The Insomnia Pandemic: Sleepless in America
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The Insomnia Pandemic: There is a problem in America: People are not sleeping. At least not well or enough. Americans…
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Mindfulness and psychotherapy: Applying “Wu Wei”
Mindfulness and psychotherapy: Applying Wu Wei: The book title “How To Lose Control” is directly derived from the notion of…
Expressing vs Acting Out Anger: Assertiveness
assertiveness Expressing vs acting out anger: Assertiveness So we have established that anger is a fully human and natural response,…
Mindfulness Exercise: The Parade Metaphor
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Embrace the Dark Emotions!: Top 10 Blog Posts of 2012
Embrace the “dark emotions” in 2013! The following are links to the top 10 blog posts from 2012. I…
Mindfulness and Anger
Mindfulness and Anger: Perhaps no emotion is seen as needing to be controlled as does anger. We are taught that…
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Mindful Eating: Some years ago, when I was participating in a Zen Training period at a Catskill, NY Zen Monastery,…
Emotional Eating – Food and Mood
Emotional eating In our quest to create distance from ourselves and control emotional pain, we often resort to “eating our…
Money and Emotions: Can Securities Buy Us Security?
Money and Emotions: In the continued quest to Lose Control and to Gain Emotional Freedom, it is important to face…
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It is important to lose control, become less busy and resist the Tyranny of the “To-Do” Lists. Lama Surya Das,…
Faces of Control:Technology Addiction
Techno-avoidance, or the avoidance and control of emotional discomfort through the use of our technological mechanisms is exerting growing individual…
Faces of Control: Avoiding Emotional Pain
Faces of Control: How we avoid emotional pain – The next several blog posts will explore the various ways that…