Tag Archives: PTSD

Awakening Unto Awareness 6 GRIEF

Posted on August 1, 2020 by Joel

PANIC/GRIEF Jaak Panksepp initially called the sixth primary affect system the PANIC /GRIEF system to reflect what goes on deep in the subcortical brain. Like the other primary emotions, the GRIEF system consists of a widespread emotional network concentrated largely … 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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EFT Tapping

Posted on March 20, 2020 by Joel

EFT Tapping Emotional  Freedom Technique or EFT Tapping is an accupressue no-needle technique to optimize emotional mental health.

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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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Attention Therapies through Affective Neuroscience

Posted on July 24, 2019 by Joel

Attention Therapies Attention Therapies reach places in the mind and body where words cannot go. Attention Therapies have the power to restore the balance trauma took away from us. Attention Therapies and Affective Neuroscience combine to form a comprehensive self-therapy. But … Continue reading →

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FEAR Factor

Posted on February 24, 2019 by Joel

Primal-Affect Systems SEEKING or expectancy RAGE FEAR LUST CARING PANIC/GRIEF PLAY

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Emotional Brain Reigns

Posted on February 10, 2019 by Joel

Emotional Brain Understanding past trauma does little to help in dealing with PTSD. No matter how much insight and planning, the emotional brain has a reality of its own and it is the emotional brain that reigns.

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Drowning in Feelings & Emotions

Posted on December 19, 2018 by Joel

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:

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Realities Taken to be True

Posted on November 15, 2018 by Joel

We Believe What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based on our perceptions. What we perceive depends on what we look for. What we look for depends on what we think. What we … 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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