Tag Archives: Attention Therapies

Awakening Into Awareness 11 Live with Paradox

Posted on September 5, 2020 by Joel

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

Posted on August 29, 2020 by Joel

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

Posted on August 22, 2020 by Joel

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

Posted on August 15, 2020 by Joel

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 Into Awareness 3 FEAR

Posted on July 12, 2020 by Joel

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

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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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.

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