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It is only when we sit, inviting stillness, that we notice just how much the horses inside us are tugging at the harness.

Developing Mindsight The Awareness of Internal Processes

By Chuck Whetsell on February 15, 2015 in Uncategorized

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 […]

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Learning and habit change are accompanied by changes in the brain itself.

Neuroplasticity and Psychotherapy Generating alternative responses

By Chuck Whetsell on February 15, 2015 in Uncategorized

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 […]

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Chuck Whetsell, PhD

CW-1Chuck Whetsell, Ph.D., has been a practitioner in the Himalayan buddhist tradition for 40 years, and in the field of western psychology for 30. Over the course of his career, he has led hundreds of retreats and given thousands of talks on meditation throughout North America. Currently Director of the Contemplative Psychotherapy Institute, he is in private practice in Birmingham, Alabama. More

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