From the category archives:
For those of you who know of people who have been in psychotherapy for years, yet still can’t get over their anger at their parents or find a healthy relationship. You may be asking “so why go to a Psychologist?” It may be useful to know what is happening in the realm of help and Cognitive behaviour therapy.
If you’re experiencing anxiety to the point of being nervous all the time, overwhelming depression that you can’t even get out of bed, resorting to addictive behaviours as eating not because you’re hungry but for comfort or becoming so scared or fearful that you avoid all company, help can be there for you. Psychotherapeutic treatments such as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is a way for you to get through your difficulty and improve your situation.
From Xanax to Xanadu, panic attacks to “Massive Attack”, the effects of crowded urban stress on suicide rates, the culpability of music on a teenage gun toting rampage -
Psychologists are asked to solve it all ! They are the new high priest-confessor, shaman , detective, doctor, scientist, judge and jury rolled into one. Dysfunctional behavior is the new “norm”. Continue Reading
I had a real wake up call this morning with the news of the Malaysian earthquake! Luckily the tsunami wasn’t coming , though I had my evacuation plan all ready , we were half way up the mountain already camped up next to the pool.
I had finally ditched my usual crack-the- bones chiropractic treatment after no improvement after one year and ran into a chiropractic friend who uses spinal network analysis. I was ready and open to something new. I continued my search for the meaning of healing. Continue Reading
I’ve been really excited about Robert Simmon’s information. Here’s some excerps from his latest book. “The human body is a sophisticated , multifaceted antenna system comprised of a crystalline matrix that is constantly transmitting and receiving (transceiving) all manner of informed energies”….
James I Oschman, who authoured Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis echoes this sentiment by stating , ” crystalline arrangements are the rule, not the exception , in living systems”
“The way to tune this antenna is through the repetition of such practices Continue Reading
What’s the difference between psychology and an medicine man? It’s quite hip these days, to go on a sharmanic journey, adventure into the depths of the amazon into the jungle to seek out a guide, taste exotic hallucinagenic concoctions, but its all herbal they say, all natural mind you and totally organic!
What do they have in common? they appear to exist on the extreme thresholds of thought. Psychologists have shown us that wounds to the psyche and soul (the original meaning of psychology was the study of the soul) can manifest in physical ailments, dis-ease of the body as well as in the mind. Continue Reading
So the latest buzz is about developing heart consciousness, but what is it? Not that touchy feely business again from the seventies!!!
Firstly it entails feeling. I know we all feel but this is about reaching out to touch someone, its feeling not emotion, the process of going beyond itself to come into connection – being able to connect with anything anywhere, reaching out to touch another. To attain your emotional healing, it about being able to access those painful things from your past to clear them.
Let me give you an example of this powerful ability to work from the heart centre. Think about motherhood, the most powerful relationship on earth is said to be the one between a mother and her baby son. The mother automatically thinks does and feels everything necessary to care for the baby, we call it that maternal instinct, its fierce, powerful , protective and switched on 24 hours a day. She may be exhausted but somehow she does it all.
Day two in Thailand , its a little cloudier but the sun shines so hot. Lucky I have the choice of three swimming pools set amongst tropical palms and red bouganvillia flowers. The chants of the mosque next door waft by. The big foreign cruise ship anchored out to sea has left , fed up by the pelting sudden thunderstorm late yesterday. I was caught in the rain and sheltered under the canopy of a little shopping mart, but enjoyed watching all the people scurrying with plastic bags on their head on motor bikes.
This week I am dedicating my time to talk about emotional healing . I am reading a fascinating boook by Robert Simmons PhD called ”Stones of the new consciousness”. I will give you a quote later that just sparked my thinking , I lit up like a light bulb.!
Anyway , what is the connection between CBT and emotional healing? Cognitive implies the workings of the mind and psychologists have long been adept at constructing theories about the mental activities to apply to behaviour change. Continue Reading
The Dolphin is a wonderful symbolic reminder and help to enhance your ability to communicate. If you have been feeling frustrated at not being heard lately, take heart as you will be feeling more courageous in expressing your true feelings to someone dear to you. You may find that the words flow more easily thus become more confident as you release your hurt. You may have been criticised as a child, in relation to your hearing or learning abilities.
Hey good morning, its a beautiful day, I was so excited when I saw two dolphins in Sydney harbour just before 9 am. Did you know that the Dolphin is an air breathing marine mammal which moved from land into the sea millions of years ago? It rests on one half of its brain, while the other half remains alert enough to breathe and keep an eye on its environment. Well , the dolphin uses more than its sight to keep alert. Continue Reading
“I know I’m wrong but I’m too proud to apologize!”
Does this apply to you? if so then you are probably holding your anger and the argument just goes on forever. These are issues we deal with in anger management strategies. Three things could be happening , someone’s refusing to admit they’re wrong, someone is refusing to apologize even when they know they are wrong or someone, we won’t mention whom, is hanging onto their anger by refusing to accept another’s apology.
If you are in this kind of stalemate, then you may not have ever learnt how to apologise. If you want to know how
