Tag Archives: Attention Therapies

RAGE vs PC

Posted on December 2, 2018 by Joel

Jaak Panksepp in his encyclopedic “The Archeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins” discusses Seven Primary Affective (intense emotional) Systems:

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Metaphysical Paradox

Posted on November 21, 2018 by Joel

Metaphysical Paradox My brain stopped filtering, allowing me to perceive a suddenly revealed external reality. This happened more than forty years ago and I have never shared it because it is like describing being abducted by aliens. Had I heard … Continue reading →

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Finding Flow

Posted on November 18, 2018 by Joel

Finding Flow Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who coined the term “flow,” said that the natural state of the mind is chaos and this is why we need to constantly work at flow.

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Emotional Brain

Posted on November 2, 2018 by Joel

Emotional Brain Talk therapy did not affect the transformation from mild-mannered man to raging, destroying, out-of-control monster. It was that dramatic and it took place in shockingly brief moments. In a matter of minutes, I destroyed an entire living room … Continue reading →

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Ahead of the Game

Posted on October 31, 2018 by Joel

Ahead of the Game Here is a passage I fortuitously came across, perfect for this blog post— something written by a girl in one of my eleventh-grade high school English classes. I was teaching the talk and she was walking … Continue reading →

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Dissolving Pain

Posted on October 18, 2018 by Joel

Dissolving Pain Dissolving pain requires doing the opposite of what we want to do. When we feel pain, we automatically want to distance ourselves from it and fight it, thinking that resisting or otherwise avoiding the pain will give us … Continue reading →

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Self-Created Reality

Posted on October 17, 2018 by Joel

Posted on September 6, 2018 by Joel Self-Created Reality Out of the millions of bits of information our brains process each second, 45 bits give or take are devoted to conscious thought. We can give our total conscious attention to … Continue reading →

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(Cognitive Therapy) Script Your Mind with REST

Posted on October 4, 2018 by Joel

Cognitive Therapy Fukae sensei, our aikido teacher in Japan, went out and bought a copy of my book, “Scripting Your Mind with REST, Rational Emotive Self-Talk.” (In Japanese) Right after reading it he told my wife it doesn’ help. I … Continue reading →

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Rage

Posted on September 29, 2018 by Joel

Rage Rage is a bodily response. Emotional states arise at the neural level. Without this bodily response, there is no rage. We don’t think and become enraged. We experience rage in an ancient subcortical brain we have in common with … Continue reading →

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Compassion for Anger

Posted on September 16, 2018 by Joel

I’ve dealt with ferocious anger – rage – for much of my life. No therapy could sooth the beast. It was that; a beast, a raging monster.

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