpointed in the subcortical brain. These seven primary emotions are raw affects that arise from the dynamics of large-scale neural networks that generate instinctual emotional behaviors. Continue reading →

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