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Denial is not just a river in Egypt
As "humorous" as that saying is, denial is no joke. Denial is the number one characteristic addicts display when confronted about their addictions. " I am not addicted, I can control it" or " I don't have a drinking problem, I just like to relax at night ... Views: 1678
The Primordial Energy (Adi Shakti) has 2 streams 1) spiritual 2) material. Spiritual energy is called Gayatri and material energy is called Savitri. Gayatri has 1 face because it represents Non-duality and oneness of soul. Savitri has 5 faces. The body is made up of 5 gross elements. Its 5 sense ... Views: 2714
Relational Phenomenological Psychotherapy
Relational psychotherapy emphasizes the centrality of relatedness in human life.
Relating is not something that we do at times and don’t do at other times, but is an inherent dimension of humanness.
Although the psychotherapist and the patient are ... Views: 789
Apart from any specific behavioral or emotional difficulties, people with head injuries or acquired brain injuries typically go through a number of emotional changes as they adapt to their new circumstances. In the immediate aftermath of their injuries, patients commonly experience a great deal ... Views: 2642
Dear Dr. Diana,
Last year, the holidays were a time of great sadness for me. It was the first Christmas and New Year that I have experienced on the heels of a terrible divorce. I was in love with my husband and didn’t want the divorce. A couple of months ago I started feeling better than I ... Views: 1189
Today in an individual’s life we see qualities of goodness, sensitivity, goodwill, politeness, etiquette, progressiveness, aspirations, labor etc. From the bodily and material comforts standpoint he is reaching higher and higher pinnacles so as to radiate our planet’s glory. If this were not the ... Views: 957
Man’s physical body is made up of 5 elements (air, water, wind, fire, earth, space) and the 5 Pranas (Vital Forces). The body has been created from the elements and the mind from the Vital Force. When 2 streams of negative and positive unite electricity manifests, 2 wheels of a cart helps it to ... Views: 1002
Getting the most this season based on your Holiday Style
Do you go into the holiday season full of anticipation and excitement, only to finish up feeling let down and deflated?
Are you looking for ways to get greater enjoyment from the holidays and avoid the post holiday depression this ... Views: 1308
School Shootings and Active Shooter Planning and Strategies.
We have been in the stages of developing an active shooter plan for:
*Public Schools
*Private schools
*Work places
*All prospective soft targets where people congregate.
Along with the plan we have developed a product that ... Views: 2257
If you get that gift you’ve wanted for Christmas, the chances are the happiness you get from it won’t last. If something terrible happens, a bereavement or relationship break-up, before too long you’re likely to get over it and be just as happy as you were before. Even people who win the lottery ... Views: 1020
In order to augment bodily might one goes to the gym and exercises. In order that ulcers are removed surgery is performed. Radiation therapy is given to cancer patients to destroy malignant cells. Dancers and actors do not acquire their skills ‘by chance’. They undergo rigorous training under ... Views: 1052
Everyone executes actions via the body and thinking via their mind. If both remain inactive they start degenerating and can lose their very existence. The level or stature of our actions and thinking is directly the function of the means of daily living procured by us from our incomes. ... Views: 883
Like most animals, humans are motivated through the brain's dopamine system. When we experience something that makes us feel good -- generally through the release of endorphins, the brain associates the activity that generated the pleasure with that pleasure, and through the use of dopamine, ... Views: 1177
Super Energy Gayatri is also called Bhavani. When the Primordial Divine Power is worshipped as Bhavani, such intense divine light manifests in a spiritual seeker, which helps in overcoming undesirable taints in one’s psyche. It can be called an energy stream. Bhavani is also called Durga, ... Views: 1181
In Yoga Vashishtha (6/1/81/39) text while throwing light on Mantra Energy it is written:
Yathavireka kurvanti haritamya swabhavataha.
Bhavanavashataha karya tatha paralvadayaha.
MEANING: O Rama! Just as by eating yellow myrobalan the digestion system functions more quickly and thus ... Views: 7182
Have you heard the expression that one doesn’t need much to be happy? It might just be true, since I am going to share with you some simple things that can put you in good and inspired mood. Here are things that can make you happy.
