We suffer in life because we are not up to date, but instead carry around unfinished business from the past that we project onto present situations. This past is present in the form of psychological representations about self and others, object representations that form the core beliefs from which we live our lives. We are, […]
Somatic Inquiry meditation uses an approach that has been described by the meditation master Chögyam Trungpa as “touch and go”. The previous post, Get into your Life is about touching aspects of experience we have not wanted to acknowledge, or that we wanted to “observe” from a safe distance. But there is wisdom in fully […]
As we begin to work with unconditional acceptance the question often arises, in one form or another, “So I should just be OK with myself if I lay on the couch and do nothing for years on end, or if I am drug-addicted and don’t take care of my children? Ted Bundy should be OK […]
Much like Donald Meichenbaum said many years ago in articulating his method of stress inoculation, we find the power to deal with feared experience when we turn and face it. That is what the aspect of awareness Daniel Siegel calls mindsight allows us to do. If we can turn and face our fear, we are, […]
As we go through our daily life we are pulled by one demand after another, one possibility after another, so that we rarely find ourselves simply being. As a consequence, we also find that we do not know what we feel at other than a superficial level. In the midst of so much activity, we […]
Changing maladaptive habits, also known as neuroses, to more functional responses is a major feature of psychotherapy. Recently much has been written about neuroplasticity as a mechanism by which this change can occur. To put it simply, the field of neuroscience asserts that both the processes and the habits of emotion, behavior and cognition ride […]