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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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Mind Lifting

Posted on May 19, 2019 by Joel

Mind Lifting is Body Building for the Mind. Bad News: Life is one problem after another. Good News: Problems offer opportunities to check whether you are caught up in a Mind Drama of thoughts, emotions, and feelings. Each problem offers … Continue reading →

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Power Posing

Posted on May 15, 2019 by Joel

Stand up Straight The simple act of adjusting your posture works as an instant shift of focus. You may not notice the difference in how you feel, but research indicates a shift in affect (raw emotion) after adjusting posture.

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Balanced SEEKING

Posted on March 24, 2019 by Joel

A well-functioning balanced SEEKING system is essential to physical and emotional health. When the system is under-or over stimulated It can promote emotional disorders, ranging from depression to psychosis. Through many years of lab research with rats and other mammals, … Continue reading →

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Seeking Control of Emotions

Posted on March 21, 2019 by Joel

Even if you came up with answers to someone’s deepest problems, it would likely be a long time before they might be able to  accept this help. In words attributed to Winston Churchill, “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but … Continue reading →

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Mindset

Posted on January 13, 2019 by Joel

Mindset Do you really want to know your genetic risk for heart disease? Would knowing this information alter your genetic risk by making you more likely to get heart disease? This research study showed that just knowing this risk changed … Continue reading →

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Brain Lock

Posted on January 9, 2019 by Joel

Brain Lock Becoming familiar with the brain helps me to work more easily with the Four-Step and other methods. For example, it’s not me, it is my caudate nucleus locked in gear and unable to shift me out of these … Continue reading →

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Attention Therapies

Posted on September 19, 2018 by Joel

Attention Therapies Attention Therapies have the power to restore the balance trauma took away from us.  But it is not a quick fix. It takes action more than reading and understanding.

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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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Insight Meditation

Posted on October 14, 2016 by Joel

Vipassana or Insight Meditation Insight Meditation focuses attention and awareness on thoughts, feelings, urges, emotions, and sensations, without attachment and without judging.

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