1. Artwork. New research into how the brain works carried by ... Views: 1229
Every object of the world can be used in 2 forms viz. creative or destructive. On the one hand where creative endeavors contributes towards maintaining joy, peace and good management of world individuals and society there destructive tasks shatter society and renders individuals unruly, full of ... Views: 1241
Developing skills to manage your emotional states is crucial if you want to develop long-term sobriety. While the initial phase of recovery is often met with a 'Pink Cloud' or Honeymoon period, it is very likely that once the newness of recovery wears off the newly sober addict or alcoholic ... Views: 1432
Within the deep cave of women’s soul dwells an ocean of human qualities like sensitivity, sentiments, love and serenity. Whenever the intellect predominated and the eternal balance faltered women with these precious qualities guided the wayward male fraternity and inspired world society in such ... Views: 958
As women, most of us have been conditioned to be cut off from our expression. We have been told not to get angry or have needs and just focus on pleasing others. We have learned to be “nice” at the price of losing connection to what really matters to us the most. We may even be at the point ... Views: 1094
In the first part of this article: Mental Health, Depression And Positive Mental Health Habits I discussed some general facts about what mental health is, why it is important and provided a short, simplified description of depression. In this part I would like to focus more on the healthy ... Views: 1882
Since October is the Mental Health Awareness month I would like to join the cause and spread the word about problems related to mental health. But first things first. What is it all about and why it is important for everyone to maintain good mental health? When people are in a condition of good ... Views: 3008
When the essence of your life, which is consciousness, connects to something like another person or your work, a commitment is formed. A superficial level of commitment happens when your consciousness connects to the thoughts of something and you are just left committed to your own mind. The ... Views: 1163
From the time I was 14-years-old, I had an interest in psychology. My mother was an aetheist and psychology seemed to be her religion, so I embraced it as mine as well. After many years of therapy, having tried several different psychotherapists and their modalities, and benefitting from them ... Views: 2118
Sometimes, the breakup is initiated by the long-suffering spouse or intimate partner of the narcissist or psychopath. As she develops and matures, gaining in self-confidence and a modicum of self-esteem (ironically, at the narcissist’s behest in his capacity as her “guru” and “father figure”), ... Views: 17917
"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman."
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949)
With same-sex marriage becoming a legal reality throughout the world, many more children are going to be raised by homosexual (gay and lesbian) parents, or even bytransgendered or transsexual ones. ... Views: 1523
The DSM V re-defines personality disorders thus:
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"The essential features of a personality disorder are impairments in personality (self and interpersonal) functioning and the presence of pathological personality traits."
According to the June 2011 text of the DSM V, the following ... Views: 7169
Prayer is one of the most powerful tools we have for avoiding, reducing or better managing stress. Jesus taught that we "OUGHT ALWAYS TO PRAY." (Luke 18:17)
We pray when we silently or vocally talk to God. Our prayers can be spontaneous, such as "THANK YOU LORD THAT I AM ALIVE."or we can ... Views: 1480
This statement changed my life! Most of you know it from Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich.
Faith is a State Of Mind
Wow! What else do I need to say. I have been one to ask of others their opinions, their insights because my childhood was poor and I had very poor role models growing ... Views: 1202
Spirit Messages are channeled messages, inspired messages, dream messages, automatic writing messages, spirit guide messages, messages from the beyond, or what we simply call, 'Spirit Messages'. Channeled messages are the specific thoughts, feelings, recommendations and advice from 'Spirit', ... Views: 3034
At my most recent check up, a pretty nurse prepared me for the visit. Her fine face was decorated by a dark circle encompassing her eye – almost surely caused by the viscous hand of her “loved one”. She was obviously deep in her ruins but was valiantly pretending everything’s all right. I was ... Views: 3317
The Lost Secret of Masculine and Feminine Roles
In Part I, I shared with you the ancient masculine/feminine secret. The victimhood advantage allowed power-hungry authority figures to take all the power but none of the blame. We learned to blame the feminine through the perpetuation of stories ... Views: 1649
The Poor Me Control Drama
Nearly every day someone says to me, “I'm sick of hearing victims whine.” Aren't we all? Taking responsibility for our lives has finally come of age. Those who pretend that they are always innocent victims just rub us the wrong way. If we turn away from them, we ... Views: 1739
Sharing the story of watching a man burn to death in front of me as a 10 year-old boy was an unlikely route to wellbeing for me. Yet, it was by telling this story and how it led me on my path to gain some of the key insights in my life that managed to get me into the final 20 of an International ... Views: 1252
According to the definition, silence is the relative or total lack of audible sound. Silence is also referred to no sounds uttered by anybody in a room and or area. And research has proven that constant noise can increase one’s stress levels.
