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 […]
Neuroscientist Dan Siegel Acknowledges Enneagram
Separation and Identity The anxieties, frustrations, insecurities, resentments or even the simple discontent that drives most people’s lives, is caused by the separation from our essential nature that occurs by the holding onto a solid, permanent sense of self. This sense of an isolated me is created and maintained by beliefs that create perceptions that […]
What Paradigm Defines your Psychotherapeutic Approach?
Psychotherapeutic Paradigms – Dominant-submissive vs. Ecological Cooperation Many of those who adopt psychoanalytic theory contend that it is important for the socially constructed ego to maintain control over the emotional impulses of the id and other emotional impulses stored in the unconscious mind. The connections that can be drawn from the personal to the larger, […]
Meditation Benefits Validated by Science
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Why Learn Meditation? In 2000 the Dalai Lama invited neuroscientists to study the brain activity of expert Buddhist meditators. The University of Wisconsin along with other universities over the next fifteen years studied more than one hundred experienced meditators, as well as, beginning meditators. It became apparent that because of the brain’s neuroplasticity that […]