Memory reconsolidation: What makes therapy work
Many clients in therapy understand their patterns and still feel stuck. We explore simple ways to foster the corrective emotional experiences that make lasting change possible.
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Meditation & beyond: Mindfulness is not a spectator sport
This expands our definition of mindfulness as an embodied practice of active engagement in life. I describe how it plays out in my meditation practice, in therapy, and in other activities.
Where do you feel it in your body?
How to practice embodied therapy when the body doesn’t answer. A relational approach to somatic psychotherapy for therapists who want a practical way to stay present without forcing awareness.
What we mean by mindful engagement
Engagement in everyday life involves being present in the moment. Here is a simple, down-to-earth example of how it works in everyday life.
Ven. Gendun: Buddhism & the practice of freedom
Ven. Losang Gendun tells the story of a Buddhist monk who had been put in jail and tortured. The point of the story was how he responded to the situation.
Mindfulness journey
I share here what has shaped my understanding of what I now call Proactive Mindfulness.
Shared meditation informed by Focusing
This approach blends moments of meditation and moments of sharing our experiences of meditating.
A down-to-earth perspective on non-duality
I want to find a down-to-earth experience that helps me relate to non-duality.
One-minute mindfulness: Embodied presence
I am going to describe to you a one-minute practice. Now, when I say one minute, it could be 50 seconds or five minutes.
A mindful take on spirituality & philosophy
We discuss how we make sense of the world and our place in it, i.e. what is usually called spirituality & philosophy.
An experiential inquiry into the nature of inquiry
We share with you what we like about the notion of “inquiry,” and to do so by giving you a flavor of what we mean by it.
Embodied spirituality: a felt sense of something larger
Serge Prengel describes an embodied perspective on how we experience a sense of being (part of) something larger.
Faith as a human experience
I am not talking about faith in God or in religious beliefs. I am talking about the human capacity for the experience of faith.
Susan Rudnick about sexual abuse, the need for connection & power
Susan Rudnick’s comments about the sexual abuse of women by powerful men derive from Karen Horney’s formulation of the Real Self, as she articulated it in Neurosis and Human Growth.
