Insomnia
During my entire working career, I suffered from insomnia. I’d get in bed and just lie there wide awake. As the night progressed, my anxiety grew to panic. “How am I going to feel tomorrow?” I’ve got to get to sleep. Should I just continue to lie here or should I get up? But if I get up there is no chance I’ll get enough sleep.” On and on till maybe 3 or 4 a.m. and then hopefully an hour or two of sleep. Continue reading
On the first page of “Anger: How to Live With and Without It.” Albert Ellis writes, “Most psychologists agree that you absolutely must feel anger. They see the newborn infant as expressing emotions comparable to anger and rage in the first hours of life.” Continue reading
Jaak Panksepp’s research goes deep into the wordless territory of affect or feelings and emotions where few psychologists, psychiatrists, or other researchers have gone. After years of work with lab animals he came up with seven primary affect systems: Continue reading
Jaak Panksepp called the seventh affect system the Play System.
You might not think of PLAY in terms of emotional or affective systems, but according to Jaak Panksepp’s years of lab research, it definitely is. Playfulness is the source of one of the most positive social-affective feelings our brains can generate. 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”