Why Should I Meditate?
One in five of Australians are taking anti-depressant medication, others are drinking too much alcohol, and others are just stressed out. Which might lead us to ask…
Book Review from Australia and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy
Book Review from Australia and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy Essential Wholeness: Integral Psychotherapy, Spiritual Awakening and the Enneagram, Eric Lyleson, Balboa Press, Bloomington, Indiana, 2015 ISBN 978‐1‐4525‐2820‐5, PB, 408 pages Yvonne McDonell Essential Wholeness by Eric Lyleson uses an extensive range of philosophy, psychology and spirituality to describe us as people and to broaden our role as therapists. We […]
Compassion
Mindfulness and compassion lead us to greater awareness of the nature of our suffering. We can become aware of aches and tensions on the body, disturbing, anxious thoughts, relating to painful events of the past or feared events of the future, that distract us from experiencing the fullness of the present moment. Meditation techniques serve as a vehicle to carry us through these difficulties on the path to experiencing our wholeness. Through the practice of meditation we can redirect the energy invested in automatic coping mechanisms into self-supporting processes of learning, evolution and resting in our essential wholeness.
Enlightenment is our Natural way of Being
Meditation is learning to rest in your true nature
Essential Wholeness – A Nine Phase Trans-theoretical Model of Change – Article & Video from Science and Non-Duality Conference 2018
click for more info about introductory experiential workshop Oct 4 by Eric Lyleson, MA Many clinicians in seeking to be effective with their clients have adopted an eclectic or integrated approach to psychotherapy. What seems to be lacking is a trans-theoretical model that can show us very specifically what methods are best to use […]
The Enneagram and the Lazy Approach to Enlightenment
Be lazy like a mountain by Eric Lyleson, author of Essential Wholeness, Integral Psychotherapy, Spiritual Awakening and the Enneagram Understanding the Enneagram of Essential Wholeness will not help us achieve awakening or enlightenment. Instead it will helps us see how we unconsciously unenlighten ourselves through the maintenance of our ego fixations that obscure our enlightened […]
Buddhist Psychologists Rick Hanson, Stephen Gilligan and Richard Chambers
Buddhist Psychologists Rick Hanson, Stephen Gilligan and Richard Chambers’ thoughts about Essential Wholeness, Integral Psychotherapy, Spiritual Awakening and the Enneagram Both profound and practical, this book integrates cutting edge neuroscience, esoteric wisdom, a heartfelt appreciation of the natural world, and powerfully effective psychological methods. It’s genuinely brilliant. ‘Rick Hanson, Ph.D., author of Buddha’s Brain: The […]
Caution! Meditation is dangerous to your ego!
Stop merely coping! Meditation is like a vaccination that protects you from chronic worry, anger, low moods and stress.
Mindfulness Meditation – How to do it and why
Do you find yourself getting caught up in a stressful state of mind that makes it hard to enjoy your family, friends and other simple joys of life––a beautiful sunrise, cool winter air on your face, the taste of good food, your child’s recount of their day, the warmth and tenderness of a hug? Do […]
Spiritual Awakening, Personal Evolution and the Enneagram
It is suffering that generally brings people to psychotherapy and spirituality. In the beginning it is the desire to be free from suffering that drives us to look deeper within or beyond our usual sense of self. Self-realization and psychotherapy are, on one hand, a retrograde process. In it, we are relaxing back through our layers of constructed trance-like reality and come to rest in radical acknowledgement and acceptance of where we actually are on the human level. We then, take one step deeper into the ground of our being.