I want to take that one step further and talk ... Views: 1044
Natasha Marie Harris of Invercargill (at the bottom of New Zealand’s South Island) died, at 30, from a medical condition her family claim was contributed to by overdosing on Coke. While Coca Cola refute their claims, the family report that their mother was effectively dependent on the beverage, ... Views: 1305
Imagination, fantasy, and play. Three concepts that naturally belong together. As children, they were a part of our lives in a very real way. As we get older, we tend to leave play behind to a large extent. Our society dictates that responsible adults focus more on the business of acquisition ... Views: 1424
Millions of Americans have been persuaded rhetoric that the purpose of education is to prepare our children to score well on standardized tests so that we can have more well-trained workers. As the standardsmovement gets stronger, we convince ourselves that being a useful employee is the only ... Views: 1766
The reality of peace must actually be lived, by being expressed to others with unselfish caring, and responsive harmonious empathic attunement, along with indivisibly related qualities of goodness such as love, happiness, and beauty, because it is not truly real if it is only a static, abstract, ... Views: 2469
From the ngére tribal rituals of the Suya Indian Amazonian tribes to the strobe-lit techno haze of the all-night New York club, music is the phenomenon, perhaps the only one, that binds us all. The familiar, if overused, claim of ‘I don’t have a single note in my head’, may be used by many as ... Views: 1138
Psychiatry is the term dedicated to the medical study of mental disorders and their treatment. The term 'psychiatry' was first introduced by a German physician Johann Christian Reil in 1808, which means the medical treatment of soul. There can be many possibilities to mental disorders and these ... Views: 750
More than three decades ago I had the opportunity of meeting the iconic Ram Dass for the first time on Martha’s Vineyard at a satsung. Satsung is a Sanskrit word that means “gathering together for truth,” which usually involves teaching, music and meditation. This evening rocked my world in a ... Views: 2617
Modern humans live a busy, hectic, and multi-tasking life full of uncertainties. It doesn’t take long for this to become stressful. Stress releases adrenalin that pumps us up and makes us more capable in the short term. Adrenalin even helps us remember. Stress also releases hormones called ... Views: 1271
Every individual is unique and the variations in their lives and life choices are physical manifestations of the distinctive energy, essence, and disposition they possess. When an individual is searching for mental and emotional healing modalities, there is a need for therapy that is personal, ... Views: 2299
Bess was a 34-year-old, attractive, single, accomplished attorney living in the Boston area. She lived comfortably in her condo, managed her finances, had no close friends and had a succession of unfulfilling relationships with men. She struggled with sustaining connections with others and often ... Views: 2350
I have always longed to get married and have a family and I have always believed I would. It never occurred to me that it wouldn’t happen, not until recently. At 38, I thought: there’s still time. At 39, I thought; there’s still a little time. And at 40, I am finally facing the reality of the ... Views: 1529
Online therapy is relatively new and not yet fully accepted by everyone. When you browse articles on this topic, you generally find that the main issues center around privacy concerns, proposed regulation and the usual chatter from psychotherapists stuck in the Freudian era.
However, there ... Views: 1066
The conventional spiritual involvements are through religious concepts and, hence, through the verbal approach. In contrast, the non-verbal awareness takes us to a different spiritual dimension untouched by the conditioned mind. It clears one’s psyche of all the muck that it collects in its ... Views: 1782
A friend of mine is the mother of four, grandmother of three, and jokingly told me that if she had one wish it was to put children entering puberty into a machine, in suspended animation, until they were mature - all the while feeding them a nutritious diet, giving them therapeutic exercise so ... Views: 2213
On the benefits of having an open mind about one’s child called a “retard”, or having intellectual deficits, being mentally deficient, and other interesting and ridiculous things...
When I was just starting out as a child and school psychologist in Syracuse, NY almost 35 years ago, I ... Views: 1414