Tag Archives: Attention Therapy

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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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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Attention Therapies Don’t Work

Posted on August 16, 2018 by Joel

There are some good self-help books out there with good advice. Thousands of people have read many of them. In fact, they go from one good book to another. Without being helped. Attention Therapies don’t work. And I am not … Continue reading →

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Stress-Resilient

Posted on August 11, 2018 by Joel

Learn From Your Enemy ISIS is synonymous with mass killings, abductions, and beheadings. Bad Guys! But we can and should learn anything we can from our enemies. And what some people have focused on is resilience. ISIS is  resilient.

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Coherent Breathing Packs a Blissful, Relaxing Punch

Posted on July 17, 2018 by Joel

Coherent Breathing A web search for Coherent Breathing brings up more than four million hits including a free app in the App Store. Possibly overkill for what can be described as five breaths a minute.  But the ultra simple technique … Continue reading →

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Reverse Aging

Posted on December 24, 2017 by Joel

Reverse Aging Ki Breathing Meditation is a therapy for mental and physical rejuvenation. You can increase oxygen intake tenfold, then with a long out breath rid the body of CO2. You reverse the aging process by rejuvenating body organs.

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Ki Breathing Meditation

Posted on July 21, 2015 by Joel

Ki Breathing Meditation: Four Basic Principles to Unify Mind and Body These four principles will facilitate both Attention Training Therapy and Ki Breathing Meditation. Relax Completely – The way to approach this is to relax your shoulders. Keep One Point … Continue reading →

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Open-Focus Brain Training

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Joel

Exercise One: Open-Focus Brain Training The perception of space is the foundation of open-focus brain training exercises. Once you grasp the concept of focusing on space, you are able to shift between narrow to diffused and immersed focus, between foreground … Continue reading →

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Open Focus

Posted on April 20, 2015 by Joel

Narrow Focus Most of our formal education encourages a narrow focus of attention. “Pay attention” is a phrase most of us have heard through grade school. Pay attention means to focus narrowly on what I am saying or on what … Continue reading →

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