INTRODUCTIONIn this Post I have described my initial focus in psychotherapy. I believe most folks who come to see me are troubled by obsessive thinking that is Brain Mind connected. If there is no change to this stuck Brain structure, other changes are very difficult. They will take extra time and energy.These simple tools provide the avenue to a grown-up-person-brain when used regularly. It...
The Brain is a Maze and Amazing!
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Your Mind is a vast collection of information and experience. In fact, the mind is the database for your Brain. The mind is what makes each of us unique. No one else has the all the experiences, learning, programming, interpretations, decisions, beliefs, thoughts, and feelings. What is even more amazing is we can seamlessly connect with another person or persons.Research tells us seven...
The Survivors' Checklist -- Tune up for Access to your Personal Strengths
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A good physician friend was a family practice doc; He wanted people to be healthy rather than waiting to be sick in order to see him. He used medications and/or treatments in a way for them to be temporary measures until people were better at caring for themselves. What he meant was that they had to get better at satisfying and planning for basic survival needs and self-care.
Survival needs include...
Finding Your Center
Section I
Finding your Center is a procedure to help people take charge of their own self-definition as a healthy, joyful person. I will start by assuming that at some times in your life you have had exciting, fun, satisfying experiences. If not, see the next section of this post.
If you have had exciting, fun, satisfying experiences, follow the steps below:
Step 1:...
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The Zones of Awareness Exercise
Zones-of-Awareness is a concept borrowed from Gestalt
therapy. According to the gestalt folks, there are 3 zones of awareness:
1. In
your head - thinking, ruminating, crowded, racing thoughts, planning, etc.
2. In
your body - noticing needs, levels of arousal, discomfort, pain
3. ...
Change by Kathy Dusay, 1970
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I can reveal the way that I feelBy the things I say and do.By changing the things I say and doI can change my feelings t...
Breathing Exercise
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Breathing Exercise
First, sit comfortably with one hand on your abdomen and the other on your chest and breathe regularly. After about 30 seconds to a minute, note which hand moves. It should be the one on your abdomen.
Good breathing or the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide is diaphragmatic breathing -- in other words, as you inhale, the diaphragm moves downward and your abdomen will...