Awakening Into Mindfulness
“The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn …
Pulling Up Into Adult
Pulling Up Into Adult offers a physical shift that gives you a different perspective of the outside, different feelings on the inside, as well as a different appearance to others. …
Anti-Insomnia Rules
Rule 1: First it is important that you choose a standard wake-up time and stick to it every day regardless of how much sleep you actually get on any …
Thinking Errors
Your emotional and behavioral reactions are greatly influenced by your beliefs and ways of thinking. Below is a list of pathogenic beliefs and cognitive styles. Your ability to prevent relapse …
Cognitive Behavior Therapy
Few of us have been taught how to think, and we tend to follow the thinking patterns that emerged when we were children. Alas, some of these primitive thinking patterns …
Attachment to Outcomes
Do not become attached to the things you like;
do not maintain aversion to the things you dislike.
Sorrow, fear, and bondage come from one’s likes and dislikes.
–Buddha
Recursive Traps
It is often possible to discern a structure to people’s difficulties
in which internal states and external events
continually create the conditions for the reoccurrence of each other.
–Paul Wachtel
Self-Efficacy
[twg_gpo_button] I am a psychologist who works with those who can afford my fee. My clients tend to be impressive individuals who generally accomplish what they set out to accomplish; …
Willpower: What it is and how to get it
[twg_gpo_button] We are each dealt a particular biology, psychological history, and current social environment. From these parts emerges a new entity—the Psyche—with attributes that did not exist before. Even the …
Will & Aiming Attention
Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals can choose the way they think.
-Martin Seligman