Tag Archives: Self-Renewal

Awakening Into Awareness 22 Healing with Awareness

Posted on November 21, 2020 by Joel

Awareness of Our Bottom-Basement Mind Affective Neuroscience developed by Jaak Panksepp in the 1990s deals with raw affective feelings and instinctual emotional responses deep inside our brains below the thinking-cap neocortex. Clinical psychologists rarely deal with these affective feelings and … Continue reading →

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Peak Performance Breathing

Posted on June 27, 2018 by Joel

Ki Breathing Breathing can be a life-changing skill on the path to Total Self Renewal. I took Ki Breathing into my life from years of Aikido practice in Japan. Few people are aware of even the basic mechanics of breathing … Continue reading →

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Cycles of Violence

Posted on February 12, 2018 by Joel

I am neglecting my blogs. I’m putting a great deal of time to contacting therapists: “At 80, my life has been one of incredible suffering and incredible self-renewal through a mix of Attention Training Therapies that include Open-Focus Therapy, Metacognitive … Continue reading →

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Attention Training Therapy

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Joel

Attention Training Therapy ( ATT ) Attention Training  Therapy (ATT) trains the mind to be flexible. ATT focuses on sounds within space and is a part of Metacognitive Therapy created and developed by Professor Adrian Wellls of University of Manchester.

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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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